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The 17th AIMMS-MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition was posted recently and deals with an air crew training and scheduling type problem. The competition features various levels of prizes and is geared towards graduate or advanced undergraduate students. Each team is required to declare a team advisor with whom the team may consult about the problem and their solution.

We would be greatly appreciate the chance to advise a promising team of motivated students, so please send us an email until end of January, if you would like for one of our team members to fill this role. Note that the official submission deadline of the competition is March 1, 2025.

Marius Willner from the University of Ulm is visiting us on 2024-12-19 to give a presentation on Riemannian Optimization on Tensor Network Manifolds.

Hannah Rickmann is joining our group as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!

Nico Haaf is joining our group as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!

Johannes Pfefferer from the University of the Armed Forces Munich is visiting us 2024-07-09 through 2024-07-11. He is giving a talk in the optimization seminar.

Stefan Ulbrich from the Technical University of Darmstadt is visiting us on 2024-07-10. He is giving a talk in the IWR colloquium.

Two PhD positions - E 13 TV-L 75% - in Heidelberg and Berlin

Within our project on “Operator Learning for Optimal Control: Approximation and Statistical Theory” in the DFG SPP 2298 “Foundations of Deep Learning”, we are looking for two excellent PhD candidates. We actively encourage applications from individuals of underrepresented backgrounds. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment.

If you are interested, please contact Evelyn Herberg for more information.

Andreas Warkentin from the University of Kassel is visiting us 2024-07-03 through 2024-07-04. He will give a talk on Aspects of Ferroelectric Energy Harvesting in our optimization seminar 2024-07-03 at 3pm.

Evelyn Herberg’s, Sven Wang’s and Jakob Zech’s project proposal “Operator Learning for Optimal Control: Approximation and Statistical Theory” has been accepted in the DFG’s SPP 2298. Congratulations!

Kirk Soodhalter from Trinity College, Dublin, is visiting us 2024-06-03 through 2023-06-28. His visit is supported through the Romberg Program of the Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences HGS MathComp.

Constantin Christof from the Technical University of Munich is visiting us 2024-05-21 through 2023-05-23. He will give a talk on Directional differentiability for solution operators of vectorial sweeping processeswith applications in optimal control in our optimization seminar 2023-05-22 at 11am.

Frederik Köhne from the University of Bayreuth is visiting us 2024-05-14 through 2023-05-16. He will give a talk on Adaptive Step Sizes for Preconditioned Stochastic Gradient Descent in our optimization seminar 2023-05-15 at 11am.

Roland Herzog, Manuel Weiß, Peter Bastian and Michael Winckler participated in the Heidelberg half marathon 2024. As Team IWR they achieved rank 108 with their top 3 times summing up to 5:53:27.

Masoumeh Hashemi has successfully defended her PhD thesis “Optimal Control of Nonlocal Partial Differential Equations” today. Congratulations!

The 16th AIMMS-MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition was posted recently and deals with the role of green hydrogen in renewable-energy grids. The competition features various levels of prizes and is geared towards graduate or advanced undergraduate students. Each team is required to declare a team advisor with whom the team may consult about the problem and their solution.

We would be greatly appreciate the chance to advise a promising team of motivated students, so please send us an email until the end of February, if you would like for one of our team members to fill this role.

Roland Herzog has been elected Managing Director of the IWR.

Evelyn Herberg has been selected to become a member of the GAMM’s council of young researchers, the GAMM Juniors. Congratulations!

The sixth edition of the European Conference on Computational Optimization (EUCCO) will be held in Heidelberg from 2023-09-25 until 2023-09-27 with the scoop group acting as local organizer. More information can be found on the conference’s event page.

Our group’s former postdoc Maurício Silva Louzeiro was appointed assistant professor at the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil.

Hajg Jasa from NTNU Trondheim, Norway, is visiting us 2023-09-04 through 2023-12-21.

Kirk Soodhalter from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, is visiting us 2023-09-04 through 2023-09-08.

Andrea Petrocchi from the University of Konstanz is visiting us 2023-06-28 through 2023-06-30. He is giving a talk in the optimization seminar.

Martin Stoll from Chemnitz University of Technology is visiting us 2023-06-21 through 2023-06-23. He is giving a talk in the IWR Scientific Computing Seminar.

Bastian Dittrich from the University of Würzburg is visiting us 2023-06-14. He is giving a talk in the optimization seminar.

Marco Bernreuther from the University of Konstanz is visiting us 2023-05-25. He is giving a talk in the optimization seminar.

Hannes Meinlschmidt from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg is visiting us 2023-05-17. He is giving a talk in the IWR Scientific Computing Seminar, jointly with the Applied Analysis Seminar.

Konstantin Sonntag from the University of Paderborn is visiting us 2023-05-09 through 2023-05-11.

