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
The German Operations Research Society (GOR) awards an annual prize for outstanding dissertations in the field of Operations Research. One of the 2022 awardees is Daniel Rehfeldt for his thesis on “Faster algorithms for Steiner tree and related problems: From theory to practice.” The prize was awarded this year at the general meeting of the...Read More
The EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award (EDDA) has been awarded since 2003. It is awarded to outstanding dissertations in the field of Operations Research. This year the award goes to Daniel Rehfeldt for his thesis “Faster algorithms for Steiner tree and related problems: From theory to practice”. The prize is traditionally awarded at the Society’s annual...Read More
MODAL-Researcher Dr. habil. Timo Berthold has been awarded the “venia legendis” by TU Berlin. Timo will, from now on, serve as a lecturer and thesis advisor at TU Berlin in addition to his position as a Principal Engineer at the MODAL industry partner Fair Isaac Germany. His designation is another crucial step in the deep integration of public-private...Read More
Since Monday, nine international students from the USA and Europe are taking part in the 7th edition of the G-RIPS summer program. The program is jointly organized by IPAM and ZIB and enables excellent students to work on projects that have both an academic core and a strong industrial connection. This year’s project are in...Read More
