Events
Regular talks
  • The research unit holds joint monthly seminars in hybrid format with talks by internal and external speakers. If you are interested in taking part, please subscribe to the algoforge-announce mailing list or contact any PI of AlgoForGe.
AlgoForGe Retreats
  • Retreat 2026: March 11-12, 2026 at Landhotel Kallbach (24 participants)
  • One-day retreat with progress reports of all projects: November 21, 2025 in Cologne
  • Retreat 2024: September 12-13, 2024 at Landhotel Kallbach (22 participants)
  • We had a wonderful retreat in March 6-7, 2023 in Königswinter (19 participants)
Workshops
  • Workshop on Massive Data Models and Computational Geometry, September 23-27, 2024, jointly with HCM and NETWORKS
  • AlgoEarth: Semester of Algorithmic Earth System Sciences, winter semester 2025/26, jointly with the Universities of Cologne and Bonn, Forschungszentrum Jülich and ECMWF
  • Workshop on Massive Data Models and Computational Geometry II, September 22-26, 2025, Bonn
  • Workshop on Geometric Graphs, June 24-28th, 2024, University of Bonn, with international guests Bernardo Ábrego and Silvia Fernández-Merchant (California State University, Northridge), David Flores-Peñaloza (UNAM) and André Nusser (CNRS, Université Côte d'Azur)
  • Our first workshop was held on February 3rd, 2023.
Presentations of AlgoForGe
  • AlgoForGe was the topic of the second day of the symposium “Intelligente Methoden für Erdsystemwissenschaften” in Cologne, November 19-21, 2025 (University of Cologne and Stiftung Wissen der Sparkasse KölnBonn)
  • Talks about AlgoForGe at the Vienna Workshop on Computational Optimization (2025), Hannover (2025), Bochum (2026), HafenCity University Hamburg (2024) and TU Wien (2023)
  • We presented AlgoForGe at the DFG Intermediate Colloquium on DFG’s AI Initiative on 29-30 August, 2024
  • AlgoForGe got a prominent part of the TRA 1 brochure to be presented to the Hochschulrat of Bonn University in 2024
  • We have presented AlgoForGe at the GIBU Meeting at Schloss Dagstuhl at April 2-4, 2023.
Seminars
  • Dagstuhl Seminars organized by members of AlgoForGe: “Computational Geometry of Earth System Analysis” (Driemel, 2023), “New Trends in Clustering” (Schmidt, 2026), “Temporal Graphs: Structure, Algorithms, Applications” (Mutzel, 2026), “Analysis of Algorithms Beyond the Worst Case” (Röglin, 2026), “Interfacing Maps and Text with AI” (Haunert, 2026)
  • Upcoming: “Software Performance Engineering meets Algorithm Engineering” (Mutzel, 2027)
Guests
  • We hosted research visits and talks by Jeff M. Phillips (University of Utah), Sariel Har-Peled (UIUC), Thomas Eiter, Martin Nöllenburg and Alexander Dobler (TU Wien), Ingo Scholtes and Franziska Heeg (University of Würzburg), Giovanni Rinaldi (IASI-CNR, Rome), Stefan Winter (University of Melbourne), and Daniel Archambault (Newcastle University)