How to design a network and where to place a new facility location? Questions like these arise in many contexts from business and industry. They can be modeled as discrete optimization problems and solved using techniques from integer programming. Therefore the real-world constraints must be transformed in a mathematical model. This model needs to be analyzed by methods from graph theory and polyhedran cominatorics. Finally the developed algorithms are implemented.

In April, 2010, Alexander Martin and his part of the group moved to Erlangen at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Detailed and updated information of their work can be found on their website in Erlangen. There remains a strong collaboration.

Our research group is engaged, among others, in

• DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB 666 "Integral sheet metal design with higher order bifurcations - Development, Production, Evaluation"
• DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB 805 "Control of Uncertainties in Load-Carrying Structures in Mechanical Engineering"
• TU Darmstadt focal research area "Computational Engineering"
• DFG Priority Programme 1307 "Algorithm Engineering"