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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. To this purpose, IAROR organizes the biannual International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (ICROMA). This year, the 10th ICROMA (RailBelgrade 2023) was held in Belgrade, Serbia, on April 25-28, 2023.
The 15th Annual Workshop Photonic Devices (AMPD2023) has been successfully held at Zuse Institute Berlin. Nine invited talks, 31 contributed talks and 20 poster presentations related to numerical methods, simulation and physical properties of novel photonic devices. This motivated fruitful discussion among the 100 international participants of the on-site 3-day workshop. The workshop has been organized by the Computational Nano Optics group at Zuse Institute Berlin.
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. With three creative workshops, ZIB offered participants the opportunity to deepen their interests and expand their knowledge.
Our workshops at ZIB this year included:
Stephan Schwartz successfully defended his dissertation “Optimal Graph Coverings with Connected Subgraphs” at the Institute of Mathematics at Freie Universität Berlin on March 29, 2023. The thesis is a result of Stephan’s work in a series of projects on optimal toll enforcement for the Federal Logistics and Mobility Office (BALM). In particular, Stephan worked on the optimal design of control segments for BALM’s mobile toll enforcement units; their form has a huge impact on the efficiency of staff scheduling.
Berlin's non-university research institutions (BR50) see cutting-edge research in danger due to the proposed new version of the Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (WissZeitVG).
Therefore, ZIB joins the press release of BR50:
BR50 calls for revision of the planned reform of the WissZeitVG
The German Modeling Network for Severe Infectious Diseases (MONID) held its annual meeting at the Zuse Institute Berlin from March 15 to March 17. More than 100 international researchers from the BMBF-funded network convened to discuss the most recent discoveries and progress in the field.
On 13.3.2023, ZIB signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. Its goal of a global and accessible representation of knowledge is becoming increasingly important.
The semester project “Hybrid Occasions” at the Berlin University of Arts, Fashion Design challenged students to explore and reflect on digital and physical forms of creative practice.
ZIB member and student of the class Tim Kunt implemented Integer Programming as a tool to choreograph the runway show. The choreography aims to create an equal experience for all viewers, maximizing visibility of all looks through their positions on stage and the running order.
Prof. Hans Mittelmann of Arizona State University has added Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems to his widely recognized benchmarks. With the growing interest in quantum computing, QUBO has been put in the spotlight as a potential solution to complex optimization challenges; since quantum annealers can find approximate solutions to QUBOs
Every year, the heureka Foundation for the Environment and Mobility awards prizes to outstanding diploma and master's theses that investigate mobility topics issues in connection with environmental aspects or the use of optimization methods. This year the three prizes went to:
1st prize: Robin Andre from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology for his master’s thesis “Automatic calibration of microscopic travel demand models”
Since its inception 20 years ago at Zuse Institute Berlin, SCIP has become one of the most versatile solvers and frameworks for research in mixed integer optimization. To celebrate the first recorded commit message documenting the start of SCIP's development, a workshop was held to discuss past, present and future developments (https://scipopt.org/20years/).
The INFORMS awards the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award for outstanding dissertations on the interaction between academia and industry. Awardees have demonstrated innovative research relevant to practice in operations research or management science. Daniel Rehfeldt made it to the finals of 2022 for his thesis on “Faster algorithms for Steiner tree and related problems: From theory to practice.” The other finalists were Anish Agarwal (MIT), Ruihao Zhu (MIT), and Su Jia (Carnegie Mellon University), who was awarded for his thesis on “Learning and Earning Under Noise and Uncertainty”.
Within the framework of the modelling network for infectious diseases, possible scenarios for the further development of the Corona dynamics were simulated. The remarkable difference compared to the usual approaches is that not only one model was evaluated, but simulations of seven different research groups participating in the network were compared and analysed. From ZIB, Tim Conrad, Christof Schütte and Natasa Djurdjevac-Conrad are participating with a model from the MODUS-COVID project, which is being developed in cooperation with the TU Berlin (AG Prof. Nagel).
Since April 2022, the Thematic Einstein Semester (TES) "The Mathematics of Complex Social Systems: Past, Present and Future" took place. Overall, an opening day, three workshops on “Data-driven modeling and analysis”, “Data past and present”, and “Stochastic modeling of complex social systems”, a summer school, and an Einstein lecture series were co-organized by ZIB. This TES was supported within the framework of the Berlin Mathematics Research Center Math+ and the Einstein Foundation Berlin.
Enrico Bortoletto, Niels Lindner and Berenike Masing (ZIB MobilityLab) have received the Best Paper Award at ATMOS 2022. Their contribution "Tropical Neighbourhood Search: A New Heuristic for Periodic Timetabling" introduces a novel algorithm for optimizing periodic timetables in public transport using the techniques of tropical geometry.
This new center will use oneAPI capabilities to advance energy-efficient computing for material sciences and life sciences codes.
The Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) has formed an Intel oneAPI Center of Excellence focused on using oneAPI cross-architecture programming for energy-efficient HPC computing by delivering portable implementations on GPUs and FPGAs.
The German Operations Research Society (GOR) awards an annual prize for outstanding dissertations in the field of Operations Research. One of the 2022 awardees is Daniel Rehfeldt for his thesis on "Faster algorithms for Steiner tree and related problems: From theory to practice." The prize was awarded this year at the general meeting of the GOR at the KIT in Karlsruhe.
The EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award (EDDA) has been awarded since 2003. It is awarded to outstanding dissertations in the field of Operations Research. This year the award goes to Daniel Rehfeldt for his thesis "Faster algorithms for Steiner tree and related problems: From theory to practice". The prize is traditionally awarded at the Society's annual European conference, where the four finalists present their work in a special session, this year in Espoo, Finland.
Dr. habil. Timo Berthold, ZIB-Mitglied seit 2005, wurde von der TU Berlin die "venia legendis" verliehen. Timo Berthold wird künftig neben seiner Tätigkeit als Principal Engineer beim MODAL-Industriepartner Fair Isaac Deutschland als Dozent und Doktorandenbetreuer an der TU Berlin tätig sein.
Science & Startups' Research to Market Challenge is a competition for research-based business and startup ideas. This year, in addition to the categories "Digital & Technology", "Life Science & Health" and "Cultural & Social", a special prize "Artificial Intelligence" was also awarded. The award went to Jan-Patrick Clarner and Christine Tawfik from ZIB for their planning tool for multi-objective optimization of investments and production portfolios in the energy sector.
Since Monday, nine international students from the USA and Europe are taking part in the 7th edition of the G-RIPS summer program.
The program is jointly organized by IPAM and ZIB and enables excellent students to work on projects that have both an academic core and a strong industrial connection. This year's project are in the areas of optimization, AutoML for biomedicine and HPC and are based on the topics of the MODAL research campus and are supported by the MODAL industrial partners.
On June 9-17, 2022 the Summer School “Mathematics of Complex Social Systems” took place at Zuse Institute Berlin. It was organized by Sarah Wolf (FU Berlin), Natasa Djurdjevac Conrad (ZIB), Stefanie Winkelmann (ZIB), Stefan Klus (U Surrey) and Luzie Helfmann (ZIB) as a part of the Thematic Einstein Semester. It brought together students from mathematics and related fields with a strong interest in societal phenomena and students from humanities or social sciences with a strong interest in quantitative research.
A joint research group of Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), BMBF research campus MODAL, RIKEN, and Kyushu University has achieved 10th place in the world in the Single-Source-Shortest-Path (SSSP) category of the Graph500, an international performance ranking of supercomputers for large-scale graph analysis. The Graph500 Committee announced this ranking on May 30th, 2022, at the international conference on High-Performance Computing (ISC2022) held at the Congress Center Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. The result was achieved by computing the shortest path from one starting node to al
Mr. Robert Clausecker has been awarded a research fellowship from the University of Teluq University in Montreal, Canada, for a three-and-a-half-month research visit to Prof. Daniel Lemire on the topic of "High performance SIMD kernels for discrete and combinatorial algorithms".
The Workshop II: Data Past and Present took place on May 17-18th, 2022 at Zuse Institute Berlin. It was organized by Natasa Djurdjevac Conrad (ZIB) and Benjamin Ducke (DAI), as a part of the Thematic Einstein Semester on "Mathematics of Complex Social Systems: Past, Present and Future".
On May 12th, the 9 funded research campi met in the premises of the research campus STIMULATE (Solution Center for Image Guided Local Therapies) to exchange their experiences on the topic of IPR (Intellectual Property Rights). This took place after an inspiring keynote by jury member Prof. Dr. Klaus-Jürgen Melulis in three work phases, concluded with a presentation by patent attorney Dipl.-Ing. dr Norbert Struck; Of course, there was also a tour of highly interesting STIMULATE projects.
The 14th Annual Workshop Photonic Devices (AMPD2022) has been successfully held at Zuse Institute Berlin. Six invited talks and 26 contributed talks related to numerical methods, simulation and physical properties of novel photonic devices. This motivated fruitful discussion among the 70 international participants of the on-site 2-day workshop. The workshop has been organized by the Computational Nano Optics group at Zuse Institute Berlin.
