Laura Merker
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Institut of Theoretical Informatics
Am Fasanengarten 5
76131 Karlsruhe
laura [dot] merker2 [at] kit [dot] edu | |
office | Room 318, Computer Science building 50.34 |
phone | +49 721 608-44214 |
office hours | by appointment |
Research
I am a second-year PhD student supervised by Torsten Ueckerdt. My research interests include
- Linear layouts, e.g. book embeddings, queue layouts
- Graph product structure
News
- Jan 9–12 SODA 2022
- Nov 21–26, 2021 Online Workshop on Graph Product Structure Theory
- Sep 13–17 GD 2021
- Aug 30 – Sep 9, 2021 Online Workshop on Geometric Graphs and Hypergraphs
- Apr 22, 2021 Girl's Day “Lass Deinen Rechner zeichnen!”, joint project with Paul Jungeblut und Torsten Ueckerdt
- Apr 7–9 EuroCG 2021
- Feb 12, 2021 Talk about Book embeddings of upward planar graphs and planar posets Abstract, Zoom link slides
- Sep 16–18 GD 2020
Teaching
- Algorithms for planar graphs summer 22
- Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science: winter 20/21, winter 21/22
- PSE – Campus-Routenplaner summer 21
Supervised Theses
- Liran Dattner: Minimum-Width Triangulations of Upward Planar Graphs, Bachelor's Thesis, Feb 2022, co-supervised with Paul Jungeblut
- Jonathan Dransfeld: Partitioning Geometric Graphs into Plane Subgraphs, Bachelor's Thesis, Feb 2022, co-supervised with Paul Jungeblut
- Nadine Krisam: Maximal k-Degenerate Spanning Subgraphs, Master's Thesis, Nov 2022, co-supervised with Paul Jungeblut
- Tim Groß: Local Page Number und local Queue Number von gerichteten azyklischen Graphen, Bachelor's Thesis, Oct 2021