Current and past activities of the institute:

• March 2024: We welcome our new postdoc, Dr. Ebrahim Ghorbani, at the institute, and wish him best of success.
• March 2024: We welcome our new PhD student, Maximilian Wittmann, at the institute, and wish him best of success.
• October 2023: We welcome our new team assistant, Britta Siegert, at the institute, and wish her best of success.
• September 2023: We welcome our new postdoc, Dr. Tom Davot, at the institute, and wish him best of success.
• September 2023: Matthias Mnich is a PC member of FCT 2023, the 24^th International Symposium on Fundamentals in Computation Theory.
• July 2023: Matthias Mnich is a PC member of SEA 2023, the 21^st International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms.
• June 2023: Esther Galby is a PC member of WG 2023, the 49^th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science.
• May 2023: Sebastian Bielfeldt joins as PhD student on the project New algorithmic approaches for macromolecular crystallographic analysis.
• April 2023: We welcome our long-term visitors in the summer term 2023 at our institute, Prof. Dr. Michael R. Fellows and Dr. Frances A. Rosamond, as part of a Humboldt Research Fellowship grant.
• March 2023: We organized the 84^th Theorietag of the Gesellschaft für Informatik at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), jointly with Research Group for Theoretical Computer Science at TUHH. Please join us for an inspiring full-day event on the latest topics in algorithms and complexity.
• March 2023: Matthias Mnich is a PC member of STACS 2023, the 40^th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science.
• December 2022: Matthias Mnich serves on the PhD defense committee of Céline Swennenhuis at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.
• November 2022: Matthias Mnich is invited speaker at the Fall Symposium of the DIAMANT Cluster in Leiden, The Netherlands.
• September 2022: Matthias Mnich gave an invited tutorial on Algorithmic Foundations of Machine Learning at the MLE Days 2022.
• December 2021: Roland Vincze successfully defends his PhD thesis on Exact and approximation algorithms for many-visits travelling salesperson problems.
• September 2021: Matthias Mnich is a PC member of WAOA 2021, the 19^th international Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms.
• August 2021: Laura Codazzi joins as PhD student on the project Data-driven decentralized energy trading.
• June 2021: Prof. Mnich lectured on the institute's research on algorithms and complexity at the Faculty Research Colloquium.
• July 2021: Prof. Mnich lectured on fundamental algorithms for machine learning at the Machine Learning in Engineering 2021 Workshop.
• June 2021: Prof. Mnich presented the institute's research on fundamental algorithms for machine learning at the MLE Research Colloquium.
• March 2021: Alexander Göke successfully defends his PhD thesis on Vertex deletion problems: A parameterized point of view.
• January 2021: Matthias Mnich is a PC member of IJCAI 2020, the 29^th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
• October 2020: Matthias Kaul and Tobias Stamm join as PhD students.
• September 2019: The Institute for Algorithms and Complexity at Hamburg University of Technology is inaugurated, and Prof. Mnich is appointed as its head.