Today is the 25th anniversary of the Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg. Since 1 April 1997, the KOBV has been developing new services for users and libraries, expanding information infrastructures in Berlin and Brandenburg, connecting local libraries and providing information on current topics.
“Maths meets Image” – a 3-day-hackathon on image reconstruction, segmentation and shape analysis took place in March 2022. It was organised by Felix Ambellan (FU Berlin, ZIB), Robert Beinert (TU Berlin), Christoph Kolbitsch (PTB), Kostas Papafitsoros (WIAS) and Christoph von Tycowicz (FU Berlin, ZIB) as part of the Thematic Einstein Semester on Mathematics of Imaging in Real-World Challenges.
The Cluster of Excellence MATH+ and ZIB as one of its supporting institutions, are offering support for mathematicians from academic institutions in Ukraine that have recently left the country due to the ongoing Russian attack on Ukraine.
On November 4th, 2021 Google and ZIB entered a strategic partnership to further their common interests in high-performance cloud computing as well as large-scale compute applications for AI, Optimization, and Simulation. The parties will work together on a wide variety of topics including the use of cloud infrastructure to support novel large-scale applications.
Assembling nanoparticles on surfaces has great technological potential. The ability to stably assemble fluctuating nanoparticle clusters presents a major challenge. Using theory to rationalize the experiment, Arthur Straube, a theoretician from ZIB, and Pietro Tierno, an experimentalist from University of Barcelona, have joined their efforts to demonstrate a technique to stably confine in two dimensions clusters of interacting nanoparticles via size-tunable, virtual magnetic traps.
Graph design has a wide range of applications in computer systems, including future supercomputers and future high-end datacenters. Computer network designers desire to find a graph with a small number of hops between any pair of vertices to have low latency. The order/degree problem is used for low-latency network design. Graph Golf is an international competition of the order/degree problem that has been organized yearly since 2015. Its goal is to assemble a catalog of the smallest-diameter graphs for every order/degree pair.
Once a year, the workshop “Mathematische Ökonomie und Optimierung in der Energiewirtschaft“ is organized by the Austrian Society for Operations Research (ÖGOR). The focus is on mathematical optimization, statistics and artificial intelligence methods in the context of energy economics. During the workshop, the Prof. Wolfgang Polasek Junior Researcher Prize is awarded to the best presentation.
The Cantor Medal is awarded by the German Mathematicians Association (Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung DMV) at most every two years for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of mathematics. This year Martin Grötschel was honored for his contributions. The medal was presented on the occasion of the joint annual meeting of the DMV and the Austrian Mathematical Society in Passau; because of Corona, the award was handed over by DMV President Prof. Dr. Ilka Agricola in Berlin in advance.
Build up Berlin towards a worldwide leading research metropolis
The Master’s thesis award of the German Operations Research Society (GOR) is awarded to outstanding Diploma and Master’s theses in the field of operations research. It is traditionally presented at the society’s yearly international convention. This year, the Symposium on Operations Research took place as a joint online event of the OR societies of Switzerland (SVOR), Austria (ÖGOR), and Germany (GOR), hosted by Universität Bern.
The three Master’s thesis awards went to (in alphabetical order) to
How can mathematical research data be used sustainably and transparently? This question is at the focus of the project "MaRDI - Mathematical Research Data Initiative", which is funded from October by the DFG for 5 years. The goal of the consortium, coordinated by the Berlin Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS), is to develop methods and tools to implement the so-called FAIR principles for mathematical research data and make them available in a publicly accessible online platform. The acronym FAIR stands for: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
On August 23, 2021, the eight NHR centers funded by the federal and state governments joined forces to form an association with the founding of the “Verein für Nationales Hochleistungsrechnen - NHR-Verein e.V.” (Association for National High Performance Computing - NHR Association).
The 14. Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS 2021) is a leading conference on the field of heuristic and other forms of combinatorial search. This includes topics such as bioinformatics, operations research, constraint programming, AI planning, multi agent planning, and robotics.
The call for applications for the 2022 funding program for the digitisation of cultural heritage objects, run by the Federal State of Berlin (Senate Department for Culture and Europe), was announced on 6 August. The deadline for applications is 24 September 2021.
The goal of the program is for Berlin's cultural heritage institutions to prepare their collections and holdings in a digitally accessible way on the web with the support of digiS and also to make them openly available as far as legally possible.
"INFORMS Journal of Computing", one of the most prestigious journals for the publication of research articles in the field of mathematical optimization, regularly honors outstanding publications with the "Meritorious Paper Award". Recently, two ZIB researchers, Dr. Timo Berthold and Mr. Jakob Witzig, had the honor to receive this award.
The "Mixed Integer Programming Workshop" is an annual event that features recent contributions in the field of MIP. Every year, a comitee honors the best contribution to the poster session with a best poster award.
The SAT Competition 2021 is a competitive event for solvers of the Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem organized as a satellite event to the 24th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing. It stands in the tradition of the yearly SAT Competitions and SAT-Races / Challenges. Solvers for the SAT problem have widespread applications in industry and research. Many problems (e.g., in hardware and software verification) that seemed out of range a decade ago can now be tackled routinely.
Research groups enable scientists to address current and pressing issues in their fields and to establish innovative lines of work. The interdisciplinary research group "The dynamics of the spine: mechanics, morphology and motion for a comprehensive diagnosis of low back pain" aims to discover fundamentally new insights into low back pain with implications for diagnosis and therapy. To this end, the consortium brings together researchers in biomechanics, orthopedics and trauma surgery, exercise and movement sciences, anesthesiology, and psychology.
The Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg is the second library network in Germany to receive the Open Library Badge 2020, which makes it one of 14 recipients of this award.
The Open Library Badge initiative aims to encourage libraries to pursue the concept of openness in their activities and services. It is awarded by a jury of volunteers from the library sector who are committed to openness.
At the recent ISC'21, the current Graph500 list (see also http://graph500.org) of the world's fastest computers for handling a data-intensive problem was presented. Using the Breadth-First Search Benchmark at Scale 38, the LISE computer was able to traverse 5.4 trillion edges per second. This performance ranks LISE at the 7th position in the Graph500 for this category.
ZIB members Manish Sahu and Stefan Zachow together with Anirban Mukhopadhyay (TU Darmstadt) were awarded with the "Honorary Mention: Best Machine Learning paper for Computer-Assisted Intervention". The prize was awarded on June 21, 2021 during the 12th International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI) for their paper “Simulation-to-Real domain adaptation with teacher-student learning for endoscopic instrument segmentation”.
ZIB members Manish Sahu and Stefan Zachow together with Anirban Mukhopadhyay (TU Darmstadt) received the "Honorary Mention: Audience Award for Best Innovation". The prize was awarded on June 21, 2021 during the 12th International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI) for their paper “Simulation-to-Real domain adaptation with teacher-student learning for endoscopic instrument segmentation”.
"Virchow 2.0" is among the 15 finalists in the final round of the BMBF's Future Cluster Initiative (Clusters4Future). The Berlin-based network, coordinated by the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), aims to create a biomedical AI ecosystem to bring cell-based medicine into the clinic. Researchers from ZIB will support the initiative with their expertiese in machine learning and mathematical modelling.
80 years ago, the digital age began in Berlin. Konrad Zuse presented the world's first fully functional program-controlled computer, the Z3, on May 12, 1941. In addition, he developed "Plankalkül", a universal algorithmic language.
April 2021 saw the birth of the new European Project MICROCARD, involving multidisciplinary experts from 10 partner centers, including ZIB research groups "Computational Anatomy and Physiology" and "Algorithms for Innovative Architectures", to create a new modeling platform that can simulate the heart cell by cell. Funded by the European Union, the MICROCARD project is a new opportunity to better understand and characterize cardiac arrhythmias.
Recent results from a collaboration between LMU Munich, Ohio University and ZIB on modeling, simulation and experimental realization of chiral energy transfer on a nanoscale have been published in Nature Communications.
Chirality describes a geometric feature of structures that do not have any internal planar symmetry.
As a consequence, a chiral structure and its mirror image cannot be brought to coincide with each other through the geometrical transformations of rotation and translocation.
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New research, published in PLOS One, shows how optimal intervention strategies can be computed
Governments around the world are discussing and deciding on far-reaching countermeasures against the Corona pandemic. Strict restrictions on economic activity and public life are controversially discussed and implemented.
Train drivers are in short supply - all over Europe this is slowing down the desired growth of the sustainable mode of rail transport. Manual dispatching processes lead to major challenges in complex rail operations and, in addition to the general lack of skilled workers, contribute to a shortage of driving personnel. This requires a high degree of flexibility in day-to-day operations, and individual preferences and lifestyles can hardly be matched in the planning process.
Photon up-conversion is a process that converts two lower energy photons into a single higher energy photon. This can be used to for highly accurate bioassays, therapeutic applications and increasing the efficiency of solar energy devices. However, photon up-conversion needs high light intensities due to its non-linear nature. It has already been demonstrated that certain surfaces with optical resonances can locally increase the light intensity, thereby improving up-conversion efficiency.
