10th Simon Stevin Lecture on Optimization in Engineering
"Direct Multiple Shooting for Optimization with Differential Equations"
Hans Georg Bock (IWR, University of Heidelberg)
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Optimization problems with differential equations arise in many important and challenging applications. They include parameter estimation, optimal design and optimal control and optimal experimental design to improve model validation, e.g. for model discrimination or parameter calibration. The lecture will present the direct multiple shooting method that has developed into a method of choice for such complex optimization problems, and describe some of the recent advances in the development of its algorithmic ingredients. Several real-life applications will demonstrate the versatility and power of the approach. Present and future challenges will be discussed, such as treatment of uncertainties, real-time optimization, non-stationary PDE constraints, hybrid multiscale models and non-linear mixed-integer optimization.
Biographical Information:
Hans Georg Bock graduated from University of Cologne in 1974 with a diploma thesis in mathematics completed under the supervision of professor Roland Z. Bulirsch.
He received a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Bonn in 1986 with his Ph.D. thesis "Randwertproblemmethoden zur Parameteridentifizierung in Systemen nichtlinearer Differentialgleichungen" (Boundary-value problem methods for parameter estimation in systems of nonlinear differential equations) completed under the supervision of Jens Frehse and Roland Z. Bulirsch, .
Since 1991 Hans Georg Bock holds the chair for scientific computing and optimization at the University of Heidelberg.
Hans Georg Bock authored or co-authored more than 250 scientific publications. His scientific work comprises advances in the fields of adaptive discretization and approximate Newton-type methods for large-scale optimization,
simultaneous or one-shot methods for DAE and PDE constrained nonlinear optimization and optimal control problems, real-time computation of constrained closed-loop control problems subject to DAE and PDE, especially nonlinear model predictive control, numerical methods for state and parameter estimation, and optimal experimental design for DAE and PDE, numerical methods for differential algebraic equations (DAE), nonlinear mixed integer dynamic optimization, optimization under uncertainty, non-standard optimization and optimal control problems such as stability optimization of gait patterns, computational methods for the cultural heritage, and applications in aerospace, mechanical and biomechanical engineering, chemical and process engineering, systems biology, and biomedicine.
Under the supervision of Hans Georg Bock, more than 70 diploma theses and more than 30 doctoral theses have been completed. Of his former Ph.D. students, 12 received professorships from German and international higher education institutions.
About the Lecture Series:
The "Simon Stevin Lecture Series on Optimization in Engineering" is set up in order to promote optimization in engineering. For this aim, every quarter of the year an outstanding international scholar is invited to report on latest progress in the development of optimization algorithms and their applications in engineering.
Simon Stevin (1548-1620) was a Flemish mathematician and engineer. Among other, he helped to advance the use of decimal fractions, was the first to explain the tides by the attraction of the moon, and discovered the hydrostatic paradox. He made numerous inventions, among them a wind propelled carriage with sails, the "land yacht", which once impressed Prince Maurice of Orange as it moved faster than horses, in around 1600 on the beach between Scheveningen and Petten. Simon Stevin was fond of promoting the use of science in daily life and in craftmanship, and translated various mathematical terms into dutch. Among other, he introduced the dutch word for mathematics, "wiskunde".
Directly after this spring's Simon Stevin Lecture, a little reception will be given at 18:00 in the salons of Arenberg Castle, to which all attendants of the lecture are most warmly welcome!
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This Stevin lecture is co-sponsored by ICCoS (Identification and Control of Complex Systems), a Scientific Research Network of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen).
