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 Algorithms and Data Structures (B.Sc. Inf, LuRI, GamesEng, InNa; LA Inf.)
- lecture Approximation Algorithms (M.Sc. Inf)
- seminar Visualization of Graphs (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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Adjacency Graphs of Polyhedral Surfaces. . In Proc. 37th Annu. Sympos. Comput. Geom. (SoCG’21), Vol. 189 of LIPIcs, K. Buchin, Éric Colin de Verdière (eds.), pp. 11:1–17. Schloss Dagstuhl~-- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2021.
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Drawing and Labeling High-Quality Metro Maps by Mixed-Integer Programming. . IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 17(5), pp. 626–641. 2011.
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Trimming of Graphs, with Application to Point Labeling. . Theory of Computing Systems, 47(3), pp. 613–636. 2010.
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Computing Large Matchings Fast. . ACM Transactions on Algorithms, 7(1), p. article 1, 21 pages. 2010.
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Untangling a Planar Graph. . Discrete & Computational Geometry, 42(4), pp. 542–569. 2009.
Complete Publication List
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