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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.

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.

The slides for the presentation of the research group TEA at the master orientation for the winter term 2018/19 can be downloaded as a PPTX or PDF file.

We organize a research workshop together with Andreas Wiese from the University of Chile from September 3rd to September 7th. More details can be found on the workshop's homepage.

I will give my inaugural lecture on Monday, June 11th at the Informatikum in Hamburg (Konrad Zuse Hörsaal, B-201). The lecture starts at 5:15 pm. Everybody is welcome to join both the lecture itself and the reception with some food and...

Together with Petra Berenbrink (Universität Hamburg) and Nicole Megow (University of Bremen) we are organizing the 1. Bremen-Hamburg Workshop on Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization. The goal is to bring together researchers with a...

We welcome our new team member Christoph Damerius. Christoph will recently graduated from the University of Rostock. Among others he will be working on graph exploration and resource allocation problems.

The final phase of the 4th CAU-FLS Programming Contest was held on April 26th 2018, hosted by the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and the software company Fast Lean Smart from Heikendorf. This year marked the first time that –...

We are helping with the organization of a Theory & Programming contest of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Apart from fame and honor you can win a prize money of up to 6.000 EUR!

The contest's task stems right from a practical...