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: Tuesdays 16-18 h. Secretary: Mrs. Drechsel Phone: (+49) 06151 / 16-23444 Room: S4|10 138 Email: drechsel (at) mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de

News

• June 22: Frankfurt-Darmstadt Afternoon on Optimization
• Office hours on June 26, July 3 and July 24 are canceled.
• December 2017: Release of SCIP-SDP 3.1.0: Framework for mixed-integer SDPs with SCIP
• December 2017: Release of SCIP Optimization Suite 5.0.0
• Winner of the EURO Excellence in Practice Award 2016 for "Evaluating Gas Network Capacities"
• Book: Evaluating Gas Network Capacities, MOS-SIAM Series on Optimization, 2015
• November 21, 2015: Symmetry Handling in MIPs using SCIP

Publications and Activities

• Publications
• Short CV
• Associate Editor of Operations Research Letters (since 01/2014)
• Associate Editor of Mathematical Programming Computation (from 12/2015)
• Associate Editor of INFORMS Journal on Computing (from 11/2016)

Teaching

Summer term 2018:

• Discrete Optimization
• Mathematik IV (ET)/Mathematik III (Inf)

⇒ List of all semesters

Projects

• Project A9: Resilient Design, SFB 805: Control of Uncertainties in Load-Carrying Structures in Mechanical Engineering
• Projekt EXPRESS: Exploiting Structure in Compressed Sensing Using Side Constraints, SPP 1798: Compressed Sensing in Information Processing (CoSIP)
• Project A01: Global Methods for Stationary Gastransport, Transregio/SFB 154: Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Optimization on the Example of Gas Networks
• 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

• SCIP Optimization Suite 5.0.0 - latest releases (12/2017):
  • SCIP 5.0.0
  • SoPlex 3.1.0
  • Zimpl 3.3.4
  • GCG 2.1.3
  • UG 0.8.5
• SCIP-SDP 3.1.0: Framework for mixed-integer SDPs with SCIP
• Instances for overlapping SOS1 Constraints
• Symmetry Handling in MIPs using SCIP

Selected Material

• Session: Polyhedral Methods in Geometry and Optimization, International Congress on Mathematical Software - ICMS 2016
• A Darmstadt Frankfurt Afternoon on Optimization, June 10, 2016
• A Frankfurt-Darmstadt Afternoon on Discrete Mathematics, July 3, 2015
• 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