Laurent Pfeiffer

Laurent Pfeiffer

Welcome on my webpage ! Bienvenue sur ma page !

I am a PhD student at the Centre of Applied Mathematics at the Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France), under the supervision of Frédéric Bonnans, in the Commands-team of Inria-Saclay.

Mail : laurent.pfeiffer (at) polytechnique.edu
Tel : (00 33) [0]1 69 33 46 17.
CMAP
Ecole Polytechnique
Inria


Interests

  • Optimal control, optimality conditions, sensitivity analysis, second-order analysis
  • Stochastic optimization, probability constraints, SDDP algorithm
  • Applications in economics, to energy management

Publication

  • Sensitivity analysis for relaxed optimal control problems with final-state constraints
    J. Frédéric Bonnans, Laurent Pfeiffer and Oana Silvia Serea, 2013. Nonlinear Analysis Series A, to appear.
    Preprint / presentation / poster.

Preprints

My preprints are available as Inria research reports: HAL-Inria.
  • Second-order necessary conditions in Pontryagin form for optimal control problems
    J. Frédéric Bonnans, Xavier Dupuis and Laurent Pfeiffer, in preparation.
    Preprint / presentation.
  • Second-order sufficient conditions for strong solutions to optimal control problems
    J. Frédéric Bonnans, Xavier Dupuis and Laurent Pfeiffer, in preparation.
    Preprint / presentation.
  • Sensitivity analysis for the outages of nuclear power plants
    Kengy Barty, J. Frédéric Bonnans and Laurent Pfeiffer, february 2012, submitted.
    Prepublication / presentation.

Miscellaneous

  • Two methods of pruning Benders' cuts and their application to the management of a gas portfolio
    Laurent Pfeiffer, Romain Apparigliato and Sophie Auchapt, november 2012.
    Report.

Education

  • Master's degree in applied mathematics, specialization in "Optimization, Games and Modelling in Economics" (OJME) at Ecole Polytechnique and University Pierre and Marie Curie (2010).
  • Engineering diploma, Ecole Polytechnique (2010).
  • Detailed CV.