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I will be giving an invited talk at WAND 2024 (Workshop on Analysis of Networks Dynamics), one of the workshops at this year's DISC. The talk will cover recent research results on oscillators in simple distributed models with erratic...

I will be giving a talk on oscillator dynamics at DDays 2024 (Dynamic Days Europe). It is a large conference bringing together researchers from a wide range of different backgrounds to discuss nonlinear dynamical systems. Looking forward to...

Our paper on improved scheduling with a shared resource got the best paper award at the 16th Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA 2023)! A preprint of the full version can be found on arXiv.

I gave today's welcome/example lecture for our Computer Science freshmen at Hamburg. The lecture topic was, traditionally, Petri Nets (in remembrance of Prof. Dr. Carl Adam Petri, a honorary professor at the University for Hamburg whose...

Our paper on scheduling under a given testing budget was accepted at the European Symposium on Algrithms 2023 (ESA 2023)! A preprint of the full version can be found on arXiv.

The slides for the presentation of the research group TEA at the master orientation for the summer term 2023 can be downloaded as a PPTX or PDF file.

I'm giving tomorrow's welcome/example lecture for our Computer Science freshmen at Hamburg. It will take place in Audimax 2. The lecture topic is traditionally Petri Nets (in remembrance of Prof. Dr. Carl Adam Petri, a honorary professor at...

Earlier this year, our paper on exact plurality consensus was accepted at the 41th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2022). We show how a fairly natural population protocol for plurality consensus can beat known...

All the best to Christiane, who successfully defended her dissertation today and attained her Ph.D.! While still supervised by Maria Knobelsdorf from the University of Vienna, Christiane was an associated Ph.D. candidate at my group for...

I gave this year's welcome/example lecture for our Computer Science freshmen at Hamburg. The lecture topic is traditionally Petri Nets (in remembrance of Prof. Dr. Carl Adam Petri, a honorary professor at the University for Hamburg whose...

Our paper on fast consensus in synchronous and asynchronous agent systems was accepted at the 33rd ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2022)! A (not yet completely updated) preprint of the full version can be found on arXiv.

Our paper on anchored rectangle packing was accepted at the 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2021)! It is about an open problem by Freedman from 1969, asking whether one can always cover 50% of the...

We won the Best Paper Award at the 22nd International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2020)! Thanks to my co-authors Jannik, Till and Friedhelm for the great collaboration. You can find the full...

(German talk for students to get a glimpse of what it is like to study Computer Science.)

Hier findet ihr meine Folien zum heutigen Probevorlesung im Schnupperstudium als PPTX und PDF Datei. Die Probevorlesung ging bis Folie 34. Die...

Next Monday I’ll be giving a short (5 min) virtual talk about our current STOC paper on leader election in the population protocol model (preprint available on HAL Inria). Hope to see you there!

If you’re interested, you can access the full...

The slides for the presentation of the research group TEA at the master orientation for the winter term 2019/20 can be downloaded as a PPTX or PDF file.

The Theoretical Computer Science working groups ART and TEA are looking for Ph.D. candidates. Potential candidates are encouraged to contact Prof. Dr. Peter Kling. Further details can be found in the official job advertisment both in...

The slides for the presentation of the research group TEA at the master orientation for the summer term 2019 can be downloaded as a PPTX or PDF file.