Eine Delegation des Zuse-Instituts Berlin und von Open Grid Europe besuchte das Yokohama Research Laboratory der Hitachi Ltd. im Rahmen einer Reise nach Japan zum 4. Internationalen ISM-ZIB-IMI MODAL-Workshop über Mathematische Optimierung und Datenanalyse. Neben der Präsentation von Forschungsthemen bei Hitachi in den Bereichen Lieferkettenoptimierung und Wassernetzwerkoptimierung war die Präsentation der neuesten Ergebnisse im Bereich...Read More
People from Zuse Institute Berlin and Open Grid Europe who came to Japan for the 4th International ISM-ZIB-IMI MODAL Workshop stopped at Preferred Networks, gave talks, and discussed with the Preferred Networks engineers. IT was a great time to exchange information across mathematical optimization and machine learning! Link zum PN Tweet: https://twitter.com/PreferredNet/status/1111115117536530432 Link zum Workshop:...Read More
Der vierte internationale Workshop über Mathematische Optimierung und Datenanalyse wurde vom Institut für Statistische Mathematik (ISM), dem Zuse-Institut Berlin (ZIB) und dem Institut für Industriemathematik (IMI) der Kyushu-Universität durchgeführt. Unter dem Vorsitz von Satoshi Ito, Thorsten Koch und Yuji Shinano fand die Tagung vom 25. bis 27. März in den Räumen des ISM in Tachikawa,...Read More
Isabel Beckenbach successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on “Matchings and Flows in Hypergraphs”. Isabel is a member of the Mathematics of Transportation and Logistics Group and working in the RailLab@Research Campus MODAL on the optimization of railway vehicle rotations for the ICE high speed trains of Deutsche Bahn. Hypergraph models are convenient to deal with...Read More
This year’s status seminar of the BMBF Mathematics Program took place on 19 and 20 November at the Maritim Hotel in Bonn. Twenty-one projects in the two funding lines “Healthy Living” and “Energy Turnaround” presented their results. This year, the focus was on the application perspective. The collaborative research initiative IBOSS (Information Based Optimization of...Read More
Die zentrale Fragestellung des Workshops war die Identifikation von Themen und Technologien, die als Treiber für Innovationen dienen können. Hierbei lag der Focus klar auf der Verbindung von High-Performance Computing mit modernsten Algorithmen für maschinelles Lernen und Entscheidungsunterstützung bei der Verwendung komplexer Daten. Veranstaltungsort: National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokio, Japan Datum: 26.09.-01.10.2018 Zeit:...Read More
On September 19, 2018 Research Campus MODAL hosted the BMBF workshop “Complementary Objectives: Innovation Needs Professionals”. The event focused on the exchange of experience among the research campuses. The participants of the workshop discussed various opportunities to support young scientists to develop high skilled professionals of tomorrow. At the same time, young scientists from all...Read More
The 18th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS) is an annual event that aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners who are interested in all aspects of algorithmic methods and models for transportation optimization; it is part of the ALGO conference cluster. This year, ATMOS took place on August 23...Read More
The Zuse Institute Berlin bids farewell to the participants of this year’s G-RIPS program. Eleven students from the USA and Europe have been at Zuse Institute for two months since June, 25 to work in three teams with one of the following cooperation partners of the MODAL research campus, respectively: 1000Shapes GmbH, DB Fernverkehr AG...Read More
Mats Olthoff and his MODAL RailLab team finished 2nd place at the 10th Annual AIMMS MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition. He was awarded during the MOPTA conference held on August 15-17 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. The competition is designed to attract young researchers from around the world to the field of combinatorial optimization. Hence, it was...Read More