RESPONSIBILTIES:
Associate Editor:  SIAM J. Optimization
                                 Optimization Methods and Software

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Nonlinear and semidefinite optimization, optimization of elastic structures, optimization with equilibrium constraints.

PROFILE:
I have held positions at two industrial research institutes before I joined the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.  I have held long term research positions at the Universities of Bayreuth and Erlangen, Germany.  Before coming to the University of Birmingham I was a senior researcher at the Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED):
J. Outrata, M.K. and J. Zowe. Nonsmooth Approach to Optimization Problems with Equilibrium Constraints: Theory, Applications and Numerical Results. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1998.

M.K. and M. Stingl. On the solution of large-scale SDP problems by the modified barrier method using iterative solvers. Mathematical Programming, Series B, 109(2-3):413-444, 2007

M.K. and J. Outrata. Optimization Problems with Equilibrium Constraints and their Numerical Solution. Mathematical Programming B 101(1):119-150, 2004

P. Beremlijski, J. Haslinger, M.K., and J. Outrata. Shape Optimization in Contact Problems with Coulomb Friction. SIAM J. Optimization 13(2):561-587, 2002.

M.K. On the modelling and solving of the truss design problem with global stability constraints. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 23(3):189-203, 2002.

A. Ben-Tal, M.K., A. Nemirovski and J. Zowe. Free material optimization via semidefinite programming: the multiload case with contact conditions. SIAM J. Optimization 9(4): 813--832, 1999 and SIAM Review, 42(4): 695-715, 2000.

 J. Haslinger, K.-H. Hoffmann, and M.K. Control/fictitious domain method for solving optimal shape design problems.  M²AN Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis, 27:157-182, 1993.

 M.K. An algebraic study of a local multigrid method for variational problems. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 51:17-41, 1992.

LINKS:
Personal Web Page:         http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/kocvara/