PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Sorin-Mihai Grad
2022
Dr. Avinash Dixit (Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi, India) was awarded a two years FMJH-LMH postdoctoral fellowship at ENSTA Paris under my supervision
19-21.01: invited online talk Stochastic incremental mirror descent algorithms with Nesterov smoothing at the International Online Conference on Optimization (ICOP22), Fez, Marocco
2021
21-23.12: invited online talk Stochastic incremental mirror descent algorithms with Nesterov smoothing at the International Conference on Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization (ICNAAO 2021), Varanasi, India
13-16.12: online talk Stochastic incremental mirror descent algorithms with Nesterov smoothing at the Sixth Workshop on Optimisation, Metric Bounds, Approximation and Transversality - WoMBaT2021, Melbourne, Australia
13.12: admitted as a member of the Writers' Union of Romania
30.11-01.12: talk Inducing strong convergence of trajectories in dynamical systems associated to monotone inclusions with composite structure at the PGMO Days 2021, Palaiseau, France
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new preprint: Stochastic incremental mirror descent algorithms with Nesterov smoothing
20.10: online talk Stochastic incremental mirror descent algorithms with Nesterov smoothing at the Optimization Seminar of the Center for Mathematical Modeling of the University of Chile, Chile
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01.10: begin working as a Professor of Optimization at ENSTA Paris
new paper: An extension of the proximal point algorithm beyond convexity, Journal of Global Optimization, DOI: 10.1007/s10898-021-01081-4 [pdf]
invited to be a member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Conference on Combinatorics and Optimization - ICCAP'21, Bharath University, India, 07-08.12.2021
granted a CIAS Senior Research Fellow Grant of the Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies of the Corvinus University of Budapest for the Fall Semester 2021/2022
01.05: the German version of this website will not be updated anymore
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new preprint: An extension of the proximal point algorithm beyond convexity
new paper: Solving mixed variational inequalities beyond convexity, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, DOI: 10.1007/s10957-021-01860-9 [pdf]
01.04: online talk Employing proximal point methods for solving nonlinear minmax location problems via conjugate duality at the Superior National School of Advanced Techniques Paris, France
the 8th German-Polish Conference on Optimization - GPCO 2020, Apolda, Germany, postponed (again) to 26-30.09.2022
2020
30.11-04.12: online talk An extension of proximal point algorithms beyond convexity at the Fifth Workshop on Optimisation, Metric Bounds, Approximation and Transversality - WoMBaT2020, Melbourne, Australia
19.11: online talk Strong convergence of trajectories of dynamical systems associated to monotone inclusions with composite structure at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
08.11: invited to join the Editorial Board of Fixed Point Theory
03-18.10: research stay at the Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (Romania) as a STAR-UBB Fellow, including a mini-course on Modeling Applications as Optimization Problems for graduate students and a talk on Dynamical systems with strongly convergent trajectories associated to monotone inclusions with composite structure in the Analysis & Optimization Research Seminar
granted an Advanced Fellowship of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Science and Technology of the Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca - STAR-UBB for the Fall Semester 2020
the book Multi-composed programming with applications to facility location by my former student Oleg Wilfer including some of our joint work has been published in Springer's new series Mathematical Optimization and Economathematics
the 8th German-Polish Conference on Optimization - GPCO 2020, Apolda, Germany, postponed to 20-24.09.2021
new paper: Inducing strong convergence of trajectories in dynamical systems associated to monotone inclusions with composite structure, Advances in Nonlinear Analysis 10:450-476, 2021
14.04: administrator of the One World Optimization Seminar
new paper: New duality results for evenly convex optimization problems, Optimization, DOI: 10.1080/02331934.2020.1756287 [pdf]
19-21.02: talk An extension of proximal point algorithms beyond convexity at the 1st Workshop of the Research Group on Applied Mathematics with Emphasis on Optimization, Mauerbach, Austria
06-08.01: talk Inducing strong convergence of trajectories in dynamical systems associated to monotone inclusions with composite structure at the IFIP Workshop on Inverse Problems, Imaging, and Optimization, Essen, Germany
2019
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new preprint: Inducing strong convergence of trajectories in dynamical systems associated to monotone inclusions with composite structure
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new paper: A survey on proximal point type algorithms for solving vector optimization problems, in: H.H. Bauschke, R. Burachik, D.R. Luke (Eds.), "Splitting Algorithms, Modern Operator Theory, and Applications", Springer-Verlag, Cham, 269-308, 2019
07-11.10: talk Inducing strong convergence of trajectories in dynamical systems with composite structure at the XIV International Seminar on Optimization and Related Areas - ISORA 2019, Lima, Peru
17-20.09: talk Combining duality and splitting proximal point methods for constrained optimization problems at the 19th French-German-Swiss Conference on Optimization - FGS 2019, Nice, France
invited to be a member of the Organization Committee of the 8th German-Polish Conference on Optimization - GPCO 2020, Apolda, Germany, 21-25.09.2020
