Department of Computer & Information Science University of Konstanz
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Ulrik Brandes

address   Department of Computer & Information Science
University of Konstanz
Box 67
78457 Konstanz, Germany
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office PZ 1003 (show)
public hour wednesdays 12:00-13:00
topical visone  ·  GraphML  ·  INSNA  ·  Network Science

ARS 2017 - 6th Intl. Workshop Social Network Analysis (15-17 May, Naples)

Sunbelt XXXVII - Social Networks Conference (30 May-4 June, Bejing)

EUSN 2017 - 3rd Europ. Social Networks Conference (26-29 September, Mainz)

 Personal
 
since 10/03   Professor, Department of Computer & Information Science, University of Konstanz
10/02-09/03 Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Passau
07/02 Habilitation in Computer Science
04/00-09/02 Assistant Professor, Department of Computer & Information Science, University of Konstanz
10/01-12/01 Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney (with Prof. Peter Eades)
07/99-12/99 Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Computer Science, Brown University (with Prof. Roberto Tamassia)
06/99 Ph.D. in Computer Science. Thesis entitled Layout of Graph Visualizations; supervisor and reviewer: Prof. Dr. Dorothea Wagner, additional reviewer: Prof. Dr. Michael Kaufmann
10/94-03/00 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/BAT IIa, Department of Computer & Information Science, University of Konstanz; (with Prof. Dr. Dorothea Wagner)
10/89-10/94 Studied computer science (with mathematics minor) at RWTH Aachen
  • thesis on Markov Random Fields as a Tool in Image Processing (in German) written at legendary Lehrstuhl für angewandte Mathematik, insbesondere Informatik, chaired by my advisor, Prof. Dr. Walter Oberschelp
  • spent the summer of 1992 as an exchange student at Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA.
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 Teaching
 
this semester  

Undergraduate course Algorithmen & Datenstrukturen
Bachelor project Algorithmik
Master project Algorithmics
Doctoral seminar Algorithmics
next semester

t.b.a.

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 Research
 
> Areas of interest include:
  • social network analysis and network science
  • graph drawing and information visualization
  • efficient graph algorithms
  • experimental algorithmics
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     Publications
     
    > List of publications (access to electronic versions)
     
    > Five selected publications:

    Marina Hennig, Ulrik Brandes, Jürgen Pfeffer and Ines Mergel: Studying Social Networks: A Guide to Empirical Research. Campus-Verlag, 2012.

    Ulrik Brandes and Christian Pich, An Experimental Study on Distance-based Graph Drawing. Proc. 16th Intl. Symp. Graph Drawing (GD '08). LNCS 5417, pp. 218-229. Springer-Verlag 2009.

    Ulrik Brandes and Thomas Erlebach (Eds.): Network Analysis: Methodological Foundations. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Tutorial, vol. 3418. Springer-Verlag, 2005.

    Ulrik Brandes, Eager st-Ordering. Proc. 10th Europ. Symp. Algorithms (ESA '02). LNCS 2461, pp. 247-256. Springer 2002.

    Ulrik Brandes, A Faster Algorithm for Betweenness Centrality. Journal of Mathematical Sociology 25(2):163-177, 2001.

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    last modified  25 October 2016