Stuttgart/Berlin, March 14, 2024 – The heureka Foundation for Mobility and Environmental Protection honors Prof. Dr. Adolf Müller-Hellmann’s liftetime achievements and in particular his pioneering contributions to the promotion of electric mobility in public transport with the Life Time Award. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Müller-Hellmann is known as a pioneer of electric bus technology. He is one of the initiators of the electric bus conference, which was held for the first time in 2010 and has established itself as a major meeting...Read More
Marco Blanco successfully defended his dissertation “Optimization Algorithms for the Flight Planning Problem” at the Institute of Mathematics at Freie Universität Berlin on September 13, 2023. The Flight Planning Problem deals with computing the most fuel efficient and/or fastest routes for aircraft in dependence of the weather and other conditions. The aim is to take advantage of the jet stream, to avoid turbulences, to minimize overflight fees, or to bypass zones that should not be overflown. The thesis develops the...Read More
The German Operations Research Society (GOR) awards prizes to outstanding Diploma and Master’s theses in the field of operations research at every annual meeting. In this year, the conference was held 29 August to 1 September 2023 in Hamburg, hosted by the University of Hamburg. Three Master’s thesis awards were bestowed (in photographic order from left to right) upon Nils Mosis from the mathematics department at TU Darmstadt for his thesis “Lower Bounds for Simplex Pivot Rules via Markov...Read More