04-08.08: talk Combining duality and splitting proximal point methods at the Sixth International Conference on Continuous Optimization - ICCOPT 2019, Berlin, Germany
24.06-01.07: talk Proximal point methods for some constrained optimization problems at the 71st Workshop on Advances in Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimization, Erice, Italy
new preprint: New duality results for evenly convex optimization problems
09-11.04: talk Solving nonlinear minmax location problems with minimal time functions by means of proximal point methods via conjugate duality at the Games, Dynamics and Optimization Workshop - GDO2019, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
01.03.: M.Sc. Dennis Meier - PhD student in the framework of the DFG research project Convex analysis and monotone operators: forward and backward
25.02-01.03: member of the local commitee at the Numerical Algorithms in Nonsmooth Optimization Workshop - ESI Thematic Programme "Modern Maximal Monotone Operator Theory: From Nonsmooth Optimization to Differential Inclusions", Vienna
28.01-01.02: member of the local commitee at the Nonsmooth and Variational Analysis Workshop - ESI Thematic Programme "Modern Maximal Monotone Operator Theory: From Nonsmooth Optimization to Differential Inclusions", Vienna
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new paper: A proximal method for solving nonlinear minmax location problems with perturbed minimal time functions via conjugate duality, Journal of Global Optimization 74(1), 121--160, 2019 [pdf]
2018
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19.12: talk Solving nonlinear minmax location problems with minimal time functions by means of conjugate duality and proximal point methods at the Vienna Workshop of Computational Optimization 2018 - VWCO18, Vienna, Austria
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01.11: begin working at the University of Vienna
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12.07: talk An inertial forward-backward method for solving vector optimization problems at the 16th EUROPT Workshop - Advances in Continuous Optimization, Almeria, Spain
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new preprint: A perturbational duality approach in vector optimization
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30.06: talk An inertial forward-backward proximal point method for solving vector optimization problems at the International Conference on Variational Analysis and Nonsmooth Optimization - ICVANO 2018, Halle, Germany
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16.04: invited to join the Editorial Board of Optimization
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01.04-30.09: extension of guest professorship for Analysis at the Institute of Mathematics of the Leipzig University
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24.02: talk Modelling the power distribution in the Romanian Parliament at the Symposium in Memoriam Ioan Boţ, Satu Mare, Romania
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new paper: Inertial forward-backward methods for solving vector optimization problems, to appear in Optimization
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11.01: talk Convex analysis and monotone operators: forward and backward at the ERC-Seminar for Analysis at the Institute of Mathematics of the Leipzig University
2017
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12.12.: talk Duality in vector optimization at the Seminar Stochastics and Finance Mathematics at the University of Konstanz, Germany
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25.11: Co-organizer of the Third Central European Set-Valued and Variational Analysis Meeting, Chemnitz, Germany
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01.10.2017-31.03.2018: on leave from Chemnitz, as a guest professor for Analysis at the Institute of Mathematics of the Leipzig University
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26.09: talk A forward-backward method for solving vector optimization problems at the 18th French - German - Italian Conference on Optimization, Paderborn, Germany
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19.09: talk An inertial forward-backward method for solving vector optimization problems at the CMO-BIRS Workshop Splitting Algorithms, Modern Operator Theory, and Applications, Oaxaca, Mexico
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07.09: talk A forward-backward method for solving vector optimization problems at the International Conference on Operations Research - OR2017, Berlin, Germany
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Eleonore Dießner Prize awarded to my student Lidia Höpfner for her Diploma thesis
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new paper: Characterizations via linear scalarization of minimal and properly minimal elements, to appear in Optimization Letters
2016
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03.12: talk Characterizations of minimality notions by means of quasi interior at the Second Central European Set-Valued and Variational Analysis Meeting, Jena, Germany
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01.12: talk An inertial proximal point method for vector optimization problems at the Optimization Seminar of the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna, Austria
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01.10: new industry project Prognosis of the equilibrium prices in the energy market with eins - energie in sachsen
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31.08: talk An inertial proximal point method for vector optimization problems at the International Conference on Operations Research - OR2016, Hamburg, Germany
