20–22 May 2026
A-8010 Graz
Europe/Vienna timezone

Observability as a constraint qualification for a nonsmooth bilevel PDE constrained problem

20 May 2026, 14:55
25m
HS 1 (ATK1120H), Rechbauerstraße 12

HS 1 (ATK1120H), Rechbauerstraße 12

TU Graz / Campus Alte Technik 8010 Graz

Speaker

Dr Jyrki Jauhiainen (University of Graz)

Description

This talk gives a nontechnical introduction to PDE-constrained bilevel optimization problems with nonsmooth lower levels. The PDE constraints considered here are simplifications of the Bloch--Torrey equation from MRI, with the bilevel structure modelling a parameter learning problem. We discuss how complementarity conditions arising from first-order information are connected to the observability of an associated multiplier system. Based on the obtained multipliers, we propose a simple gradient-based method for computing the solutions of the bilevel problem.

Author

Dr Jyrki Jauhiainen (University of Graz)

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