Our paper C. Hansknecht, I. Joormann, S. Stiller "Dynamic Shortest Paths Methods for the Time-Dependent TSP" has been published in Algorithms and is openly accessible here.
The paper from the collaboration with the Institute for Computer Graphics was accepted: M. Kassubeck, F. Bürgel, S. Castillo, S. Stiller, M. Magnor, "Shape from Caustics: Reconstruction of 3D-Printed Glass from Simulated Caustic Images" will appear in 2021 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).
Our article F. Bestehorn, C. Hansknecht, C. Kirches, P. Manns "Mixed-Integer Optimal Control Problems with switching costs: A shortest path approach" has been published in Mathematical Programming Series B.
Andreas Tillmann receives the COAP Best Paper 2019 Prize for his work "Computing the spark: mixed-integer programming for the (vector) matroid girth problem", published in Computational Optimization and Applications 74(2), 2019. Congratulations!
Lisa C. Hegerhorst-Schultchen successfully defended her thesis "Optimality Conditions for Abs-Normal NLPs" at Leibniz Universität Hannover under supervision of Prof. Marc. C. Steinbach. Congratulations, Lisa! Christian Kirches acted as secondary refere
Our article C. Kirches, F. Lenders, P. Manns, "Approximation Properties and Tight Bounds for Constrained Mixed-Integer Optimal Control" has been published in SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, see https://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/18M1182917.
The Institute for Mathematical Optimization is in the news with a new BMBF grant to research mathematical methods for artificial intelligence and machine learning in logistics, sensor nets, and molecular databases.
Manuel Kudruss successfully defended his PhD thesis "Nonlinear model predictive control for motion generation of humanoids" at Heidelberg University. Congratulations!
