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Overview

Florian A. Potra is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the United States. Their research focuses on various aspects of mathematics and computer science, with particular attention to numerical analysis, computational theory and mathematics, statistics and probability, management science and operations research, and computational mechanics.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of topics including advanced optimization algorithms research, matrix theory and algorithms, iterative methods for nonlinear equations, fuzzy systems and optimization, risk and portfolio optimization, as well as sparse and compressive sensing techniques.

Recent publications by Florian A. Potra include the following:

  • A Full-Newton Step Interior-Point Method for Monotone Weighted Linear Complementarity Problems, 2020, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
  • Robust and Distributionally Robust Optimization Models for Linear Support Vector Machine, 2022, Computers & Operations Research
  • Issues on the use of a modified Bunch and Kaufman decomposition for large scale Newton's equation, 2020, Computational Optimization and Applications

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Florian A. Potra include:

  • Soodabeh Asadi
  • Zsolt Darvay
  • Goran Lešaja
  • Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri
  • Daniel Faccini

Their publications are commonly found in venues such as:

  • Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
  • Computers & Operations Research
  • Computational Optimization and Applications

The array of publication venues reflects engagement with optimization theory, computational methods, and applied operations research. Through their research, Florian A. Potra contributes to the development and analysis of optimization techniques and algorithms, as well as their applications in computational mathematics.

Best Publications

  • Interior-point methods

    Florian A. Potra;Stephen J. Wright

  • Formulating Dynamic Multi-Rigid-Body Contact Problems with Friction as Solvable Linear Complementarity Problems

    M. Anitescu;F. A. Potra

  • Nondiscrete induction and iterative processes

    F.-A Potra;V. Ptak

  • The kinetic preprocessor KPP*/a software environment for solving chemical kinetics

    Valeriu Damian;Adrian Sandu;Mirela Damian;Florian Potra

  • Benchmarking stiff ode solvers for atmospheric chemistry problems II: Rosenbrock solvers

    A. Sandu;Jan Verwer;Joke Blom;E.J. Spee

  • Benchmarking stiff ode solvers for atmospheric chemistry problems-I. implicit vs explicit

    A. Sandu;J.G. Verwer;M. Van Loon;G.R. Carmichael

  • Projection and iterated projection methods for nonliear integral equations

    Kendall E. Atkinson;Florian A. Potra

  • Time-stepping for three-dimensional rigid body dynamics

    Mihai Anitescu;Florian A. Potra;David E. Stewart

  • A mesh-independence principle for operator equations and their discretizations

    F A Potra;W C Rheinboldt;K Böhmer;E L Allgower

  • The current state and future direction of Eulerian models in simulating the tropospheric chemistry and transport of trace species: a review

    Leonard K. Peters;Carl M. Berkowitz;Gregory R. Carmichael;Richard C. Easter

  • A time-stepping method for stiff multibody dynamics with contact and friction

    Mihai Anitescu;Florian A. Potra

  • A Superlinearly Convergent Primal-Dual Infeasible-Interior-Point Algorithm for Semidefinite Programming

    Florian A. Potra;Rongqin Sheng

  • Formulating Three-Dimensional Contact Dynamics Problems

    Mihai Anitescu;James F. Cremer;Florian A. Potra

  • On Q -order and R -order of convergence

    F. A. Potra

  • Sharp error bounds for Newton's process

    Florian A. Potra;Vlastimil Pták

  • Algorithm 748: enclosing zeros of continuous functions

    G. E. Alefeld;F. A. Potra;Yixun Shi

  • The role of linear semi-infinite programming in signal-adapted QMF bank design

    P. Moulin;M. Anitescu;K.O. Kortanek;F.A. Potra

  • On an iterative algorithm of order 1.839… for solving nonlinear operator equations ∗)

    F. A. Potra

  • Sustainable Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures through CO2 Emission Optimization

    Dong Hun Yeo;Florian A. Potra

  • Asymptotic mesh independence of Newton-Galerkin methods via a refined Mysovskii theorem

    Peter Deuflhard;Florian A. Potra

  • Interior-point methods for nonlinear complementarity problems

    F. A. Potra;Y. Ye

Frequent Co-Authors

Mihai Anitescu
Mihai Anitescu Argonne National Laboratory
Adrian Sandu
Adrian Sandu Virginia Tech
Gregory R. Carmichael
Gregory R. Carmichael University of Iowa
Yinyu Ye
Yinyu Ye Stanford University
Pierre Moulin
Pierre Moulin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan Verwer
Jan Verwer Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Peter Deuflhard
Peter Deuflhard Zuse Institute Berlin
Donald Dabdub
Donald Dabdub University of California, Irvine
Xiaojun Chen
Xiaojun Chen Hong Kong Polytechnic University
John H. Seinfeld
John H. Seinfeld California Institute of Technology

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