Timo Berthold, as Director Development responsible for FICO’s Xpress Optimization Suite, and also one of the most active members of MODAL’s SynLab, gives his views on mixed integer optimization and machine learning, punk rock music, and other relevant topics on Anand Subramanian’s popular “Subject to” podcast, available on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcast. YouTube Link Don’t miss out on this interview!Read More
From August 12th to 16th, 2024, the 8th NUS-ISM-ZIB-IIR-MODAL Workshop, titled “Next Generation Computing and Algorithms in the Digital Era,” took place. This workshop is the eighth in a successful series of international collaborations with our Japanese and Singaporean partners, strongly supported by the research campus MODAL. The workshop aimed to explore the potential of next-generation computing and algorithms, focusing on accelerating industrial growth and enhancing societal well-being. It provided a unique platform for experts from various disciplines to exchange...Read More
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
