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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

05.06.2023

EURO Conference on OR as a resilient technology

The 4th Conference of the EURO Practitioners' Forum took place at the Zuse Institute Berlin on April 20-21, 2023. The EURO Practitioners' Forum, launched in 2016 as the EURO Working Group on the Practice of OR, helps professionals in the field of Operations Research (OR) to explore new tool

22.05.2023

Prof. Sebastian Pokutta, along with his co-authors and colleagues, has been awarded the prestigious Gödel Prize

Renowned mathematician and artificial intelligence researcher, Professor Sebastian Pokutta, along with his co-authors and colleagues, has been awarded the prestigious Gödel Prize for their influential work in combinatorial optimization.

17.05.2023

Berenike Masing wins 2nd Prize at IAROR Young Railway Operations Research Award

The International Association of Railway Operations Research stimulates innovative theoretical approaches, high-tech concepts, new technological developments and dynamic decision support systems that contribute to a higher flexibility, performance and punctuality of trains.

15.05.2023

15th Annual Workshop Photonic Devices

The 15th Annual Workshop Photonic Devices (AMPD2023) has been successfully held at Zuse Institute Berlin.

03.05.2023

Girls' Day 2023 at ZIB Sparks Passion for Math and Programming Among 10-14 Year Olds

On April 27th, 2023, the Zuse Institute successfully participated in Girls' Day! Over 40 girls between the ages of 10 and 14 became enthusiastic about the world of mathematics and computer science and saw how exciting and interesting these subjects are.

Events Archive

Upcoming events

17.06.2023

Long Night of the Sciences 2023

On June 17, 2023 the upcoming Long Night of the Sciences 2023 takes place.

This year's program of ZIB can be found here.

19.06.2023

G-RIPS Program at ZIB

The Graduate-Level Research in Industrial Projects (G-RIPS) Program provides an opportunity for high-achieving graduate-level students to work in teams on a real-world research project proposed by a sponsor from industry or the public sector.

19.06.2023

MINToring am ZIB - Begeisterung für Mathematik und Physik wecken!

Das ZIB freut sich auf eine erneute Zusammenarbeit mit der FU Berlin im Rahmen des MINToring-Projekts. Ziel ist es, Schülerinnen der 9. und 10. Klasse die Möglichkeit zu bieten, an einem abwechslungsreichen Betriebspraktikum teilzunehmen.