News

• Since July 2023, I am serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief, since January 2024 as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Optimization and Engineering (OPTE).
• I am serving as the Head of the Department of Mathematics (since October 2022).
• We are a partner in the BMWK funded project OptiGeoS (2024-2026).
• I am a member of the School Council of the CIT.
• I was a Keynote Lecturer of the East Coast Optimization Meeting 2022.
• Lukas Hertlein und I received the SIAG/CST Best SICON Paper Prize 2021  for our paper An Inexact Bundle Algorithm for Nonconvex Nonsmooth Minimization in Hilbert Space.
• On April 12, 2021 I gave a talk in the One World Optimization Seminar.
• From October 2019 to September 2022, I was a member of the TUM Senate, the TUM Board of Trustees and of the Faculty Council (Fakultätsrat) Mathematics.
• In August 2019, I gave a plenary talk at ICCOPT 2019.
• I am a Handling Editor of the new open access journal Journal of Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimization.
• In January 2018, I joined the Editorial Board  of the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing.
• Dr. Moritz Simon and Professor Michael Ulbrich receive the Howard Rosenbrock Prize 2015  for the best paper  published in the journal Optimization and Engineering  in 2015.
• International Research Training Group IGDK 1754
  Optimization and Numerical Analysis for Partial Differential Equations with Nonsmooth Structures
• Workshop on Numerical Methods for Optimal Control and Inverse Problems (OCIP 2015), March 9 - 11, 2015
• Corrections for the book M. Ulbrich: Semismooth Newton Methods for Variational Inequalities and Constrained Optimization Problems in Function Spaces, MOS-SIAM Series on Optimization 11, SIAM, 2011.
• New Book:
  M. Ulbrich, S. Ulbrich: Nichtlineare Optimierung, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2012. 
• New Book:
  M. Ulbrich: Semismooth Newton Methods for Variational Inequalities and Constrained Optimization Problems in Function Spaces, MOS-SIAM Series on Optimization 11, SIAM, 2011. 
• Book:
  M. Hinze, R. Pinnau, M. Ulbrich, S. Ulbrich: Optimization with PDE-Constraints, Springer, 2008. 
• Nonlinear Optimization Code: ipfilter (version 0.3) 

Activities

• Director of the Chair of Mathematical Optimization
• Subproject Leader in the BMWK funded project OptiGeoS
• Head of ther Department of Mathematics (since October 2022)
• Mermber of the School Council of the CIT
• Member of the TUM Senate and of the TUM Board of Trustees (2019-2022)
• Co-Chair of GAMM 2018 
• Vice Dean, Department of Mathematics (2012-2015)
• Associate Editor SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
• Subject Editor and Associate Editor Optimization and Engineering
• Associate Editor Mathematical Programming Computation
• Handling Editor Journal of Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimization
• Associate Editor Numerical Algebra, Control, and Optimization
• Dean of Studies (2007-2010)
• Project leader in the International Research Training Group IGDK 1754 "Optimization and Numerical Analysis for Partial Differential Equations with Nonsmooth Structures"
• Co-Initiator and PI DFG SPP 1962 "Non-smooth and Complementarity-based Distributed Parameter Systems: Simulation and Hierarchical Optimization" 
• Co-Coordinator, Member of the Executive Group (Vorstand), and Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence "CoTeSys - Cognition for Technical Systems"  (2011-2015)
• Project leader in the Research Cluster "MAC - Munich Centre of Advanced Computing"
• Co-Initiator of the DFG PP "Optimization with partial differential equations" 
• Member of DMV, GAMM, Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS), SIAM, SIGOPT, IFIP TC7 / WG 7.2

Research

Research Areas

• Optimization Theory and Methods
• Optimal Control and Parameter Identification
• Numerical Analysis