Marek KarpinskiMarek Karpinski Biography
at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Excellence Cluster is a computer scientist and

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

known for his research in the theory of

algorithm In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm () is a finite sequence of rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation. Algorithms are used as specifications for performing ...

s and their applications,

combinatorial optimization Combinatorial optimization is a subfield of mathematical optimization that consists of finding an optimal object from a finite set of objects, where the set of feasible solutions is discrete or can be reduced to a discrete set. Typical combi ...

, computational complexity, and mathematical foundations. He is a recipient of several research prizes in the above areas. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science, and the Head of the Algorithms Group at the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...

. He is also a member of Bonn International Graduate School in Mathematic
BIGS
and th
Hausdorff Center for Mathematics

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Karpinski, Marek Theoretical computer scientists Mathematical logicians Graph theorists University of Bonn faculty American computer scientists 20th-century Polish mathematicians 21st-century Polish mathematicians Members of Academia Europaea Polish computer scientists Living people Year of birth missing (living people)

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