Michal Kocvara

Colleges, School and Institutes

Willingness to take PhD students

Yes

PhD projects

Michal Kocvara’s research interests include:

Structural optimisation
Shape optimisation
Optimisation of elastic structures
Optimisation with equilibrium constraints
Algorithms for the solution of large (and sparse) nonlinear and semidefinite programming problems

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Most downloaded publications

A New Computational Method for the Sparsest Solutions to Systems of Linear Equations
Yun-Bin Zhao & Michal Kocvara, Jun 2015, In: SIAM Journal on Optimization. 25, 2, p. 1110-1134 25 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

435 downloads
Constraint interface preconditioning for topology optimization problems
Michal Kocvara, Daniel Loghin, 12 Jan 2016, In: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. 38, 1, p. A128-A145 18 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

106 downloads
A first-order multigrid method for bound-constrained convex optimization
Michal Kocvara, 2016, In: Optimization Methods and Software. 31, 3, p. 622-644 23 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

84 downloads
Primal-dual interior point multigrid method for topology optimization
Michal Kocvara, 1 Sep 2016, In: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. 38, 5, p. B685-B709 25 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

80 downloads
Inverse truss design as a conic mathematical program with equilibrium constraints
Michal Kocvara, Dec 2017, In: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S. 10, 6, p. 1329-1350 22 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

66 downloads

Recent publications

First-order geometric multilevel optimization for discrete tomography
Michal Kocvara, 30 Apr 2021, Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision: 8th International Conference, SSVM 2021, Virtual Event, May 16–20, 2021, Proceedings. Elmoataz, A., Fadili, J., Queau, Y., Rabin, J. & Simon, L. (eds.). Springer, p. 191-203 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 12679).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Decomposition of arrow type positive semidefinite matrices with application to topology optimization
Michal Kocvara, 11 Jun 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Mathematical Programming. 30 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

On barrier and modified barrier multigrid methods for 3d topology optimization
Alexander Brune & Michal Kocvara, 7 Jan 2020, In: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. 42, 1, p. A28–A53 27 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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