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Frank Neumann

Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Department 1: Algorithms and Complexity
Campus E 14, Room 317
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany

Email: firstname.lastname@mpi-inf.mpg.de
Phone: +49 681 9325 117
Fax: +49 681 9325 199

Open position for a PhD student in the field of bio-inspired computing
Open position for a bachelor/master student in the field of swarm intelligence (please contact me if you are interested)

Research Interests

bio-inspired computation (ant colony optimization (poster runtime analysis), evolutionary algorithms)
combinatorial optimization
formal program development (relational algebra)
multi-objective optimization
stochastic search algorithms

Current Activities

Coordinator of the research area Bio-Inspired Computation.
Project "Theoretical Foundations of Swarm Intelligence" funded by German Research Foundation.
Co-Editor for a special issue "Heuristic Search Methods for Large Scale Optimization Problems in Industry" of Evolutionary Computation, MIT Press. (Call for Papers)
Tutorial "Foundations of Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization" at GECCO 2010 and PPSN 2010 (with Tobias Friedrich).
Tutorial "Computational Complexity and Evolutionary Computation" at GECCO 2010, (with Thomas Jansen) (slides of 2009).
Co-Editor for a special issue "Theoretical Foundations of Evolutionary Computation" of Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier. (Call for Papers)

Offers

We are constantly looking for good people at all levels. See AG1 offers for more details.
Sorry, our department (D1) does not offer summer internships.