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ACiD, Algorithms and Complexity in Durham, is a world-leading research group with research programmes involving many international collaborators. Theoretical Computer Science comprises the development of algorithmic techniques that efficiently exploit the power of modern computers, the study of the limits of computation and the ways in which we can cope with, and take advantage of, intractability, and the science of the unsolvable.

The group is broad-based with research foci including computational complexity, proof complexity, descriptive complexity, graph theory, exact algorithms, randomised algorithms, approximation algorithms, parameterized algorithms, finite model theory, constraint satisfaction, interconnection networks, universal algebra and mathematical logic.

ACiD News

  • ISAAC 2024 Best Paper

    Congratulations to Barnaby Martin and Daniel Paulusma for their paper Complexity Framework for Forbidden Subgraphs II: Edge Subdivision and the “H”-graphs (with Vadim Lozin,  Sukanya Pandey, Mark Siggers, Siani Smith and Erik Jan van Leeuwen) which has been awarded best paper at The 35th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2024)!

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  • New people in ACiD

    We welcome Kunanon Burathep, Yilin Li, Yiming Qiu and Felicia Lucke as new ACiD members! The first three join us a PhD students and the last as a postdoc.

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  • LMS CS Colloquium

    Peter Davies-Peck will give a talk at the upcoming LMS CS Colloquium on 10th December 2024. Registration is available here.

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  • Danny Vagnozzi

    We welcome Danny to ACiD to work with Andrei Krokhin on Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problems! Danny is fresh from a postdoc in Edinburgh on Spectral Graph Theory. Danny studied Maths at Durham before doing a PhD in Cambridge with Anuj Dawar. Welcome back Danny!

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  • Anouk Sommer

    We welcome to Durham Anouk Sommer, who is funded by DAAD over the summer to work on the project Schnell aber spät: breaking Deutsche Bahn even more with graph theory. Anouk joins us from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, where she is a student.

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  • Algorithmic Meta-classifications for Graph Containment

    Congratulations to PI Daniel Paulusma and CIs Matthew Johnson, Barnaby Martin and Vadim Lozin (Warwick) on the award of a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant! The project will run for three years and provides funding for a postdoctoral position (36 months) and a teaching fellow (10 months) position in Durham. The start date is 1…

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