The DFG has made a positive decision on our extension proposal and granted us a second phase. So we will continue for […]

Daniel Hoffmann, who joined the first ALOP cohort one year later than the rest, has submitted his dissertation in time. Congratulations!    […]

The fifth annual Autumn School hosted and organized by the Research Training Group on Algorithmic Optimization will take place in a digital […]

Research Training Group ALOP’s Mercator Fellow, Prof. Dr. Matthias Heinkenschloss of Rice University, will pay a virtual visit to the Research Training […]

ALOP member Daniel Hoffmann will speak during the research seminar on  July 15, 2020 at 12:15 on his research. His presentation title […]

The research training group ALOP is pleased to inform you that several guest lectures are scheduled to take place online this semester. […]

ALOP member Carina Costa will speak during the research seminar on  June 24, 2020 at 12:15 on the topic “Decomposition Methods for […]

ALOP is happy to welcome Jan Sokolowski as an associated researcher to our group.

ALOP member Michael Vu will speak during the research seminar on June 3, 2020 at 12:15 about “Variational analysis of a nonlocal […]

  The ALOP-PI Martin Schmidt published together with Veronika Grimm  (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Friederike Mengel (University of Essex) a novel paper on […]

The paper by Luft, D; Schulz, V; Welker, K entitled “Efficient Techniques for Shape Optimization with Variational Inequalities Using Adjoints Miscellaneous” was […]

ALOP member Lukas Mich will speak during the research seminar on  May 20, 2020 at 12:15 on the topic “Solving High-dimensional Stochastic […]

Christian Vollmann, associated postdoc and ALOP alumnus of the first cohort has formed a new student-only working subgroup on “Algorithmic Optimization with […]

Our ALOP associated researcher Robin Schrecklinger receives the SIAM Award for outstanding efforts and accomplishments on behalf of the SIAM Chapter at […]

Today, the first Brownbag has been celebrated via zoom. The  ALOP colloquium as well as the research seminar is planned to be […]

Research Training Group 2126 on Algorithmic Optimization is proud to support #fortheKnowledge campaign of DFG 2020  

We found the SIAM Student Chapter busy at work preparing little gift bags of homemade goodies for its members and the staff […]

Joscha Krause has given a presentation on Regularized small area models using both unit- and area-level data at the conference Computational and […]

Joscha Krause has given a presentation on Regularisierte Small Area Modelle zur robusten Schätzung in der Gegenwart unbekannter Messfehler in den Kovariaten […]

Joscha Krause has given a presentation on On the equivalence of regularization and min-max robustification in linear regression at the workshop 25. […]

Christian Vollmann has given a presentation on nonlocal shape optimization at the RICAM workshop on Optimal Control and Optimization for Nonlocal Models […]

The Research Training Group on Algorithmic Optimization recently completed its third retreat in Daun.   The group enjoyed several in depth discussions with […]

Once again, we were happy to welcome over 50 students from all around the world to our annual autumn school featuring this […]

ALOP member Yida Zhu successfully defended his thesis entitled   Competitive Analysis of Scheduling Problems and List Accessing Problems   and received […]

Daniel Luft has given a talk about Shape Optimization constrained by Variational Inequalities using Adjoints at the 4th Geometric Science of Information […]

ALOP member Mohammad Asim Nomani successfully defended his thesis entitled Robust Optimization for Survey Statistical Problems and received his Doctorate in Economic […]

ALOP member Christian Vollmann successfully defended his thesis entitled   “Nonlocal models with truncated interaction kernels- Analysis, finite element methods and shape […]

ALOP member Dennis Kreber successfully defended his thesis entitled “Cardinality-Constrained Discrete Optimization for Regression” and received his Doctorate in Natural Sciences on […]

Prof. Dr. Martin Schmidt, a PI in the RTG ALOP, jointly wrote a text book with Co-Author Lars Schewe of FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg […]

ALOP member Gennadij Heidel successfully defended his thesis entitled “Optimization in Tensor Spaces for Data Sciences and Scientific Computing and received his […]

ALOP member Claudia Adams successfully defended her thesis entitled “Copositivity in Infinite Dimensions” and received her Doctorate in Natural Sciences on February […]

A new article by Christian Vollmann and Volker Schulz entitled “Exploiting multilevel Toeplitz structures in high dimensional nonlocal diffusion” has been accepted […]

ALOP member Julian Wagner successfully defended his thesis entitled “Optimization Methods and Large-Scale Algorithms in Small Area Estimation” and received his Doctorate […]

RTG ALOP welcomed several female Master students to a workshop in Trier. They enjoyed a course taught by Prof. Mirjam Dür on […]

Martin Rupp successfully defended his thesis entitled “Optimization for Multivariate and Multi-domain Methods in Survey Statistics” on October 5, 2018. Congratulations!

Participants of the EUCCO 2018 (Sept. 10-12, 2018) celebrated a scenic conference dinner at the Forum Baths (Viehmarkttherme) in Trier.

The Conference Volume edited by Diaraf Seck and Volker Schulz has been published and is available here

A new article by Gennadij Heidel and Andy Wathen entitled “Preconditioning for boundary control problems in incompressible fluid dynamics” has been accepted […]

A new article by Bjoern Fuehr, Volker Schulz and Kathrin Welker entitled “Shape optimization for interface identification with obstacle problems” has been […]

    This year’s Summer School on Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming was very well received among the participants. The invited speakers presented very […]

ALOP associate member Patrick Groetzner successfully defended his thesis entitled “A Method for Completely Positive and Nonnegative Matrix Factorization” and received his […]

ALOP member Laura Somorowsky successfully defended her thesis entitled “The Nonlocal Spatial Ramsey Model with Endogenous Productivity Growth” and received her Doctorate […]

Duy-Van Nguyen successfully defended his thesis on May 24, 2018. Congratulations

Our PhD student Christian Vollmann spent six months at Florida State University at the invitation of Prof. Max Gunzburger   He returns […]

A new article by Ulf Friedrich, Ralf Münnich and Martin Rupp entitled “Multivariate Optimal Allocation under Box-Constraints” has been published in the […]

In order to further the individual research projects and improve the team building process, the Research Training Group Algorithmic Optimization (ALOP) spent […]

A new article by Gennadij Heidel entitled “A Riemannian trust-region method for low-rank tensor completion” has been accepted for publication in Numerical […]

ALOP Alumni Christina Schenk successfully defended her thesis entitled “Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Wine Fermentation” on February 1, 2018.  Congratulations! You […]

Christina Mueller defended her thesis on “Numerical modeling of the flight behaviour of bats to estimate the collision risk with wind turbines” […]