Prof. Dr. Marc Pfetsch

Research Group Optimization Department of Mathematics Technische Universität Darmstadt Dolivostr. 15 64293 Darmstadt Germany (How to find us) Phone: (+49) 06151 / 16-23440 Fax: (+49) 06151 / 16-23445 Room: S4|10 144 Email: pfetsch (at) mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de Office hour: Mondays 16-18 h. Secretary: Mrs. Drechsel Phone: (+49) 06151 / 16-23444 Room: S4|10 138 Email: drechsel (at) mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de

News

• Office hours: Mondays 16-18 h. The office hours on November 11 and 25 do not take place.
• November 2024: Release of SCIP Optimization Suite 9.2.0.
• Video on SFB Transregio 154 Mathematical modelling, simulation and optimization using the example of gas networks
• Video zu SFB Transregio 154: Why pursue a doctoral degree in applied mathematics?
• February 2024: Release of SCIP-SDP 4.3.0: Framework for mixed-integer SDPs with SCIP. Current state at github.

Publications and Activities

• Publications
• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0947-7193
• Short CV
• Area Editor of Operations Research Letters (since 01/2019)
• Associate Editor of Mathematical Programming Computation (from 12/2015)
• Associate Editor of INFORMS Journal on Computing (from 11/2016)


• Associate Editor of Operations Research Letters (01/2014-12/2018)

Teaching

Winter term 2024/25:

• Einführung in die Optimierung
• Optimiization in Transport and Traffic
• bachelor- and master seminar

⇒ List of all semesters

Projects

• RODES: Robust Optimization for the Design of Energy Systems
• Clean Circles - Iron as energy carrier in a carbon neutral circular energy economy
• Globally Optimal Neural Network Training, SPP 2298: Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning
• Project A01: Global Methods for Stationary and Instationary Gastransport, Transregio/SFB 154: Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Optimization on the Example of Gas Networks
• Project A007: Combinatorial network flow methods for instationary gas flows and gas market problems, Transregio/SFB 154: Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Optimization on the Example of Gas Networks

• BMWi Project MeFlexWärme: Methodenbaukasten Flexible Wärmenetze der Zukunft, Zustandsschätzung, Modellierung, Optimierung, Simulation
• Projekt EXPRESS: Exploiting Structure in Compressed Sensing Using Side Constraints, SPP 1798: Compressed Sensing in Information Processing (CoSIP)
• Project A9: Resilient Design, SFB 805: Control of Uncertainties in Load-Carrying Structures in Mechanical Engineering
• Project A4: Mathematical Models and Methods for an Optimum Combination of Passive and Active Components, SFB 805: Control of Uncertainties in Load-Carrying Structures in Mechanical Engineering
• Project A2: Mathematical models and algorithms for an automated product development of branched sheet metal products, SFB 666: Integral Sheet Metal Design with Higher Order Bifurcations
• Project B1: Optimisation of Process Chains under Uncertainty, SFB 805: Control of Uncertainties in Load-Carrying Structures in Mechanical Engineering
• DFG-Project SPEAR - Sparse Exact and Approximate Recovery
• ForNe - Research cooperation network optimization, gas transport
• BMWi-Project Generating Certificates for the Infeasibility of technical Capacities
• Nonconvex Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming, DFG Research Center Matheon,  Project B19
• Service Design in Public Transport, DFG Research Center Matheon,  Project B15 (associated)
• Exact Integer Programming, DFG Priority Program 1307 "Algorithm Engineering"
• Symmetries in Integer Programming, DFG Research Center Matheon,  Project B12
• Infeasible Linear Inequality Systems
• Discrete Morse Functions
• Strategic Planning in Public Transport, DFG Research Center Matheon,  Project B1
• Sparse representation of solutions of differential equations, DFG Research Center Matheon,  Projekt D18

Software and Data

• SCIP Optimization Suite 9.2.0 - latest releases (11/2024):
  • SCIP 9.2.0
  • SoPlex 7.1.2
  • Zimpl 3.5.3
  • GCG 3.7.0
  • UG 1.0.0
• SCIP-SDP 4.2.0: Framework for mixed-integer SDPs with SCIP. Current state at github.
• An update on SCIP (BLOG of Sebastian Pokutta).
• Presolving for Mixed-Integer Semidefinite Optimization
• Handling Symmetries in Mixed-Integer Semidefinite Optimization
• IPBoost - Non-Convex Boosting via Integer Programming
• Instances for overlapping SOS1 Constraints
• Symmetry Handling in MIPs using SCIP
• A Generic Optimization Framework for Resilient Systems
• Data for Ambiguities in DoA Estimation for Linear Arrays

Afternoon on Optimization

• Frankfurt-Darmstadt Afternoon on Optimization, June 24, 2022
• Darmstadt Frankfurt Afternoon on Optimization, July, 2019
• Frankfurt-Darmstadt Afternoon on Optimization, June 22, 2018
• Darmstadt Frankfurt Afternoon on Optimization, June 10, 2016
• Frankfurt-Darmstadt Afternoon on Discrete Mathematics, July 3, 2015

Selected Material

• SCIP: Past, Present, Future, presentation at the SCIP 20 Workshop on November 4, 2022.
• Book: Mastering Uncertainty in Mechanical Engineering, Springer, Cham, 2021
• Book: Evaluating Gas Network Capacities, MOS-SIAM Series on Optimization, 2015
• Winner of the EURO Excellence in Practice Award 2016 for "Evaluating Gas Network Capacities"
• Session: Polyhedral Methods in Geometry and Optimization, International Congress on Mathematical Software - ICMS 2016
• Web editor of the Mathematical Optimization Society (2008-2015).
• GasLib - library of gas network instances
• POLIP - library for polynomially constrained mixed-integer programming
• The Maximum Feasible Subsystem Home page
• Some Algorithmic Problems in Polytope Theory
  
• Computational results for Large Chambers in a Lattice Polygon.
• Morse matching example
• SCIP Workshop: October 8 + 9, 2012
• Workshop: Dialog - Lebenswissenschaften und Mathematik in Braunschweig January 22nd 2010 at TU Braunschweig (in German only).
• IPCO XI, June 2005
• Pictures