Technische Universität Chemnitz

• Algorithmic and Discrete Mathematics
  Prof. Dr. Christoph Helmberg (project coordinator)
  Dr. Bartosz Filipecki
• Automatic Control and System Dynamics
  Prof. Dr. Stefan Streif
  Dr. Willem Esterhuizen
  Tim Aschenbruck

Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems Magdeburg

• Simulation of Energy Systems
  Dr. Sara Grundel
  Dr. Tobias K.S. Ritschel

Technische Universität Ilmenau

• Stochastics
  Prof. Dr. Thomas Hotz
  Stefan Heyder
• Optimization-based Control
  Prof. Dr. Karl Worthmann
  Philipp Sauerteig

ENSO NETZ GmbH

• Dr. Jörg Dickert

TenneT TSO GmbH

• Dr. Andreas Wasserrab
• Dr. Stefan Horn

Venios GmbH

• Dr. Christian Köhler

Energy Saxony e.V.

• Distributed Optimization
• Model Predictive Control
• Optimal Control
• Numerical Optimization
• Machine Learning

Journal articles

• S. Grundel, S. Heyder, T. Hotz, T. K. S. Ritschel, P. Sauerteig, K. Worthmann
  How to Coordinate Vaccination and Social Distancing to Mitigate SARS-CoV-2 Outbreaks
  Submitted. (Preprint available at medRxiv, DOI: 10.1101/2020.12.22.20248707) 
• S. Grundel, S. Heyder, T. Hotz, T. K. S. Ritschel, P. Sauerteig, K. Worthmann
  How much testing and social distancing is required to control COVID-19? Some insight based on an age-differentiated compartmental model
  Submitted. (Preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.01282)
• Y. Jiang, P. Sauerteig, B. Houska, K. Worthmann
  Distributed Optimization using ALADIN for Model Predictive Control in Smart Grids
  IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
  DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2020.3033010; early access
• P. Sauerteig, K. Worthmann
  Towards multiobjective optimization and control of smart grids
  Optimal Control - Applications and Methods (OCAM); special issue MPC for Energy Systems: Economic and Distributed Approaches 2020; 41:128-145. 
  DOI:10.1002/oca.2532; open access
• M. Baumann, S. Grundel, P. Sauerteig, K. Worthmann
  Surrogate models in bidirectional optimization of coupled microgrids
  at - Automatisierungstechnik, 67(12), 1035-1046, 2019.

Proceedings

• P. Sauerteig, Y. Jiang, B. Houska, K. Worthmann
  Distributed Control Enforcing Group Sparsity in Smart Grids
  Proceedings of the 21st IFAC World Congress, Berlin, Germany, 2020.
  To appear.

Book chapters

• T. Aschenbruck, M. Baumann, W. Esterhuizen, B. Filipecki, S. Grundel, C. Helmberg, P. Sauerteig, S. Streif, T. K. S. Ritschel, K. Worthmann
  Optimization and Stabilization of Hierarchical Electrical Networks
  In S. Göttlich, M. Herty, and A. Milde, editors, Mathematical Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization for Power Engineering and Management. Springer
  To appear.
• P. Sauerteig, M. Baumann, J. Dickert, S. Grundel, K. Worthmann
  Reducing transmission losses via reactive power control
  In S. Göttlich, M. Herty, and A. Milde, editors, Mathematical Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization for Power Engineering and Management. Springer
  To appear.
• P. Braun, P. Sauerteig, K. Worthmann
  Distributed optimization based control on the example of microgrids
  In M.J. Blondin, P.M. Pardalos, and J. Saéz, editors, Computational Intelligence and Optimization Methods for Control Engineering, volume 150 of Springer Optmization and Its Applications. Springer International Publishing, 173-200, 2019.
• S. Grundel, P. Sauerteig, K. Worthmann
  Surrogate models for coupled microgrids
  In I. Faragó, F. Izsák, P.L. Simon, editors, Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2018, volume 30 of Mathematics in Industry, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 477-483, 2019.

Theses

• K. Höhler, P. Sauerteig
  Optimal control of differential-algebraic systems via Lur'e equations, 2017 (master thesis)
• P. Sauerteig
  Greens Satz als Alternative zum Maximumprinzip, 2016 (bachelor thesis)

• 13/07 - 17/07 participation in IFAC WC 2020, Berlin, Germany (virtual only). Talk on "Distributed Control Enforcing Group Sparsity in Smart Grids".
• 24/02 - 28/02 participation in Lecture Series: Machine Learning for Fluid Mechanics: Analysis, Modeling, Control and Closure, Brussels, Belgium.
• 20/02 - 21/02 participation in Siegmundsburg Workshop. Talk on "Verteilte Optimierung von Energiespeichern in Smart Grids".
• 17/02 - 20/02 participation in Elgersburg Workshop.

• 12/12 - 13/12 participation in Challenge Workshop: Mathematical Modeling of Biomedical Problems, Erlangen.
• 18/11 - 20/11 participation in "Hands-on CasADi course on optimal control", Hasselt, Belgium.
• 17/09 participation in scientific colloquium "Energia Connecticum" with the IEAU/ZET. Talk on "Verteilte Optimierung und Steuerung von Smart Grids".
• 16/09 - 17/09 participation in Siegmundsburg Workshop.
• 28/03 participation in Modellierungstag: Mathematische Modellierung von Energienetzen, Mannheim.
• 13/03 - 15/03 participation in Siegmundsburg Workshop.
• 25/02 - 28/02 participation in Elgersburg Workshop.

• 24/09 - 25/09 participation in Siegmundsburg Workshop.
• 03/09 - 05/09 participation in Summer School: Optimization of Dynamical Systems, Bremen.
• 28/06 - 22/06 participation in 20th European Conference on Mathematics for Industry (ECMI), Budapest, Hungary. Talk on "Control of Residential Energy Systems using Energy Storages & Controllable Loads" within the MS Mathematics: As a Key Factor to Master the Challenges of the Energy Transition.
• 14/03 - 15/03 participation in Siegmundsburg Workshop. Talk on "Verteilte Optimierung".
• 26/03 - 28/03 participation in Elgersburg Workshop.

• 29/08 - 30/08 participation in Siegmundsburg Workshop. Joint talk with Karen Höhler on "Optimal Control for DAEs".
• 06/03 - 10/03 GAMM-Jahrestagung, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (support of Section S20: Dynamics and control, no talk).