The Zuse Institute Berlin welcomes the participants of the 2026 Graduate-Level Research in Industrial Projects for Students (G-RIPS) summer program. From June to August, international graduate students from the USA and Europe will work in interdisciplinary teams on research projects that combine mathematical and computational methods with practical challenges from industry and applied science. Organized by ZIB in collaboration with the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA (USA) and embedded in the Research Campus MODAL at ZIB,...Read More
From June 15 to 26, 2026, the Research Campus MODAL at the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) hosted the hybrid PEREGRINE PIPS-IPM++ Hackathon. Part of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) funded (03EI1082A-B) PEREGRINE project, the two-week event brought together optimization experts and developers to expand the ecosystem of the parallel open-source interior point solver, PIPS-IPM++. The central goal of the hackathon was to increase the accessibility of PIPS-IPM++ beyond its existing GAMS implementation. Participants were challenged...Read More
Gennesaret Kharistio Tjusila, Alexander Hoen, Nils-Christian Kempke, Gioni Mexi, Timo Berthold, Ambros Gleixner, Thorsten Koch, and Sebastian Pokutta won the 2026 Land-Doig MIP Competition, announced at the Mixed-Integer Programming Workshop 2026. The Land-Doig MIP Competition is held yearly in honor of Ailsa H. Land and Alison G. Harcourt (née Doig), the inventors of the branch-and-bound algorithm for mixed-integer programming (MIP). It aims to encourage the development of novel practical techniques for MIP solving. The theme of this year’s Land-Doig MIP...Read More