Hinweis: Wir haben Verständnis für den Ärger über die Nicht-Verfügbarkeit des Berliner Lernraumes und teilen den Frust der vielen Betroffenen. Im Rahmen des Betriebes des Lernraumes stellt das Zuse Institute Berlin ausschließlich die Basisinfrastruktur wie Netze, Firewalls, Serverkapazitäten bereit. Diese sind und waren zu keinem Zeitpunkt die Ursache des Ausfalles.
Do Facebook & Co endanger our democracy? How fair and just can algorithms be? And will German small and medium-sized businesses get left behind in the face of Industry 4.0? Thomas Prinzler discusses these and other questions about the consequences of digitisation with his guests: Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann from the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Prof. Sebastian Pokutta from Zuse Institute Berlin and Prof. Dr. Eckart Uhlmann from the Fraunhofer IPK.
New research results show how to compute optimal intervention strategies
The Covid-19 disease has caused a world-wide pandemic with more than 60 million positive cases and more than 1.4 million deaths by the end of November 2020. All over Europe, governments discuss and decide about far-reaching counter-measures like shutdowns of economic activity and public life.
Honorary award for the former president of ZIB
Martin Grötschel receives the Cantor Medal of the German Mathematicians' Association (DMV) for 2021, as decided recently by the DMV's executive committee in Berlin. The Cantor Medal is the most important scientific award of the DMV. It is usually awarded every two years.
Forum Junge Spitzenforscher is a multidisciplinary science competition where young researchers get the chance to present their innovative and practice-oriented ideas. The seventh edition of the event was hosted by the Stiftung Industrieforschung and the Humboldt-Innovation GmbH in cooperation with the universities of Berlin. The topic of this year's competition was artificial intelligence. At the virtual closing event on November 18th, six out of more than 50 applications were selected to present their projects in front of an expert jury.
Berlin is regarded as a first-class address for application-oriented mathematics worldwide, and the mathematicians in Berlin have been working together across all institutions for many years. This collaboration resulted in 2019 in the founding of the joint excellence cluster MATH+, which involves the three major Berlin universities (FU, HU, TU Berlin) and the two mathematical research institutes in Berlin (WIAS, ZIB).
In the selection procedure for centers of the new network "National High Performance Computing" ZIB is chosen as one of the locations. Federal and state governments approve the funding application in the millions.
If you have not only been annoyed about the cancelled handball training in the last few days, but have also been wondering why Germany is going into the "lockdown light" for exactly four weeks, the following simple calculation might help to clarify the situation:
The world’s leading Operations Research and Analytics Competition took place on Sep. 29. In this year, the competition was online due to the Covid pandemic.
Five finalists presented premier Analytics and O.R. showcases with significant economic and societal impacts around the globe:
The Shape in Medical Imaging (ShapeMI) workshop is part of the world's leading conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI). It focuses on advanced methods for shape analysis and geometric learning in medical imaging. This year's Best Paper Award was presented to Martin Hanik, Hans-Christian Hege and Christoph von Tycowicz for their paper "Bi-invariant Two-Sample Tests in Lie Groups for Shape Analysis".
On the occasion of the international conference Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine (VCBM), which celebrated its 10th meeting this year, Hans-Christian Hege received a VCBM Award for his contribution to the development of the VCBM conference series and for his merits as a member of the steering committee.
Cooperation starts with a professorial appointment
Application-oriented mathematics and computer science - this is a focus of both the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) and the School of Computing, Communication and Business (FB 4) of the HTW Berlin. Both institutions will work closely together in teaching and research. The cooperation agreement provides for an intensive exchange in the field of discrete mathematics and mathematical optimization.
The German Operations Research Society (GOR) awards an annual prize for outstanding diploma and master’s theses in the field of operations research. This year, due to the corona virus, the prize was awarded at a virtual general meeting of the GOR. The awards were given to Pia Ammann, M.Sc. (Technical University of Munich, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rainer Kolisch, bottom left in the picture), Erik Diessel, M.Sc. (TU Kaiserslautern, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sven Krumke, top middle) and Sarah Roth, M.Sc. (FU Berlin, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ralf Borndörfer, right). The award was presented by Prof. Dr.
Every year, the German Operations Research Society (GOR) awards a prize for outstanding dissertations in the field of Operations Research. The prize was awarded this year at a virtual general meeting of the GOR. The award went to (from left to right below in the picture) Dr. Felix Weidinger (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nils Boysen), Dr. Isabel Beckenbach (Free University of Berlin, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ralf Borndörfer), Dr. Lena Wolbeck (Free University of Berlin, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Natalia Kliewer) and (not on the picture) Dr.
The Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems(ATMOS) is an international forum for researchers in the area of optimization methods and algorithms to facilitate planning and operational management of freight and passenger transportation and traffic.
Ab Ovo joins MobilityLab and collaborates with Zuse-Institute Berlin (ZIB ) in the second phase of the BMBF-funded Research Campus MODAL – Mathematical Optimization and Data Analysis Laboratories.
Research where Industry Expertise meets state-of-the-art mathematical optimization. Read more about the collaboration and research: https://lnkd.in/e_kZwJA
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, dear digiS Project Partners and Interested Parties,
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. With the new internal release (»Count Basie«), all basic functionalities have been realized and are visible to all interested parties: At https://ewig.zib.de, information is now available on data requirements for archiving, the data model, the workflows for data transfer into the system and the internal archiving processes.
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). The prize is awarded for the highest scored papers, with a young researcher as first author, that have been submitted to the International Conference on Medical Image Processing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI).
The annual MICCAI is the leading international conference for computer-assisted medicine.
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. On the other hand, the forces between individual molecules and atoms lead to motion that is free of dissipation. The origin of friction from such conservative forces remains as one of the grand challenges of the physics of fluids.
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. Opioid receptors play a major role in the treatment of severe pain: world-wide more than 100 million patients use drugs based on opioid ligands (like Tramadol or Fentanyl), despite their severe side effects. These numbers are growing.
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. The manuscript describes a user-friendly, fiber-coupled, single-photon source operating at telecom wavelength. Numerical design has been performed at JCMwave and ZIB. The publication has been highlighted by presenting it on the journal cover page.
The Research Campus MODAL celebrates the transition into its second funding phase (2020-2025) with a funding volume of more than €25 million
The MODAL research campus received funding approval for its second funding period from 2020 to 2025 on April 3, 2020 with a funding volume of €10 million from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and matching funding significantly exceeding that amount from its industrial partners.
COVID-19 caused by the novel virus SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2) is currently spreading across the globe. The first confirmed COVID-19 case hit Berlin on 1 March 2020 and was treated at Charité Berlin Campus Virchow. On the page linked below, we set out to track and monitor infections for Berlin, Germany as well as model predictions using data-based and model-based approaches.
On the following pages you can learn more about ZIBs COVID-19 related research activities.
Forschende des ZIB illustrieren anhand einfacher Simulationsrechnungen, warum nur eine sehr hohe Beteiligung an Schutzmaßnahmen zu einer Abschwächung der Infektionsausbreitung führt.
In 2021, the city of Karlsruhe will put into operation a new public transit line plan, which was developed in cooperation with ZIB. The reason for the redesign of the network was the relocation of the public transport into a tunnel under Kaiserstrasse, which is the central pedestrian zone in Karlsruhe, and into a southern branch from Marktplatz (market place) to Augartenstrasse . The redesign was carried out on behalf of Verkehrsbetriebe Karlsruhe VBK by ZIB in cooperation with ptv AG and TTK GmbH.
In cooperation with Open Grid Europe and LBW Optimization the team of the MODAL GasLab was selected for the 2020 finals of the Innovative Applications in Analytics Award (IAAA) 2020. The award recognizes creative and unique application of a combination of analytical techniques in new areas. The MODAL GasLab will compete in a multi-national slate of six finalist teams. The final round of the competition takes place on April 28 in Denver during the 2020 INFORMS Business Analytics Conference.
The joint project of ZIB, ProCom GmbH and Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG "Holistic and multi-objective optimization of extension planning for sustainable district heating systems (MOTIF)" aims at an integrated approach for the optimization of extension planning in complex district heating systems over the entire economic planning horizon. The integration of several objective functions as well as the expansion of the planning horizon create high modelling and computational challenges.
In the documentary "Xenius: Schmerz - Das können wir dagegen tun", which was broadcast on ARTE on 21.2.2020, different approaches to treat chronic pain are shown. It also points out the risk of a possible opioid crisis in Germany and presents ZIB's contribution in the field of drug design for side-effect free opioids. The programme is available in the mediathek until May 20th.
Strengthening Berlin as an international science hub is the goal of a joint initiative of the capital's non-university research institutions. They have joined forces to form BR 50 (Berlin Research 50) in order to jointly develop future strategies for research and exchange with politics and society. This will facilitate and strengthen collaboration with Berlin universities.
