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May 2017
ALOP Colloquium with Prof. François Glineur
On Monday, May 29, 2017, Prof. François Glineur from the Université catholique de Louvain will join the ALOP-Colloquium and present his recent work entitledPerformance estimation of first-order methods for composite convex optimizationComposite convex optimization consists in the minimization of a convex objective function equal to the sum of several convex functions with different properties, for example a smooth term and a nonsmooth term. We consider a large class of first-order methods designed to solve such composite problems, which rely on specific…
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ALOP Colloquium with Prof. Lorenz T. (Larry) Biegler
On Friday, June 9 2017, Prof. Lorenz T. (Larry) Biegler, will join the ALOP-Colloquium and present his recent work. Lorenz T. (Larry) Biegler is currently the Head and Bayer University Professor of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests lie in computer aided process engineering (CAPE) and include flowsheet optimization, optimization of systems of differential and algebraic equations, reactor network synthesis and algorithms for constrained, nonlinear process control. Projects in these areas include analysis and development of nonlinear programming…
Find out more »ALOP Colloquium with Prof. Gabriel Wittum
On Monday, June 12, 2017, Prof. Gabriel Wittum of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology will join the ALOP-Colloquium and present his recent work entitledSimulation of Neuronal Signal ProcessingThe crucial feature of neuronal ensembles is their high complexity and variability. This makes modelling and computation very difficult, in particular for detailed models based on first principles. The problem starts with modelling geometry, which has to extract the essential features from those highly complex and variable phenotypes and at the…
Find out more »ALOP Colloquium with Dr. Giorgio Ferrari
On Monday, June 26 2017, Dr. Giorgio Ferrari with Bielefeld University will join the ALOP-Colloquium and present his recent work entitled On the Optimal Management of Public Debt: a Singular Stochastic Control Problem Consider the problem of a government that wants to reduce the debt-to-GDP (gross domestic product) ratio of a country. The government aims at choosing a debt reduction policy which minimises the total expected cost of having debt, plus the total expected cost of interventions on the debt ratio.…
Find out more »September 2017
ALOP Colloquium with Prof. Tim Kelley
On Friday, September 8, 2017, Prof. Tim Kelley of North Carolina State University will join the ALOP-Colloquium and present his recent work entitled Anderson Acceleration Abstract: We will discuss recent results on the local convergence of Anderson Acceleration. This is an algorithm for accelerating the convergence of fixed point or Picard iteration. In this talk we will discuss the first convergence results for the method, illustrate the results with an application to radiative transport, discuss issues with…
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ALOP-Colloquium with Prof. MK (Mapundi) Banda
On Monday, October 23, 2017, at 16:00 Prof. MK (Mapundi) Banda of the University of Pretoria will join the ALOP-Colloquium and present his recent work entitledOptimal Control, Stabilization and Parameter Identification for evolution modelsEvolution models governed by the time-dependent partial differential equations will be considered. In this talk, we will present some ideas on optimal control, boundary stabilization and parameter identification for a selection of such models. For instance, boundary information will be used to stabilise or to identify parameters of the…
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ALOP-Colloquium with Dr. Venera Khoromskaia
Dr. Verena Khoromskaia of the Max-Planck-Institute für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften will join the ALOP-Colloquium and present her recent work entitledTensor numerical methods in computational quantum chemistryon Monday, November 6, 2017 at 16:00. We will meet for coffee prior to her presentation at 15:45 in room E10. The presentation will take place in HS9.
Find out more »ALOP-Colloquium with Prof. Boris N. Khoromskij
On Monday, November 6, 2017, Prof. Dr. Boris Khoromskij from the Max-Planck-Institute für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften will join the ALOP-Colloquium and present his recent work entitledTensor numerical methods for multi-dimensional PDE's and in data modelingon Monday, November 6, 2017 at 17:00. The presentation will take place in HS9.
