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Institute of Theoretical Informatics, Algorithmics
Institute of Theoretical Informatics, Algorithmics
Institute of Theoretical Informatics, Algorithmics
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Torsten Ueckerdt

Torsten Ueckerdt


September 2022

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

phone +49 721 608-47334
email torsten [dot] ueckerdt [at] kit [dot] edu
office room 319, Computer Science building 50.34
office hours by appointment

I am a theoretical computer scientist and discrete mathematician. My research is mostly concerned with combinatorial objects like graphs, posets, and hypergraphs in geometric settings. I investigate structural properties, coloring problems, and geometric representations –especially for planar graphs. I served as a PC member for the conferences, such as Graph Drawing, SoCG, and EuroCG.



About me

I am interested in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science. In particular I have been working in graph theory, game theory, combinatorics, and computational geometry. I consider mostly combinatorial problems within a geometric setting, such as planar graphs, intersections models of graph, or point sets in the plane.

I was born in Berlin, where I also did my studies. I did my Ph.D. with my advisor Stefan Felsner at the Department of Mathematics at the Technische Universität Berlin. Afterwards I joined the group of Jan Kratochvil at the Department of Applied Mathematics at Charles University in Prague. From September 2012 to September 2017 I was working in the Discrete Mathematics group at the mathematical department of KIT, where I did my habilitation in 2017. Since October 2017 I am a member of the work group Algorithmics I at the Institute of Theoretical Informatics.


Research Graph Theory and Geometry (more details below)
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Research Interests

Structural Graph Theory
  • Graph Covering and Decomposition (arboricities, covering numbers, …)
  • Combinatorial Structures (Schnyder woods, transversal structures, …)
  • Extremal Problems (coupled parameters, worst-case in classes, …)
  • Sparsity (bounded expansion, bounded maximum average degree, …)
  • Vertex and Edge Colorings (chromatic number, improper colorings, …)
  • Ramsey Theory (Ramsey classes, Ramsey equivalence, …)
  • Ordered Graphs (book emeddings, queue numbers, …)
Geometric Graph Theory
  • Intersection Representations (VPG graphs, interval graphs, …)
  • Contact Representations (rectangular dissections, higher dimensions, …)
  • Restricted Planar Embeddings (cartograms, alignment problems, …)
  • Graph Drawing (fan-planarity, crossing lemma, …)
  • Proximity Notions (range spaces, Delauney graphs, …)
  • Hypergraphs (planarity, cover decomposition, …)
Partially Ordered Sets
  • Dimension Theory (local dimension, boxicity, …)
  • Representations (inclusion orders, PI-orders, …)
  • Cover Graphs (planarity, book embeddings, …)
  • Lattices (alpha-orientations, chain decompositions, …)
Discrete Geometry
  • Spatial Point Sets (point set embedding, epsilon-nets, …)
  • Pseudodisks (non-crossing connectors, homothets, …)
Combinatorial Game Theory
  • Two-Player Games (pizza games, Tron, …)


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last update: September 2024