The Optimisation and Numerical Analysis Group has received a number of research grants from funding bodies over the years. Here we talk about the grants and the projects they helped fund.
- Dr Alex Bespalov was awarded £56,461 for the EPSRC-funded project Adaptive multilevel stochastic collocation methods for uncertainty quantification. It lasted from December 2021 to November 2022.
- Professor Michal Kočvara was awarded €303,173 for the ERC-funded project Polynomial Optimization, Efficiency through Moments and Algebra. It lasts from January 2019 until June 2023.
- Dr Alex Bespalov was awarded £329,468 for the EPSRC-funded project Numerical analysis of adaptive UQ algorithms for PDEs with random inputs. It lasted from June 2017 until July 2021.
- Dr Sergey Sergeev was awarded £101,183 for the EPSRC-funded project Tropical Optimisation. It lasted from March 2017 until August 2019.
- Dr Yunbin Zhao was awarded £180,948 for the EPSRC-funded project Foundation and Reweighted Algorithms for Sparsest Points of Convex Sets with Application to Data Processing. It lasted from April 2013 until May 2015.
- Professor Michal Kočvara was part of the University of Birmingham team awarded €525,327 as part of the €10m ERC-funded project Additive Manufacturing Aiming Towards Zero Waste & Efficient Production of High-Tech Metal Products. It lasted from January 2013 until June 2017.
- Dr Peter Butkovič was awarded £175,775 for the EPSRC-funded project Perron-Frobenius theory and max-algebraic combinatorics of nonnegative matrices. It lasted from March 2012 until March 2014.
- Dr Daniel Loghin was awarded €21,400 as part of the ERC-funded project GReener Aeronautics International Networking. It lasted from October 2010 until December 2012.
- Dr Peter Butkovič was awarded £291,649 for the EPSRC-funded project Feasibility and reachability in max-linear systems. It lasted from February 2008 until April 2011.
- Professor Michal Kočvara was part of the team awarded nearly €3m for the ERC-funded project A PLAtform for Topology Optimisation incorporating Novel, Large-Scale Free Material Optimisation and Mixed Integer Programming Methods. It lasted from October 2006 until Decemeber 2009.