Bremen-Hamburg Workshop 2025

Bremen-Hamburg Colloquium on ACO on December 10, 2025

This is a one-day meeting on topics around algorithms, combinatorics and optimization. It will start on Wednesday, December 10, at 11 am at the University of Bremen in room MZH 5600 (Bibliothekstrasse 5, 28359 Bremen).

We provide coffee and tea starting at 10:30 am. The scientific part begins at 11 am and ends around 6 pm. A light lunch will be provided. At 6 pm we go to the Italian Restaurant "Bellini im TRESOR" close to the University, Universit?tsallee 14, 28359 Bremen, and is at your own expense.

Academic organization

The workshop takes place in room MZH 5600 (Bibliothekstrasse 5, 28359 Bremen).

10:30Coffee and Registration 
11:00Welcome 
11:05 The power of two oracles for matroid optimizationNicole Megow
11:309/4-approximation for feedback vertex sets in quasi-transitive digraphsEbrahim Ghorbani
11:55Lunch 
13:25On Approximation of Constraint Satisfaction ProblemsMichel Sénégas
13:50Algorithms for the Online Leader Selection ProblemKarolina Tammemaa
14:15The ProofBench Initiative: towards a trustworthy benchmark for advanced mathematicsNathan Bowler
14:40Coffee  
15:00Lazy Cops and Robbers on the Triangular GridBruno Borchardt
15:25Firefighting is hardTorben Schürenberg
15:50Coffee  
16:05Elimination DistanceNicole Schirrmacher
16:30On directed pathwidth, jungles, and cliquewidth of h-semicomplete digraphsRaul Lopez
16:55Coffee 
17:10Improved approximation algorithms for (variants of) the minimum sum of radii problemMoritz Buchem
17:35Bin Packing PolygonsTim Gerlach
18:00Closing & Walk to Restaurant Bellini 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Local organization: Daniel Schmand and group. Involved groups in Bremen: Nicole Megow and Sebastian Siebertz.