Find out more »ALOP-Colloquium with Prof. John Pearson
On Monday, November 20, 2017, at 16:00 Prof. John Pearson of School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh will join the ALOP-Colloquium and present his recent work entitledFour Perspectives on Preconditioning PDE-Constrained Optimization ProblemsAbstract:PDE-constrained optimization problems have a wide range of applications across numerical mathematics and applied science, so it is important to develop fast and feasible methods to solve such problems. We employ preconditioned iterative methods to tackle the large and sparse matrix systems that arise from their discretization,…
Find out more »December 2017
ALOP-Colloquium with Prof. Ekaterina Kostina
On Monday, December 4, 2017, at 16:00 Prof. Ekaterina Kostina of Heidelberg University will join the ALOP-Colloquium and present her recent work entitled Optimization-Based Model Validation - a Mathematical Technology of High ImpactValidated dependable mathematical models are of ever growing importance in science and engineering, and today also driven by a serious demand of the industry. Apart from providing scientific insight into complex nonlinear processes, mathematical models are fundamental for process simulation, optimization and control. In this context the new paradigmatic…
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ALOP-Colloquium with Prof. Andrea Walther
On Monday, January 22, 2018, at 16:00 Prof. Andrea Walther of Paderborn University will join the ALOP-Colloquium and present her recent work entitled:Recent progress in the optimization of piecewise smooth functionsIn a previous paper, we derived first and second order convexity conditions for a large class of piecewise smooth functions.In that analysis based on piecewise linearization, a key assumption was the Linear Independence Kink Qualification (LIKQ), a generalization of the Linear Independence Constraint Qualification (LICQ) known from smooth nonlinear optimization.…
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ALOP- Colloquium with Prof. Fredi Troeltzsch
On Tuesday, February 6, 2018, at 12:00 Prof. Fredi Tröltzsch of TU Berlin will present his recent work entitled Optimal and Feedback Control of some Reaction-Diffusion EquationsThe optimal control of some systems of nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations is considered including several important equations of mathematical physics. In particular, equations are covered that develop traveling wave fronts, spiral waves, scroll rings, or propagating spot solutions. Well-posedness of the system, differentiability of the control-to-state mapping, and optimality conditions of first and second order are…
Find out more »ALOP-Colloquium with Prof. Dr. Geovani Grapiglia
Prof. Dr. Geovani Grapiglia of the Universidade Federal do Parana in Curitiba, PR, Brasil will visit with the students of the RTG ALOP to discuss his research as well as speak during our colloquium on the topic of Improved Optimization Methods for Image Registration Problems Abstract: In many applications, multiple images of the same subject are obtained at different moments in time and under different conditions. The goal is to identify changes in the subject over time. For a…
Find out more »March 2018
Prof. Juan Vera and Olga Kuryatnikova of Tilburg University to visit in March
Prof. Juan Vera and Olga Kuryatnikova of Tilburg University are scheduled to visit the Research Training Group ALOP in March for research collaboration. During their visit, they will speak on the following topics: Copositive certificates of non-negativity (Prof. Juan Vera) Abstract: Sum-of-squares (sos) certificates of non-negativity, such as Putinar's Positivstellensatz, have been used to obtain powerful numerical techniques to solve polynomial optimization (PO) problems. Using such certificates, hierarchies of semidefinite relaxations are obtained for PO. Usually the use…
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ALOP-Colloquium with Prof. Michael Günther
On Monday, April 16, 2018, at 16:00 Prof. Michael Günther of Bergische Universität Wuppertal will join the ALOP-Colloquium and present his recent work entitled Effiziente numerische Simulation multiphysikalischer Systeme Multiphysikalische Systeme werden oft durch Modelle beschrieben, die DAE-Netzwerkmodelle mit partiellen Differentialgleichungen über geeignete Randbedingungen und Quellterme koppeln. Nach Semidiskretisierung im Ort hat man es dann mit großen, gekoppelten DAE-Sytemen zu tun. In diesem Vortrag werden verschiedene Ansätze zu deren effizienter numerischer Simulation besprochen: Multirate-Verfahren und dynamsche Iteration. The presentation…
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ALOP-Colloquium with Kerstin Lux
On Monday, May 7, 2018, at 16:00, Kerstin Lux of Universität Mannheim will join the ALOP-Colloquium and present her recent work entitled "Optimal inflow control in supply systems with uncertain demands." Abstract: We are concerned with optimal control strategies subject to uncertain demands. They have a broad range of applications. Taking uncertainty into account becomes more and more important in many areas. In the context of supply chain management, a need for control strategies taking these uncertainties into account naturally…