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new paper: Duality and ε-optimality conditions for multi-composed optimization problems with applications to fractional and entropy optimization, to appear in Pure and Applied Functional Analysis
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20.06: lecture Mathematics III (for Electrical Engineering and Information Technology) [in German] confirmed for Winter Semester 2016/2017
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06.06: talk Closedness type regularity conditions in convex optimization and beyond at the Sixth International Conference in Optimization Theory and its Applications - ALEL 2016, Cartagena, Spain
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05.05: talk About closedness type regularity conditions in convex optimization at International Conference on Bilevel Optimization and Related Topics in honor of Stephan Dempe's 60th birthday, Dresden, Germany
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20.04: Approval of my DFG-research project Convex analysis and monotone operators: forward and backward for 24 months
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05.01: lecture Mathematics IV (for Electrical Engineering and Information Technology) [in German] confirmed for Summer Semester 2016
- my students can rate my lectures on meinprof.de
2015
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new paper: On gauge functions for convex cones with possibly empty interiors, to appear in Journal of Convex Analysis
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24.10: talk An inertial proximal point method for vector optimization problems at the Central European Set-Valued and Variational Analysis Meeting, Göttingen, Germany
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13.07: talk An iterative method for solving vector optimization problems at the EURO-XXVII Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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09.07: talk About closedness type regularity conditions in convex optimization at the 13th EUROPT Workshop - Advances in Continuous Optimization, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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01.07: lecture Game theory confirmed for Winter Semester 2015/2016
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new paper: On biconjugates of infimal functions, to appear in Optimization, DOI: 10.1080/02331934.2015.1046873 [pdf]
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10.01: if you are interested in giving a talk in my session entitled "Numerical methods for solving convex vector optimization problems" within the stream "Continuous multiobjective optimization and robustness" at the EURO XXVII Conference (12-15.07.2015, Glasgow) feel free to contact me until 16.03.2015
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05.01: lecture Conjugate duality in convex optimization confirmed for Summer Semester 2015
2014
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11.12: article about me in University News
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03.09: talk On biconjugates of infimal functions at the International conference on Operations Research - OR2014, Aachen, Germany
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15.07: talk Generalizations of the weak minimality at the Fourth Latin American Workshop on Optimization and Control - LAWOC 2014, Lima, Peru
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01.07: lecture Optimization and approximation problems confirmed for Winter Semester 2014/2015
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17.04: granting of the academic title Privatdozent of the Department of Mathematics, Chemnitz University of Technology
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06.02: achievement of the title Dr. rer. nat. habil. at the Department of Mathematics, Chemnitz University of Technology
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06.02: talk The equilibrium problem and its applications in the framework of the Habilitation procedures, Department of Mathematics, Chemnitz University of Technology
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new paper: Characterizing relatively minimal elements via linear scalarization, accepted for the Proceedings of the OR2013 Conference, Rotterdam, 2013
2013
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24.10: test lecture Konjugierte Funktionen, Department of Mathematics, Chemnitz University of Technology
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05.09: talk Vector duality for convex vector optimization problems by means of the quasi interior of the ordering cone at the OR2013 International Conference on Operations Research, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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01.09: exercise Mathematics I (for Economists) confirmed for Winter Semester 2013/2014
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new paper: Characterizations of ε-duality gap statements for composed optimization problems, Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications 92(1):96-107, 2013
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01.07: exercise Mathematics III for Electrical Engineering [in German] and Research Seminar Optimization and Approximation confirmed for Winter Semester 2013/2014
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06.06: talk Recent advances in vector optimization and set-valued analysis via convex duality, Chemnitzer Mathematisches Colloquium, Chemnitz University of Technology
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01.03: exercise Mathematics II for Electrical Engineering and Information Technology [in German] confirmed for Summer Semester 2013
