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

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.

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!

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.

After his successful tenure evaluation, our colleague Martin Nöllenburg has been promoted to an Associate Professor.

Martin has joined the Algorithms and Complexity group at TU Wien in September 2015.
His research interests include graph algorithms, in particular for graph drawing and network visualization, computational geometry, in particular algorithms for cartography and geovisualization, as well as algorithm engineering and combinatorial optimization.

Congratulations!

The ALGO 2017 Congress on Algorithms, organised by the Algorithms and Complexity Group, took place September 4-8, 2017, in Vienna, Austria.

Photo galleries with highlights as well as day-by-day pictures have been posted on Flickr.

Highlights | Day 0 | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5

Further pictures can be found on the Social Media Wall.

Press release from August 30, 2017 (in German)

Die dunkle und die helle Seite der Algorithmen

Link zum Artikel

Florian Aigner

Stefan Szeider

Ronald de Haan wins the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize 2017 for his thesis “Parameterized Complexity in the Polynomial Hierarchy.”

Congratulations!

The E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize is named in honor of the Dutch mathematician Evert Willem Beth, and is awarded to outstanding PhD theses in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information by the Association for Logic, Language and Information.

Ronald wrote his thesis while working at the Algorithms and Complexity Group at TU Wien under the supervision of Stefan Szeider.

Currently Ronald is holding a postdoc position with the Computational Social Choice Group

Ricardo Baeza-Yates (NTENT, former Vice-President of Yahoo! Research Labs) gives the Vienna Gödel Lecture 2017

June 8th, 2017, 17:30
TU Wien, EI 7, Gußhausstraße 27-29, 1040 Wien

The lecture is moderated by Stefan Szeider.

More information can be found here.

Foto copyright: Faculty of Informatics / Nadia Meister

The Vienna March for Science on April 22, 2017, started with a Science Picnic. The Algorithms and Complexity Group performed a science demonstration with a human sorting network.

This demonstration introduced the participants to ideas of computational thinking. Volunteers from the public — adults and children — were invited  to sort numbers (and other items) by progressing through the sorting network and in doing so, getting an understanding of fundamental principles used in computers.

Contact: Stefan Szeider

Further pictures:

• Optics and Photonics News
• Science March Vienna Photos
• The Pacific Standard