The German Operations Research Society (GOR) awards an annual prize for outstanding dissertations in the field of Operations Research. One of the 2022 awardees is Daniel Rehfeldt for his thesis on “Faster algorithms for Steiner tree and related problems: From theory to practice.” The prize was awarded this year at the general meeting of the...Read More

The EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award (EDDA) has been awarded since 2003. It is awarded to outstanding dissertations in the field of Operations Research. This year the award goes to Daniel Rehfeldt for his thesis “Faster algorithms for Steiner tree and related problems: From theory to practice”. The prize is traditionally awarded at the Society’s annual...Read More

MODAL-Researcher Dr. habil. Timo Berthold has been awarded the “venia legendis” by TU Berlin. Timo will, from now on, serve as a lecturer and thesis advisor at TU Berlin in addition to his position as a Principal Engineer at the MODAL industry partner Fair Isaac Germany. His designation is another crucial step in the deep integration of public-private...Read More

Since Monday, nine international students from the USA and Europe are taking part in the 7th edition of the G-RIPS summer program. The program is jointly organized by IPAM and ZIB and enables excellent students to work on projects that have both an academic core and a strong industrial connection. This year’s project are in...Read More

On May 12th, the 9 funded research campi met in the premises of the research campus STIMULATE (Solution Center for Image Guided Local Therapies) to exchange their experiences on the topic of IPR (Intellectual Property Rights). This took place after an inspiring keynote by jury member Prof. Dr. Klaus-Jürgen Melulis in three work phases, concluded...Read More

The 14th Annual Workshop Photonic Devices (AMPD2022) has been successfully held at Zuse Institute Berlin. Six invited talks and 26 contributed talks related to numerical methods, simulation and physical properties of novel photonic devices. This motivated fruitful discussion among the 70 international participants of the on-site 2-day workshop. The workshop has been organized by the...Read More

Graph design has a wide range of applications in computer systems, including future supercomputers and future high-end datacenters. Computer network designers desire to find a graph with a small number of hops between any pair of vertices to have low latency. The order/degree problem is used for low-latency network design. Graph Golf is an international...Read More

The 5th workshop of the cooperation between ZIB and the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) Tokyo and the Institute of Mathematics for Industry of Kyushu University, established in 2016, was held at the MODAL research campus from 27-09-30-21, for the first time as a virtual workshop due to the pandemic situation. Another sponsor was RIKEN,...Read More

“INFORMS Journal of Computing”, one of the most prestigious journals for the publication of research articles in the field of mathematical optimization, regularly honors outstanding publications with the “Meritorious Paper Award”. Recently, two ZIB researchers, Dr. Timo Berthold and Mr. Jakob Witzig, had the honor to receive this award. The award-winning article describes how to...Read More

The “Mixed Integer Programming Workshop” is an annual event that features recent contributions in the field of MIP. Every year, a comitee honors the best contribution to the poster session with a best poster award. The work presented by Leon Eifler integrates important techniques such as presolving, primal heuristics, and certification of results into the...Read More