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  • ARTESIS funding
    We thank the "Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action" for their support of the research project "Adaptive and robust transformation pathways for an European sector integrated energy system" (ARTESIS). This project is in collaboration with the DLR (Dr. Hans Christian Gils) and the ZIRIUS (Dr. Wolfgang Hauser).
     

  • EJOR special issue
    The European Jounal of Operational Research is calling for papers for the special issue on "The Complexity of the Energy Transition". Submission is open now until August 31th, 2024
     

  • MME 2024
    Steffen Rebennack is a member of the program committee of the MME 2024 conference (42nd International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Economics).
     

  • OR 2022
    The proceedings of the conference OR 2022 has appeared at Springer.
     

  • DIS 2024
    Steffen Rebennack is a member of the program committee of the DIS 2024 conference (7th International Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems).
     

  • Visitor
    Senior Lecturer Dr. Noam Goldberg visited the group and gave a talk entitled "Robust Radiotherapy Planning with Spatially Based Uncertainty Sets".
     

  • EJOR Editors´ Choice Articles, July 2023
    We congratulate Xavier Blanchot, Francois Clautiaux, Boris Detienne, Aurélien Froger and Manuel Ruiz for their article "The Benders by batch algorithm: Design and stabilization of an enhanced algorithm to solve multicut Benders reformulation of two-stage stochastic programs", for beeing selected by Steffen Rebennack.
     

  • ISE Magazine
    The article "Generating Optimal Robust Continuous Piecewise Linear Regression with Outliers through Combinatorial Benders Decomposition" was highlighted in July 2023 issue of the ISE Magazine. Please see here.
     

  • MathSEE Symposium 2023
    The submission deadline for the MathSEE Symposium has been extended to June 30th. There is no conference fee.
     

  • Visitor
    Associate Professor Ward Romeijnders visited the group and gave a talk entitled "Scaled cuts for stochastic mixed-integer programs".
     

  • SPECIES Scholarship
    SPEZIES Scholarship applications are now open for candidates to undertake a three-month internship at our chair on the topic "Evolutionary Local Branching Matheuristics for Combinatorial Optimisation".
     

  • ESPRIT
    We congratulate Dr. Gabl for the funding from the ESPRIT-Program of the Austrian Science Fund.
     

  • Enclopedia of Optimization
    Steffen Rebennack is member of the Editorial Board of the Encyclopedia of Optimization, third edition.
     

  • MathSEE Symposium 2023
    Dr. John Warwicker is member of the organization commitee of the MathSee Symposium 2023.
     

  • LOD 2023
    Steffen Rebennack is PC member at the conference LOD 2023 (The 9th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization and Data Science).
     

  • EJOR Editors´ Choice Articles, January 2023
    We congratulate Dimitris Bertsimas, Christopher McCord and Braadley Sturt for their paper "Dynamic optimization with side information.", for being selected as "EJOR Editors´ Choice Article January 2023" by Steffen Rebennack.
     

  • IOR Coloquium
    Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Slowinski from the Poznan University of Technology and the Polish Academy of Siences is giving a talk on January 19th, 2023 with the title "Preference Learning by Robust Ordinal Regression for Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding".
     

  • Humboldt Research Award
    We congratulate Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Roman Slowinski for the Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander Humboldt Foundation.
     

  • Top citations
    The paper "Optimal Power Flow: A Bibliographic Survey I - Formulations and Deterministic Methods" is 10 years in a row (2013-2022) the most cited article of the journal "Energy Systems" (google scholar).
     

  • WCGO 2023
    Steffen Rebennack is PC member of the conference WCGO 2023 (The 2023 World Congress on Global Optimization.)
     

  • exaly
    Steffen Rebennack appears in the „exaly“-Ranking in the category "mathematics". He is listed at most cited in the journal "Energy Systems".
     

  • PGMO
    We thank to the PGMO for the exending the research project „Decomposition Methods for the Non-Linear Optimal Power Flow Problem“ by another year.
     

  • DIS 2023
    Steffen Rebennack is a member of the programm committee of the DIS 2023 conference (6th International Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems).
     

  • MathSEE funding
    We thank MathSEE for funding the research project. "Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Matheuristics" which is supervised by Dr. Warwicker.
     

  • OR 2023
    Steffen Rebennack is PC member of the conference OR 2023 (International Conference on Operation Research : Decision Support & Choise-Based Analytics for a Disruptive World.
     

