Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg invites applications
for a
PhD position in optimization
to be filled for a period of three years. The successful applicant
will work in the project
Energy efficiency via intelligent district heating networks
in cooperation with the academic partners University Trier,
TU Berlin, and Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics
as well as the with the industrial partner Technische Werke
Ludwigshafen am Rhein AG. The project is funded by the Federal
Ministry of Education and Research.
The focus of the project will be the development of models
and optimization techniques for coupled district heating networks.
The main idea is to develop algorithms for (discrete-)continuous
optimization that control the overall accuracy of the optimization
model by exploiting tailored error estimates. The successful applicant
will thus work at the interesting interface between optimization and
numerics. The developed algorithms will be analyzed theoretically and
need to be implemented in a programming language like C++ or Python.
We seek excellent open-minded and team-spirited PhD candidates that
should have completed their studies at master level in a program with
strong mathematical background in optimization.
The chair EDOM - Economics, Discrete Optimization, Mathematics (Chair
Wirtschaftsmathematik) consists of 20+ PhD students and Postdocs and
has more than fifteen years of experience in modeling and solving complex
and very large-scale planning and decision problems from logistics,
energy, production, engineering, and the natural sciences; see
https://www.mso.math.fau.de/de/edom/. Our key expertise is in
developing and applying models and algorithms, which yield proven
optimal solutions to optimization problems. This involves techniques
like linear, nonlinear, and integer programming, robust optimization,
graph algorithms, polyhedral combinatorics, and the like.
Please send your complete application documents (motivation letter,
CV, certificates, and a list of MSc courses with grades) as one PDF to
mar.schmidt@fau.de.
The deadline for applications is February 28, 2018.
Prof. Dr. Martin Schmidt
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsmathematik
Cauerstraße 11, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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