Magnus M. Halldorsson
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Research
My main research interests are in the design and analysis of algorithms, in particular approximation algorithms for combinatorial NP-hard problems.
One area of major focus has been wireless communication, particularly on combining rigorous algorithms analysis with realistic models of interference. Current main focus is on distributed algorithms, particularly for coloring.
In the past, I have had interests in bioinformatics and biological computing, security, and the sociological aspects of a networked world.
Online papers: Wireless Algorithmics --
Algorithms and Complexity --
arXiv
Curriculum vitae
My pages on Google Scholar,
DBLP,
and MathSciNet.
Activities (2016 -- 2020)
Invited speaker:
Organizer:
- Organizing seminar at Dagstuhl on Scheduling, March 2018.
- Organizing a seminar at Dagstuhl on Foundations of Wireless Networking, jointly with Christina Fragouli, Kyle Jamieson, and
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, july 2017.
- Organizing SWAT 2016 at Reykjavik University, June 22 - 24, 2016.
- Organizing WRAWN (Workshop on Realistic models for Algorithms in Wireless Networks, July 29, 2016, co-located with PODC, Chicago, Illinois.
Steering committees::
Members of Lab
Alumni
- Murilo Santos de Lima, post-doc, October 2018 -- November 2019 (Now at Leicester)
- Tigran Tonoyan, post-doc, June 2014 -- August 2019 (Now at Technion)
- Christian Konrad, post-doc, Oct 2013 -- August 2016 (Now asst. prof. at U. Bristol)
- Įgnes Cseh, post-doc, January -- August 2016 (Now at Potsdam and Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
- Janne Korhonen, post-doc, from January -- August 2016 (Now at IST Austria)
- Marijke Bodlaender, Ph.D. student, September 2012 -- 2015
- Pradipta Mitra, post-doc, 2010 - 2013, now at Google research, NYC.
- Elena Losievskaja (Ph.D., 2009) : Thesis:
Approximation Algorithms for Independent Set Problems on Hypergraphs. Now at AGR
- Unnar Žór Bachmann (M.S., 2009) :
Thesis:
Online algorithms for t-interval graphs.
- Ragnar K. Karlsson (M.S., mathematics, 2006), Thesis:
Strip graphs. Now at CCP
- Haukur Žorgeirsson (M.S., 2005), now faculty member in Icelandic manuscript studies at University of Iceland.
Some ancient stuff:
- Organized SIROCCO 2012 at Reykjavik University, June 2012.
- Organized ICALP 2008 !, in Reykjavik, July 6-13, 2008. (chair)
- Helped organizing MATCH-UP: Satellite workshop of ICALP 2008
- Invited speaker at
NHC '06 ,
NHC Spring School and Workshop on Discrete Algorithms, Tokyo, Feb. 27 - Mar.
1,
- Subeditor for the Compendium
on optimization problem detailing their approximabilities.
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Organized SWAT '96, here in Reykjavik.
Hjalli has some pictures.
- The online version of the English-Icelandic Mathematics Dictionary, now available here.
- Webpage on the Subglacial Volcanic
Eruptions in Vatnajokull 1996 and 1998.
- Colleagues on the web (not updated)
About Me
I am currently a professor in the School of Computer Science at Reykjavik University, Iceland. Also a director of ICE-TCS.
After a secondary education in Iceland, I did my undergraduate at University of Oregon, in math and CS, from 1982-1985. Went back and worked as a software engineer for a year. Headed to Rutgers University, originally intending to get a master degree in software engineering, but ended up in 1991 with a Ph.D. focusing on approximation and online algorithms under the guidance of Ravi Boppana.
I then worked at Tokyo Institute of Technology for 8 months, followed by
JAIST for three years in Japan. Since 1995, I have resided in Iceland, first at University of Iceland and since 2007 at Reykjavik University.
I have also had visiting or other appointments:
IBM Tokyo Research labs (1995),
Max Planck Institute in Saarbruecken (1995),
University of Bergen (1997-2000),
Kyoto University (1999, 2007),
Tokyo Institute of Technology (2005, 2013), and
RIMS in Kyoto (2009, 2015, 2018).
Contact Information
The best way to contact me is by email: magnusmh (at) gmail.
Address:
Reykjavik University,
Menntavegur 1
102 Reykjavik, Iceland
tel. (+354) 599 6384, fax 599 6301, GSM 825 6384
Last updated 26 Feb 2019