The MODAL RailLab Team of this year’s G-RIPS summer internship program visited the DB Fernverkehr maintenance facilities in Rummelsburg on Thursday, July 12. G-RIPS stands for Graduate-Level Research in Industrial Projects for Students and is organized by the Research Campus MODAL at Zuse-Institute Berlin in cooperation with the Institute für Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)...Read More
On May 07, 2018, Stefan Heinz, formerly at ZIB’s Mathematical Optimization Methods group, and now with FICO, a partner in MODAL’s SynLab, defended his thesis “Presolving Techniques and linear relaxations for cumulative scheduling” at Technical University of Berlin in front of a very large audience of collaborators, colleagues, and friends. The thesis develops a hybird...Read More
Das BMBF hat ein neues Internetportal für die Förderinitiative „Forschungscampus – öffentlich-private Partnerschaft für Innovationen“ veröffentlicht, das unter der Adresse > http://www.forschungscampus.bmbf.de aufgerufen werden kann. Dort werden unser Forschungscampus MODAL und die acht weiteren Forschungscampi sowie die Förderinitiative vorgestellt und künftig Informationen zu aktuellen Terminen, Pressemitteilungen und besonderen Highlights der Forschungscampi veröffentlicht.Read More
The German Association of OP Management (VOPM) convenes every year for its annual meeting in Bremen to present and discuss the latest developments on the interface of medicine, organization, and human resource management. In this year, VOPM invited the project “IBOSS – Information-Based Optimization of Surgery Schedules” to give a talk about the “Optimization of...Read More
A new “Handbook of Optimization in the Railway Industry” is available in the International Series in Operations Research & Management Science by Springer. Edited by Ralf Borndörfer, Torsten Klug, Leonardo Lamorgese, Carlo Mannino, Markus Reuther and Thomas Schlechte, the book provides an overview of the state-of-the art in railway optimization. With thirteen contributions from leading...Read More
On November 16, 2017, the members of Research Campus MODAL met for their 4th general assembly in the Red Salon of ZB. After detailed reports about the successful work of the four labs of the research campus (BahnLab, GasLab, MedLab, SynLab), the assembly welcomed Visage Imaging GmbH as a new member; Visage contributes to MedLab...Read More
The 2nd ISM-ZIB-IMI MODAL Workshop on Mathematical Optimization and Data Analysis took place at the Research Campus MODAL at ZIB from September 22nd to September 26th 2017. Thorsten Koch from the Research Campus MODAL organized this very fruitful and interesting workshop together with Mr. Satoshi Ito from the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) in Tokyo and...Read More
