Stuttgart/Berlin, March 14, 2024 – The heureka Foundation for Mobility and Environmental Protection honors Prof. Dr. Adolf Müller-Hellmann’s liftetime achievements and in particular his pioneering contributions to the promotion of electric mobility in public transport with the Life Time Award. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Müller-Hellmann is known as a pioneer of electric bus technology. He is one...Read More
Marco Blanco successfully defended his dissertation “Optimization Algorithms for the Flight Planning Problem” at the Institute of Mathematics at Freie Universität Berlin on September 13, 2023. The Flight Planning Problem deals with computing the most fuel efficient and/or fastest routes for aircraft in dependence of the weather and other conditions. The aim is to take...Read More
The German Operations Research Society (GOR) awards prizes to outstanding Diploma and Master’s theses in the field of operations research at every annual meeting. In this year, the conference was held 29 August to 1 September 2023 in Hamburg, hosted by the University of Hamburg. Three Master’s thesis awards were bestowed (in photographic order...Read More
The German Operations Research Society (GOR) awards an annual prize for outstanding dissertations in Operations Research. One of the 2023 awardees is Kai Hoppmann-Baum for his thesis on “Mathematical programming for stable control and safe operation of gas transport networks”. The prize was awarded this year at the general meeting of the GOR at the...Read More
The International Association of Railway Operations Research stimulates innovative theoretical approaches, high-tech concepts, new technological developments and dynamic decision support systems that contribute to a higher flexibility, performance and punctuality of trains. To this purpose, IAROR organizes the biannual International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (ICROMA). This year, the 10th ICROMA (RailBelgrade 2023)...Read More
Prof. Hans Mittelmann of Arizona State University has added Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems to his widely recognized benchmarks. With the growing interest in quantum computing, QUBO has been put in the spotlight as a potential solution to complex optimization challenges; since quantum annealers can find approximate solutions to QUBOs The QuBowl QUBO and...Read More
On 29-31 March 2023, the “15th Annual Meeting Photonic Devices” will take place at Zuse Institute Berlin. The AMPD 2023 workshop will focus on photonic devices, with an emphasis on numerical methods and on nanophotonics from fundamental research to applications. The aim is an active exchange of ideas, methods, and results between dynamic science and...Read More
Since its inception 20 years ago at Zuse Institute Berlin, SCIP has become one of the most versatile solvers and frameworks for research in mixed integer optimization. To celebrate the first recorded commit message documenting the start of SCIP’s development, a workshop was held to discuss past, present and future developments (https://scipopt.org/20years/). The workshop was...Read More
The INFORMS awards the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award for outstanding dissertations on the interaction between academia and industry. Awardees have demonstrated innovative research relevant to practice in operations research or management science. Daniel Rehfeldt made it to the finals of 2022 for his thesis on “Faster algorithms for Steiner tree and related problems: From...Read More
Enrico Bortoletto, Niels Lindner and Berenike Masing (ZIB MobilityLab) have received the Best Paper Award at ATMOS 2022. Their contribution “Tropical Neighbourhood Search: A New Heuristic for Periodic Timetabling” introduces a novel algorithm for optimizing periodic timetables in public transport using the techniques of tropical geometry. ATMOS 2022, the 22nd Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for...Read More
