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...Read More
Mats Olthoff and his MODAL RailLab team 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. Hence, it was the perfect opportunity for Mats, who is part of the MODAL RailLab as master student and student assistant, to show his modeling skills. Out of...Read More
The MODAL RailLab Team of this year’s G-RIPS summer internship program visited the DB Fernverkehr maintenance facilities in Rummelsburg on Thursday, July 12. G-RIPS stands for Graduate-Level Research in Industrial Projects for Students and is organized by the Research Campus MODAL at Zuse-Institute Berlin in cooperation with the Institute für Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The excursion started at the DB Visitor Center at Berlin Central Station with a talk about Timetabling...Read More
