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 European conference, where the four finalists present their work in a special session, this year in Espoo, Finland. The Steiner tree problem in graphs (SPG)...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 partnership research at MODAL, and we are delighted that Timo can bring his broad bandwidth of award winning academic research and hands-on practical development experience into teaching...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 the areas of optimization, AutoML for biomedicine and HPC and are based on the topics of the MODAL research campus and are supported by the...Read More
