Congratulations to Luka Schlegel and Volker Schulz on the publication of their most recent paper Shape Optimization for the Mitigation of Coastal […]

We are proud to announce that the paper  “A Riemannian Newton Trust-Region Method for Fitting Gaussian Mixture Models” by Lena Sembach, Jan […]

The Autumn School 2021 on Optimization and Market Design was attended by over 210 participants from all over the world. We had […]

Congratulations to Britta Schmitt, Boris Khoromskij and Volker Schulz on the acceptance of their article “Tensor Method for Optimal Control Problems Constrained […]

The Research Training Group on Algorithmic Optimization (ALOP) is proud to announce that its Alumni Daniel Hoffmann was just awarded 2nd place […]

The Research Training Group “Algorithmic Optimization” (ALOP) is currently adding doctoral researchers to the team. The doctoral research positions (TVL 13, 75%) […]

Registration for the Autumn School 2021 on Optimization and Market Design is now open!  Interest in this Autumn School is very high […]

We proudly announce that this year’s recipients of the Howard Rosenbrock Prize are ALOP PI Martin Schmidt, Trier University, ALOP Mercator Fellow […]

Ritesh Kumar Dubey, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India spoke at our colloquium.  For a video of his presentation, please click […]

Prof. Tobias Harks, Universität Augsburg, spoke at our colloquium.  For a video of his presentation, please click here.

The paper by Belak, C; Hoffmann, D; Seifried, F titled “Branching Diffusions with Jumps and Valuation with Systemic Counterparties“ was accepted for […]

ALOP member Lukas Winkel will speak during the research seminar on June 16, 2021.  Please check back for the topic of his […]

ALOP associate member Yasmine Beck will speak during the research seminar on June 30, 2021 on the topic of Γ-robust Bilevel Optimization […]

ALOP member Carina Costa will speak during the research seminar on May 5, 2021 on the topci of  An Alternating Method for […]

ALOP associate member Patricia Doerr successfully defended her thesis entitled “Design and Estimation in Business Surveys – Selected Topics” and received her […]

Today, the  Academy Prize of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate  was given to Prof. Dr. Volker Schulz in a ceremony in Mainz.  The […]

Prof. Dr. Volker Mehrmann, TU Berlin spoke at our colloquium. For a video of his presentation, please click here

ALOP member Lena Sembach will speak during the research seminar on January 21, 2021. The topic will be announced soon. Please join […]

ALOP member Daniel Hoffmann sucessfully defended his thesis entitled Stochastic Particle Systems and Optimization: Branching Processes, Mean Field Games and Impulse Control […]

ALOP member Max Späth will speak during the research seminar on November 25, 2020 on the topic of “From Ramsey Equilibrium Model […]

ALOP member Anke-Julia Gebhardt will speak during the research seminar on December 16, 2020. The topic will be announced shortly. Please join […]

Prof. Didier Aussel spoke on Bilevel Problems, MPECs, and Multi-Leader-Follower Games on the final day of this year’s Autumn School. Interest in […]

Prof. Ivana Ljubic presented a Tutorial on the second day of the Autumn School on “Branch-and-Cut Solvers for Mixed-Integer Bilevel Linear Programs.” […]

After opening remarks by the organizers, Prof. Martine Labbé started off the Autumn School on Bilevel Optimization this morning with an Introduction […]

ALOP invited guest Ratna Khatri with George Mason University will speak during the research seminar on October 21, 2020 at 17:00. She […]

ALOP speaker Volker Schulz receives Academy Prize of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate  for the year 2020. The official ceremony will take place […]

Registration for the ALOP Autumn School on Bilevel Optimization taking place from October 12 through October 14, 2020 is now closed. There […]

The paper by Gennadij Heidel, Venera Khoromskaia, Boris N. Khoromskij, Volker Schulz entitled   “Tensor product method for fast solution of optimal control […]

Ralf Münnich, one of our PIs, has been elected Chairman of the German Statistical Society (Deutsche Statistische Gesellschaft, dstatg.de) yesterday. Congratulations!   […]

Our former Postdoc Marina Leal Palazon has now obtained a professor position at University of Valencia. Congratulations!

  ALOP associate member Bernd Perscheid successfully defended his thesis entitled New Concise Extended Formulations for Circular Structures in Optimization Problems  and […]

ALOP associate member Bjoern Liljegren-Sailer successfully defended his thesis entitled On port-Hamiltonian modeling and structure-preserving model reduction  and received his Doctorate in […]

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 […]

ALOP associate member Joscha Krause sucessfully defended his thesis entitled Regularization Methods for Statistical Modelling in Small Area Estimation and received his […]

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 […]