Professor Dr. Michael Ulbrich
Technical University of Munich | |
Chair of Mathematical Optimization | Phone: +49 89 289 17929 |
Department of Mathematik, M1 | Fax: +49 89 289 17932 |
School of Information, Computation and Technology (CIT) | |
Boltzmannstr. 3 | E-Mail: mulbrich![]() |
85748 Garching b. München | Office: 03.08.057 |
Secretary: | Frauke Bäcker |
Office hours: | by appointment |
Short CV |
News
- I serve as the Head of the Department of Mathematics (October 2022 - September 2025).
- I was a Keynote Lecturer of the East Coast Optimization Meeting 2022.
- Lukas Hertlein und I received the SIAG/CST Best SICON Paper Prize 2021
for our paper An Inexact Bundle Algorithm for Nonconvex Nonsmooth Minimization in Hilbert Space
.
- On April 12, 2021 I gave a talk in the One World Optimization Seminar.
- From October 2019 to September 2022, I was a member of the TUM Senate (since and a member of the Faculty Council (Fakultätsrat) at the Department of Mathematics
- In August 2019, I gave a plenary talk at ICCOPT 2019
- I am a Handling Editor of the new open access journal Journal of Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimization
- In January 2018, I joined the Editorial Board
of the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
.
- Dr. Moritz Simon and Professor Michael Ulbrich receive the Howard Rosenbrock Prize 2015
for the best paper
published in the journal Optimization and Engineering
in 2015.
- International Research Training Group IGDK 1754
Optimization and Numerical Analysis for Partial Differential Equations with Nonsmooth Structures - Workshop on Numerical Methods for Optimal Control and Inverse Problems (OCIP 2015), March 9 - 11, 2015
- Corrections for the book M. Ulbrich: Semismooth Newton Methods for Variational Inequalities and Constrained Optimization Problems in Function Spaces, MOS-SIAM Series on Optimization 11, SIAM, 2011.
- New Book:
M. Ulbrich, S. Ulbrich: Nichtlineare Optimierung, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2012. - New Book:
M. Ulbrich: Semismooth Newton Methods for Variational Inequalities and Constrained Optimization Problems in Function Spaces, MOS-SIAM Series on Optimization 11, SIAM, 2011. - Book:
M. Hinze, R. Pinnau, M. Ulbrich, S. Ulbrich: Optimization with PDE-Constraints, Springer, 2008. - Nonlinear Optimization Code: ipfilter (version 0.3)
Activities
- Director of the Chair of Mathematical Optimization
- Co-Chair of GAMM 2018
- Vice Dean, Department of Mathematics (2012-2015)
- Associate Editor SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
- Subject Editor and Associate Editor Optimization and Engineering
- Associate Editor Mathematical Programming Computation
- Handling Editor Journal of Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimization
- Associate Editor Numerical Algebra, Control, and Optimization
- Dean of Studies (2007-2010)
- Project leader in the International Research Training Group IGDK 1754 "Optimization and Numerical Analysis for Partial Differential Equations with Nonsmooth Structures"
- Co-Initiator and PI DFG SPP 1962 "Non-smooth and Complementarity-based Distributed Parameter Systems: Simulation and Hierarchical Optimization"
- Co-Coordinator, Member of the Executive Group (Vorstand), and Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence "CoTeSys - Cognition for Technical Systems"
(2011-2015)
- Project leader in the Research Cluster "MAC - Munich Centre of Advanced Computing"
- Co-Initiator of the DFG PP "Optimization with partial differential equations"
- Member of DMV, GAMM, Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS), SIAM, SIGOPT, IFIP TC7 / WG 7.2
Teaching
Diploma, Master's and Bachelor's Theses
- Ongoing Diploma, Master's, and Bachelor's theses
- Diploma, Master's, and Bachelor's theses (completed)