PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Sorin-Mihai Grad

Research projects and visits with external funding

  • 01.09.2020-31.01.2021: Proximal point methods in vector optimization, CIAS Senior Research Fellow Grant, Corvinus University [Budapest, Hungary]

  • 01.09-31.12.2020: Proximal point algorithms in vector optimization, STAR-UBB Fellowship, Babeş-Bolyai University [Cluj-Napoca, Romania]

  • 01.11.2018-30.11.2020: Investigations on monotonicity in general Banach spaces, FWF-Project (Lise Meitner Programme), project-label: M-2045

  • 03-07.09.2018: An inertial forward-backward method for solving convex vector optimization problems, participation at the Sixth Latin American Workshop on Optimization and Control - LAWOC 2018 [Quito, Ecuador], German Academic Exchange Service, project-label: ST43/no

  • 01.10.2016-31.03.2017: Prognosis of the balance price in the energy market, eins - energie in Sachsen

  • 01.05.2016-31.12.2019: Convex analysis and monotone operators: forward and backward, DFG-Project (own position), project-label: GR3367/4-1

  • 12-15.07.2015: An iterative method for solving vector optimization problems, participation at the 27th European Conference on Operational Research - EURO-XXVII [Glasgow, United Kingdom], German Academic Exchange Service, project-label: K1510596/9

  • 29.07-04.08.2012: Classical linear vector optimization duality revisited, participation at the IX Brazilian Workshop on Continuous Optimization [Luis Correia, Brazil], German Academic Exchange Service, project-label: D12/02306/503

  • 04/2012-09/2012: Characterizations of the solutions of optimization problems, European Social Fund in Romania, project-label: POSDRU/88/1.5/S/60185, together with Prof. Dr. D. Duca [Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca]

  • 24-28.10.2011: On classical linear vector optimization duality, participation at the International Conference Optimization, Theory, Algorithms and Applications in Economics - A tribute to Juan Enrique Martinez-Legaz on the occasion of his 60th birthday [Barcelona, Spain], Centre de Recerca Matemàtica

  • 10/2011-03/2012: Solutions in vector optimization, European Social Fund in Romania, project-label: POSDRU/88/1.5/S/60185, together with Prof. Dr. D. Duca [Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca]

  • 11-14.07.2010: Duality for vector optimization problems via a general scalarization, participation at the 24th European Conference on Operational Research - EURO-XXIV [Lisbon, Portugal], German Academic Exchange Service, project-label: D/10/10252/21

  • 31.05-04.06.2007: On strong and total Lagrange duality for convex optimization problems, participation at the Fifth International Conference on Nonlinear Analysis and Convex Analysis [Hsinchu, Taiwan], German Research Foundation, project-label: GR3367/1-1

  • 25-29.09.2006: A new framework for studying duality in multiobjective optimization, participation at the GREQAM Summer School Rationality, Social Learning and Complexity [Aix-en Provence, France], Groupement de Recherche en Economie Quantitative d'Aix Marseille

  • 18-21.04.2006: New regularity conditions for Lagrange and Fenchel-Lagrange duality in infinite dimensional spaces, participation at the International Conference on Mathematics of Optimization and Decision Making [Guadeloupe, France], Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles

  • 01/2004-06/2004: Duality and optimality in maximum entropy optimization, Study and research assistantship-grant, Chemnitz University of Technology

  • 10/2002-09/2003: Entropy optimization with applications to the classification of texts, PhD-fellowship, Karl- und Ruth-Mayer-Stiftung


worked or collaborated within the following research projects

  • 09/2016-06/2021: Employing recent outcomes in proximal theory outside the comfort zone, D-A-CH-Project of R.I. Boţ & G. Wanka, project-label: WA922/9-1

  • 04/2014-03/2017: New developments in the theory and applications of vector optimization, DFG-Project of G. Wanka & R.I. Boţ, project-label: WA922/8-1

  • 10/2008-09/2012: Regularity conditions for convex optimization problems in infinite dimensional spaces, DFG-Project of G. Wanka & R.I. Boţ, project-label: WA922/1-3

  • 08/2006-07/2008: Conjugate duality for convex and non-convex optimization problems, DFG-Projekt of G. Wanka & R.I. Boţ, project-label: WA922/1-2