In the well occupied auditorium HS3, students, external experts, and university employees alike listened to guest lecturer Carmen Paz Suárez Araujo’s captivating talk about "New Insights in Computational Neuroscience and Neural Computation Based Decision Support Systems" last Thursday.

Carmen Paz Suárez Araujo is the head of the Neural and Adaptive Computation and Computational Neuroscience (COMCIENCIA) Research Group at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Among other things, her group has developed an interesting new neural architecture that models the brain more closely, ca...

The global economic development puts all fields of the supply chain up against new logistic challenges. Therefore the scope of topics presented at the EULOG conference in Salzburg on May 10-11 was very broad and ranged from bike sharing, warehouse and production optimization to the dispatching of freight wagons. HEAL researcher Monika Kofler was invited to present recent scientific and practical advances in warehouse optimization that our group developed within the Josef Ressel Centre Heureka! in close cooperation with Rosenbauer International and voestalpine.

In addition, many of our long...

The EU Project BioBoost has just started with the beginning of 2012. BioBoost investigates the production, logistics and valuation of various energy-rich intermediate products from biogenous residues.

Our participation is a collaboration between HEAL and Logistikum where we will concentrate on the creation and optimization of a holistic logistic model to help determine economic and ecologic viability and sustainability. Erik Pitzer and Stephan Hutterer have attended the Kick-Off meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany. The Project Homepage is available at bioboost.eu. A more detailed press-release can b...