Find out more »ALOP-Colloquium with Prof. Partha Lahiri
On Monday, May 14, 2018, at 16:00, Prof. Partha Lahiri of the University of Maryland College Park will join the ALOP-Colloquium and present his recent work entitled "Big data in official statistics." Abstract: The demand for various socio-economic, transportation, and health statistics for small geographical areas is steadily increasing at a time when survey agencies are desperately looking for ways to reduce costs to meet fixed budgetary requirements. In the current survey environment, the application of standard sample survey methods…
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ALOP-Colloquium with Mehiddin Al-Baali
On Thursday, June 28, 2018, at 16:00 c.t. Prof. Mehiddin Al-Baali, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman will present his recent work entitled On the Damped Technique, Self-Scaling and their Combination when Introduced to the Broyden Family of Methods for Unconstrained Optimization Recently, we have extended the damped-technique in the modified BFGS method of Powell for constrained optimization to the Broyden family of quasi-Newton methods for unconstrained optimization. Appropriate choices for the damped parameter will be…
Find out more »October 2018
ALOP Colloquium with Arie M.C.A. Koster
On Monday, October 29, 2018 at 16:00 c.t. Prof. Dr. Ir. Arie M.C. A. Koster of RWTH Aachen will present his recent work entitled Robust Combinatorial Optimization - New Problems and Solutions Abstract: The growing need to deal with uncertainties in optimization processes has lead to many new research directions. In robust optimization, an uncertainty set has to be defined containing all scenarios to be considered. Availability of historical data often suggests the use of a discrete or polyhedral uncertainty…
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ALOP Colloquium with Caroline Geiersbach
On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 16:00 c.t. Caroline Geiersbach of Universität Wien will present her recent work entitled Stochastic Approximation for Shape Optimization The presentation will take place in HS 9. Please join us for coffee at 15:45 in E10.
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ALOP Colloquium with Frank Vallentin
On Monday, December 3, 2018 at 16:00 c.t. Prof. Dr. Frank Vallentin of Universität Köln will present his recent work entitled "Chromatic numbers of geometric graphs" Abstract: A classical problem in discrete geometry (due to Hadwiger and Nelson) is to find the minimal number of colors one needs to color all points in the Euclidean plane so that no two points which are distance 1 apart receive the same color. Similar geometric coloring problems can be posed in the context…
Find out more »ALOP Colloquium with Ingenuin Gasser
On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 16:00 c.t. Prof. Gasser of Universität Hamburg will present his recent work entitled Modelling, simulation and optimisation of power plants based on renewable energies Abstract: In this seminar we discuss the fluid dynamics of parabolic trough, solar updraft towers, energy towers and osmotic power stations. The main issue is to discuss simple fluid dynamic models which on one hand describe the main features of the mentioned applications and on the other allow…
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ALOP Colloquium with Martin Gugat, FAU Erlangen
On Monday, January 28, 2019 at 16:00 c.t. Prof. Dr. Martin Gugat of FAU Erlangen will present his recent work entitled On the limits of boundary stabilizability for networks of strings. Abstract: An example by Bastin and Coron illustrates that theboundary stabilization of 1-d hyperbolic systemswith certain source terms is only possible if the lengthof the space interval is sufficiently small. We show that simlar phenomena also occur fornetworks of vibrating strings that are governedby the wave equation with…
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ALOP Colloquium with Florian Jarre, Universität Düsseldorf
On Monday, April 29 2019 at 16:00 c.t. Prof. Florian Jarre of Universität Düsseldorf will present his recent work. Stochastic gradient descent und Block coordinate descent -- eine Einführung in die Theorie und die praktische Anwendung Der Vortrag befasst sich mit extrem hoch-dimensionalen speziell strukturierten Minimierungsproblemen, für die selbst die Auswertung eines einzelnen Funktionswertes oft so viel Rechenzeit beansprucht, dass neue iterative Verfahren zum Einsatz kommen, bei denen die einzelnen Iterationen billiger sind als eine Funktionsauswertung. Natürlich kann man…
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ALOP Colloquium with Christian Meyer, TU Dortmund
On Monday, May 6 2019 at 16:00 c.t. Prof. Dr. Christian Meyer of TU Dortmund will present his recent work entitled Optimal control of a non-smooth semi-linear elliptic equation The presentation will take place in HS 9. Please join us for coffee at 15:45 in E10.
