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 LearningConference 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.
**** 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.