Anton Schiela and Frederik Köhne from the University of Bayreuth are visiting us 2023-04-26 through 2023-04-28.

Michael Hinze from the University of Koblenz is visiting us 2023-04-19 through 2023-04-21. He is giving a talk in the IWR Scientific Computing Seminar.

Frederik Köhne from the University of Bayreuth is visiting us 2023-03-29 through 2023-03-31.

Complementing the standard teaching of the 2022 winter semester, the scoop group is offering a compact course Introduction to Optimization as part of the Heidelberg Graduate School for Mathematical and Computational Methods in the Sciences’ ( HGS MathComp) curriculum.

Andreas Naumann and Viktor Martinek successfully taught the Data Science Workshop at KMUTT, Bangkok.

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Stephan Schmidt and Lukas Baumgärtner from Humboldt University, Berlin are visiting us 2023-03-06 through 2023-03-10.

Evelyn Herberg has been selected to become a member of the inaugural cohort of the European Mathematical Society Young Academy (EMYA).

We have two openings for Ph.D. students within the DFG Research Unit PoPULAR (Printed & Stable Organic Photovoltaics from Non-fullerene Acceptors). The successful candidates will work within Project P6 (Phase field methods, parameter identification and process optimisation) led jointly by Martin Stoll, Chemnitz, Jan-Frederik Pietschmann and Roland Herzog. Please refer to the detailed description for more information.

The 15th AIMMS-MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition was posted on 2023-02-02 and deals with planning electric vehicle charging stations. The competition features various levels of prizes and is geared towards graduate or advanced undergraduate students. Each team is required to declare a team advisor with whom the team may consult about the problem and their solution.

We would be greatly appreciate the chance to advise a promising team of motivated students, so please send us an email unti the end of February, if you would like for one of our team members to fill this role.

Konstantin Sonntag from the University of Paderborn is visiting us 2023-01-25 through 2023-01-26.

Leonie Kreis is joining our group as a Ph.D. student. She will be working on the DFG-funded project “Multilevel Architectures and Algorithms in Deep Learning” of the DFG Priority Program 2298 “Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning”. Welcome!

Roland Herzog has been elected to the Managing Directorate of the IWR, effective January 2023.

** Attention! Due to health reasons, we will unfortunately have to postpone this short course to another time. We will post more information here as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience.***

Complementing the standard teaching of the 2022 winter semester, the scoop group is offering a compact course Introduction to Optimization as part of the Heidelberg Graduate School for Mathematical and Computational Methods in the Sciences’ ( HGS MathComp) curriculum.

In the summer semester of 2022, the SCOOP group at IWR, Heidelberg University is organizing a seminar on selected topics in optimization. The seminar is intended for both undergraduate (bachelor) and graduate (master) students in mathematics, applied computer sciences and scientific computing and will concern a wide range of topics in optimization that can be tailored to the individual participants. The seminar is suitable for participants with little prior knowledge in optimization but also an obvious extension for advanced topics that build on the classes “Grundlagen der Optimierung”, “Nichtlineare Optimierung” or “Konvexe Optimierung”.

Feel free to contact us if you have questions on the seminar.

John Pearson from the University of Edinburgh is visiting us 2022-09-05 through 2022-09-09.

Evelyn Herberg is joining our group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!

Reyhaneh Majidi is joining our group as a Ph.D. student. She will work on the Klaus-Tschira foundation-funded project Optimization and visualization support system for cardiac arrhythmia management within the Informatics4Life Initiative. Welcome!

Estefanía Loayza Romero successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis A Discrete Perspective on PDE-constrained Shape Optimization Problems. Congratulations!

Viktor Martinek is joining our group as a Ph.D. student. He will work on the DFG-funded project Machine Learning and Optimal Experimental Design for Thermodynamic Property Modeling within the Priority Program SPP 2331: Machine Learning in Chemical Engineering. Welcome!

Karina Koval is joining our group as a postdoctoral researcher. She will work on the Carl-Zeiss foundation-funded project Physical Models and Deep Learning for Imaging and Cancer Treatment. Welcome!

Georg Müller is joining our group as deputy group leader. Welcome!

Manuel Weiß is joining our group as a Ph.D. student. He will work on the DFG-funded project A Calculus for Non-Smooth Shape Optimization with Applications to Geometric Inverse Problems within the Priority Program SPP 1962: Non-Smooth and Complementarity-based Distributed Parameter Systems: Simulation and Hierarchical Optimization. Welcome!

Karthik Paithankar is joining our group as head of IT, starting in May 2021. Welcome!

Roland Herzog accepted the position as professor in scientific computing at IWR, Heidelberg University and will be heading the new research group Group Scientific Computing and Optimization (SCOOP), starting in April 2021.