Institut für Theoretische Informatik, Algorithmik

Seminar: Geometry, Graphs and Algorithms

Winter semester 2018

News

  • 16.1.19 The schedule has been updated. The submission of the first write-up is now 1 week later, on January 27.
  • 9.11.18 The schedule has been updated, including the dates of the talks.
  • 19.10.18 The introductory slides are published.

General Information

Content

Graphs and networks model realworld situations and often the graph defining structures are geometric. This makes a tailored treatment of geometrically defined graph classes an important branch of research, both theoretically and practically. For example, road networks give rise to almost planar graphs, job schedules give rise to intersection graphs of intervals, or DNA sequences give rise to graphs with a linear ordering on their vertices. On the other hand, geometry can be intentionally inferred to graphs for visualization purposes.

In this seminar, we discuss a wide range of geometric settings for graphs and combinatorial problems. Topics include among others the existential theory of the reals, VC-dimension, machine learning, planarization, and visualization.

Procedure

At the first, preliminary meeting, the topics will be briefly presented and assigned to the participants. Afterwards each participant explores their topic using the given literature as a starting point. After a couple of weeks each participant gives a 5-minute short presentation on their topic. During the semester we will then have the main presentations on separate days. By the end of the semester and after a peer review phase, each participant has to hand in a written report of 12–15 pages in LaTeX. The overall grade depends equally on the main presentation and the written report.

Guidelines can be found in the introductory slides .

Schedule (subject to small changes)

Date Schedule Speaker
19.10. Topic Distribution Tamara, Torsten
9.11. Short presentations all students
23.11. Presentations Yani
7.12. Presentations Björn, Florian
14.12. Presentations Christian, Kanan
27.1. Submission of the document -
24.2. Submission of the reviews -
24.3. Submission of the final document -

Remarks

  • Please use LaTeX for composing the written report with this template:template.zip.
  • Tips & Tricks for presentations an scientific writing.
  • Information on using ipe for figures und presentations.