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ALOP Colloquium with Barbara Kaltenbacher, Universität Klagenfurt
On Monday, June 17 2019 at 16:00 c.t. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Barbara Kaltenbacher of AAU Klagenfurt will present her recent work entitled Optimization based formulation and regularization of inverse problems Abstract: The conventional way of formulating inverse problems such as identification of a (possibly infinite dimensional) parameter, is via some forward operator, which is the concatenation of the observation operator with the parameter-to-state-map for the underlying model. Recently, all-at-once formulations have been considered as an alternative to this reduced…
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ALOP Colloquium with Christopher Hojny, TU Darmstadt
On Monday, July 1 2019 at 16:00 c.t. Dr. Christopher Hojny, TU Darmstadt will present his recent work entitled Symmetry Handling in Binary Programs - Combining Symretopes and Orbital Fixing Abstract: Branch-and-bound is an established method to solve binary programs with thousands of variables in adequate time. If symmetries are present, however, even small instances may be hard to solve, because symmetric parts of the branch-and-bound tree are inspected repeatedly without providing new information. A standard way to handle symmetries…
Find out more »November 2019
ALOP Colloquium with Prof. Dr. Volker Kaibel
On Monday, November 4 2019 at 16:00 c.t. Prof. Dr. Volker Kaibel, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg will present his recent work entitled Projections in Combinatorial Optimization Formulating problems via linear inequalities and projections is at the heart of the polyhedral combinatorics approach to Combinatorial Optimization. We present some examples for which this can be achieved with surprisingly few inequalities and we give an almost pictorial proof showing that for other problems exponentially many inequalities are required. The presentation will take…
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ALOP Colloquium with Timm Faulwasser
On Monday, December 2 2019 at 9:00 c.t. Prof. Dr. -Ing. Timm Faulwasser, TU Dortmund will present his recent work entitled Dissipativity and Turnpike Properties in Optimal Control – Insights and Open Problems In many engineering disciplines and beyond (economics, physics, …) performance optimization under explicit consideration of dynamics and operational constraints, i.e. optimal control, plays a pivotal role. The last 60 years have seen tremendous progress in terms of optimality conditions and PMP formulations, and in terms of powerful…
Find out more »ALOP Colloquium with Stefan Weltge
On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 12:00 c.t., Prof. Dr. Stefan Weltge, Assistant Professor at Technical University Munich (TUM) will present his recent work entitled Persistency of Linear Programming Relaxations for Stable Set Abstract: The Nemhauser-Trotter theorem states that the standard linear programming (LP) relaxation for the stable set problem has a remarkable property, also known as the (weak) persistency property: for every optimal LP solution that assigns integer values to some variables, there exists an optimal integer solution…
Find out more »ALOP Colloquium with Martine Labbé
On Thursday, December 19 2019 at 16:00 c.t. Dr. Martine Labbé, Université Libre de Bruxelles will present her recent work Title and Abstract will follow. The presentation will take place in HS 9. Please join us for coffee at 15:45 in E10.
Find out more »February 2020
CANCELLED – ALOP Colloquium with Shengfeng Zhu
CANCELLED DUE TO THE CURRENT TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS IN CHINA This presentation will be rescheduled at a later time. On Monday, February 10 2020 at 16:00 c.t. Dr. Shengfeng Zhu of East China Normal University will present his recent work entitled Finite element approximations of shape gradients with applications in shape optimization Abstract: Shape optimization has many practical applications in science and engineering. Boundary type Eulerian derivative has been widely used in shape gradient algorithms. The distributed Eulerian derivative is seldom…
Find out more »ALOP Colloquium with Marianna de Santis
On Monday, February 24 2020 at 16:00 c.t. Dr. Marianna de Santis, Università de Roma, DIAG will present her recent work entitled Branch-and-bound Algorithms for structured Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming Problems Abstract: Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) is the area of optimization that addresses nonlinear problems with continuous and integer variables. MINLP has proven to be a powerful tool for modeling and it combines challenges from both combinatorial and nonlinear optimization. In this talk, we deal with the computation of…
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ALOP Colloquium with Hanno Gottschalk
On Tuesday, March 3 2020 at 16:00 c.t. Prof. Dr. Hanno Gottschalk , Bergische Universität Wuppertal will present his recent work. entitled False Positives and False Negatives in Semantic Segmentation: Toward the assurance of the perception with deep CNN in atonomous driving Abstract: The application of machine learning technology in safety relevant environments poses several challenges regarding their reliability. This especially applies to modern deep learning architectures, which pretty much resemble a black box. In this talk, measures of uncertainty…