In the DFG-MATH+ excellence cluster, Dr. Marcus Weber's group of the Zuse Institute Berlin is working together with other partners on the development of strong painkillers that do not show the usual side effects of opioids (e.g. of fentanyl). This project is based on preliminary work that had already led to a publication in Science in 2017.
A team of international researchers has investigated dynamic processes leading to capacity degradation at the electrodes in lithium batteries using tomographic techniques. Of particular importance for this study was the application of an algorithm developed at ZIB for the virtual unrolling of papyri scrolls. In the recent study, which was published in Nature Communications, the virtual unrolling algorithm was applied to unwind the electrodes from the 3-dimensional images.
The MDC and ZIB have received the "Innovation Excellence Award 2020" of the HPC User Forum for the research of Mr. Alexander Tack (ZIB) and the necessary computations on the Max Cluster of the MDC (with the Nvidia DGX-1 and the DDN AI200) from Hyperion Research.
Announced at SC 2019 in Dallas.
Team Deutsche Bahn has advanced to the finals of the 2020 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award Competition, the most prestigious international Operations Research Competition. The final winner will be chosen from the six finalists Amazon, Carnival, Deutsche Bahn, IBM, Intel, and Walmar at the INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research in Denver, CO on April 26-28.
Annemarie Lang, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and Rainald Ehrig, ZIB, win the award for the research on replacement and alternative methods to reduce animal testing provided by the state of Berlin.
Am Freitag, den 6.12.2019 weihten wir am Zuse-Institut Berlin den vierten Supercomputer des HLRN-Verbunds ein – den HLRN-IV, dessen Namenspatronin die Atomphysikerin Lise Meitner ist. Das System besitzt mehr als 110.000 Prozessorkerne, hat einen 450 TeraByte großen Hauptspeicher und eine Speicherkapazität von 8 PetaByte. Die Rechenleistung beträgt bis zu 7 Billiarden Operationen pro Sekunde, damit liegt er auf Platz 40 der Rangliste der schnellsten Computersysteme - weltweit.
Sebastian Schenker successfully defended his dissertation on "Multicriteria Linear Optimisation with Applications in Sustainable Manufacturing". The thesis originates from project A5 Multicriteria Optimisation" of the Collaborative Research Center 1026 "Sustainable Manufacturing", which was later extended as project "MI 9: Solving multi-objective integer programs" by Berlin's Mathematics Research Center Matheon.
Representatives of the nine BMBF Research Campuses met on October 8/9 on the occasion of the 6th workshop of the funding initiative on the research campus ARENA 2036 in Stuttgart. This time, the topic was "Successful with start-ups and SMEs". After an introduction by host Peter Fröschle and BMBF Division Head Dr. Otto Bode, the participants exchanged their opinions and experiences in a series of discussions and workshops, which were stimulated by several inspiring keynotes and pitches. Of course, the participants als
The German Operations Research Society (GOR) awards every year a price for outstanding dissertations in the field of Operations Research. The prize is sponsored by Siemens AG, and handed over at the society's annual meeting, which in this year was organized by the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Science and the Faculty of Business and Economics at TU Dresden. One of the four theses that were selected by this year's prize committee was "Presolving techniques and linear relaxations for cumulative scheduling" Stefan Heinz (Technische Universität Berlin, supervisor: Prof. Dr.
We mourn and say goodbye to Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Deuflhard, the founder and former president of ZIB.
He died after a short, serious illness on September 22, at the age of 75, in the circle of his family.
Peter Deuflhard shaped ZIB like no other. He was a wonderful person, a good friend, and highly respected colleague.
The funeral ceremony will take place on Saturday, 5 October at 12 noon in the St. Elisabeth Church | Invalidenstraße in Berlin.
At the Meeting of the Japanese OR Society in Hiroshima Yuji Shinano was awarded the 2019 Research Award of the Japanese Operations Research Society. Yuji Shinano is working in the SynLab of the Research Campus MODAL on massively parallel solvers that are able to solve previsouly unsolvable instances of Integer Optimization Problems. Congratulations!
1900 schoolchildren of the 2nd to 6th grade and thus 200 more than last year participated from 07.-11. September at this year's Children's University of Freie Universität Berlin. The classes come from 78 schools of all twelve districts of Berlin and the surrounding countryside. They can try out experiments, lectures and group work as young scientists. The KinderUni is an event that is free of charge, in which primary school children can get to know scientific work.
Within the MODAL research campus (http://forschungscampus-modal.de/), OGE works together with researchers from the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) to develop a navigation system for dispatchers. Two critical milestones have now been reached in the project:
A successful acceptance test completed the integration of the dispatcher navigation system with the production data.
The research campus MODAL, funded by the BMBF, presented the results of its first funding phase from 2014-2019 at an inspection. By means of several demonstrators, that were exhibited in MODAL's Transparent Lab, the two evaluators Prof. Dr. Andreas Schuppert and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Trottenberg and the representatives of the Project Management DESY Nadja Häbe and of the Project Management Jülich Dr.
Felix Prause and his team ZIB won the first place at the 11th annual AIMMS-MOPTA Modeling Competition under the supervision of Kai Hoppmann and Prof. Thorsten Koch. Felix was honored in the context of the MOPTA conference, which took place on August 14.-16. in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA.
On 29.07.2019 DeepGreen started into an advanced test phase with five publishing partners and 27 institutions. The DeepGreen project aims at lowering the barriers for open access publishing by automatically delivering metadata and fulltext publications from participating publishers to authorized German institutions.
Narendra Venkatareddy used Analytical Methods and Molecular Simulations to unravel the secret of the adhesion power of mussel proteins. His work has been placed on the title page of "Advanced Materials Interfaces". The graduate school SALSA has given doctoral students the opportunity to conduct interdisciplinary work at two sites each. At the ZIB, Mr. Venkatareddy performed the molecular simulations.
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pokutta has been appointed Vice President of ZIB by the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Senate Chancellery for Science and Research. He takes up his position on 1. September 2019.
Every year, the "International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research" hands out an award for the best paper for which a PhD Student did the majority of the work. This year, the award went to Jakob Witzig from ZIB, who works in the SynLab of the Research Campus MODAL. The awarded work results from a cooperation with Dr. Timo Berthold and Dr. Stefan Heinz from our industry partner FICO; both co authored the paper.
Kai Hoppmann, who is working in the GasLab of the research campus MODAL, was able to get ahead of the very strong competation at the 71st Science Slam Berlin in SO36 on 06.05.2019. At this great, informative event researchers from a variety of disciplines each gave 10-minute presentations about their own results. Besides fracking or the influence of immune cells on obesity in humans, a talk about sexualized violence in contemporary Japanese art caught the attention of the eagerly listening audience.
Every year, the German Association of OP-Managers (VOPM) organizes a congress in Bremen on the subject of surgery management. In their talk "OP-Software 4.0", Joachim Gerst (Charité Berlin) and Alexander Tesch (ZIB) jointly presented the current situation, challenges and solutions for next-generation of surgery scheduling software. An essential aspect here is computer-aided planning.
A delegation from Zuse Institute Berlin and Open Grid Europe visited the premises of the Yokohama Research Laboratory of Hitachi Ltd. in the course of a trip to Japan to the 4th International ISM-ZIB-IMI MODAL Workshop on Mathematical Optimization and Data Analysis. In addition to presentations of research topics at Hitachi in supply chain optimization and water network optimiation, the presentation of the latest results in railway optimization both at Hitachi and at MODAL's RailLab was of particular mutual interest.
People from Zuse Institute Berlin and Open Grid Europe who came to Japan for the 4th International ISM-ZIB-IMI MODAL Workshop stopped at Preferred Networks, gave talks, and discussed with the Preferred Networks engineers. IT was a great time to exchange information across mathematical optimization and machine learning!
The nine campi of the funding initiative "Research Campus - Public Private Partnership for Innovation" of the Federal Ministry for Education and Reseach met for their 5th Workshop in Jena. The event was hosted by the research campus Infectognostics in its Center for Applied Research. Guided by the topic of the meeting was "Research Campi - Shaping the Digital Transformation", the representatives discussed the imminent transition into phase II of the program and explored collaboration opportunities w.r.t.
The Fourth International Workshop on Mathematical Optimization and Data Analysis was held by the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM), the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), and the Institute of Mathematics for Industry (IMI), Kyushu University. Chaired by Satoshi Ito, Thorsten Koch, and Yuji Shinano, it took place from March 25 to March 27 at the premises of the ISM in Tachikawa, Tokyo, in conjunction with the Annual Cooperative Research Meeting on "Optimization: Modeling and Algorithms".
On 26 April 2019, the NAMPAR project, in which ZIB and Charité jointly developed a drug candidate for pain therapy, received the second prize "VIP+ Validation Prize 2019". The prize was awarded to the cooperation partners for the successful validation of drug effects predicted on the computer. The Charité press release can be found here:
Isabel Beckenbach successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on "Matchings and Flows in Hypergraphs". Isabel is a member of the Mathematics of Transportation and Logistics Group and working in the RailLab@Research Campus MODAL on the optimization of railway vehicle rotations for the ICE high speed trains of Deutsche Bahn. Hypergraph models are convenient to deal with constraints on train composition and regularity. An algorithmic hypergraph theory is therefore needed in order to compute trip assignments and vehicle flows through large networks.
