The German Operations Research Society (GOR) awards every year a price for outstanding dissertations in the field of Operations Research. The prize is sponsored by Siemens AG, and handed over at the society’s annual meeting, which in this year was organized by the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Science and the Faculty of Business and Economics at TU Dresden. One of the four theses that were selected by this year’s prize committee was “Presolving techniques and linear relaxations for cumulative scheduling” Stefan Heinz...Read More
Sebastian Schenker successfully defended his dissertation on “Multicriteria Linear Optimisation with Applications in Sustainable Manufacturing”. The thesis originates from project A5 Multicriteria Optimisation” of the Collaborative Research Center 1026 “Sustainable Manufacturing”, which was later extended as project “MI 9: Solving multi-objective integer programs” by Berlin’s Mathematics Research Center Matheon. Balancing contradicting objectives such as cost efficienciey, social welfare, and environmental compatibility was a key issue in this research, and Sebastian showed how to formulate and solve questions from welding via...Read More
Representatives of the nine BMBF Forschungscampi met on October 8/9 on the occassion of the 6th workshop of the funding initiative at the research campus ARENA 2036 in Stuttgart.This time the topic was “Successful with start-ups and SMEs”.After an introduction by host Peter Fröschle and BMBF’s Division Head Dr. Otto Bode, the participants exchanged their opinions and experiences in a series of discussions and workshops, which received impulses through several inspiring keynotes and pitches.Of course, the participants also took a...Read More
