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12th Workshop of the “Research Campus” Funding Initiative The Research Campus Community visits FUHUB On May 11–12, 2026, the annual strategy workshop of the BMFTR’s “Research Campus” funding initiative took place in the MODAL rooms at FUHUB. Under the guidance of PtJ, representatives from the participating research campi engaged in in-depth discussions about the prospects for sustaining their projects. They presented their individual concepts and visions for transferring their respective flagship clusters into the national and international innovation landscape. The workshop, along with the subsequent campus tour and presentations of the six MODAL labs, offered numerous opportunities for networking, exchanging experiences, and gaining new inspiration within the research campus community. With fresh ideas and motivating perspectives, the workshop concluded as an inspiring event that actively shapes the future development of this forward-looking innovation concept.
By default, SCIP comes with a bouquet of different plugins for solving MIPs and MINLPs. SCIP is currently one of the fastest non-commercial solvers for mixed integer programming (MIP) and mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP). If you are new to SCIP, want to dive in and don't know where to begin, then have a look at the documentation at https://www.scipopt.org
General assembly of Forschungscampus MODAL at FUHUB Berlin, November 2025
Luka Stärk and Carolin Scholl win the DISPLIB 2025 Competition for real-time train dispatching. Their custom branch-and-bound algorithm solved the difficult scheduling problems, many of them even to proven optimality. The innovative method has a parameterized complexity of O(4^k poly(n)), where k is the number of conflicts and n is the number of operations. The international competition was held in two phases, with problem instances published in October 2024 and February 2025, respectively. The winners were announced at the International Conference on Optimization and Decision Science (ODS 2025), which took place from September 1 to 4 in Milan. Luka Stärk will be researching train dispatching in the MobilityLab at the MODAL research campus starting in November. The photo shows Luka Stärk receiving the award, with the chairs of the Scientific and Organizing Committees of the Competition, Giorgio Sartor and Bjørnar Luteberget, on his left and right, respectively. Congratulations to Carolin and Luka!
Dr. Ina Czyborra, Senatorin für Wissenschaft, Gesundheit und Pflege des Landes Berlin, Prof. Dr. Günter Ziegler, Präsident der Freien Universität Berlin, Dr. Karsten Hess, Referatsleiter Universum und Materie im BMFTR, Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt at the opening of MODAL's third funding period, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @gmziegler.bsky.social‬ @zuseinstitute.bsky.social @mathplusberlin.bsky.social @senbjf.bsky.social‬ ( c ) ZIB
Image: M.H. at META2025, Malaga, upcoming presentation: "Physics Informed Bayesian Optimization For Efficient Solution Of Inverse Problems In Nanophotonics" Abstract: We introduce physics-informed multi-channel Bayesian optimization for inverse design problems in nanophotonics and nanometrology. By learning vector-valued physical properties of numerically simulated systems, from which the final cost is constructed, our approach achieves faster convergence compared to other optimization methods, enhancing efficiency in solving inverse problems across engineering and physics.