Am 23. April 2026 hieß das ZIB erneut viele neugierige Schülerinnen zum bundesweiten Girls’Day willkommen. Gemeinsam mit dem Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik der Freien Universität Berlin boten wir auch in diesem Jahr ein vielseitiges Programm mit etwa 180 Plätzen für Schülerinnen, davon rund 100 am ZIB. Am ZIB konnten die Teilnehmerinnen in acht Workshops Fragestellungen aus Mathematik und Informatik sowie aktuelle Anwendungen kennenlernen: Dem Zufall auf der Spur: Wissenschaftler*innen und die Welt der Mathematik Informatik zum Anfassen: Die Tricks hinter...Read More
Felix Prause successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Predictive Maintenance in Rolling Stock Rotation Planning” at the Institute of Mathematics at Freie Universität Berlin on February 20, 2026. Indeed, keeping trains in good technical condition is a challenging problem, and methods to improve vehicle health and/or save costs are definitely needed. The availability of sensor data makes it possible for the first time to change from preventive maintenance, which is based on the current condition, to predictive maintenance, which is...Read More
Fabian Löbel, a PhD student at the Research Campus MODAL’s MobilityLab, and Dr. Niels Lindner, the lab’s head, have won the Best Student Paper Award at the 25th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization and Systems (ATMOS), which was held on September 18-19, 2025, in Warsaw, Poland. Their winning paper, titled “A Geometric Approach to Integrated Periodic Timetabling and Passenger Routing“, offers new insights based on geometric ideas into the notoriously hard problem of determining attractive and efficient...Read More
