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  • Our PhD student Alexander Grosz has presented his work "On the Smoothed Complexity of Combinatorial Local Search" at HALG 2023 in Prague and at EC@EC'23 in London. [Poster] [arXiv]
  • Carolin Bauerhenne, PhD-student at the chair and member of the Research Training Group “Advanced Optimization in a Networked Economy (AdONE) has been accepted to the Graduate Center of the Bavarian Research Insitute for Digital Transformation (bidt). In her research, Carolin uses digital information in order to allocate scarce medical resources such as Computer Tomographs in a fair and timely way.
  • The Research Training Group AdONE offers several PhD positions: https://www.gs.tum.de/en/adone/call-for-applications/ Application deadline is March 15, 2023. 
  • In August 2022, our former PhD student Alexandros Tsigonias-Dimitriadis joined the the University of Chile as a postdoctoral researcher.
  • Clara Waldmann, a former PhD student in our group, has accepted an offer for a Postdoc position from the University of Stuttgart. She joined their Institute of Information Security in June 2022.
  • Our PhD student, Marcus Kaiser, has successfully defended his thesis on "Disjoint Paths, Dynamic Equilibria, and the Design of Networks".
  • Our PhD student, Alexandros Tsigonias-Dimitriadis, has successfully defended his thesis on "Lotteries, Prophets, and Pandora’s Box: A New Take on Classic Problems in Mechanism Design and Online Selection".
  • Themistoklis Melissourgos, a former postdoc in our group, has accepted an offer for a permanent position from the University of Essex. He joined their School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering in January 2022.
  • Our PhD student, Clara Waldmann, has successfully defended her thesis on "Congestion Games: Equilibria, Networks, and Complexity".
  • The Research Training Group AdONE offers several PhD positions: https://www.gs.tum.de/en/adone/call-for-applications/ Application deadline is May, 1st, 2022. 
  • The Research Training Group AdONE offers several PhD positions: https://www.gs.tum.de/en/adone/call-for-applications/ Application deadline is January 9th, 2022. 
  • The paper "An extension of the Moran process using type-specific connection graphs" by our postdoc Themistoklis Melissourgos has been published in JCSS.
  • Our PhD student, Marilena Leichter, has successfully defended her thesis on "Combinatorial Algorithms for Covering and Scheduling Problems."
  • The paper "Connected Subgraph Defense Games" by our postdoc Themistoklis Melissourgos has been published in Algorithmica.
  • The paper "An Efficient Reduction of a Gammoid to a Partition Matroid" by our group member Marilena Leichter (together with Ben Moseley (CMU) and Kirk Pruhs (Pitt)) has been accepted by ESA 2021, Track A.
  • Our PhD student, Alexander Grosz, has received an award by the city of Vienna for his outstanding master's thesis "Exponential integrators for  time-dependent multi-particle Schrödinger equations" at Vienna University of Technology.
  • Yiannis Giannakopoulos, formerly Akademischer Rat in our group, has accepted an offer for an Assistant Professorship from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). He joined their Department of Mathematics on April 1, 2021.
  • Ulf Friedrich, a former postdoc in our group, has accepted an offer for a permanent position from the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (OVGU). He joined their Department of Mathematics on April 1, 2021.
  • The paper "Walrasian Equilibria in Markets with Small Demands" by our postdoc Themistoklis Melissourgos has been accepted by AAMAS 2021.
  • The paper "Computing exact solutions of consensus halving and the Borsuk-Ulam theorem" by our postdoc Themistoklis Melissourgos has been published in the Journal of Computer and System Science.
  • Students from our course Case Studies in Discrete Optimization developed an inventory routing tool for the World Food Programme that will be piloted on their school meal delivery operations in Burundi.
  • Our PhD student, Felix Happach, has successfully defended his thesis on "Min-Sum Set Cover, OR-Scheduling, and Related Problems". 
  • Our PhD student, Marinus Gottschau, has successfully defended his thesis on "Cuts, Paths, and Processes in Graphs".
  • The paper "Robust Revenue Maximization Under Minimal Statistical Information" by Yiannis Giannakopoulos, Diogo Poças and Alexandros Tsigonias-Dimitriadis was accepted by WINE 2020.
  • Our postdoc Diogo Poças, PhD, has accepted an offer for a Visiting Assistant Professorship in Computer Science at the University of Lisbon. He will start there on September 1, 2020.
  • The paper "Computation of Dynamic Equilibria in Series-Parallel Networks" by Marcus Kaiser, one of our PhD students, was accepted for publication in Mathematics of Operations Research.
  • Three papers [1,2,3] written by members of our group were accepted to the 13th Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT 2020).
  • The paper "Existence and Complexity of Approximate Equilibria in Weighted Congestion Games" by three of our group members together with George Christodoulou and Martin Gairing has been accepted by Track A of ICALP 2020.
  • The 24th Workshop on Future Research in Combinatorial Optimization (FRICO) is going to take place in Munich/Garching in 2021
  • Our postdoc Ulf Friedrich has received a research grant from the Volkswagen Foundation, as part of the "Experiment!" initiative, for his project "An Analytic Computational Solver for Integer Programming."
  • Dr. Jannik Matuschke, “Akademischer Rat” (Lecturer) at our chair, has accepted an offer for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship at the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven in Belgium. He will start there on January 1, 2019.
  • Felix Happach, one of our PhD students, won Second Prize in the 2018 INFORMS Optimization Society Student Paper Competition for his paper "Good clusterings have large volume" (with Steffen Borgwardt, published in Operations Research).
  • Our postdoc Katherine E. Fitch, PhD, has been named Fellow of the Elisabeth-Schiemann-Kolleg of the Max Planck Society.
  • Yiannis Giannakopoulos, postdoctoral fellow at our chair, co-authored a paper on "The price of stability of weighted congestion games" that was accepted at ICALP 2018.
  • Jannik Matuschke, Junior Group Leader at our group, and his co-authors received the 2017 INFORMS/TSL Outstanding Paper in Freight Transportation and Logistics Award for their paper "An Integrated Approach to Tactical Transportation Planning in Logistics Networks" at the INFORMS annual meeting in Houston.
  • Our group member Benedikt Plank, a PhD student in the TopMath program, has been awarded with a Bavarian Elite Support Act Scholarship of the Universität Bayern e.V.
  • Felix Happach, one of our PhD students, is the recipient of the 2017 Master's Thesis Award of the German Operations Research Society (GOR). The prize ceremony took place at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2017) in Berlin.

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