[DMANET] Second call for participation: Rolf Fest, July 21, 2026, in Jena

Dear all, This is the second call for participation in the Rolf Fest. On the occasion of Rolf Niedermeier's 60th birthday, and the 20th anniversary of the publication of his seminal book "Invitation to Fixed-Parameter Algorithms," we would like to invite you to a symposium celebrating his life and legacy and reflecting on the past, present, and future of parameterized algorithmics. Date: July 21, 2026 Location: Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Website: https://www.fmi.uni-jena.de/en/41272/rolf-fest Confirmed speakers: Piotr Faliszewski (AGH University of Krakow) Vincent Froese (TU Berlin) Dušan Knop (Czech Technical University in Prague) Hendrik Molter (HPI) Peter Rossmanith (RWTH Aachen) Manuel Sorge (TU Wien) All further information can be found on the website. If you would like to attend, please contact us at rolf-fest@listserv.uni-jena.de Best regards, the organizing committee Matthias Bentert (TU Berlin), Robert Bredereck (TU Clausthal), Jiehua Chen (TU Wien), Leon Kellerhals (TU Clausthal), Christian Komusiewicz (Friedrich Schiller University Jena), André Nichterlein (TU Berlin), Manuel Sorge (TU Wien) -- Jiehua Chen jiehua.chen@ac.tuwien.ac.at https://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/jchen/about/ Technische Universität Wien Institute of Logic and Computation Favoritenstraße 9-11, E192-01, Stiege 2, 4. Stock A-1040 Wien Austria ********************************************************** * * Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to * * DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de * * Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be * addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The * original sender, however, is invited to prepare an * update of the replies received and to communicate it * via DMANET. * * DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET) * http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/ * **********************************************************