News (2021)6 October 2021|Theory of Efficient AlgorithmsSlides for the Freshmen Lecture (Winter Term 2021/22)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...2 October 2021|Theory of Efficient AlgorithmsPaper on Fast Consensus Forming Accepted at SODA 2022Our 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.21 April 2021|Theory of Efficient AlgorithmsPaper on Rectangle Packing Accepted at ICALP 2021Our 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...