The Zuse Institute Berlin bids farewell to the participants of this year’s G-RIPS program. Eleven students from the USA and Europe have been at Zuse Institute for two months since June, 25 to work in three teams with one of the following cooperation partners of the MODAL research campus, respectively: 1000Shapes GmbH, DB Fernverkehr AG and Open Grid Europe GmbH. The projects give the students the opportunity to access and use industrial data and show their skills in the fields...Read More
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
