Laura Merker

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Institut of Theoretical Informatics
Am Fasanengarten 5
76131 Karlsruhe

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

• Jan 9–12 SODA 2022
  • Talk about A Sublinear Bound on the Page Number of Upward Planar Graphs arxiv slides
• Nov 21–26, 2021 Online Workshop on Graph Product Structure Theory
• Oct 22, 2021 Talk about A Sublinear Bound on the Page Number of Upward Planar Graphs in the seminar of the discrete math group, TU Berlin arxiv slides
• Sep 13–17 GD 2021
  • Talk about Linear Layouts of Complete Graphs arxiv slides
• 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
  • Talk about The Local Queue Number of Graphs with Bounded Treewidth arXiv slides video

• Algorithms for planar graphs summer 22
• Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science: winter 20/21, winter 21/22
• Seminar: Algorithms for NP-hard problems summer 21, summer 22
• PSE – Campus-Routenplaner summer 21

• 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

• Conference articles and theses
• arXiv