The 12th Annual Workshop Photonic Devices has been successfully held at Zuse Institute Berlin. Nine invited talks, 19 contributed talks and 18 posters related to numerical methods, simulation and physical properties of novel photonic devices motivated fruitful discussion among the 100 international participants of the 2-day workshop. The workshop has been organized by the Computational Nano Optics group at Zuse Institute Berlin.
The RailLab of the Research Campus MODAL was present at the opening of the Year of Science 2019 - Artificial Intelligence. Stanley Schade explained to the visitors and also Federal Minister of Science Anja Karliczek how the optimization technology developed at Zuse Institute Berlin is used to schedule the operations of the German ICE high speed trains at DB Fernverkehr AG.
Image: Anja Karliczek and Stanley Schade at the booth of the MODAL RailLab (c) BMBF/Wissenschaftsjahr 2019
An international team of authors, including Hans-Christian Hege (ZIB), received a Best Poster Award for its contribution entitled "Tools for the Analysis of Datasets from Computed Tomography Based on Talbot Lau Grating Interferometry” at the ICT2019 - 9th International Conference on Industrial Computed Tomography in Padova (Italy). The winners were determined by a vote of the conference audience.
The First International UG Workshop took place at Zuse Institute Berlin from January 14. to 16, 2019.
Later that week the event was followed by the First International Workshop on High-Performance Business Computing (HPBC).
Main topics in the UG workshop were Parallel Algorithms in Tree Search and Mathematical Optimization, in strong connection with applications of the Ubiquity Generator (UG).
The UG software is a generic framework for parallelizing Branch-And-Bound-Based Solvers.
The First International Workshop on High-Performance Business Computing (HPBC) took place in Berlin, Germany, January 17-18, 2019 at the Zuse Institute Berlin. The theme of the workshop was »Parallel Algorithms and Implementations for Solving Problems in Operations Research and Data Analysis«.
Wie die Süddeutsche Zeitung am 21.12.2018 in den Kinderseiten berichtete, hat der Weihnachtsmann auf seiner Route um die Welt so einiges zu tun, um alle Geschenke zu verteilen (rot: direkte Verbindungen zwischen Flughäfen, blau: detaillierte Route auf dem "Airway Network"). Zum Glück hat er mathematische Heinzelmännchen am ZIB, die ihm dabei helfen, alle Flugregeln entzuhalten, den Jet Stream auszunutzen, und auch sonst keine Umwege zu fliegen. Wie das im Einzelnen geht, lesen Sie hier:
The Montreal-based Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO) has signed an academic partnership agreement with Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), which aims to bring together industry professionals and academic researchers to develop cutting-edge expertise in data science.
Am Nikolaustag sprach der Berliner Senator für Kultur und Europa, Dr. Klaus Lederer, vor einem vollen Hörsaal im Zuse Institut Berlin. Unter dem Applaus des Publikums freute er sich über die Verstetigung des Forschungs- und Kompetenzzentrum Digitalisierung – digiS (Link: https://www.digis-berlin.de) und hob die Bedeutung dieser Einrichtung für den Eintritt der Berliner Kultureinrichtungen in die digitale Welt hervor.
This year's status seminar of the BMBF Mathematics Program took place on 19 and 20 November at the Maritim Hotel in Bonn. Twenty-one projects in the two funding lines "Healthy Living" and "Energy Turnaround" presented their results. This year, the focus was on the application perspective. The collaborative research initiative IBOSS (Information Based Optimization of Surgery Schedules) was presented by Dr. Joachim Gerst of the Charité hospital.
Recent results from a collaboration between Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Lund University and Zuse Institute Berlin have been published in ACS Photonics. The manuscripts describes experimental and numerical investigation of optical effects in a Perovskite-based new material system with possible applications in lighting and solar energy. The numerical aspects of the work have been conducted at the Joint Lab BerOSE at ZIB. The publication has been awarded the with the distinction "ACS Editors' Choice".
ZIB and Deepshore will collaborate in developing a regulatory compliant digital archive service, called Pacio, which guarantees reliable and auditable storage of financial data, such as receipts.
Within this project, protocols and algorithms will be researched that combine technologies and approaches from the fields of cryptography (specifically the blockchain), distributed file systems and big data analyses, with the aim of creating a tamper-proof digital archive.
Daniel Rehfeldt and Thorsten Koch finished 3rd (Track A), 1st (Track B), and 2nd (Track C) in the 3rd Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge (PACE 2018). It was the only code to participate in all three tracks.
Daniel was awarded during the 13th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation held on August 20-24 as part of ALGO 2018 in Helsinki, Finland.
On September 19, 2018 Research Campus MODAL hosted the BMBF workshop "Complementary Objectives: Innovation Needs Professionals". The event focused on the exchange of experience among the research campuses. The participants of the workshop discussed various opportunities to support young scientists to develop high skilled professionals of tomorrow. At the same time, young scientists from all research campuses had the opportunity to present their research results in a science slam.
The German Operations Research Society (GOR) awards every year a price for outstanding dissertations in the field of Operations Research. The prize is endowed with 2000€, sponsored by Siemens AG, and handed over at the society's annual meeting, which in this year was jointly organized with the Belgian Operations Research Society in Brussels. On the occassion of OR2018, four theses were selected by the prize committee: "Logistics networks with intermediate stops – Designing innovative and
The 18th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS) is an annual event that aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners who are interested in all aspects of algorithmic methods and models for transportation optimization; it is part of the ALGO conference cluster. This year, ATMOS took place on August 23 and 24 at Aalto University in Helsinki. It featured 16 talks in six sessions on railway optimization, robust optimization, timetabling and line planning, individual traffic, game theory, and vehicle scheduling.
Mats Olthoff and team ZIB finished 2nd place at the 10th Annual AIMMS MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition. He was awarded during the MOPTA conference held on August 15-17 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. The competition is designed to attract young researchers from around the world to the field of combinatorial optimization. Out of 25 registered teams the best three were selected to compete as finalists at the MOPTA conference for the overall winner. Congratulations Mats and his team and to team Opti Mice who won the first place!
The Zuse Institute Berlin bids farewell to the participants of this year's G-RIPS program. Eleven students from the USA and Europe have been at Zuse Institute for two months since June, 25 to work in three teams with one of the following cooperation partners of the MODAL research campus, respectively: 1000Shapes GmbH, DB Fernverkehr AG and Open Grid Europe GmbH. The projects give the students the opportunity to access and use industrial data and show their skills in the fields of data analysis, optimization and machine learning.
Heute, am 20. August 2018, beginnt die Ausschreibung für das Förderprogramm zur Digitalisierung des kulturellen Erbes Berlin für das Jahr 2019. Gegenstand der Förderung ist die (spartenübergreifende) Digitalisierung von herausragenden oder stark nachgefragten Kulturgütern, die repräsentativ für Berlin bzw. für die jeweiligen Kultureinrichtungen sind.
Am 16. August 2018 waren über 14.200 Teilnehmer aus rund 800 Unternehmen beim B2Run Berlin und auch das ZIB war wieder dabei.
Dr. Norbert Lindow has been awarded the Dissertation Prize Bioinformatics 2018 of DECHEMA / Joint Section Bioinformatics (FaBI) for his dissertation
Visual Analysis of Atomic Structures Based on the Hard-Sphere Model.
The award will be handed over on 26th September during the GCB 2018 (German Conference on Bioinformatics) in Vienna.
We congratulate!
We are very pleased to announce that on 21 June 2018 the German Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes) agreed on a new resolution to support the first German open cultural data hackathon Coding da Vinci! As part of the Program “Kultur digital” Coding da Vinci will be granted funding of 1,2 million Euros from 2019 to 2022.
Hans-Christian Hege, together with former team members Brygg Ullmer, Philip Paar and Liviu Coconu as well as Jing Lyu and Miriam Konkel from Clemson University, SC, USA, received the “Best Paper Award” at the 7th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays PerDis ’18 for their contribution "An 1834 Mediterranean Garden in Berlin — Engaged from 2004, 2019, 2032, and 2202”.
For their paper "DM-HEOM: A Portable and Scalable Solver-Framework for the Hierarchical Equations of Motion", ZIB authors Matthias Noack, Alexander Reinefeld, Tobias Kramer, and Thomas Steinke received a Best Paper Award at the 19th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC 2018) in conjunction with the 32nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2018) in Vancouver, Canada, May 2018.
A Best Paper Award has been given to the authors Felix Seibert (ZIB, right), Mathias Peters (HU), and Florian Schintke (ZIB) for their paper "Improving I/O Performance through Colocating Interrelated Input Data and Near-Optimal Load Balancing" in a ceremony lead by Geoffrey Fox (left) at the 4th IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Big Data, Deep Learning, and Cloud Computing held in conjunction with the 32nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2018) in Vancouver, Canada, May 2018.
