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...Read More
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. Even after the program was...Read More
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, including the Japanese Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM), the Institute of Mathematics in Industry (IMI), and the University of Tokyo, and National Institute of Informatics, as well as Argonne National Laboratory, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Georgia Institute...Read More
