Gennesaret Kharistio Tjusila, Alexander Hoen, Nils-Christian Kempke, Gioni Mexi, Timo Berthold, Ambros Gleixner, Thorsten Koch, and Sebastian Pokutta won the 2026 Land-Doig MIP Competition, announced at the Mixed-Integer Programming Workshop 2026. The Land-Doig MIP Competition is held yearly in honor of Ailsa H. Land and Alison G. Harcourt (née Doig), the inventors of the branch-and-bound algorithm for mixed-integer programming (MIP). It aims to encourage the development of novel practical techniques for MIP solving. The theme of this year’s Land-Doig MIP...Read More
Berenike Masing successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Enriched Periodic Timetabling” at the Institute of Mathematics at Freie Universität Berlin on April 29, 2026. The thesis makes substantial progress on the topic of periodic timetabling in public transit with the periodic event scheduling problem (PESP) as its central mathematical framework. It strengthens the theoretical foundations of PESP, improves the computational performance of this model, and enhances its modeling scope and practical applicability by including aspects of passenger routing and infrastructure...Read More
On May 11–12, 2026, the annual strategy workshop of the BMFTR’s „Research Campus” funding initiative took place in the MODAL rooms at FUHUB. Under the guidance of PtJ, representatives from the participating research campi engaged in in-depth discussions about the prospects for sustaining their projects. They presented their individual concepts and visions for transferring their respective flagship clusters into the national and international innovation landscape. The workshop, along with the subsequent campus tour and presentations of the six MODAL labs,...Read More