The Margarete Kahn Distinguished Lecture features distinguished female mathematicians from all areas of mathematics. The lectures will take place once each term. According to the topic, it will be hosted by one of the five ECMath institutions FU Berlin, HU Berlin, TU Berlin, WIAS, or ZIB. We warmly welcome not only senior scientists, but in particular also students and post-docs.
Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb will start on 17 May at 4 pm with the topic: Variational models and partial differential equations for mathematical imaging.
On May 07, 2018, Stefan Heinz, formerly at ZIB's Mathematical Optimization Methods group, and now with FICO, a partner in MODAL's SynLab, defended his thesis "Presolving Techniques and linear relaxations for cumulative scheduling" at Technical University of Berlin in front of a very large audience of collaborators, colleagues, and friends. The thesis develops a hybird constraint integer programming approach to a large class of cumulative scheduling problems.
Prof. Dr. Güvenc Sahin of Istanbul's Sabancı Üniversitesi has won a research fellowship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation in cooperation with the Joachim-Herz-Foundation, which sponsors the academic exchange between Germany and Turkey. Throughout the 18 months of the stipend, Güvenç Şahin will work with the Mathematics of Transportation and Logistics group at ZIB on the the analysis and solution of multi-period planning problems, commenced with the example of line planning problems in public transport, and with an application to Istanbul's famous Metrobüs system.
Der 23. Berliner Tag der Mathematik fand am 21. April 2018 an der Technischen Universität Berlin statt. Insgesamt 1000 Schülerinnen und Schülern aus Berlin und Umgebung nahmen wieder am Wettbewerb teil. In den drei Altersstufen 7-8, 9-10 und 11-13 waren innerhalb von drei Stunden jeweils 4 Aufgaben aus den Bereichen Kombinatorik, Algebra, Geometrie und eine Textaufgabe zu lösen.
Die Stiftung heureka traf sich am 12./13. April 2018 zu einer kombinierten Mitgliederversammlung und Vorstandsitzung in Darmstadt. Gastgeber war Prof. Dr. Manfred Boltze vom Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Verkehrstechnik der Technischen Universität Darmstadt.
A new "Handbook of Optimization in the Railway Industry" is available in the International Series in Operations Research & Management Science by Springer. Edited by Ralf Borndörfer, Torsten Klug, Leonardo Lamorgese, Carlo Mannino, Markus Reuther and Thomas Schlechte, the book provides an overview of the state-of-the art in railway optimization. With thirteen contributions from leading scholars, the book presents a unified view on the topic with a focus on the use of mathematical programming and operations research methods in rail transportation.
Das Konsortium des BMVI-Projektverbundes Mobility inside traf sich am 9. März mit interessierten Partnern im Roten Salon des ZIB zu einem Statusworkshop. In Vorträgen zu den Themen "Mobility inside - Durchgehende Mobilität für den Kunden", "Überblick Simulationssoftware SUMO", "Behandlung von Tarifen im ÖV-Routing" und "Systemarchitektur Mobility inside" wurde der Projektstand dargestellt.
Der Norddeutsche Verbund für Hoch- und Höchstleistungsrechner (HLRN-Verbund, www.hlrn.de) beschafft einen neuen Supercomputer zur Unterstützung der Spitzenforschung. Die entsprechenden Kaufverträge wurden heute in Berlin und Göttingen, den beiden Standorten des Hochleistungsrechners, unterzeichnet. An der Vertragsunterzeichnung im Berliner Betreiberzentrum, dem Zuse-Institut Berlin (ZIB), nahm der Staatssekretär für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Steffen Krach, teil. Der Gesamtwert des Systems liegt bei 30 Mio. Euro und wird zur Hälfte vom Bund und den am HLRN beteiligten Ländern getragen.
The 11th Annual Workshop Photonic Devices has been successfully held at Zuse Institute Berlin. Nine invited talks and 20 contributed talks related to numerical methods, simulation and physical properties of novel photonic devices motivated fruitful discussion among the 80 international participants of the 2-day workshop. The workshop has been organized by the Computational Nano Optics group at Zuse Institute Berlin.
digiS hat 2017 einen zweiten Film veröffentlicht, ein Film über #kulturgutdigital, über Berliner Geschichte(n) und den Wert von OpenData und OpenGLAM. Hier geht's zum Beitrag auf der digis-Webseite: https://www.servicestelle-digitalisierung.de/wissenswertes/digis-film-2017/
Am 1. Dezember 2017 hat digiS mit vielen PartnerInnen aus Kulturerbe-Einrichtungen und aus dem Netzwerk des Förderprogramms Digitalisierung sowie mit weiteren 150 Gästen das fünfjährige Jubiläum des Förderprogramms Digitalisierung gefeiert. Eine Konferenznachlese erhalten Sie im digiS-Blog: https://www.servicestelle-digitalisierung.de/kulturgutdigital-konferenznachlese/
Am 15. November 2017 feierte das MATHEON sein 15-jähriges bestehen und veranstaltete zu diesem Anlass eine Jubiläumsfeier in der Berliner Urania:
15 Jahre MATHEON - Fest der Berliner Mathematik
On November 16, 2017, the members of Research Campus MODAL met for their 4th general assembly in the Red Salon of ZB. After detailed reports about the successful work of the four labs of the research campus (BahnLab, GasLab, MedLab, SynLab), the assembly welcomed Visage Imaging GmbH as a new member; Visage contributes to MedLab with a research project that combines medical imaging and machine learning. The photo shows (from left to right) Norma Schüler (Administration office MODAL), Ralf Borndörfer (Head BahnLab/Dep. Head RC MODAL), Ambros Gleixner (Dep.
Jonad Pulaj of the Mathematical Optimization Methods of ZIB group defended his thesis "Cutting Planes for Union Closed Families" at TU Berlin and thus successfully finished his studies in the Berlin Mathematical School. The thesis develops a novel method of computer-assisted theorem proving in extremal set theory, that aims at the solution of the famous Frankl conjecture. This conjecture states that any union-closed family of sets has an element in its ground set that is contained in at least half of the sets of the family.
The 2nd ISM-ZIB-IMI MODAL Workshop on Mathematical Optimization and Data Analysis took place at the Research Campus MODAL at ZIB from September 22nd to September 26th 2017. Thorsten Koch from the Research Campus MODAL organized this very fruitful and interesting workshop together with Mr. Satoshi Ito from the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) in Tokyo and Mr. Katsuki Fujisawa from the Institute of Mathematics for Industry (IMI) of Kyushu University.
Each year, the German Operations Research Society (GOR) grants awards for outstanding masters' theses, which are bestowed upon the winners during the GOR's annual conference, which took place in Berlin this year. Among the three winners of the award wasAdam Schienle, for his thesis entitled "Shortest Paths on Airway Networks". The photo shows (from left to right) Stefan Ruzika and Jutta Geldermann for the jury, and the three winners Markus Seizinger, Felix Happach and Adam Schienle.
Congratulations!
The International Conference on Operations Research 2017 took place at the campus of Freie Universität Berlin from Sep 6- 8. The conference is the yearly meeting of the German Operations Research Society. With 910 participants from 46 different countries, it was the largest OR ever.
This was the slogan for seven ZIB-colleagues from several departments, who started as ZIB-Team at B2Run-Company Run this year. A distance of 5.7 km was successfully completed when crossing the finish line in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. Next to a great position in the upper middle field, the major focus was having a great time and lots of fun. We hope, next year more ZIB-runners will join, so that the Olympic Stadium will be covered in blue by lots of ZIB members wearing ZIB-T-Shirts.
A Best Paper Award has been given to the authors Matthias Noack (ZIB, left), Florian Wende (ZIB, middle), Georg Zitzlsberger (Intel Deutschland), Michael Klemm (Intel Deutschland, right) and Thomas Steinke (ZIB) for their paper contribution "KART - A Runtime Compilation Library for Improving HPC Application Performance" at the ISC'17 IXPUG Workshop "Experiences on Intel Knights Landing at the One Year Mark", Frankfurt/M, June 2017.
On the occasion of the Long Night of Sciences, the Governing Mayor, Michael Müller, visited the Zuse Institute Berlin on June 24, 2017 to be informed about various projects. In the 3 D-Studio "Da Vinci" Dr. Marcus Weber gave a presentation on a fully computer designed medication, which only works in the inflammatory tissue. This is a project that ZIB is pursuing together with the Charité. Next stop was the research campus MODAL where Prof. Dr. Tim Conrad reported on the MedLab results in the context of personalized medicine research. A tour with Prof.
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has released its new CPU, memory, and compiler benchmarks. For the third time in a row, a special version of the min-cost flow solver MCF for vehicle scheduling is part of the new suite, now with a new parallel version. MCF is a solver developed by ZIB and LBW Optimization GmbH. The SPEC consortium including AMD, ARM, Cavium, DellEMC, HPE, IBM, Inspur, Intel, Lenovo, Nvidia, and Oracle took 11 years of testing to compile the 43 benchmarks, which will have a significant influence on the development of future computer architecture.
