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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

09.12.2020

"Trendsetter Internet? Scare monger AI? Consequences of Digitisation" (7th episode of the podcast series on the Long Night of Science)

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.

03.12.2020

Counter-measures against covid-19: The optimal compromise between reduced spreading and socio-economic costs

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.

25.11.2020

Cantor medal for Martin Grötschel

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.

23.11.2020

Kai Hoppmann-Baum and Jaap Pedersen finish second at Forum Junge Spitzenforscher 2020 - Artificial Intelligence

Forum Junge Spitzenforscher is a multidisciplinary science competition where young researchers get the chance to present their innovative and practice-oriented ideas.

17.11.2020

MATH+ Day 2020: New chair Christof Schütte

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.

Events Archive

Upcoming events

05.01.2021

Multilevel Strategies for Non-Linear Problems and Machine Learning: On Non-Linear Preconditioning, Multilevel Optimization, and Multilevel Training

Abstract:

In this lecture series, we will discuss the main ideas of multilevel optimization techniques and their relation to classical multigrid theory. We will discuss how multilevel optimization methods for convex and non-convex minimization problems can be constructed and analyzed.

22.04.2021

Girl's Day

Am 22. April 2021 findet wieder der Girls'Day am ZIB statt!

An einem Tag könnt ihr hineinschnuppern in die Welt Konrad Zuse's und lernen, was wir alles Spannendes mit Mathematik und Informatik machen können.

Kurz vor der Veranstaltung werden hier mehr Informationen veröffentlicht!

05.06.2021

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften

Bis zum hoffentlich echten Wiedersehen auf der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften empfehlen wir die monatlichen Lange-Nacht-Podcasts zum Download unter https://www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/podcast

Reports Archive

ZIB Annual Report 2019

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

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