News

Our paper E. Ley, M. Merkert: "Solution methods for partial inverse combinatorial optimization problems in which weights can only be increased" has been published in the "Journal of Global Optimization".

From August 28 through September 2, IAA and IMO jointly host a summer school on Nonlinear Optimization and Combinatorics as part of DFG priority programme 2458 "Combinatorial Synergies".

We're honoured to welcome our invited speakers Pietro Luigi Belotti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Didier Henrion (LAAS-CNRS Toulouse, France and Czech Tech. Univ. Prague, Czech Republic), Michael Joswig (TU Berlin, Germany), and Sven Leyffer (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) to Braunschweig.

A contribution by the institute was presented at the "28th Workshop on Future Research in Combinatorial Optimization (FRICO)" in Aachen, Germany.

Our paper C. Buchheim, M. Merkert: "Extended formulations for control languages defined by finite-state automata" has been published in the journal "Mathematical Programming".

A contribution by the institute was presented at the "2025 American Control Conference (ACC)" in Denver, Colorado.

The journal paper "Integer Control Approximations for Graphon Dynamical Systems" by Martin T. Köhler, Artemi Makarow, and Christian Kirches has been accepted for publication in IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS).

Armin Nurkanović joins the Institute for Mathematical Optimization as a substitute professor for the summer semester 2025. Welcome!

The journal paper "A homotopy for the reliable estimation of model parameters in chromatography processes" by Dominik H. Cebulla, Christian Kirches, Nico Kümmerer, and Andreas Potschka has been accepted for publication in Computers & Chemical Engineering.

Our paper G. Averkov, C. Hojny, M. Merkert: "On the Expressiveness of Rational ReLU Neural Networks With Bounded Depth" has been accepted at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025 and selected for spotlight.

The conference paper "Randomized Roundings for a Mixed-Integer Elliptic Control System" by Martin T. Köhler, Lauri Kröger, and Christian Kirches has been accepted for the 2025 American Control Conference.

Many members of the institute met on 22 October 2024 to welcome the new semester with an entertaining game of mini golf and a meal together.

Members of the Institute attended the "27th Workshop on Future Research in Combinatorial Optimization" in Magdeburg, Germany.

Members of the Institute attended the "Conference on Operations Research (OR 2024)" in Munich, Germany.

Members of the Institute attended the "31st IFIP TC7 System Modeling and Optimization" conference in Hamburg, Germany.

Members of the Institute attended the "25th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP)" in Montréal, Canada.