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Keynote speaker

Gabriele Eichfelder was invited to be a Keynote speaker at the 24th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies
(IFORS 2026), Vienna, Austria, July 12-17, 2026.

     
https://www.ifors2026.at

New Project

Jakob Schelinski will soon start within the newly founded project on Continuous curve-based approximations in convex multiobjective optimization.

Co-organizer

Gabriele Eichfelder is a co-organizer of the SIAM Conference on Optimization,
which will be held in Edinburgh in June 2026. The conference will take place in the Old Town Campus which lies in the heart of the University quarter and is the location of the iconic McEwan Hall where the plenaries will be held. The event will feature a diverse and distinguished lineup of plenary speakers and two mini-tutorials.

SIOPT26

Plenary Talk

Gabriele Eichfelder will give a plenary talk at the Conference Optimization 2026 which will take place in Lisbon in July 2026. 

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Group for Mathematical Methods in Operations Research

The Group for Mathematical Methods in Operations Research is headed by Prof. Gabriele Eichfelder. In her team, one employee holding a doctoral degree and three PhD students are currently working on a variety of different topics in the field of mathematical optimization. Examples for such topics are a numerical method for multiobjective bilevel optimization or structural examination of multiobjective optimization problems within a DFG granted project. The team members can be found here.

Research

The Group for Mathematical Methods of Operations Research investigates mathematical programming problems theoretically as well as numerically. The focus is on continuous optimization problems, but also mixed-integer nonlinear problems are studied. The research topics are often motivated by problems from the engineering sciences or from work on industrial projects.

The main research topics are currently the theory of vector and set optimization, numerical methods for vector and set optimization, and thus also of multiobjective optimization, global optimization such as mixed-integer optimization, and optimization problems in applications. Further Information

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Teaching

We offer students a profound and broad education in the field of continuous optimization. This includes introductory courses on the basics of optimization for both students of mathematics as well as students of engineering or computer science, as well as a broad range of advanced and in-depth courses. These cover both more theoretical topics like optimization in infinite-dimensional vector spaces and more numerical topics like algorithmic methods of optimization.

In addition, we offer lectures on the basics of mathematics for business and engineering courses. For us, a high quality of teaching is important, which spans the arc from theoretical principles and scientific approaches to practical application. Further information