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On April 5th, Benedikt Budig has defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Extracting Spatial Information from Historical Maps: Algorithms and Interaction" in a public disputation.

Myroslav Kryven was awarded the Best Student Paper Presentation Award at CALDAM 2018 for presenting the paper "Drawing Graphs on Few Circles and Few Spheres".

On December 21, Dongliang Peng has defended his doctoral thesis entitled "An Optimization-Based Approach For Continuous Map Generalization" in a public disputation.

A work of authors of our institute has been accepted for the Colmerauer Special Session as part of the 8th Language & Technology Conference (LTC'17).

A paper from authors of our institute has been accepted for the International Workshop on Functional and Logic Programming (WFLP).

The article "Matching Labels and Markers in Historical Maps: An Algorithm with Interactive Postprocessing" by Benedikt Budig, Thomas C. van Dijk, and Alexander Wolff has been selected for the "Best of Computing" list of notable ACM publications in 2016.

At Easter, Prof. Dietmar Seipel visited two universities in Taiwan and gave talks about the research of our working group and the studies at the University of Würzburg in general.

On Tuesday (March 28), Pritam Bhattacharya of the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur gives a talk on "Approximability of Guarding Weak Visibility Polygons". The talk will take place in room E39 at 11:30.

On Monday (March 20), Giuseppe Liotta of the University of Perugia gives a talk on "1-Planarity". The talk will take place in room E39 at 16:00.

Today, Krzysztof Fleszar has defended his doctoral thesis (title: "Network-Design Problems in Graphs and on the Plane") in a public disputation. Congratulations to this last, successful step towards your PhD!