The “Mixed Integer Programming Workshop” is an annual event that features recent contributions in the field of MIP. Every year, a comitee honors the best contribution to the poster session with a best poster award. The work presented by Leon Eifler integrates important techniques such as presolving, primal heuristics, and certification of results into the existing state of the art exact MIP solver SCIP. The computational study shows that this helps in closing a significant part of the gap between...Read More
Honorary award for the former president of ZIB Martin Grötschel receives the Cantor Medal of the German Mathematicians’ Association (DMV) for 2021, as decided recently by the DMV’s executive committee in Berlin. The Cantor Medal is the most important scientific award of the DMV. It is usually awarded every two years. Martin Grötschel steered the development of ZIB for decades, since 1992 as Vice President and from 2012 to 2015 as President. His main research areas include Mathematical Optimization, Discrete...Read More
Forum Junge Spitzenforscher is a multidisciplinary science competition where young researchers get the chance to present their innovative and practice-oriented ideas. The seventh edition of the event was hosted by the Stiftung Industrieforschung and theHumboldt-Innovation GmbH in cooperation with the universities of Berlin. The topic of this year’s competition was artificial intelligence. At the virtual closing event on November 18th, six out of more than 50 applications were selected to present theirprojects in front of an expert jury.The second prize...Read More
