Prof. Dr. Alexander Wolff

Lehrstuhl für Informatik I
Universität Würzburg
Am Hubland
D-97074 Würzburg
Building M4, Room 01.001
Office hours: Wed, 1:30–2:30 pm
Tel.: +49 (0) 931-31-85055
Fax: +49 (0) 931-31-825200
firstname.lastname "at" uni-wuerzburg.de
orcid.org/0000-0001-5872-718X
Current Teaching
- lecture Algorithmic Graph Theory (B.Sc. Inf, LA Inf.)
- lecture Visualization of Graphs (M.Sc. Inf & Math)
- seminar Computational Geometry (M.Sc./B.Sc. Inf)
Research
- Graph Drawing
- Computational Geometry
- Algorithms for Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Graph Algorithms
Work in Committees
- 2017– member of the editorial boards of the open-access journals JoCG and JGAA
- program co-chair of the conference GD 2013 (with Stephen Wismath) and the workshop EuroCG 2020 (with Steve Chaplick and Philipp Kindermann)
- program committees of the conferences ESA (2013), WAOA (2018), ISAAC (2022, 2014, 2011, 2006), GD (2020, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2006), PacificVis (2013, 2012, 2011), SoCG Video/MM track (2012), AGILE (2010, 2009), Gene&MR (2011, 2010), CALDAM (2018), EuroCG (2019), ICCG (2020), SchematicMapping (2019)
- organizing committee chair of GD 2014 and EuroCG 2020 (with Steve Chaplick and Philipp Kindermann)
- 2011–15 steering committee of the European Symposia on Algorithms (ESA)
- 2012–17 and 2021–24 steering committee of the International Symposia on Graph Drawing (GD)
- 2011–17 and 2021–23 faculty council of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Würzburg
Short CV
- 2021–2023:
managing director of the Institute of Computer Science, University of Würzburg - 2015–2017:
dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Würzburg - 2013–2015:
vice dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Würzburg - 2011–2013:
managing director of the Institute of Computer Science, University of Würzburg - since 2009:
chair of Algorithms, Complexity, and Knowledge Based Systems at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Würzburg
Key Publications
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1.Arseneva, E., Kleist, L., Klemz, B., Löffler, M., Schulz, A., Vogtenhuber, B., Wolff, A.: Adjacency Graphs of Polyhedral Surfaces. In: Buchin, K. and Éric Colin de Verdière (eds.) Proc. 37th Annu. Sympos. Comput. Geom. (SoCG’21). pp. 11:1–11:17. Schloss Dagstuhl~-- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021).
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2.Nöllenburg, M., Wolff, A.: Drawing and Labeling High-Quality Metro Maps by Mixed-Integer Programming. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 17, 626–641 (2011).
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3.Erlebach, T., Hagerup, T., Jansen, K., Minzlaff, M., Wolff, A.: Trimming of Graphs, with Application to Point Labeling. Theory of Computing Systems. 47, 613–636 (2010).
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4.Rutter, I., Wolff, A.: Computing Large Matchings Fast. ACM Transactions on Algorithms. 7, article 1, 21 pages (2010).
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5.Goaoc, X., Kratochvíl, J., Okamoto, Y., Shin, C.-S., Spillner, A., Wolff, A.: Untangling a Planar Graph. Discrete & Computational Geometry. 42, 542–569 (2009).
Complete Publication List
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