Luka Stärk and Carolin Scholl win the DISPLIB 2025 Competition for real-time train dispatching! #branch-and-bound algorithm for difficult #scheduling problems. #MODAL #MobilityLab @zuseinstitute.bsky.social @mathplusberlin.bsky.social, @ Internat. Conf. Optim. & Decision Science, Milan 4 Sept 2025.

16 Sept 2025, HTW Berlin: „Mathematical Optimization for the Energy Transition“ & „Introduction to Methods of Explainable AI" #XAI Workshop Wirtschaftsmathematik meets Informatics at HTW with MODAL contributions by Janina Zittel and Ambros Gleixner fg-ibbb.gi.de/veranstaltun...

MODAL - Smart Solutions for the Digital Society - BMFTR, German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space highlights MODAL's third funding period: www.forschungscampus.bmbf.de/aktuelles/st...

Martin Hammerschmidt, CEO @JCMwave.bsky.social, presents MODAL-#NanoLab results at the 15th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, META 2025, Malaga, Spain, 23 July 2025. #MachineLearning #BayesianOptimization @cnoatzib.bsky.social‬, Inv Talk in Session 2A10.

Enrico Bortoletto successfully defended his PhD dissertation “Geometric Advances and Infrastructure Awareness in Periodic Timetabling” at the Institute of Mathematics at Freie Universität Berlin on July 14, 2025, @zuseinstitute.bsky.social @mathplusberlin.bsky.social @fc-modal.bsky.social‬

Solar TAP Online Workshop on Digital Twins for Emerging #Photovoltaics, 30.06.-01.07.2025: solartap.de/events/ features a session on Optical Simulations with #JCMsuite by #JCMwave #SolarTAP @fc-modal.bsky.social‬ @kit.edu‬ @crockstuhl.bsky.social

Opening of MODAL / Phase3 on 16 June 2025 & Inauguration party of new #FUHUB labs and offices at #FUBIC @zuseinstitute.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @mathplusberlin.bsky.social @htwberlin.bsky.social‬

ZIB team of Gioni Mexi and Coauthors wins the Land-Doig MIP Competition at #mip2025 @fc-modal.bsky.social‬ @mathplusberlin.bsky.social www.zib.de/news/team-wi...

@spie.org‬ Digital Optical Technologies 2025 #LaserMunich: Visit Talk by Ivan Sekulic on Physics informed Bayesian optimization for inverse design of diffractive optical elements! @jcmwave.bsky.social @zuseinstitute.bsky.social @fc-modal.bsky.social‬ #NumericalOptimization #Photonics

Google DeepMind’s #AlphaEvolve recently set records on 13 notoriously difficult math problems. At MODAL we were curious: Could we tackle those with mathematical optimization instead of AI heuristics? Read the FICO blog to learn how we improved on DeepMind’s results: www.fico.com/blogs/best-g...

MODALs new industrial partner Stryker Berlin GmbH visited MODAL at ZIB together with their Freiburg colleagues from Stryker Leibinger GmbH & Co KG, Patient Specific Solutions. Research in #Medicine #LifeSciences #3Dvisualizations.

The opening of Phase 3 of the MODAL research campus will take place on June 16, 2025 at the FUHUB in Berlin.

MODAL is a partnership project of research partners @zuseinstitute.bsky.social & @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social‬ with >30 industrial partners, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space within the “Research Campus – Public-Private Partnership for Innovation” funding initiative.