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PHD STUDENTS WANTED

25 September 2024

We are looking for PhD candidates at the University of Warwick. The expected starting date is October 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. For details, click here

PhD Defense JANNIK

13 August 2024

Jannik Peters successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!!! 🎉


Thanks to committee members Ioannis Caragiannis, Nisarg Shah, and Piotr Skowron!

Talk AT SSCW 

3 July 2024

I gave a talk at the 17th Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare. Slides available here.


Talk AT ICMS WORKSHOP

11 June 2024

I gave a talk at the ICMS workshop on Mathematics of Voting and Representation in Edinburgh. The slides are available here

Talk AT ONLINE SCW Seminar

16 April 2024

I gave a talk at the Online Social Choice and Welfare Seminar Series on the paper Robust and Verifiable Proportionality Axioms for Multiwinner Voting (joint work with Jannik Peters). The video is available here

Talk AT EDDY CONFERENCE

12 April 2024

I gave a keynote talk at the 1st Conference of the European Network for Digital Democracy in Rotterdam. 

Niclas wins VICTOR LESSER DISTINGUISHED Dissertation Award

2 April 2024

Congratulations to Niclas for winning the 2023 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award! He will present his thesis at AAMAS 2024.

Paper ACCEPTED AT SOCIAL CHOICE & WELFARE

21 March 2024

 J. Israel and M. Brill. Dynamic Proportional Rankings. Social Choice and Welfare. Forthcoming. [ link | pdf ]

Special Issue PUBLISHED

6 March 2024

The Special Issue Mathematical Optimization for Fair Social Decisions: A Tribute to Michel Balinski of Mathematical Programming has been published and contains the follwoing three papers:

PhD Defense JONAS

19 December 2023

Jonas Israel successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!!! 🎉


Thanks to committee members Jerome Lang, Piotr Skowron, and Julia Stoyanovich!

3 papers accepted at AAAI 2024

10 December 2023

The following papers have been accepted at AAAI 2024:

PHD STUDENTS WANTED

13 November 2023

We are looking for PhD candidates at the University of Warwick. For details, click here

Talk In Karlsruhe

12 October 2023

I gave a talk at the Conference on Voting Theory and Preference Aggregation in honor of Klaus Nehring’s 65th birthday. 

Ulrike wins EurAI Dissertation Award

15 September 2023

Congratulations to Ulrike for winning the 2022 dissertation award by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI)! She will present her thesis at ECAI 2023

PhD Defense Niclas

26 July 2023

Niclas Boehmer successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!!! 🎉


Thanks to committee members Piotr Faliszewski, Jerome Lang, and Kate Larson!

WorkSHOP AT TU BERLIN

14 July 2023

I'm organizing a workshop on Computational Social Choice. The workshop will take place at TU Berlin on Thursday, July 27th, 2023. More information here

Paper ACCEPTED AT EC

1 May 2023

M. Brill and J. Peters. Robust and Verifiable Proportionality Axioms for Multiwinner Voting. Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (ACM-EC), 2023. Forthcoming. [ arxiv ]

Paper ACCEPTED AT IJCAI

19 April 2023

M. Brill, E. Markakis, G. Papasotiropoulos, and J. Peters. Proportionality Guarantees in Elections with Interdependent Issues. Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2023. Forthcoming. 

PHD STUDENT WANTED

13 April 2023

I'm looking for a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick. For details, click here

Paper ACCEPTED AT SOCIAL CHOICE & WELFARE

5 April 2023

N. Boehmer, M. Brill, and U. Schmidt-Kraepelin. Proportional Representation in Matching Markets: Selecting Multiple Matchings under Dichotomous Preferences. Social Choice and Welfare. Forthcoming. [ link | pdf

paper accepted at MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING

6 March 2023

The following paper has been accepted for the Special Issue of Mathematical Programming, Series B, on Mathematical Optimization and Fair Social Decisions

PhD Defense Ulrike

30 November 2022

Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations!!! 🎉


Thanks to committee members Felix Brandt, Piotr Faliszewski, and David Pennock!

4 papers accepted at AAAI 2023

21 November 2022

The following four papers with ALGO members as coauthors have been accepted at AAAI 2023:

Associated group member Niclas Boehmer is involved in further 3 papers. 

PHD STUDENTS WANTED

4 October 2022

Together with my new colleagues, I'm looking for PhD candidates at the University of Warwick. For details, click here

PhD PRize FOr ULRIKE

30 September 2022

Congratulations to Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin for being awarded the Dimitris N. Chorafas prize for her PhD work!

Berlin ➡️ Warwick

19 September 2022

I moved to the University of Warwick (UK). My new website is here. The rest of the group stays in Berlin.  

DAGSTUHL SEMINAR "ALGORITHMS FOR PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY"

11 July 2022

I co-organized the Dagstuhl Seminar "Algorithms for Participatory Democracy". Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin gave a talk. 

Invited Talk AT Hi!PARIS SYmposium

13 June 2022

I gave an invited talk at the Hi! PARIS Symposium on AI and Society (Paris, 8-10 June 2022). 

2 papers accepted at MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING

10 June 2022

The following papers have been accepted for the Special Issue of Mathematical Programming, Series B, on Mathematical Optimization and Fair Social Decisions

3 papers accepted at AAMAS 2022

19 December 2021

The following three papers with ALGO members as (co)authors have been accepted at AAMAS 2022:

5 papers accepted at AAAI 2022

1 December 2021

The following five papers with ALGO members as (co)authors have been accepted at AAAI 2022: