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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

  • PACS 2024

    Andrei Krokhin is an invited speaker at the Workshop on Parameterized Algorithms and Constraint Satisfaction – July 7, Tallinn, Estonia – a satellite workshop to LICS/ICALP 2024. He will speak on a Theory of Gadget Reductions for CSPs.

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  • SAND 2024

    Thomas Erlebach was one of the three invited speakers at SAND 2024 and gave an invited talk with title “Exploration and Rendezvous in Temporal Graphs” there this Wednesday. Thomas was also a co-author of the following SAND 2024 paper for which Nils Morawietz (a PhD student from University of Jena) won the SAND 2024 Best…

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  • Kristina Asimi

    We welcome to Durham Kristina Asimi to work on the EPSRC project Algebraic Methods for Quantified Constraints! Kristina joins us from Charles University, Prague, where she completed her PhD last year.

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  • Izzy Friedlander

    We congratulate Izzy Friedlander on having defended her thesis and now having the corrections accepted! Her thesis is titled “The MacWilliams Identity for the Krawtchouk Association Schemes”.

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  • ISAAC 2023 Best Paper Award

    The paper “Matching cuts in graphs of high girth and H-free graphs” by Carl Feghali, Felicia Lucke, Daniel Paulusma and Bernard Ries won a best paper award at the 34th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2023).

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  • AUTOMATA 2024

    The 30th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems (AUTOMATA) will take place between 22 July, 2024 and 24 July, 2024 at Durham University. The local organisers are Max Gadouleau and Karl Southern.

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