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December

Award of Excellence for Eduard Eiben’s PhD Thesis

Eduard Eiben received the Award of Excellence  for his outstanding PhD thesis from the Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) on December 5, 2018.

Congratulations!

Eduard carried out his PhD work in the Algorithms and Complexity group, his advisors where Stefan Szeider, Robert Ganian, and Georg Gottlob. His work was funded by the Austrian Science Funds (FWF) via the projects:

  1. Exploiting New Types of Structure for Fixed Parameter Tractability (X-Tract, FWF P26696)
  2. Doctoral College on Logical Methods in Computer Science (LogiCS, FWF W1255)

 

 

 

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18

October

Successful Graph Drawing Contest for our students

Two teams of TU Wien students from the Master’s course “Graph Drawing Algorithms” taught by Martin Nöllenburg and Fabian Klute received awards for their submissions to the 25th Graph Drawing Contest, which was held in conjunction with the International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD) in Barcelona in September 2018.

In the category “Creative Topics: Game of Thrones” the task was to create a layout of a network of 84 characters and their relations from the popular TV show “Game of Thrones”. From a strong competition of 18 submissions the

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24

April

Tree Decomposition Game at the Science Festival

Members of the Algorithms and Complexity Group together with the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms, presented a game at the annual Austrian science festival “Lange Nacht der Forschung” on April 13, 2018.

This year, the festival attracted a record number of 228.000 visitors to 265 exhibition stations across Austria, allowing a direct communication between the public and the researchers in a playful format.

At the Station 8, Am Hof, in Vienna’s 1st District, visitors were invited to play the game Catch the Virus (Fang das Virus), which was based on the famous Cops

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10

April

New PhD: Eduard Eiben

Eduard Eiben successfully defended his PhD thesis “Exploiting new types of structure for fixed-parameter tractability” on April 10, 2018. Congratulations!

Eduard, who is the first student to graduate from the Doctoral Program Logical Methods in Computer Science (LogiCS) was supervised by Stefan Szeider.

 

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13

March

Two New Research Projects

The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) is funding two new projects led by members of the Algorithms and Complexity group:

  1. Project “Human-Centered Algorithm Engineering” (P 31119) led by Martin Nöllenburg, and
  2. Project “New Frontiers for Parameterized Complexity” (P 31336) led by Robert Ganian.

Congratulations to the new PIs!

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20

February

New GD Steering Committee Members

Martin Nöllenburg and Therese Biedl (U Waterloo) have been elected as two new members of the steering committee of the International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD) by the GD community. They will serve for a three-year term until 2020. Martin was already an elected member of the steering committee in the previous period 2015-2017.

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26

January

Doctoral Program LogiCS funded for a second period

After a successful evaluation, the Doctoral Program Logical Methods in Computer Science (LogiCS) receives funding of over EUR 3.6M from the Austrian Science Funds (FWF) for a second period.  The Doctoral program is directed by Georg Gottlob (speaker) and Stefan Szeider (deputy speaker) and has currently over 40 doctoral students.

Application for 16 new fully funded positions is open.

 

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News

  • Martin Nöllenburg: promotion to Full Professor

    Martin Nöllenburg: promotion to Full Professor

    2020-12-17
    By December 1st, 2020, our colleague Martin Nöllenburg has been promoted to Full Professor for Graph and Geometric Algorithms.  Martin has …Read More »
  • Martin Kronegger wins the Best Teaching Award 2020

    Martin Kronegger wins the Best Teaching Award 2020

    2020-10-23
    Congratulations to Martin Kronegger who received a Best Teaching Award 2020 from TU Wien. The Algorithms and Complexity group is …Read More »
  • Welcome to our Feodor Lynen Fellow Dr. Manuel Sorge

    Welcome to our Feodor Lynen Fellow Dr. Manuel Sorge

    2020-10-12
    On October 1, 2020, Dr. Manuel Sorge has joined the Algorithms and Complexity group with a prestigious Feodor Lynen postdoc …Read More »
  • TU Wien students excel at the 2020 Graph Drawing Contest

    TU Wien students excel at the 2020 Graph Drawing Contest

    2020-10-01
    The 27th annual Graph Drawing Contest, held (virtually) in conjunction with the 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network …Read More »
  • Best Paper Award at CP’2020

    Best Paper Award at CP’2020

    2020-09-11
    Tomáš Peitl and Stefan Szeider won the Best Paper Award at the main track of CP'2020, the 26th International Conference on Principles …Read More »

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