BMBF Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

Research-Campus MODAL

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Sandra Patzelt-Schuette
The summer school CO@Work 2024 takes place  from September 16 to 27, 2024, at Zuse Institute Berlin and is organized jointly by TU Berlin, HTW Berlin, FU Berlin, and Zuse Institute Berlin, and co-sponsored by MATH+, BMS, Forschungscampus MODAL, I²DAMO, GOR, DFG Priority Program 2298, COPT, d-fine, FICO, GAMS, and Gurobi. 142 on-site participants from 27 countries plus 408 online participants from all over the world enjoy 43 lectures on...
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Timo Berthold, as Director Development responsible for FICO’s Xpress Optimization Suite, and also one of the most active members of MODAL’s SynLab, gives his views on mixed integer optimization and machine learning, punk rock music, and other relevant topics on Anand Subramanian’s popular “Subject to” podcast, available on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcast. YouTube Link:...
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From August 12th to 16th, 2024, the 8th NUS-ISM-ZIB-IIR-MODAL Workshop, titled “Next Generation Computing and Algorithms in the Digital Era,” took place. This workshop is the eighth in a successful series of international collaborations with our Japanese and Singaporean partners, strongly supported by the research campus MODAL. The workshop aimed to explore the potential of...
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The paper titled “Faster exact solution of sparse MaxCut and QUBO problems” (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-023-00236-6) by Daniel Rehfeldt, Thorsten Koch, and Yuji Shinano has won the Outstanding Paper of the Year Award 2023 in Mathematical Programming Computation. The award was announced at the 2024 ISMP in Montreal, Canada. This research, a collaboration between the SynLab of the...
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Gioni Mexi and his coauthors Somayeh Shamsi, Mathieu Besancon, and Pierre Le Bodic won the Best Student Paper Award at the 21st International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research (CPAIOR), which was held on May 28-31, 2024, in Uppsala, Sweden. Gioni Mexi is a PhD student in the SynLab...
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BMBF’s Department 711 and Projektträger DESY visited the Research Campus MODAL on May 27th/28th, 2024. With a guided tour of the FUBIC construction site, a tour of the six labs of the research campus and the LISE supercomputer, as well as discussions with the campus management and its industrial partners, the MODAL presented its work...
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Pedro Maristany de las Casas successfully defended his dissertation “ New Multiobjective Shortest Path Algorithms“ at the Institute of Mathematics at Freie Universität Berlin on Mai 15, 2024. He developed the currently fastest algorithms for multicriteria shortest path optimization with three and more objectives for the 1-to-all, 1-to-1, and the time-dependent case, as well as...
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The Ab Ovo Group is continuing its successful partnership with the MobilityLab of the MODAL research campus in the upcoming five-year third main phase. “Sustainable mobility is a key issue for our society. Digital decision support systems can make a significant contribution to this. At their core are mathematical optimisation methods, which we are developing...
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Stuttgart/Berlin, March 14, 2024 – The heureka Foundation for Mobility and Environmental Protection honors Prof. Dr. Adolf Müller-Hellmann’s liftetime achievements and in particular his pioneering contributions to the promotion of electric mobility in public  transport with the Life Time Award. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Müller-Hellmann is known as a pioneer of electric bus technology. He is one...
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Marco Blanco successfully defended his dissertation “Optimization Algorithms for the Flight Planning Problem” at the Institute of Mathematics at Freie Universität Berlin on September 13, 2023. The Flight Planning Problem deals with computing the most fuel efficient and/or fastest routes for aircraft in dependence of the weather and other conditions. The aim is to take...
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