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new paper: Vector duality for convex vector optimization problems by means of the quasi-interior of the ordering cone, accepted by Optimization, DOI: 10.1080/02331934.2013.775283
2012
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new paper: Characterizations of ε-duality gap statements for constrained optimization problems, accepted by Central European Journal of Mathematics
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new paper: Alternative generalized Wolfe type and Mond-Weir type vector duality, accepted by Journal of Nonlinear and Convex Analysis
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01.09: exercise Mathematics I for Electrical Engineering and Information Technology [in German] confirmed for Winter Semester 2012/2013
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new preprint: Characterizations of ε-duality gap statements for composed optimization problems
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24.08: talk Classical linear vector optimization duality revisited at the 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Programming - ISMP2012, Berlin, Germany
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31.07: talk Classical linear vector optimization duality revisited at the IX Brazilian Workshop on Continuous Optimization, Luis Correia - Piaui, Brasil
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20.06: talk Classical linear vector optimization duality revisited at the conference on Constructive Nonsmooth Analysis and Related Topics, St. Petersburg, Russia
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new preprint: Characterizations of ε-duality gap statements for constrained optimization problems
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01.04: exercise Advanced Mathematics I.2 for Sensory and Cognitive Psychology [in German] confirmed for Summer Semester 2012
2011
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new preprint: Alternative generalized Wolfe type and Mond-Weir type vector duality
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new paper: Approaching the maximal monotonicity of bifunctions via representative functions, accepted by Journal of Convex Analysis, online first
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26.10: talk Classical linear vector optimization duality revisited at the International Conference Optimization, Theory, Algorithms and Applications in Economics, Barcelona, Spain
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24.08: talk Classical linear vector optimization duality revisited at the GCM10 - Symposium, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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new paper: On linear vector optimization duality in infinite-dimensional spaces, Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization 3(1):407-415, 2011
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new preprint: Approaching the maximal monotonicity of bifunctions via representative functions, uploaded on arXiv
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new preprint: On linear vector optimization duality in infinite-dimensional spaces, submitted
2010
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new paper: Extending the classical vector Wolfe and Mond-Weir duality concepts via perturbations, Journal of Nonlinear and Convex Analysis 12(1):81-101, 2011
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new paper: Classical linear vector optimization duality revisited, accepted in Optimization Letters, DOI: 10.1007/s11590-010-0263-1
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new paper: Closedness type regularity conditions for surjectivity results involving the sum of two maximal monotone operators, Central European Journal of Mathematics 9(1):162-172, 2011
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14.09: lecture Basics of Optimization [in German] confirmed for Winter Semester 2010/2011
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new poetry book: SUROGAT [in Romanian], Herg Benet Publishers, Bucharest, 2010
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new preprint: Closedness type regularity conditions for surjectivity results involving the sum of two maximal monotone operators, uploaded on arXiv
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14.07: talk Duality for vector optimization problems via a general scalarization at the EURO-XXIV Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
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09.07: talk Closedness type regularity conditions for surjectivity results involving the sum of two maximal monotone operators at the 8th EUROPT Workshop - Advances in Continuous Optimization, Aveiro, Portugal
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25.06: talk Lower semicontinuous type regularity conditions for subdifferential calculus at the 24th Mini EURO Conference on Continuous Optimization and Information-Based Technologies in The Financial Sector [24th MEC EurOPT 2010], Izmir, Turkey
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new preprint: Classical linear vector optimization duality revisited, uploaded on arXiv
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new paper: Duality for vector optimization problems via a general scalarization, accepted in Optimization, DOI: 10.1080/02331934.2010.505959
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new paper: Wolfe duality and Mond-Weir duality via perturbations, Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications 73(2):374-384, 2010
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08.02: lecture Monotone operators and convex analysis confirmed for Summer Semester 2010
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new paper: Lower semicontinuous type regularity conditions for subdifferential calculus, Optimization Methods and Software 25(1):37-48, 2010