Chair of Operations Management

We are welcoming you at the Chair of Operations Management, led by Prof. Dr. Rainer Kolisch. The teaching and research at the chair is centering on the application of Operations Research methods for analyzing and optimizing Operations Management problems. Current research topics are Scheduling, Routing, Health Care Operations, Airport Operations, Project Scheduling and Management, as well as Make-to-Order and Engineer-to-Order Operations.

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Maximilian Kolter Wins Best Student Paper Award at 19th International Workshop on Project Management and Scheduling

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Maximilian Kolter, PhD student at the Chair of Operations Management, wins the Best Student Paper Award at the 19th International Workshop on Project Management and Scheduling. The workshop is organized biennially by the Working Group Project Management and Scheduling of EURO - The Association of European Operational Research Societies - to bring together scheduling researchers and practitioners from across Europe to share and discuss original and innovative research. The mission of the Best Student Paper Award is to help young researchers promote their work in the field of Project Management and Scheduling. The committee awarded Maximilian Kolter for his paper "On Branch-and-Price for Multi-Project Scheduling". Branch-and-Price is a sophisticated algorithm for solving complex and large optimization problems. Since the early 90s, researchers have proposed several Branch-and-Price approaches to solve project scheduling problems with limited success. Maximilian Kolter's work explains why most of these approaches perform poorly by deriving theoretical properties for project scheduling problems and combining them with existing results on Branch-and-Price.