„Durchblick!“ und „edition humboldt digital“ haben den Berliner DH-Preis 2017 gewonnen
On the annual meeting of the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) in Hannover, the "Mobility Inside" project on the digital networking of public passenger transport was introduced to the audience. The aim of the project is to enable the completely digital planning, booking and paying of the entire travel chain. The Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) supports this initiative and funds a cooperative project for the planning of travel chains.
A Best Poster Award has been presented to Philipp Gutsche for his contribution "Chiral Nanophotonics: Theory and Simulation" at the Doctoral Summer School Nanophotonics and Metamaterials. The Summer School took place at ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia, in May 2017. The awarded poster results from a collaboration between the Computational Nanooptics group at ZIB and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, CSIC, Madrid. Philipp Gutsche is a Ph.D.
The 2017 "Digital Future Conference” took place at Cosmos Berlin on May 12 and 13 with more than 1000 international participants. Prof. Chris Sander, was honored as the 76th member of the "Hall of Fame of the Digital Age". During the day, 45 high-profiled scientists presented their research work, followed by awarding Steve Wozniak his “Hall of Fame of the Digital Age” certificate. The breaks were actively used for exchanging opinions on scientific contributions and for networking.
Already for the 9th time, the Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Forschungstransfers (GFFT) grants an advancement award to outstanding master theses, dissertations and start-ups. They are bestowed upon the winners during the annual conference of the GFFT, which took place in Wiesbaden on 9th May 2017. This year, Adam Schienle won the award for his master thesis, entitled "Shortest Paths on Airway Networks". The photo shows (from left to right) Dr Gerd Große (head of GFFT), Dr Thomas Kunstmann and Adam Schienle.
Congratulations!
On April 6, the four students who attended the G-RIPS program 2016 at the ZIB MODAL RailLab met again at the "7th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (RailLille)" in Lille to present their work on "Conflict-Free Railway Track Assignment at Depots". During their 8 week internship at Zuse Institute in 2016 the students worked with real world data from European railway operators to develop algorithms that park as many trains as possible in a yard without any shunting operations.
On March 9th, researchers from Zuse Institute Berlin, TU Darmstadt, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, and RWTH Aachen released the new version of the SCIP Optimization Suite 4.0.0. SCIP is currently one of the fastest non-commercial solvers for mixed-integer programming (MIP) and mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) that can be studied in source code.
On March 27th Scientific Reports published the article "Two-dimensional electronic spectra of the photosynthetic apparatus of green sulfur bacteria" (Scientific Reports, vol 7:45245 (2017), [http://www.nature.com/articles/srep45245]).
On March 3rd Science published the article "A nontoxic pain killer designed by modeling of pathological receptor conformations" (Science, 355(6328):966-969, March 2017). It is about the application of a ZIB method for designing a drug candidate for pain therapy. Four members of the Computational Molecular Design group of Marcus Weber at ZIB provided the corresponding computational results.
Ein Artikel aus dem Tagesspiegel vom 22. Februar 2017
Mathematik erlebt einen Aufschwung in der Stadt. Nirgends sind Forscher und Institute so gut vernetzt, leben vom Wettbewerb der Ideen. Hier entstehen die Bilderwelten Hollywoods – und Moleküle, die es noch gar nicht gibt
Von Kai Müller
On March 3rd scientists and company representatives from Arizona State University, COIN-OR, FICO, Gurobi, IBM, Lehigh University, MathWorks, MOSEK, NTT Data, RWTH-Aachen, SAS, MODAL SynLab, TU Berlin, and ZIB joined efforts to build the next version of the Integer Programming LIBrary - MIPLIB 2017.
The Computational Molecular Design at ZIB group successfully designed a pain killer without side effects. After the pre-clinical trials at Charité, this drug candidate is now ready for clinical trials. The company DoloPharm UG, which searches for venture capital providers to finance these trials, won the 3rd price of the Berlin-Brandenburg Business Plan Wettbewerb 2017 on February 23rd.
Das BMBF hat ein neues Internetportal für die Förderinitiative „Forschungscampus - öffentlich-private Partnerschaft für Innovationen“ veröffentlicht, das unter der Adresse http://www.forschungscampus.bmbf.de aufgerufen werden kann.
Hospitals are constantly optimizing their workflows to provide high-quality medical services at affordable costs. However, due to the difficulty to predict precise surgery durations, unforseen complications, and the occurrence of emergencies, it can happen that resources are unavaible or that even scarce resources are sometimes idle. Can one decrease delays, improve the quality of service, and cut costs by data analysis and mathematical optimization? Exactly this is the mission of the project "Information-based Optimization of Surgery Schedules".
Jonas Schweiger of ZIB's Energy Network Optimization Group defended his thesis titled "Exploiting structure in non-convex quadratic optimization and gas network planning under uncertainty" at TU Berlin.
The 1st ISM-ZIB-IMI Joint Workshop on Optimization and Data-intensive High Performance Computing took place in Tokyo on January 19-22. Together with representatives from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), researchers from the Japanese companies Fujitsi, Hitachi, NTT, Preferred Networks, and Toshiba, from Osaka Prefecture, and from several academic insitutions,
The DFG Collaborative Research Center 1026 "Sustainable Manufacturing" publishes a summary of its results in a book of the same title in the open access series by Springer. Edited by Rainer Stark, Günter Seliger, and Jérémy Bonvoisin, the book provides an overview of the state-of-the art in sustainable production, life cycle engineering, and life cycle management.
Wind and weather, the performance of his airborne vehicle, the structure of the airway network, crossing the international date line - these and more circumstances must all be taken into account by Santa and his impish helpers. See their amazing xmas math revealed on Science in Dialogue:
Article: http://www.zib.de/SantaClaus
Picture Copyright: Lufthansa Systems/Wytze van Belt
Every year, the Mathematics Institute of Technical University of Berlin organizes a competition for the best degrees.
This year's Dies Mathematicus took place on November 25. Felix Thoma won the 3rd prize in the category "Best Bachelor's Degree" with his thesis "Mathematical Analysis and Optimization of Urban Subway and Commuter Rail Systems".
Each year, the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society invites submissions for the Gallery of Fluid Motion, which "is intended to be a visual record of the aesthetic and science of contemporary fluid mechanics”. The submissions are judged for their combination of scientific interest
Manish Sahu received the 2nd prize at the "Modeling and Monitoring of Computer Assisted Interventions" (M2CAI) 2016 Challenge on Surgical Tool Presence Detection. He was awarded on October 21, 2016 in the course of the M2CAI workshop, held at the "Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention" (MICCAI) Conference in Athens, Greece.
The Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (in cooperation with GI, CURAC and Brainlab) awards every two years the Karl-Heinz Höhne MedVis Award for Medical Visualization. With this price innovative work is awarded that focuses on visualization and is clearly related to medical questions. This year, ZIB researcher Moritz Ehlke was awarded with the 3rd place of the MedVis Award 2016 for his work on 2D-3D anatomy reconstruction using articulated shape and intensity models.
Every year, the German Operations Research Society (GOR) awards prizes to execeptinal master's theses in the area of Operations Research. These are traditonally bestowed upon the winners in the opening ceremony of the society's yearly conference, which in this year took place at Helmut-Schmidt Universtiy in Hamburg. Alexander Tesch was one of the three winners and received the prize for his thesis "Compact MIP Models for the Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem".
The workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS) is an annual event bringing together researchers and practitioners who are interested in all aspects of algorithmic methods and models for transportation optimization. It is part of the ALGO conference cluster, which also includes the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA). This year's conference, the 16th ATMOS, took place at Aarhus in Denmark.
has been officially opened at the Beijing University of Technology (BJUT). Founding director is Prof. Peter Deuflhard. Any similarities with ZIB would be purely accidental and not intended.
Das ZIB hat jetzt einen eigenen YouTube-Channel, auf dem ab sofort Videos über das ZIB, von Veranstaltungen des ZIB sowie von verbundenen Projekten, z.B. dem Forschungscampus MODAL zu sehen sind.
The members of the ForNe project (in German “Forschungskooperation Netzwerkoptimierung”) got the *EURO Excellence in Practice Award* for their work as reported in the book *Evaluating Gas Network Capacities* at the 28th European Conference on Operational Research held from 3.-6. July 2016 in Poznan.
Die MODAL BahnLab-Gruppe des diesjähringen G-RIPS-Studentenaustauschprogramms besuchte am vergangenen Donnerstag die Bahn-Zentrale am Hauptbahnhof und das ICE-Instandhaltungswerk der Deutschen Bahn in Rummelsburg.
Mathematics has increasing overlap with many mathematical disciplines such as Computer Science and the emerging area of Computational Sciences and Engineering. A key factor in this convergence of mathematical disciplines is the idea of computation, as manifested in the form of mathematical software in such disciplines.