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ALOP Colloquium with Prof. Andrés Gómez
Assistant Professor Andrés Gómez of Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California, will speak at our colloquium on June 15, 2020 at 5 pm about his research via ZOOM. Title: Sparse learning via mixed-integer optimization. Abstract: This talk addresses inference problems in which sparsity plays a fundamental role. Sparse statistical models are interpretable by design and often have improved out-of-sample performance than dense models, but learning a sparse model model from data often…
Find out more »ALOP-Colloquium with apl. Prof. Martin Gugat
On Monday, June 22. 2020 at 16:00 c.t. apl. Prof. Martin Gugat, FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg will present his recent work and speak on the following topic: The finite time turnpike phenomenon for optimal control problems Abstract: Often in dynamic optimal control problems with a long time horizon, in a large neighburhood of the middle of the time interval the optimal control and the optimal state are very close to the solution of a static control problem that is derived from…
Find out more »ALOP-Colloquium with Prof. Dr. Luise Blank
On Monday, June 29. 2020 at 16:00 c.t. Prof. Dr. Luise Blank with the Universitaet Regensburg will present her recent work at our colloquium entitled Optimization with convex constraints and an application in topology optimization This talk focuses on projection type methods for convexly constrained optimization problems. We shortly introduce well known projection methods using the gradient in finite dimensions and summarize known results. Varying the underlying scalar product allows to include second order information to speed up the method. E.g.…
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ALOP-Colloquium with Julia Gruebel, M.Sc., FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg
On Monday, July 13. 2020 at 16:00 c.t. Julia Gruebel, FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg will present her recent work via a ZOOM presentation. Titel: On Electricity Market Equilibria with Storage: Modeling, Uniqueness, and a Distributed ADMM Abstract: This talk focuses on spot-market trading of electricity including storage operators as additional agents besides producers and consumers. Storage devices allow for shifting produced electricity from one time period to a later one. Due to this, multiple market equilibria may occur even if classical uniqueness…
Find out more »ALOP-Colloquium with Mathieu Besançon
On Monday, July 20. 2020 at 16:00 c.t. Mathieu Besançon of INRIA will present his recent work at our colloquium: Near-optimality robustness in bilevel optimization Bilevel optimization studies problems where the optimal response to a second mathematical optimization problem is integrated in the constraints. We introduce near-optimal robustness for bilevel problems, protecting the upper-level decision-maker from bounded rationality at the lower level. This model finds a corresponding and intuitive interpretation in various situations cast as bilevel optimization problems. We…
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ALOP-Colloquium with Prof. Dr. Volker Mehrmann, TU Berlin
On Monday, November 9. 2020 at 16:00 c.t. Prof. Dr. Volker Mehrmann, TU Berlin will present his recent work at our colloquium entitled Hierarchical energy based modeling, simulation and control of multi-physics systems. Abstract: The next level of digitization will create digital twins of every product or process. To do this in a mathematical rigorous and risk and error controlled way, a new modeling, simulation and optimization paradigm is needed. While automated modularized modeling is common in some domains like…
Find out more »ALOP-Colloquium with Prof. Dr. Rakesh Vohra, University of Pennsylvania
On Monday, November 23, 2020 at 16:00 Prof. Dr. Rakesh Vohra, University of Pennsylvania will present his recent work at our colloquium entitled Linear Programming and Prophet Inequalities Prophet inequalities bound the expected reward that can be obtained in a class of stopping problems by the optimal reward of the corresponding off-line problem. We use linear programming techniques to obtain prophet inequalities for a class of stopping problems associated with selecting a point in a polyhedron. One application…
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ALOP-Colloquium with Dr. Christina Schenk, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics
On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 16:00 c.t. Dr. Christina Schenk will present her recent work titled "Population Balance Modeling, Simulation and Optimization: From Wine Fermentation to Polymerization" at our colloquium. Abstract: The continuous increase of energy consumption and pollution by carbon dioxide emissions worldwide requires improvements in terms of energy efficiency and advanced materials. Within the scope of this talk we look at different aspects regarding mathematical modeling, simulation and optimization for several industrial applications. The proposed mathematical advances…
