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Fa­kul­tät für Elek­tro­tech­nik und In­for­ma­tions­tech­nik
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Courses

Practical Distributed Optimization in Julia

Organization

Credits: 5 ECTS
Term: Summer 21

Lecture & Exercise (block course)

Lecturers: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timm Faulwasser, Dr.-Ing. Alexander Engelmann,
Schedule: TBA
Room: TBA + Online
Starting: TBA
Language: English

Examination: Take-home proj­ect and oral exam
Enrollment: Please sign up for the course on LSF.  You will then be enrolled in Moodle automatically.
Office hours: On demand

For further details, please check out our moodle course.

Majors and Module Numbers:
M.Sc. Electrical Engineering and Information Technology: Module ETIT-405
M.Sc. Automation and Robotics: Module 
 

Content

Numerical optimization methods form the basis of many of today's technical systems. Many of these systems are composed of subsystems, which make classical optimization hard to apply simply because of the problem size or because of additional requirements such as a limited in­for­mation exchange.  This course cov­ers distributed and decentralized optimization algorithms overcoming limitations of classical centralized optimization. The central idea in these algorithms is to shift the computational burden to the subsystems. The course will cover

  • dual decomposition;
  • the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM);
  • decomposition strategies for sequential quadratic programming and interior point methods;
  • the augmented Lagrangian alternating direction inexact newton method (ALADIN);
  • additional topics such as primal decomposition methods and Bender's decomposition (if time permits).

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Location & approach

The campus of TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity is located close to interstate junction Dort­mund West, where the Sauerlandlinie A 45 (Frankfurt-Dort­mund) crosses the Ruhrschnellweg B 1 / A 40. The best interstate exit to take from A 45 is "Dort­mund-Eichlinghofen" (closer to Cam­pus Süd), and from B 1 / A 40 "Dort­mund-Dorstfeld" (closer to Cam­pus Nord). Signs for the uni­ver­si­ty are located at both exits. Also, there is a new exit before you pass over the B 1-bridge leading into Dort­mund.

To get from Cam­pus Nord to Cam­pus Süd by car, there is the connection via Vo­gel­pothsweg/Baroper Straße. We recommend you leave your car on one of the parking lots at Cam­pus Nord and use the H-Bahn (suspended monorail system), which conveniently connects the two campuses.

TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity has its own train station ("Dort­mund Uni­ver­si­tät"). From there, suburban trains (S-Bahn) leave for Dort­mund main station ("Dort­mund Hauptbahnhof") and Düsseldorf main station via the "Düsseldorf Airport Train Station" (take S-Bahn number 1, which leaves every 20 or 30 minutes). The uni­ver­si­ty is easily reached from Bochum, Essen, Mülheim an der Ruhr and Duisburg.

You can also take the bus or subway train from Dort­mund city to the uni­ver­si­ty: From Dort­mund main station, you can take any train bound for the Station "Stadtgarten", usually lines U41, U45, U 47 and U49. At "Stadtgarten" you switch trains and get on line U42 towards "Hombruch". Look out for the Station "An der Palmweide". From the bus stop just across the road, busses bound for TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity leave every ten minutes (445, 447 and 462). Another option is to take the subway routes U41, U45, U47 and U49 from Dort­mund main station to the stop "Dort­mund Kampstraße". From there, take U43 or U44 to the stop "Dort­mund Wittener Straße". Switch to bus line 447 and get off at "Dort­mund Uni­ver­si­tät S".

The AirportExpress is a fast and convenient means of transport from Dort­mund Airport (DTM) to Dort­mund Central Station, taking you there in little more than 20 minutes. From Dort­mund Central Station, you can continue to the uni­ver­si­ty campus by interurban railway (S-Bahn). A larger range of in­ter­na­tio­nal flight connections is offered at Düsseldorf Airport (DUS), which is about 60 kilometres away and can be directly reached by S-Bahn from the uni­ver­si­ty station.

The H-Bahn is one of the hallmarks of TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity. There are two stations on Cam­pus Nord. One ("Dort­mund Uni­ver­si­tät S") is directly located at the suburban train stop, which connects the uni­ver­si­ty directly with the city of Dort­mund and the rest of the Ruhr Area. Also from this station, there are connections to the "Technologiepark" and (via Cam­pus Süd) Eichlinghofen. The other station is located at the dining hall at Cam­pus Nord and offers a direct connection to Cam­pus Süd every five minutes.

The facilities of TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity are spread over two campuses, the larger Cam­pus North and the smaller Cam­pus South. Additionally, some areas of the uni­ver­si­ty are located in the adjacent "Technologiepark".

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