Felix Prause and his team ZIB won the first place at the 11th annual AIMMS-MOPTA Modeling Competition under the supervision of Kai Hoppmann and Prof. Thorsten Koch. Felix was honored in the context of the MOPTA conference, which took place on August 14.-16. in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. The aim of the competition is to attract young scientists to the field of combinatorial optimization. Among the participating teams from all over the world, the top three were invited to give a...Read More
Every year, the “International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research” hands out an award for the best paper for which a PhD Student did the majority of the work. This year, the award went to Jakob Witzig from ZIB, who works in the SynLab of the Research Campus MODAL. The awarded work results from a cooperation with Dr. Timo Berthold and Dr. Stefan Heinz from our industry partner FICO; both co-authored the paper. It describes the transfer of a technique called...Read More
Kai Hoppmann, who is working in the GasLab of the research campus MODAL, was able to get ahead of the very strong competation at the 71st Science Slam Berlin in SO36 on 06.05.2019. At this great, informative event researchers from a variety of disciplines each gave 10-minute presentations about their own results. Besides fracking or the influence of immune cells on obesity in humans, a talk about sexualized violence in contemporary Japanese art caught the attention of the eagerly listening...Read More
