Mats Olthoff belegte mit seinem Team aus dem MODAL BahnLab den zweiten Platz bei der 10. jährlichen AIMMS MOPTA Modeling Competition. Er wurde im Rahmen der vom 15.-17. August in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA stattfindenden MOPTA-Konferenz dafür ausgezeichnet. Der Wettbewerb hat das Ziel junge Wissenschaftler an das Gebiet der Kombinatorischen Optimierung heranzuführen und dafür begeistern. Folglich...Read More
The MODAL RailLab Team of this year’s G-RIPS summer internship program visited the DB Fernverkehr maintenance facilities in Rummelsburg on Thursday, July 12. G-RIPS stands for Graduate-Level Research in Industrial Projects for Students and is organized by the Research Campus MODAL at Zuse-Institute Berlin in cooperation with the Institute für Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)...Read More
On May 07, 2018, Stefan Heinz, formerly at ZIB’s Mathematical Optimization Methods group, and now with FICO, a partner in MODAL’s SynLab, defended his thesis “Presolving Techniques and linear relaxations for cumulative scheduling” at Technical University of Berlin in front of a very large audience of collaborators, colleagues, and friends. The thesis develops a hybird...Read More
Das BMBF hat ein neues Internetportal für die Förderinitiative „Forschungscampus – öffentlich-private Partnerschaft für Innovationen“ veröffentlicht, das unter der Adresse > http://www.forschungscampus.bmbf.de aufgerufen werden kann. Dort werden unser Forschungscampus MODAL und die acht weiteren Forschungscampi sowie die Förderinitiative vorgestellt und künftig Informationen zu aktuellen Terminen, Pressemitteilungen und besonderen Highlights der Forschungscampi veröffentlicht.Read More
Der Verband für OP-Management veranstaltet jedes Jahr einen Kongress in Bremen, auf dem die neuesten Entwicklungen auf der Schnittstelle zwischen Medizin, Organisation und Personalwesen vorgestellt werden. In diesem Jahr war das Projekt IBOSS – Information-Based Optimization of Surgery Schedules mit einem Vortrag zum Thema “Optimierung von Operationsplänen” eingeladen. IBOSS ist ein vom Bundesministerium für Bildung...Read More
A new “Handbook of Optimization in the Railway Industry” is available in the International Series in Operations Research & Management Science by Springer. Edited by Ralf Borndörfer, Torsten Klug, Leonardo Lamorgese, Carlo Mannino, Markus Reuther and Thomas Schlechte, the book provides an overview of the state-of-the art in railway optimization. With thirteen contributions from leading...Read More
1000shapes (Biotechnology) Company: 1000shapes GmbH is a ZIB spin-off that transfers research in life sciences into products for clinical applications. Project: The project will deal with the integrative analysis of large medical data sets coming from a large study about knee osteoarthritis, one of the most common causes of disability in adults. Based on clinical,...Read More
1000shapes (Biotechnology) Company: 1000shapes GmbH is a ZIB spin-off that transfers research in life sciences into products for clinical applications. Project: The project will deal with the integrative analysis of large medical data sets coming from a large study about knee osteoarthritis, one of the most common causes of disability in adults. Based on clinical,...Read More
Deutsche Bahn: Company: Deutsche Bahn (DB) is the Germany’s major railway company. It transports on average 5.4 million customers every day. Project: You will learn to think about the railway network at DB from a planner’s perspective. Making up ICE rotations sounds easy at first, but you will soon find out that a lot of...Read More
Deutsche Bahn: Company: Deutsche Bahn (DB) is the Germany’s major railway company. It transports on average 5.4 million customers every day. Project: You will learn to think about the railway network at DB from a planner’s perspective. Making up ICE rotations sounds easy at first, but you will soon find out that a lot of...Read More
