Research Campus MODAL and its partner KI Park jointly organized the workshop “KI Park meets MODAL” on Friday, 18 September 2026. In the new MODAL offices at FUHUB, MODAL researchers and practitioners from KI Park’s member organisations came together for an afternoon of talks and discussions on mathematical optimization, data analysis and AI adoption. KI Park e.V. is a partner of Research Campus MODAL in its third funding phase and connects the campus with its network of companies and organisations working...Read More
From August 24–28, the Research Campus hosted the block course Computational Integer Optimization as part of its MODAL Academy program. More than 30 students from TU Berlin, FU Berlin, and partner universities in France and Italy participated, together with participants from several MODAL industry partners. Over five intensive days, the course covered the key algorithmic components of modern mixed-integer programming solvers, including branching, primal heuristics, presolving, cutting planes, symmetry handling, numerics, machine learning, and GPU-based optimization. Lectures were complemented by...Read More
We warmly congratulate Nils-Christian Kempke on the successful defense of his dissertation titled “Structure- and Hardware-Aware Algorithms for Large-Scale Linear and Mixed-Integer Linear Optimization” on September 17, 2026, at Technische Universität Berlin! Unprecedented Opportunities for Complex Energy System Models With the ongoing energy transition and sector coupling, the demands on mathematical modeling and optimization are rising rapidly. Energy system models of the future are characterized by ever-increasing complexity, massive dimensions, and high spatial and temporal resolutions. Traditional optimization approaches are...Read More
