ESR12-Arefeh Kavand

Fortunately, as COVID-19  😫  restrictions gradually lifted, I received confirmation that I could undertake my research stay on-site at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, commencing on April 1, 2022, and continuing until the end of May 2022 😇 (a duration of 2 months). My initial impression of the Netherlands was overwhelmingly positive 😍. The entire country was teeming with bicycles, which was entirely logical given its remarkably flat terrain. Moreover, I was fortunate to be there during the most enchanting time of the year—springtime  ⚘😍 !  Undoubtedly, everyone is familiar with the renowned Dutch tulips, correct? Throughout my stay, I endeavoured to maximize my experience by exploring the famed cities, all easily accessible and budget-friendly by train. I even had the opportunity to venture to Brussels over the weekend, a mere 90-minute train ride away! During my time in the Netherlands, I had the privilege of attending the celebrated Dutch Flower Para...

    My secondment in  NAG   took place online in November-December 2021 in collaboration with Jan Fiala and Shuanghua Bai. As an introduction,  NAG  provides industry-leading numerical software and technical services to banking and finance, energy, engineering, and market research, as well as academic and government institutions. NAG also offers Automatic Differentiation, Machine Learning, and Mathematical Optimization products, as well as world-class technical consultancy across HPC and Cloud HPC, code porting and optimization, and other areas of numerical computing. Founded over 50 years ago from a multi-university venture, NAG is headquartered in Oxford, UK, with offices in the UK, US, EU, and Asia. At FAU (my host university), my supervisor (Prof. Michael Stingl) and I could design a Primal-Dual Penalty/Barrier Multiplier Augmented Lagrangian ( PBM-AL ) algorithm for the solution of Semidefinite Programs (SDP), the efficiency of the overall algorithm is...