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The Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)

is an interdisciplinary research institute for applied mathematics and data-intensive high-performance computing. Its research focuses on modeling, simulation and optimization with scientific cooperation partners from academia and industry.

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Dynamic Structure of Life

How cells organize patterns in space and time

Researchers at ZIB develop data analysis and mathematical modeling techniques and apply them in cooperation with biologists in order to gain insight into fundamental principles of biological processes, such as cell division, protein regulation, and brain formation and activity.

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Dusting off Cometary Surfaces

Modeling gas and dust around comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko

The European Space Agency Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G) sent back millions of observations during its journey around the sun. ZIB contributed to the scientific analysis of the space mission by modeling the gas and dust environment around the comet on the HLRN supercomputer. Photo: ESA/Rosetta/NavCam

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Specific fuel consumption for the Lufthansa fleet

New navigation systems for aircraft save fuel and time

Cheap air transport has become a matter of course since the 1980s.

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Mathematics Meets Humanities

Examples from ancient studies and psychology

For many years, the humanities and mathematics were considered as two sciences that have little to do with one another. During the last decade, however, researchers on both sides realized the potential lying in the respective other field. In this article, we present four examples illustrating this potential.

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Software Sustainability in the Age of Open Science

When mathematicians combine mathematical theory and real-world applications, then mathematical research software complements chalk and blackboard, or pencil and paper. Today, mathematical software plays a central role in research and key technologies and has an increasing impact on mathematical education.

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Scalability and Concurrency

Challenges from Two Interdisciplinary Research Projects

How to chop and distribute hundreds of continuous high-bandwidth data streams efficiently in a network so that, for each time frame, the sensor data is collected in a particular analysis node? How to exploit modern network capabilities, like remote direct memory access, to improve the scalability of SAT solving on supercomputers?

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News Archive

Our latest news

29.07.2020

Long-Term Preservation at ZIB gets into swing with Count Basie

EWIG is an »Open Archival Information System« for cultural and research institutions. Digitised cultural heritage and research data are preserved and kept usable for the distant future.

21.07.2020

Martin Hanik receives MICCAI Student Travel Award

Martin Hanik received a MICCAI Student Travel Award for the paper “Nonlinear Regression on Manifolds for Shape Analysis using Intrinsic Bézier Splines” (co-authors: Christoph von Tycowicz, Hans-Christian Hege).

13.07.2020

The smooth yet chaotic motion of atoms in a liquid leads to a rapid onset of friction below a characteristic frequency

Friction describes how a body that is immersed in a fluid resists to dragging it. The friction experienced by the molecules of a liquid is a crucial parameter: it controls energy dissipation and sets the time scale of virtually all processes in liquid matter.

17.06.2020

ZIB researchers help to understand cellular processes related to pain relief drugs. Results published in Nature.

Pain relief therapy is one of most important sectors of the health care system with 12-15 million patients with chronic pain, including 5 million with severe pain in Germany alone.

11.06.2020

Joint publication on a Plug&play single photon source on the cover of Advanced Quantum Technologies

Recent results from a collaboration between Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Technische Universität Berlin, Maria Curie Sklodowska University, Fibrain, PicoQuant, JCMwave, and Zuse Institute Berlin have been published in Advanced Quantum Technologies.

Events Archive

Upcoming events

13.03.2020

Most events at ZIB will happen in digital formats

Until further notice, most conferences, workshops and meetings at ZIB will not happen in a face-to-face format but will be transformed into digital formats.

05.10.2020

Webinar on Optics for Solar Energy

The Webinar on Optics for Solar Energy will review current trends and recent developments in the field of optics and nanophotonics for solar energy conversion devices.

Reports Archive

ZIB Annual Report 2019

The year 2019 was a very intense year for ZIB, in which a series of long-planned and relentlessly pursued goals were achieved and a plethora of new things were started.

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