CO@Work 2024

Computational Optimization at Work

About

The summer school CO@Work 2024 will be held from September 16 to 27, 2024, at Zuse Institute Berlin and is organized jointly by TU Berlin, HTW Berlin, and Zuse Institute Berlin, and co-sponsored by GOR, Forschungscampus MODAL, GAMS, Gurobi, I²DAMO, and FICO.





This block course addresses everyone interested in the use of computational optimization and mathematical programming in concrete applications from practice, in particular advanced masters students, PhD students, and post-docs.

CO@Work2024 will be the seventh incarnation of this workshop series, and the fifth one being held in Berlin.

Schedule

We will start with an opening session and welcome reception on Monday. The other days will follow the template schedule with lectures in the morning and hands-on exercises in the afternoon. The social dinner is planned for Friday evening. The precise day of the excursion during the second week is still tentative. Examinations for all students that wish to obtain a 10 ECTS certificate will be held one week after the summer school, on-site for students from Berlin universities and remotely for other participants.

Times
09:15 - 10:45 Lectures
11:15 - 12:45 Lectures
14:15 - 15:45 Hands-on exercises
16:15 - 17:45 Hands-on exercises
Topics
Monday, September 16 History of Operations Research and Mathematical Optimization
Tuesday, September 17 Fundamentals of Linear Programming and Modelling
Wednesday, September 18 Fundamentals of Mixed Integer Programming
Thursday, September 19 Advanced Mathematical Optimization
Friday, September 20 Interactive Optimization and Learning
Conference dinner
Saturday, September 21 Computational Challenge
Sunday, September 22 Day off
Monday, September 23 Applied Machine Learning and Optimization
Tuesday, September 24 Excursion
Wednesday, September 25 Energy Systems
Thursday, September 26 Traffic and Logistics
Friday, September 27 Industry Day and Closing Session

Confirmed Speakers

  • Petra Bauer, Siemens AG
  • Timo Berthold, TU Berlin and FICO Xpress
  • Ksenia Bestuzheva, ZIB
  • Ralf Borndörfer, FU Berlin and ZIB
  • Justine Broihan, GAMS
  • Philipp Christophel, SAS
  • Zsolt Csizmádia, Amazon
  • Ambros Gleixner, HTW Berlin and ZIB
  • Martin Grötschel, BBAW
  • Julian Hall, University of Edinburgh
  • Felix Hennings, Doing the Math
  • Kai Hoppmann-Baum, Delivery Hero
  • Tim Januschowski, Zalando
  • Thorsten Koch, TU Berlin and ZIB
  • Pawel Lichocki, Google
  • Niels Lindner, FU Berlin and ZIB
  • Andrea Lodi, Cornell Tech
  • Marco Lübbecke, RWTH Aachen
  • Matthias Miltenberger, Gurobi Optimization
  • Ruth Misener, Imperial College London
  • Jaap Pedersen, ZIB
  • Milena Petkovic, ZIB
  • Annika Preuß-Vermeulen, BMS
  • Marc Pfetsch, TU Darmstadt
  • Sebastian Pokutta, TU Berlin and ZIB
  • Daniel Rehfeldt, Optibus
  • Daniel Roth, Boeing
  • Jens Schulz, Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V.
  • Eduardo Uchoa, Universidade Federal Fluminense
  • Jakob Witzig, SAP
  • Janina Zittel, ZIB

Registration

Application is open now until we reach the capacity limit, latest on June 1, 2024.

The registration fee will be 100 EUR per participant, waived for students from Berlin universities. The language of the course is English.

Accommodation

There are only few hotels within less than half an hour walking distance of ZIB, those are listed below. If those are booked, we recommend to look for accommodation close to the subway line U3, the bus line X83 or the bus line 101, all of which have a stop close to ZIB.
Please note that September 28/29 is the weekend of the Berlin Marathon, so it is probably a good idea to book as soon as possible, in particular if you wish to stay beyond the last Friday.


**** Seminaris CampusHotel Berlin
Address: Takustr. 39, 14195 Berlin
Web: https://www.seminaris.de/hotels/berlin/seminaris-campushotel-berlin
Getting to ZIB: 300 metres to walk

Apartment Hotel Dahlem
Address: Clayallee 150-152, 14195 Berlin
Web: https://www.apartment-hotel-berlin.de/en/the-hotel/
Getting to ZIB: 6 minutes by bus X83 plus 600 metres to walk OR 25 minutes to walk

*** Ravenna-Hotel Berlin
Address: Grunewaldstr. 8-9, 12165 Berlin
Web: https://www.novum-hotels.com/en/hotel-ravenna-berlin
Getting to ZIB: 3 minutes by bus X83 plus 400 metres to walk OR 20 minutes to walk

**** Hotel Steglitz International
Address: Albrechtstraße 2, 12165 Berlin
Web: https://www.si-hotel.com/
Getting to ZIB: 9 minutes by bus X83 plus 150 metres to walk

*** Hotel Pension Dahlem
Address: Unter den Eichen 89A, 12205 Berlin
Web: https://www.hotel-dahlem.de/
Getting to ZIB: 4 minutes by bus 101 plus 150 metres to walk OR 20 minutes to walk

Hotel Eckstein
Address: Schildhornstraße 72, 12163 Berlin
Web: https://www.hoteleckstein.de/
Getting to ZIB: 25 minutes to walk

Organizers

Timo Berthold, Ambros Gleixner, Thorsten Koch, and Milena Petkovic.

For any questions, please contact us at coaw@zib.de.

Previous Workshops

  • Berlin 2020
    The first virtual CO@Work was held from September 14 to 25, 2020, with recorded lectures by more than 30 distinguished speakers and interactive sessions organized for different time zones.
  • Berlin 2015
    From September 28 to October 10, 2015 more than 160 students from 29 countries, covering all continents except Antarctica, participated in the course held at Zuse Institute Berlin.
  • Berlin 2009
    From September 21 to October 9, 2009 many students from all over the world participated in the course held at the Zuse Institute Berlin.
  • Berlin 2005
    From October 4-15 more than 100 students out of 10 countries participated in the course held at the Zuse Institute Berlin.
  • Görlitz 2006
    From September 3-15 parts of the course where discussed during the Görlitz summer school of the German National Academic Foundation.
  • Beijing 2006 From September 25 to October 6 more than 40 students from all over China attended the course as part of the Workshop Optimization Methods and Applications at the Morningside Center of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.