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
Am 29. September fand der weltweit bedeutendeste Wettbewerb für Operations Research und Analytics statt, in diesem Jahr aufgrund der Covid-Pandemie online. Fünf Finalisten präsentierten herausragende Analytics und O.R. Vorzeigeprojekte mit signifikanten wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen auf der ganzen Welt: • Carnival Corporation & PLC. Carnival & PLC hat Yield Optimization and Demand Analytics (YODA) entwickelt, ein innovatives Programm, das fortschrittliche Analysen und Algorithmen verwendet, um dynamische Preisempfehlungen mit einer Resourcenallokation zu kombinieren. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efQEMgx-wRo • Deutsche Bahn. Das größte europäische Eisenbahnunternehmen arbeitet unter anderem...Read More
Cooperation starts with a professorial appointment Application-oriented mathematics and computer science – this is a focus of both the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) and the School of Computing, Communication and Business (FB 4) of the HTW Berlin. Both institutions will work closely together in teaching and research. The cooperation agreement provides for an intensive exchange in the field of discrete mathematics and mathematical optimization. The first step has already been done by appointing a ZIB researcher as a professor at...Read More
