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.

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

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

The annual ALGO congress is the leading international gathering of researchers on Algorithms in Europe.

In 2017, ALGO will include the conferences ESA, IPEC, WAOA, ALGOCLOUD, ALGOSENSORS, and ATMOS, as well as a Summer School on Parameterised Complexity.

ALGO will be hosted at TU Wien, September 4-8, 2017.

More details can be found at the ALGO 2017 web site.

At ICDT 2017, the 20th International Conference on Database Theory, which will be held in Venice, Italy, March 21-24, 2017, our post-doc researcher Simone Bova will receive the best paper award for the paper:

Simone Bova and Hubie Chen.
How many variables are needed to express an existential positive query?

Congratulations!

In collaboration with Christian Blum from the University of the Basque Country, Günther Raidl wrote the Book Hybrid Metaheuristics – Powerful Tools for Optimization. The book is published by Springer in the series “Artificial Intelligence: Foundations, Theory, and Algorithms” and available in printed form as well as e-book.