▪ THE DIGITAL FUTURE CONFERENCE 2019 ▪ Tuesday, 14 May 2019 The digital revolution is changing our world, opening up new possibilities, offering novel opportunities, and posing a multitude of new challenges to interdisciplinary research. In cooperation with Tagesspiegel and further partners from academia, industry, and media, the Berlin Mathematics Research Center MATH+ and the...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
The first joint IBOSS-ECMath workshop on optimization methods in healthcare took place on 18.-19. October 2018 at the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB). It was organized and supported by ECMath and the MODAL AG. The research project Information-Based Optimization of Surgery Schedules (IBOSS) aims at developing fast algorithms to optimize for more efficient resource utilization in...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
19.09.2018 Am 19. September 2018 findet im Hörsaal des ZIB der 1. Forschungscampus Science Slam statt, bei dem Nachwuchskräfte aus den Forschungscampi spannende Einblicke in ihre Ergebnisse geben. Seien Sie dabei, wenn sich Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftler aus deutschlandweit neun Forschungscampi in einem spannenden Science Slam in Berlin-Dahlem miteinander messen! Ob Medizin, Produktion, Energiewende oder Mathematik...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
