Our group runs an open seminar on all topics related to theoretical computer science and practical algorithms.

2019 Semester 1 – Seminar series (Tuesday morning)

• 19. + 26. Feb,10:00am, 124: Martin – Algorithm Engineering in Geometric Problems
• 5. Mar, 9:30am, 124: Zeinab – Data Structures For Frechet Distance Queries in Trajectory Data
• 12. Mar, 11:00am, 459: Sampson – Hotspot Computation
• 19. Mar, 10:00am, 124: André – Diameter and Center in Simple Polygons and Polygonal Domains
• 26. Mar, 10:00am, 124: Patrick – Optimal Shortest Path Queries in a Simple Polygon
• 2. Apr, 10:00am, 124: Milutin – Low Diameter Geometric Spanners
• 9. Apr, 11:00am, 124: Jeremy – I/O-Efficient Topological Sort
• 16. Apr, 10:00am, 124: Ágnes Cseh – Pairwise Preferences in the Stable Marriage Problem
• break
• 30. Apr, 10:00am, 124: Joachim – TBA
• 7. May, 10:00am, 124: Julian – TBA
• 14. May, 11:00am, 459: John – TBA
• 21. May, 10:00am, 124: Jonathan – TBA

2018 Semester 2 – Seminar series (11:00am, room 124)

• Tue 04 Sept 2018: André – Limited Memory Algorithms
• Tue 11 Sept 2018: Joachim – Geodesic spanners for points on a polyhedral terrain
• Tue 18 Sept 2018: William – Online network design algorithms via hierarchical decompositions
• Tue 25 Sept 2018: Break
• Tue 02 Oct 2018: Sampson – Ray Shooting and Parametric Search
• Tue 09 Oct 2018: Lijun – Cohesive Subgraph Computation over Large Sparse Graphs
• Tue 16 Oct 2018: Julian – Precedence-Constrained Min Sum Set Cover
• Tue 23 Oct 2018: Patrick – Semi-algebraic Range Searching (and Monkeys)
• Tue 30 Oct 2018: John – Hyper-Vector Computing
• Tue 06 Nov 2018: STUVAC
• Tue 13 Nov 2018: Maram – Efficient Maximum Independent Set Discovery in Massive Graphs
• Tue 20 Nov 2018: Jorrick – Map construction
• Tue 27 Nov 2018: Vikrant – Efficiently Navigating a Bounded Degree and Light Planar Spanner Without a Map
• Tue 04 Dec 2018: Jonathan – Optimally Locating a New Candidate in Spatial and Valence Models of Voting Games
• Tue 11 Dec 2018: Haris – Fair Allocation of Indivisible Goods and Chores

2018 Semester 1 – Seminar series (2:00pm, room 459)

• Wed 14 Mar 2018: William – Multiway cuts
• Wed 21 Mar 2018: Patrick Eades – Robust Yao Graphs for Uncertain Points
• Wed 28 Mar 2018: Sampson – Parametric search
• Wed 11 Apr 2018: Lexi – Ethereum blockchains
• Wed 18 Apr 2018: Patrick Nappa – Hashing
• Wed 02 May 2018: Lexi – Static program analysis
• Wed 09 May 2018: Vikrant – Communication complexity
• Wed 16 May 2018: Patrick Nappa – Concurrent data structures
• Wed 23 May 2018: Vikrant – Probabilistic method
• Wed 30 May 2018: John – Approximate trajecory queries
• Wed 06 Jun 2018:
  • 14:00-15:00 Lijun Chang: Graph Research in Database and Data Mining
  • 15:00-16:00 Michael Horton: Approximating (k,l)-center clustering for curves