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About POEMA

POEMA aims to train scientists at the interplay of algebra, geometry and computer science for polynomial optimization problems and to foster scientific and technological advances, stimulating interdisciplinary and intersectoriality knowledge exchange between algebraists, geometers, computer scientists and industrial actors facing real-life optimization problems.

Project Coordinator: INRIA
Technical Coordinator: Bernard Mourrain (INRIA)

POEMA is funded under the H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018 call and is part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions — Innovative Training Networks (ITN) funding scheme.
Grant agreement No: 813211
Action full title: Polynomial Optimization, Efficiency through Moments and Algebra
Granting authority: Research Executive Agency
Duration: 48 Months (01/2019 — 12/2022)

Factsheet

POEMA is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (2019-2022), offering 15 PhD positions starting from September 2019.

Its goal is to train scientists at the interplay of algebra, geometry and computer science for polynomial optimization problems and to foster scientific and technological advances, stimulating interdisciplinary and intersectoriality knowledge exchange between algebraists, geometers, computer scientists and industrial actors facing real-life optimization problems (read more)

POEMA Consortium

The core academic partner of POEMA, namely INRIA, CNRS, SU, CWI, UvT, UKON, UNIFI, UoB, FAU , UiT. And as this community develops and gains both academic expertise and industrial insight, it will reinforce strategic connections between research and industry. Industry professionals, and POEMA industrial partners (ARTELYS, IBM, NAG, RTE), expect the application of such techniques to play a major role in upcoming technological developments (read more)

Project Plan

POEMA is designed to go beyond traditional paradigms of Mathematical optimization by exploiting new advances in algebra and convex geometry. Mathematical optimization yields significant advantages for many industry and society sectors, ranging from production planning processes, transportation, to energy consumption, and resources control. The project has been structured around six work-packages To efficiently ensure the training of young researcher on the State-of-the-Art Mathematical optimization (read more)

Board of POEMA

Supervisory Board is the central organ of POEMA project, acting as the decision making body consisting of one representative for each partner either beneficiary or associate.

Our supervisors have extensive experience in PhD supervision and teaching at the highest level. Each academic host has experienced professors, research directors or members with an accreditation to supervise research (HDR), who have successfully supervised several PhDs and senior researchers, and extensive experience in MA thesis supervision (read more)

Project News

POEMA News

Find latest news on POEMA project whose initiative will implement an advanced training programme addressing both academic and industrial agenda, focusing on:

New advances in the analysis and in the understanding of the algebra and geometry involved in polynomial optimization problems, which lead to significant progress in the development of new efficient algorithms and implementations for solving global optimization problems.
New, alternative methods for solving global optimization problems, exploiting the structure of the problems for efficiency and accuracy.
Developing the scope of applications of this new paradigm by addressing challenging applications and optimization bottlenecks in physics, information processing, communication, economy, energy management, etc opening new innovation perspectives across numerous domains.

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POEMA 1st Workshop

The 1st POEMA workshop - Research introductive workshop on Polynomial Optimization and Moments will be organized in Florence from 15-17 January 2020 (read more)

IASS SYMPOSIUM 2019

Michal Kocvara is present at the IASS 60th Anniversary Symposium that takes place on October 07-10, 2019 in Barcelona (read more)

Real Applied Algebraic Geometry

Claus Scheiderer is present at the "Real Applied Algebraic Geometry " workshop that takes place on September 19/20, 2019 in Berlin (read more)

Tropical Methods in Real Algebraic Geometry

This workshop on the topic of Analytical and combinatorial aspects of quantum information theory is organized from 9-13 September 2019 in ICMS Edinburgh (read more)

Tropical Methods in Real Algebraic Geometry

Claus Scheiderer is present at the "Tropical Methods in Real Algebraic Geometry" workshoporganized at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (read more)

POEMA at XXI Congress of the Italian Mathematical Union

POEMA presents at XXI Congress of the Italian Mathematical Union will take place from 2-7 September 2019 at the University of Pavia (read more)

Thank you for your application

Applications for POEMA project are now closed and all the positions are filled.

Thank you for your interests in the Phd positions of our project. While it is our hope to match every applicant that we receive to their dream position, this is a rigorous competition for entry into our programs as we received many interesting and excellent applications (read more)

Phd Positions in POEMA (closed)

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network POEMA (2019-2022) is offering 15 PhD positions starting from September 2019. The proposed PhD projects are investigating the development of new algebraic and geometric methods combined with computer algebra techniques for global non-linear optimization problems and their applications, in particularly, in smarter cities challenges, urban traffic management, water network management, energy flow control, or environmental monitoring.

Detailed descriptions and application of the project can be found here.