Prof. Michael Hintermüller

• Director of the Weierstrass Institute,
  Head of the Research Group "Nonsmooth Variational Problems and Operator Equations"

• Professor for Applied Mathematics
  at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

• Spokesman of
  The Berlin Mathematics Research Center MATH+ (Center of Excellence)

Current research interests comprise the theory, design and analysis of algorithms in:

• Mathematical Image Processing
• MPECs in Function Space
• Nonsmooth Optimization
• PDE-Constrained Optimization
• Shape and Topology Optimization

Recent applications include:

• Elasticity: contact, cracks, etc.
• Image deblurring, denoising, demodulation and segmentation
• Interface and free boundary problems
• Modelling, simulation and optimization in the context of gas networks
• Optimal control of multiphase flows and droplets