At the Meeting of the Japanese OR Society in Hiroshima Yuji Shinano was awarded the 2019 Research Award of the Japanese Operations Research Society. Yuji Shinano is working in the SynLab of the Research Campus MODAL on massively parallel solvers that are able to solve previsouly unsolvable instances of Integer Optimization Problems. Congratulations! Link to...Read More

The research campus MODAL presented the results of its first funding phase from 2014-2019 at an inspection. By means of several demonstrators, that were exhibited in MODAL’s Transparent Lab, the two evaluators Prof. Dr. Andreas Schuppert and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Trottenberg and the representatives of the Project Management DESY Nadja Häbe and of the Project...Read More

Felix Prause and his team ZIB won the first place at the 11th annual AIMMS-MOPTA Modeling Competition under the supervision of Kai Hoppmann and Prof. Thorsten Koch. Felix was honored in the context of the MOPTA conference, which took place on August 14.-16. in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. The aim of the competition is to attract...Read More

Every year, the “International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research” hands out an award for the best paper for which a PhD Student did the majority of the work. This year, the award went to Jakob Witzig from ZIB, who works in the SynLab of the Research Campus MODAL. The awarded work results...Read More

Kai Hoppmann, who is working in the GasLab of the research campus MODAL, was able to get ahead of the very strong competation at the 71st Science Slam Berlin in SO36 on 06.05.2019. At this great, informative event researchers from a variety of disciplines each gave 10-minute presentations about their own results. Besides fracking or...Read More

Every year, the German Association of OP-Managers (VOPM) organizes a congress in Bremen on the subject of surgery management. In their talk “OP-Software 4.0”, Joachim Gerst (Charité Berlin) and Alexander Tesch (ZIB) jointly presented the current situation, challenges and solutions for next-generation of surgery scheduling software. An essential aspect here is computer-aided planning. In the...Read More

The nine campi of the funding initiative “Research Campus – Public Private Partnership for Innovation” of the Federal Ministry for Education and Reseach met for their 5th Workshop in Jena. The event was hosted by the research campus Infectognostics in its Center for Applied Research. Guided by the topic of the meeting was “Research Campi –...Read More

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