Find out more »ALOP-Colloquium with Prof. Dr. Falk Hante, HU Berlin
On Monday, December 14, 2020 at 16:00, Prof. Dr. Falk Hante, Humbold Universität zu Berlin will present his recent work at our colloquium. Title: Sequential action control for stabilization of PDE-dynamical systems We present sequential action control as a framework suitable for control and stabilization of PDE-dynamical problems. As a variant of a moving horizon method, but in contrast to classical model predictive control approaches, the control synthesis does not require to compute solutions of dynamic optimization problems. Moreover,…
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ALOP-Colloquium with Prof. Dr. Steven Gabriel, University of Maryland
On Monday, January 25, 2021 at 16:00 c.t. Prof. Dr. Steven Gabriel of the University of Maryland , Baltimore will present his recent work at our colloquium entitled A parametric programming approach to bilevel optimisation with lower-level variables in the upper level This paper examines linearly constrained bilevel programming problems in which the upper-level objective function depends on both the lower-level primal and dual optimal solutions. We parametrize the lower-level solutions and thereby the upper-level objective function by the…
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ALOP-Colloquium with Prof. Dr. Tobias Harks, Augsburg University
On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 16:00 c.t. Prof. Dr. Tobias Harks of Augsburg University will present his recent work at our colloquium entitled Pricing in Resource Allocation Games We consider a basic resource allocation game, where the players’ strategy spaces are subsets of R^m and cost/utility functions are parameterized by some common vector u \in∈ R^m and, otherwise, only depend on the own strategy choice. A strategy of a player can be interpreted as a vector of resource…
Find out more »ALOP-Colloquium with Dr. Ritesh Kumar Dubey of SRM University Chennai
On Monday, April 26, 2021 at 16:00 c.t. Dr. Ritesh Kumar Dubey of SRM University Chennai will present his recent work at our colloquium. Title of the Talk: On numerical diffusion for entropy stable shock capturing schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws One of the fundamental problems associated with the solution of hyperbolic conservation laws is the presence of inevitable discontinuities in it. This poses various challenges for the numerical approximation of such admissible solutions which eventually demand to construct…
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ALOP-Colloquium with Prof. Dr. Bijan Mohammadi, Montpellier University
On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 16:00 c.t. Prof. Dr. Bijan Mohammadi, Montpellier University, will present his recent work at our colloquium. He will speak about Variational nearshore dynamics Abstract: Minimization principles are used in fluid-structure coupling to model sandy sea beds evolution.The sandy bed is seen as a structure with low stiffness. We start with a model problem featuring the behavior of the coupling.Then water motion in shallow domains is described by the Saint Venant equations.This coupling bringing the…
Find out more »ALOP-Colloquium with Pascal Van Hentenryck, Georgia Tech
On Monday, May 10, 2021, Prof. Dr. Pascal Van Hentenryck, Georgia Tech will present his recent research titled: Differential privacy of hierarchical Census data: An optimization approach This talk considers applications of a Census Bureau interested in releasing aggregate socio-economic data about a large population without revealing sensitive information about any individual. The released information can be the number of individuals living alone, the number of cars they own, or their salary brackets. Recent events have identified some of the…
Find out more »ALOP-Kolloquium with Oliver Stein, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
On Monday, May 17, 2021 at 16:00 c.t. Prof. Dr. Oliver Stein, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) will present his recent work at our colloquium titled: The granularity concept in mixed-integer optimization Granularity is a geometrically motivated concept which relaxes the difficulties imposed by integrality conditions and often provides ways for determining good feasible points of mixed-integer optimization problems at low computational cost. We explain how this concept leads to algorithms for the computation of feasible points in mixed-integer linear, convex,…
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ALOP-Colloquium with Laura Albert, University of Wisconsin-Madison
On Monday, June 14, 2021 at 16:00 c.t. Prof. Dr. Laura Albert, University of Wisconsin-Madison will present her recent work at our colloquium. She will speak on a very popular contemporary topic Supporting academic researchers during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond Abstract The literature documents the many challenges faced by faculty from marginalized groups in terms of their hiring, retention, and advancement. The COVID-19 global pandemic has exasperated these inequities and has created serious challenges for many academic researchers, especially…
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