Laura Merker
| affiliation | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Theoretical Informatics (ITI) |
| laura [dot] merker2 [at] kit [dot] edu | |
| office | Room 320, Computer Science Building 50.34 |
| address | Am Fasanengarten 5, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany |
| phone | +49 721 608-47330 |
Research
I am a PhD student supervised by Torsten Ueckerdt. My research interests include
- Linear layouts, e.g. stack layouts, queue layouts
- Graph product structure
News
- Mar 3 – Mar 7, 2025, STACS 25 and Theorietag
- Dec 9–12, 2024 Piotr Micek is visiting. Witamy!
- Sep 30 – Oct 4, 2024 Banff/online Workshop on New Perspectives in Colouring and Structure, organized by Alex Scott, Carla Groenland, Bojan Mohar, Paul Seymour und Sophie Spirkl
- Apr 8–11, 2024 Marthe Bonamy is visiting. Bienvenue !
- Nov 11, 2023 Study Information Day: Workshop together with Thomas Bläsius, Jean-Pierre von der Heydt, and Wendy Yi
- Jul 9–12, 2023 Marthe Bonamy is visiting. Bienvenue !
- Mar 21–30, 2023 Visiting Marthe Bonamy in Bordeaux
- Talk in the seminar of the group Graphes et Optimisation
- Jan 19, 2023 Talk: Directed Acyclic Outerplanar Graphs Have Constant Stack Number in the seminar of the group Discrete Math, KIT
- Dec 9–16, 2022 Barbados Graph Theory Workshop organized by Sergey Norin, Paul Seymour, and David Wood
- Jun 26 – Jul 1, 2022 Workshop on Graph and Network Visualization (GNV2022) organized by Michalis Bekos and Michael Kaufmann in Heiligkreuztal, Germany
- May 23–27, 2022 AlgoMaNet Summer School with lectures by Gwenaël Joret and Piotr Micek
- Mar 14–18, 2022 Michał Seweryn is visiting. Witamy!
- Jan 9–12 SODA 2022
- Nov 21–26, 2021 Online Workshop on Graph Product Structure Theory organized by Pat Morin, Vida Dujmović, Sergey Norin, and David Wood
- Sep 13–17 GD 2021
- Aug 30 – Sep 9, 2021 Online Workshop on Geometric Graphs and Hypergraphs organized by Torsten Ueckerdt and Lena Yuditsky
- 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 on Book embeddings of upward planar graphs and planar posets Abstract, Zoom link slides
- Sep 16–18 GD 2020
Teaching
- Algorithmic Graph Theory: summer 25
- Basic Notions of Computer Science: winter 24/25
- Graph Drawing: winter 23/24
- PSE – Campus-Routenplaner: summer 21
Supervised Theses and Research Projects
- Deborah Haun: Forbidden Patterns in Mixed Linear Layouts, 2024, joint work with Sergey Pupyrev
- Samuel Schneider: Planar Graphs With Bounded Treewidth and Their Upward Stack Number, Sep 2024, co-supervised with Torsten Ueckerdt
- Deborah Haun: Product Structure of Hyperbolic Unit Disk Graphs, research project, co-supervised with Thomas Bläsius
- Lena Scherzer, Samuel Schneider: Intersection Graphs with and without Product Structure, research project, co-supervised with Torsten Ueckerdt
- Dominik Sucker: Towards Product Structure in Hyperbolic Unit Disc Graphs, Bachlor's Thesis, Sep 2023, co-supervised with Thomas Bläsius
- Deborah Haun: Mixed Page Number of Planar Directed Acyclic Graphs, Bachelor's Thesis, Mar 2023
- Wendy Yi: Strong Products and List Colorings, research project, Oct 2022
- Lena Scherzer: Forest Stack Layouts, Bachelor's Thesis, Sep 2022
- 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