During the 11th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (RailDresden 2025), Dr. Niels Lindner from the MODAL MobilityLab at Zuse Institute Berlin has been elected as a new board member of the International Association of Railway Operations Research (IAROR). IAROR (https://www.iaror.org) is a network of excellence in the field of railway operations research...Read More
ZIB opened its doors again on April 3, 2025 for the annual Girls’Day. In cooperation with the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin, we were able to offer more than 200 places for schoolgirls. The offer was very well received with 187 participants, 61 of whom took part in the workshops...Read More
Launch of Application Process for the MODAL/GRIPS Summer Internship Program The Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), together with the Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA, is thrilled to announce that the application process for the Graduate-Level Research in Industrial Projects for Students (GRIPS) is now open. This prestigious internship, aimed at master’s and...Read More
The Research Campus MODAL team was honored to compete in the finals of the IIF Forecasting Practice Competition, alongside lpiranga, HP, Wayfair, and Maersk. The competition showcased impressive applications of forecasting methods driving real business impact. Congratulations to Wayfair for winning this year’s competition! Our submission, EnergyLab Prognosis, is a hybrid forecasting system for hourly...Read More
Since 2013, the nine research campuses have been bringing innovations to market maturity and are breeding grounds for entrepreneurship. Since their inception, they have developed many products and services and helped many start-ups get off the ground. On the occasion of the program’s 10th anniversary, the BMBF lists some highlights. Link: Research Campus – 10...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
