At the Meeting of the Japanese OR Society in Hiroshima Yuji Shinano was awarded the 2019 Research Award of the Japanese Operations Research Society. Yuji Shinano is working in the SynLab of the Research Campus MODAL on massively parallel solvers that are able to solve previsouly unsolvable instances of Integer Optimization Problems. Congratulations! Link to SynLab: https://www.zib.de/projects/modal-synlabRead More
The research campus MODAL presented the results of its first funding phase from 2014-2019 at an inspection. By means of several demonstrators, that were exhibited in MODAL’s Transparent Lab, the two evaluators Prof. Dr. Andreas Schuppert and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Trottenberg and the representatives of the Project Management DESY Nadja Häbe and of the Project Management Jülich Dr. Bülent Genç could assess the work done in the RailLab, GasLab, MedLab, and SynLab, the networking with the industrial partners, as well...Read More
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
