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On Tuesday, May 14, 2024, Diana Waithanji will give a lecture on the topic of "Protect the Web: Explore Cybersecurity!". Thelecture will take place at 6 p.m. in Seminarroom A in the Mathematikon. For details, see here.

On Friday, April 26, 2024, Prof. Ricardo Baeza-Yates will give a lecture on the topic of “Responsible AI”. The lecture will take place at 3 p.m. in the lecture hall in the Mathematikon. For details, see here.
On Tuesday, April 16, 20124, the introductory event for the new master's students of the Data and Computer Science program took place. The slides from the event can be found here and a video recording here.

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Highlights and Talks

Prof. Dr. Lena Maier-Hein in der Onkologie mit dem Deutschen Krebspreis ausgezeichnet

Für ihre exzellenten Arbeiten in der Krebsmedizin und -forschung erhalten Prof. Dr. Michaela Frye, Prof. Dr. Lena Maier-Hein, beide Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) Heidelberg, und Prof. Dr. Claus Rödel, Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt, den Deutschen Krebspreis 2024. Der Preis der Deutschen Krebsgesellschaft und der Deutschen Krebsstiftung zählt zu den höchsten Auszeichnungen in der Onkologie und wird jährlich in den Sparten „Experimentelle Forschung“, „Translationale Forschung“ und „Klinische Forschung“ vergeben.

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SEA 2023 Best Paper Award

The algorithm engineering group received the best paper award at the 21st Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA23) for the paper "FREIGHT: Fast Streaming Hypergraph Partitioning". Joint work of Kamal Eyubov, Marcelo Fonseca Faraj and Christian Schulz. You can find a preprint here.

Big Success for Computer Scientists from Heidelberg at PACE challenge

A team of students from University of Heidelberg aka HeiTwin (Dennis Jakob, Nikita-Nick Funk, Thomas Möller, Ernestine Großmann) has achieved remarkable success in the PACE Challenge! They secured the 5th place in the heuristic track (overall ranking) and an impressive 2nd place in the student ranking of the exact track of the challenge.

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Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD Theses

Below is a list of scheduled presentations of bachelor's and master's theses by computer science students, sorted chronologically by the date of presentation.

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Tuesday, July, 30, 2024, 10 a.m. - Vincent Mock - Ein interaktives Tool für die Bestimmung der optimalen Elektrodenposition für die Therapie von Epilepsie mittels Simulations-Elektroden

Presentation of the master's thesis by Mr. Vincent Mock:

"Ein interaktives Tool für die Bestimmung der optimalen Elektrodenposition für die Therapie von Epilepsie mittels Simulations-Elektroden"

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Hesser

The presentation takes place on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at 10 a.m. online via heiconf: https://heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/hes-32w-u4v.

Thursday, July, 25, 2024, 1:00 p.m. - Damjan Kalšan - ero-Shot Monocular Depth Estimation from Stable Diffusion Prior

Presentation of the master's thesis by Mr. Damjan Kalšan:

"Zero-Shot Monocular Depth Estimation from Stable Diffusion Prior"

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Carsten Rother

The presentation will take place on Thursday July 25, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. in Mathematikon B, CVL, Room B102.

Wednesday, 24.07.2024, 2:00 p.m. - Alexandra Kowalewski - Querying Web Tables with Language Models

Presentation of the bachelor's thesis by Mrs. Alexandra Kowalewski:

"Querying Web Tables with Language Models"

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Gertz

The presentation will take place on Wednesday, July 24, 2024, at 2pm online via Webex. If you are interested in participating in the presentation, please send me a short message (gertz@informatik.uni-heidelberg.de).

Tuesday, July, 23, 2024, 12:30 a.m. - Marven Hinze - Hybrid Convolution Transformer-Based Approach for Cell Instance Segmentation

Presentation of the Master Thesis by Mr. Marven Hinze:

"Hybrid Convolution Transformer-Based Approach for Cell Instance Segmentation"

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Rohr

The presentation will take place online on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, at 12:30.

If you are interested in participating, please send me a short message (k.rohr@uni-heidelberg.de).

Tuesday, July, 23, 2024, 10:30 a.m. - Anh Tu Duong Nguyen - Relating Feedback and Existing Requirements using ChatGPT

Presentation of the bachelor's thesis by Mr. Herrn Anh Tu Duong Nguyen:

"Relating Feedback and Existing Requirements using ChatGPT"

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Anders

The presentation takes place on Tuesday, 23.07.2024 at 10:30 a.m. in Room 02/200 of the Mathematikon.