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Benjamin Doerr

Senior Researcher, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken
Professor for Computer Science, Universität des Saarlandes

Email: lastname at mpi-inf.mpg.de (please substitute)
Phone: +49 681 9325-1004
Fax: +49 681 9325-1099

Our paper "Reducing the Arity in Unbiased Black-Box Complexity" (with Carola Winzen) is nominated for a best paper award at GECCO.
Our Dagstuhl-Seminar "Epidemic Algorithms and Processes: From Theory to Applications" was accepted and will take place January 21-25, 2013.
Our results on rumor spreading in social networks (cf. our STOC paper) have been accepted for publication in the Communications of the ACM.
Session organizer at the 3rd Brazilian-German Frontiers of Science and Technology Symposium (BRAGFOST)
Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics published! (direct link to table of contents and first chapter)

Winter 2012/2013: Research immersion lab "multi-objective evolutionary computation"
Winter 2012/2013: Randomized Methods in Computer Science
Summer 2012: Guest professor at DTU Copenhagen
Previous teaching
I have some nice topics for bachelor, master, diploma and PhD theses.

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