Am 01.06.2016 fand die zweite Fachtagung der Forschungscampi statt, auf der rund 100 Teilnehmer aus Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft das innovative Fördermodell „Forschungscampus – öffentlich-private Partnerschaft für Innovationen“, dem auch MODAL angehört, repräsentierten.
Bereits zum dritten Mal organisiert das Zuse-Institut Berlin in diesem Sommer das G-RIPS-Programm. Das Programm findet in den Monaten Juli und August statt und dauert insgesamt 8 Wochen. Elf Promotionsstudierende aus den USA und Europa arbeiten in drei verschiedenen Projekten in den Bereichen Bahnverkehr, Visualisierung und Medizin. Zentraler Bestandteil aller Projekte ist der Umgang mit großen Datenmengen, die von Praxispartnern stammen.
Markus Reuther of the Mathematics of Transportation and Logistics Group defended his thesis titled "Mathematical Optimization of Rolling Stock Rotations" at TU Berlin. The work orginated from a research project with DB Fernverkehr AG and solves the problem to compute optimal schedules for the Intercity Express (ICE) high-speed trains of Deutsche Bahn.
Jedes Jahr lädt die norwegische Akademie der Wissenschaften, unterstützt durch die norwegische Botschaft, das Siegerteam des Berliner Tages der Mathematik in der Klassenstufe 11-12/13 zur Abelpreisverleihung nach Oslo ein. Der Abelpreis ist die höchste internationale Auszeichnung in der Mathematik, die dem Stellenwert des Nobelpreises aus anderen Fachbereichen entspricht. Der Abelpreisträger 2016 ist Sir Andrew Wiles (Universität Oxford) für seinen spektakulären Beweis von 'Fermats letztem Satz', einem der bedeutendsten mathematischen Probleme, das über 350 Jahre als unlösbar erschien.
- Christoph von Tycowicz and two researchers from TU Delft (Christopher Brandt and Klaus Hildebrandt) have received the "Honorable Mention” Award for their paper https://graphics.tudelft.nl/Publications-new/2016/BVH16/BVH16.pdf "Geometric Flows of Curves in Shape Space for Processing Motion of Deformable Objects”, in which they introduce a discrete geometric flow for curves in shape space, paving the way to novel processing techniques for motions and animations of deformable shap
Die Stiftung heureka für Umwelt und Mobilität traf sich am 12. Mai 2016 zu ihrer jährlichen Vorstandsitzung und Mitgliederversammlung im Roten Salon des ZIB.
This page presents some impressions and links to the media coverage of our international conference "The digital future" that honored the 75th anniversary of the invention of the first fully functional digital computer by Konrad Zuse in 1941.
Konferenz "Digital Future"
Die Weisheit der Daten - Der Tagesspiegel
232 Teams mit insgesamt 959 Schülern nahmen am Samstag, dem 30. April 2016, am traditionsreichen Mathematikwettbewerb teil.
In seinen heute veröffentlichten „Empfehlungen zur Förderung von Forschungsbauten (2017)“ hat der Wissenschaftsrat den Antrag zur Beschaffung des HLRN-Nachfolgerechners an den Standorten Berlin (ZIB) und Niedersachsen (Universität Göttingen) mit der bestmöglichen Note ausgezeichnet. In den Empfehlungen heißt es: "Die Kriterien für die Begutachtung von Forschungsbauten sind damit in höchstem Maße und sehr überzeugend erfüllt“ und der mittlerweile vierte Hochleistungsrechner im „Norddeutschen Verbund für Hoch- und Höchstleistungsrechnen (HLRN)“ kann beschafft werden.
Die Verbundzentrale des Kooperativen Bibliotheksverbunds Berlin-Brandenburg am ZIB bietet ab sofort für ihre Mitgliedsbibliotheken den Service „Digitale Langzeitarchivierung“ an.
The Research Campus MODAL (Mathematical Optimization and Data Analysis Laboratories) held its first internal research symposium on March 9, 2016.
The collaborative research project Energy Efficient Mobility (E-Motion) of the BMBF Mathematics Program held its regular assembly on Nov 30-Dez 1 at the Lufthansa Systems facilities in Raunheim near Frankfurt.
Prof. Dr. Christof Schütte, bisher Vizepräsident des Zuse-Instituts Berlin, übernimmt zum 01.12.2015 die Präsidentschaft des ZIB.
Prof. Schütte ist gleichzeitig Hochschullehrer im Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik der Freien Universität Berlin, Co-Chair des Forschungszentrums MATHEON und leitet den Forschungscampus MODAL.
Das Land Berlin sowie die Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter des ZIB freuen sich, dass sie einen so profilierten Wissenschaftler für die Leitung des Instituts gewinnen konnten.
Die Dissertation von Christoph von Tycowicz (AG Therapy Planning) mit dem Titel:
Concepts and Algorithms for the Deformation, Analysis, and Compression of Digital Shapes wurde mit dem Tiburtius Anerkennungspreis der Berliner Hochschulen für hervorragende Dissertationen ausgezeichnet.
Christoph von Tycowicz erhält die entsprechende Urkunde am 16. Dezember 2015 im Rahmen einer Festveranstaltung.
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Fr om Nov 11th to Nov 13th ZIB hosted the conference MACIS 2015,The "Sixth International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences".
MACIS is a bi-annual conference which was held mostly in Asia in recent years. We had a total of 80 registered attendees from 4 continents (Europe,Asia,America,Africa), 53 accepted papers from 27 countries, and 7 invited talks.
Details can be found at http://macis2015.zib.de
Das ZIB ist Kooperationspartner der Berlin-Brandenburger Forschungsplattform BB3R und der darin integrierten Graduiertenschule. Diese Plattform steht für die Förderung und Erforschung von Ersatz- und Ergänzungsmethoden für Tierversuche nach dem 3R-Prinzip: refinement, reduction, replacement.
Timo Berthold hat von der Klaus Tschira Stiftung den renommierten „KlarText!“-Preis für verständliche Wissenschaft erhalten. Mit dem Preis, der zum 13. Mal verliehen wurde, würdigt die Stiftung Nachwuchswissenschaftler, die allgemein verständliche Artikel in deutscher Sprache über ihre Doktorarbeit geschrieben haben. Herr Bertholds Beitrag mit dem Titel "Gut geraten" wurde von einer Jury aus insgesamt 147 Einreichungen als Sieger der Kategorie Mathematik ausgewählt.
Quantum communications has been the focus of much research in recent years, due to its potential of achieving absolute security for the communication partners. Researchers at the Institute for Solid-State Physics at TU Berlin headed by Prof. Reitzenstein and the group Computational Nanooptics at ZIB now achieved a breakthrough in developing one of the key components in this field – a single photon emitter with very high quantum optic quality.
Since 2009, ZIB is assisting the Scientific Events Department of FU Berlin in optimizing the class assignment for the KinderUni. This year, almost 3,000 children from 133 classes wanted to visit one of the 89 courses offered. This demand exceeded the 2667 places that would have been available if class sizes matched exactly the course sizes, which was unfortunately not the case. For example, if all classes had 25 pupils, and a course offered 60 places, a slack of 10 places that can't be used is unavoidable.
Timo Berthold received a Dissertation Prize from the Operations Research Society in Vienna on 02.09.2015. Moreover, Gregor Hendel and Heide Hoppmann were awarded for their Masters Theses. The photo shows the winners, Anita Schöbel and Peter Letmathe from the prize committee as well as Leena Suhl, the CEO of GOR.
The new Beijing Center for Scientific and Engineerung Computing (BJC-SEC), directed by Peter Deuflhard and Rolf Möhring, hosted the first Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization with Applications in Transportation and Logistics from July 27 to Aug 02. BJC-SEC is located on the campus of of Beijing University of Technology, which includes an office of Beijing's Traffic Control Center as well as the Olympic badminton facilities.
The EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award (EDDA) distinguishes outstanding PhD theses in Operational Research defended in European countries. It is awarded at the closing ceremony of the biannual EURO conference. At this year's EURO in Glasgow, Timo Berthold's thesis "Heuristic algorithms in global MINLP solvers" was one of the four finalists for the award. The picture shows Dr. Berthold (middle) together with his PhD committee members; from left to right John Sullivan, Martin Grötschel, Timo Berthold, Thorsten Koch, and Andrea Lodi.
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The A.W. Tucker prize of the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) is the most prestigious dissertation award in the area of mathematical optimization. It is awarded every three years at the opening ceremony of the society's triannual conference, the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP). At this year's ISMP in Pittsburgh, Marika Karbstein's thesis "Line Planning and Connectivity" was one of the three finalists of the award.
On the 13th of June 2015, plenty of research institutes and universities all over Berlin and Potsdam opened up their doors for the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2015. For the fifteenth time in a row, the citizens were invited to see and experience laboratories, libraries and lecture halls, which are not open to the public on a regular basis.
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Deuflhard hat einen Ruf auf eine Seniorprofessur an der Universität Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6 (Sorbonne), erhalten. Er wird dort ein Jahr lang ein interdisziplinäres forensisches Projekt leiten, das sich über mehrere Pariser Universitäten der Sorbonne erstreckt.