Seminar: Geometry, Graphs and Algorithms

• 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.

• Advisors: Dr. Tamara Mchedlidze, Torsten Ueckerdt, Lukas Barth, M. Sc., Dr. Lars Gottesbüren, Dr. Sascha Gritzbach, Marcel Radermacher, M.Sc., Dr. Franziska Wegner, Dr. Matthias Wolf, Dr. Tim Zeitz
• Seminar meeting: Friday 9:45 Uhr, SR236 (Informatics building 50.34)
• First meeting: Friday, 19.10., 9:45 Uhr, SR236 (Informatics building 50.34)
• Credits: 4LP
• Module: M-INFO-102550
• Registration: Via email to Torsten Ueckerdt or to the supervisor of the topic you are interesting in (please include your „Matrikelnummer“). The number of participants is limited.
• Language: The seminar will be held in English

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.

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 .

• 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.