Blog Posts

A bit more than a year ago, I travelled to Grenoble for a first faculty informal meeting / retreat with the Polaris group I was joining as an Inria Associate Researcher (Chargé de Recherche).

An informal recap of our recent paper.

A one-month impression.

In January 2024, I will be joining Inria Grenoble1 as an Associate Researcher (my home-brewed translation of Chargé de Recherche) in the POLARIS team and wanted to make a quick note about it after exchanging about several points and clearing out confusions from several people.

A partial list of graduate winter and summer schools in optimization.

This is a short post on the cut selection mechanism in the mixed-integer optimization solver SCIP and things I used for its implementation in the SCIP.jl Julia wrapper. You can check out the corresponding pull request for completeness.

Today was the release of SCIP.jl v0.11, the first release switching to SCIP 8. The major change in this (massive) release was the rewrite of the nonlinear optimization part, using a so-called expression framework.

It has been about a year since I joined the Zuse Institute to work on optimization methods and computation. One of the key projects of the first half of 2021 has been on building up FrankWolfe.

Table of Contents Position of postdocs and PhDs in labs A quick perspective on a postdoc career In January 2021, I joined the Zuse Institute as a postdoctoral researcher. After six months, most of which were in home office or remote, I wanted to put down a couple of simple observations.

An opinionated guide for outsiders.