  • EJOR first time with CiteScore above 10
    The new CiteScore 2021 was released. The "European Journal of Operational Research" improved its CiteScore to 10.5 leading to rank #8 in the category „Modeling and Simulation“ among 303 journals and #11 (of 184) in "Management Science and Operations Research".
     

  • EJOR Editors´Choice Articles, July 2022
    We congratulate Ahti Salo, Juho Andelmin and Fabricio Oliveira, for being selected as EJOR Editors´ Choice Article July 2022: "Decision programming for mixed-integer multi-stage optimization under uncertainty"  by Steffen Rebennack.
     

  • Operation Research
    The textbook "Operations Research" co-authored by Stefan Nickel, Steffen Rebennack, Oliver Stein and Karl-Heinz Waldmann has appeared in the 3rd edition by Springer Gabler in 2022.
     

  • OR 2022
    The OR 2022 is announcing the last call for papers. You may submit your abstract until May 14th.
     

  • LOD 2022
    Steffen Rebennack is PC member of thr Conference LOD 2022 (The 7th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization and Data Sience).
     

  • IOR Colloquium
    Prof. Dr. Daniel Kuhn of the Ècole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is giving a talk on February 11th, 2022 with the title "Optimazation in the Face of Uncertainty".
     

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
    We congratulate Professor Daniel Kuhn for the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
     

  • EJOR Editions´ Choice Articles, January 2022
    We congratulate Mirjam Ambrosius, Jonas Egerer, Veronika Grimm and A.H. van der Weijde for being selected as EJOR Editions´ Choice Article January 2022: Uncertain bidding zone configurations: The role of expectations for transmission and generation capacity expansion by Steffen Rebennack.
     

  • PGMO funding
    We thank PGMO for funding the research project „Decomposition Methods for the Non-Linear Optimal Power Flow Problem“.
     

  • WCGO 2021
    Steffen Rebennack is PC member of the conference WCGO 2021 (The  2021 World Congress on Global Optimization).
     

  • Steffen Rebennack is again Top 3% Researcher
    Steffen Rebennack is ranked 79 out of 3346 researchers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the business ranking of the WirtschaftsWoche. This places him in the top 3%, giving him the rank of a “Top Researcher”. The ranking is based on the publications of the years 2016 to 2020. (WirtschaftsWoche 12/11/2020)
     

  • Steffen Rebennack belongs to the “Young Wilds”
    The WirtschaftsWoche has ranked Steffen Rebennack 29th out of 481 researchers below 40 years in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. (WirtschaftsWoche 12/11/2020)
     

  • OR 2022
    Together with my colleagues Wolf Fichtner (IIP), Kai Furmans (IFL), Oliver Grothe (IOR), Veit Hagenmeyer (IAI), Stefan Nickel (IOR), Frank Schultmann (IIP) and Oliver Stein (IOR), we are organizing the „International Annual Conference of the German OR Society“ (OR2022) (https://www.or2022.de/) in Karlsruhe from 6.-9. September 2022. Please contact steffen.rebennack∂kit.edu directly if you have any questions.
     

  • En4U funding
    We thank the „Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy“ for their support of the research project „Entwicklungspfade eines dezentralen Energiesystems im Zusammenspiel der Entscheidungen privater und kommerzieller Energieakteure unter Unsicherheit“ (En4U). This project is in collaboration with the IIP (Prof. Dr. Fichtner) and the DLR (Dr. Christoph Schimeczek).
     

  • EJOR Editors´ Choice Articles, June 2021
    We congratulate Balabhaskar Balasundaram, Juan S. Borrero and Hao Pan for their paper: Graph Signatures: Identification and Optimization, being selected as EJOR Editors´ Choice Article June 2021 by Steffen Rebennack.
     

  • EJOR in 96th percentile
    The new CiteScore 2020 has been released. The “European Journal of Operational Research” has a CiteScore of 9.5 and ranks #7 in the category “Management Science and Operations Research” out of 166 journals.
     

  • OR 2021
    Together with Russell McKenna and Dominik Möst, Steffen Rebennack is organizing the stream “Energy and Environment” for the OR 2021 conference (Link: https://www.or2021.unibe.ch/). If you are interested in organizing a session, please contact Steffen Rebennack (steffen.rebennack∂kit.edu).
     

