Research Interests

Informal CV

I studied Applied Mathematics in Graz. In 1991 I graduated as Diplom-Ingenieur in Mathematics from Graz University of Technology.

From July 1992 till June 1995 I was employed at the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Discrete Optimization associated with the Institut für Mathematik B at the Graz University of Technology. I received my Ph.D. in 1995 at Graz University of Technology. My Ph.D.-thesis introduced An Interior Point Method for Semidefinite Programming and Max-Cut Bounds.

In my "Berlin years", from July 1995 to March 2002, I worked at the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin. Like in Graz, I spent most of my time on research and on industrial projects. During 1997/98 I participated in the organization of the International Congress of Mathematicians Berlin 1998 - a lot of work - and great fun! In July 2000 I finished my Habilitation at Technische Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Mathematik. Feel free to download my Habilitationsschrift Semidefinite Programming for Combinatorial Optimization. My spectral bundle code SBmethod for large scale semidefinite programming is still available but now superseded by the C++ callable library ConicBundle, which offers special support for Lagrangian relaxation of integer and linear programs over symmetric cones with separate (also nonpolyhedral) cutting models, for primal aggregation and for adding primal cuttings planes dynamically.

During a short period, from April 2002 till September 2002, I was a Professor of Economathematics at the Department of Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern.

Since October 2002 I am Professor of Algorithmic and Discrete Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, Chemnitz University of Technology.