The paper titled “Faster exact solution of sparse MaxCut and QUBO problems” (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-023-00236-6) by Daniel Rehfeldt, Thorsten Koch, and Yuji Shinano has won the Outstanding Paper of the Year Award 2023 in Mathematical Programming Computation. The award was announced at the 2024 ISMP in Montreal, Canada. This research, a collaboration between the SynLab of the Research Campus MODAL, Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), and i2damo GmbH, introduces the QuBowl solver. This tool marks a significant advancement in solving the maximum-cut (MaxCut)...Read More
Gioni Mexi and his coauthors Somayeh Shamsi, Mathieu Besancon, and Pierre Le Bodic won the Best Student Paper Award at the 21st International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research (CPAIOR), which was held on May 28-31, 2024, in Uppsala, Sweden. Gioni Mexi is a PhD student in the SynLab of the Research Campus MODAL, where he works on advancing the state of the art in mixed-integer linear programming. The paper titled “Probabilistic Lookahead Strong...Read More
BMBF’s Department 711 and Projektträger DESY visited the Research Campus MODAL on May 27th/28th, 2024. With a guided tour of the FUBIC construction site, a tour of the six labs of the research campus and the LISE supercomputer, as well as discussions with the campus management and its industrial partners, the MODAL presented its work and success stories. The photo shows (from left to right) Katrin Winkler (ZIB), Kartin Rost-Drese (ZIB), Ralf Borndörfer (ZIB/FU Berlin), Timo Berthold (FICO), Togrul Gönden...Read More