  • EJOR Editions´ Choice Articles, January 2021
    We congratulate Jacob Mays, David P. Morton and Richard P. O´Neill for being selected at EJOR Editions´ Choice Article January 2021: Investment effects of pricing schemes for non-convex markets by Steffen Rebennack.
     

  • EURO 2021
    Together with Francesca Maggioni and Miloš Kopa, Steffen Rebennack is organizing the stream “Stochastic and Robust Optimization” for the EURO conference 2021. If you are interested in organizing a session, please contact Steffen Rebennack (steffen.rebennack∂kit.edu).
     

  • DFG Funding
    We thank the DFG for the support of the research project “COmPwise: Computing Optimal Piecewise Linear Functions and Their Applications".
     

  • Steffen Rebennack is Top 3% Researcher
    Steffen Rebennack is ranked 83 out of 2824 researchers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the business ranking of the WirtschaftsWoche. This places him in the top 3%, giving him the rank of a “High Flyer in Business Studies”. The ranking is based on the publications of the years 2014 to 2018. (WirtschaftsWoche 01/18/2019; see also Forschungsmonitoring.
     

  • EOSC Secretariat COVID-19
    We thank the „EOSC Secretariat“ for the support of the project "Optimal Spatiotemporal Antiviral Release under Uncertainty".
     

  • Invited Talk
    Steffen Rebennack was invited to give a talk at the virtual seminar series "Decision Making in an Uncertain World" in May 2010, organized by the Stochastic Programming Society.
     

  • EJOR in 95th percentile
    The new CiteScore 2019 has been released. The “European Journal of Operational Research” has a CiteScore of 8.5 and ranks #7 in the category “Management Science and Operations Research” out of 161 journals, behind “Journal of Operations Management” (#1 @ 11.4) and before “Management Science” (#14 @ 7.0) and “Operations Research” (#30 @ 4.9).
     

  • Top 10%

    The article "Two-Stage Stochastic Minimum s-t Cut Problems: Formulations, Complexity and Decomposition Algorithms", Networks 75:235–258, 2020 by Steffen Rebennack, Oleg A. Prokopyev and Bismark Singh is among the top 10% of the most downloaded paper in the 12 months following online publication.

  • GOR-Bachelorpreis 2019
    Hendrik Otto has been awarded the GOR-Bachelorpreis for 2019 for his bachelor thesis about the topic "Deterministic Upper Bounds for Equality and Inequality Constrained Problems in Global Minimization". The bachelor thesis was advised jointly by Peter Kirst and Christian Füllner.
     
  • Uncertainty Workshop 2019
    This research group organized the "Uncertainty Workshop 2019" on the 29th and 30th of August 2019 in St. Martin, Germany.
     
  • EJOR Editors´ Choice Articles, May 2019
    We congratulate Bruno Fanzeres, Shabbir Ahmed and Alexandre Streetc for being selected at EJOR Editors´ Choice Article May 2019: Robust strategic bidding in auction-based markets by Steffen Rebennack.
     
  • Associate Editor of OR Forum
    Since 2019, Prof. Dr. Steffen Rebennack is an Associate Editor for the journal "Operations Research Forum".
     
  • Honorable Mention
    Steffen Rebennack recieved together with Timo Lohmann an Honorable Mention at the ENRE Best Publication Award in Energy 2018 for the paper "Tailored Benders Decomposition for a Long-Term Power Expansion Model with Short-Term Demand Response", Management Science, 63(6):2027-2048, 2017.

  • Humboldt-Award
    We congratulate Professor Panayote M. Pardalos for his Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2018.
     

  • Ejor Editors´Choice Articles, June 2018
    We congratulate Robin H. Pearce and Michael Forbes for being selected at EJOR Editor´s Choice Article June 2018: Disaggregrated Benders decomposition and branch-and-cut for solving the budget-constrained dynamic uncapacitated facility location and network design problem by Steffen Rebennack.

  • IEEE Senior Member
    Steffen Rebennack has been elected an "IEEE Senior member" in May 2018.
     

  • Co-Editor-in-Chief of EJOR
    Steffen Rebennack has been selected as one of six Co-Editors-in-Chief of the "European Journal of Operational Research" starting January 1st, 2018.
     
  • Invited Plenary Talk
    Steffen Rebennack gave the plenary "Strategic Bidding for a Price-Maker Hydroelectric Producer" at the international conference "ESCC 2017".
     
  • Advisory Editor
    Steffen Rebennack is „Advisory Editor“ of the Springer book series „Springer Optimization and Its Applications“.


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