CO@Work 2015

About

CO@Work is a summer school of the German National Science Foundation Collaborative Research Center TRR 154.

The block course is organized by the TU Berlin in cooperation with the Matheon and the Berlin Mathematical School with support of the Forschungscampus MODAL and Siemens.

This block course targets master students (in their final year), PhD students, and Post-docs interested in the use of combinatorial optimization and mathematical programming in concrete applications from practice.

Date: September 28 - October 10, 2015
Place: Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)
ECTS: 10 Credit Points

Application has been closed.

The language of the course is English. There is no participation fee.

Social

Schedule

Written examination

All participants taking part in the final exam should read the following information carefully. All the details are not finally settled but we will announce any updates both during the remaining lectures and at this place.

• Exam will be held on Saturday, October 10, 10am
• Please bring photo identification
• Duration: 90 minutes <=> 90 points
• The exam will be held in an open-book fashion: You may use your laptops or bring the digital material on a different device or in printed form, but no internet connection is allowed.
• 3 distinct sections: (General/modeling language/Advanced Topics) worth 60/10/20 points
• General section (60 points): Mandatory questions, about 60% multiple choice
• Modeling languages (10 points):
  • Select one out of three alternative questions; Each question treats one of the modeling languages that were presented in class
  • One question must be correctly answered to achieve the 10 points for modeling.
  • When multiple questions from this section were answered, the maximum number of reached points will count for this section, whereas the remaining points substitute missing points from the general section.
• Advanced topics (20 points):
  • Choose one out of three advanced topics containing three questions
  • One topic must be correctly finished to achieve the 20 points in the advanced section
  • When multiple questions from this section were answered, the maximum number of reached points will count for this section, whereas the remaining points substitute missing points from the general section.

UPDATE October 09:

• There will be no C programming question.
• No mobile phones are allowed during the exam.
• Check the schedule for updated slides.
• Graded ECTS certificates will be handed out immediately after the correction:
  • You may wait in the foyer until we are done correcting.
  • For getting back into the foyer, call 240 at the phone outside the main entrance.
  • If you wish to obtain the certificate via mail, make sure you have left your correct address details.

Downloads

We prepared a Linux Virtual Machine with all necessary tools preinstalled. Please use the 64bit version if possible.

• Linux Mint 64bit
• Linux Mint 32bit

You may download all presentations at once here.

Accommodation

Previous Workshops

On four occasions the course has been taught before:

• 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.