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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

15.09.2023

Max Huneshagen wins a Master’s thesis Award of the German Operations Research Society

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.

14.09.2023

Felix Binkowski wins Best Talk Award at the International Conference on Metamaterials

Felix Binkowski wins the Best Talk Award at the 13th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics. The award has been given for his presentation entitled "Computing partial derivatives of quasinormal modes".

11.09.2023

Kai Hoppmann-Baum wins GOR dissertation award

The German Operations Research Society (GOR) awards an annual prize for outstanding dissertations in Operations Research. One of the 2023 awardees is Kai Hoppmann-Baum for his thesis on "Mathematical programming for stable control and safe operation of gas transport networks".

17.07.2023

KOBV Annual Report 2021-2022 published

In the just published KOBV Annual Report (in German only) you can read what has happened in the last years 2021-2022 and why change can do good: There is talk of baby boomers, diversity, change management, surprises and celebrated libraries. ... Be curious.

27.06.2023

Long Night of Science 2023

The Long Night of Science 2023 at the Zuse Institute Berlin was an outstanding event that delighted visitors of all ages. This was also evident from the large number of visitors that lasted the entire evening.

Events Archive

Upcoming events

09.10.2023

Fourth Workshop on Optics for Solar Energy

The Fourth Workshop on Optics for Solar Energy will be held on 09-10 October 2023. The workshop is organized by Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Energie und Materialien and Zuse Institute Berlin, in cooperation with OptecBB.

17.04.2024

16th Annual Meeting Photonic Devices (AMPD2024)

On 17-19 April 2024, the "16th Annual Meeting Photonic Devices" will take place at Zuse Institute Berlin.

25.04.2024

Girls' Day 2024

Am 25. April 2024 findet wieder der Girls'Day am ZIB statt!

Mehr Informationen über die im ZIB angebotenen Workshops findet ihr vor der Veranstaltung hier.

22.06.2024

Long Night of the Sciences 2024

On June 22, 2024 the upcoming Long Night of the Sciences 2024 takes place.

The ZIB programme will be published here.

Reports Archive

ZIB Annual Report 2022

After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the year 2022 saw a gradual return to a scientific culture of collaboration through face-to-face meetings and direct exchanges ...

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