Mats Olthoff and his MODAL RailLab team finished 2nd place at the 10th Annual AIMMS MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition. He was awarded during the MOPTA conference held on August 15-17 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. The competition is designed to attract young researchers from around the world to the field of combinatorial optimization. Hence, it was the perfect opportunity for Mats, who is part of the MODAL RailLab as master student and student assistant, to show his modeling skills. Out of...Read More
On May 07, 2018, Stefan Heinz, formerly at ZIB’s Mathematical Optimization Methods group, and now with FICO, a partner in MODAL’s SynLab, defended his thesis “Presolving Techniques and linear relaxations for cumulative scheduling” at Technical University of Berlin in front of a very large audience of collaborators, colleagues, and friends. The thesis develops a hybird constraint integer programming approach to a large class of cumulative scheduling problems. The approach unifies and significantly extends the hitherto known theory, the resulting general...Read More
The German Association of OP Management (VOPM) convenes every year for its annual meeting in Bremen to present and discuss the latest developments on the interface of medicine, organization, and human resource management. In this year, VOPM invited the project “IBOSS – Information-Based Optimization of Surgery Schedules” to give a talk about the “Optimization of Surgery Schedules”. IBOSS is a collaborative research project in the Mathematics Research Program of the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), associated with the...Read More
