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

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.

Three researchers of the Algorithms and Complexity group returned from the International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD) 2017 in Boston winning several awards.

Theresa Fröschl, Master student in the Algorithms and Complexity group, received a “Konferenzschnuppern” travel grant for female Master students from the Faculty of Informatics to join her advisor Martin Nöllenburg on the conference trip to Boston. They received the Best Poster Award for their joint poster on Minimizing Wiggles in Storyline Visualizations, which is based on Theresa’s ongoing Master’s thesis.

Moreover, Theresa together with her teammates Jonathan

Fabian Klute received the first prize in one of the four categories of the Graph Drawing Contest 2016 for his submission “Circles of Panama”, which shows the complex network of offshore companies revealed through the recent “Panama Papers” leak. The contest took place during the 24th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization in Athens, Greece, which was held September 19-21, 2016.

Congratulations!