Jochen Könemann to co-organize a Hausdorff trimester program in Combinatorial Optimization

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics (HIM)
Professor Jochen Könemann, together with András Frank (Eötvös Loránd University), Satoru Iwata (Kyto University) and Jens Vygen (University of Bonn), have received a Euros 320,000 grant to organize a Haudsorff trimester program in Combinatorial Optimization from September 1 to December 18 2015.

The Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics (HIM) in Bonn hosts trimester programs that cover a broad range of topics in mathematics, mathematical physics, and economics. The Program in Combinatorial Optimization will bring together researchers from different areas including graph theory, matroids and submodularity, connectivity and network flows, approximation algorithms and mathematical programming, discrete and computational geometry and game theory, in order to discover new connections and to develop international collaborations. In addition to hosting long-term visitors, four workshops will be organized on the following topics:

  • Connectivity, routing, and network design
  • Rigidity, submodularity, and discrete convexity
  • Relaxations and polyhedral methods
  • Algorithmic and computational game theory.