Andre Löffler has defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Constrained Graph Layouts: Vertices on the Outer Face and on the Integer Grid" in a public disputation on October 23.

Myroslav Kryven has defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Optimizing Crossings in Circular-Arc Drawings and Circular Layouts" in a public disputation on October 2.

Two teams of our chair reached place 1 and 3 at the GD'20 Live Challange in the manual categorie, where the task was to draw graphs upward with as few crossings as possible.

As part of the academic ceremony, the student association for Mathematics and Computer Science awarded a prize for good teaching for Prof. Christian Glaßer.