What is GraphMasters Open

GraphMasters Open is an open workshop organized to foster collaboration between researchers interested in graph algorithms and problems. The spirit of the workshop is informal: we will provide working space for participants, who are welcome to group as they like and seek each other’s counsel and opinion.

Participants are encouraged to bring interesting problems to share with others. We welcome all graph-related problems, including those not directly involving graphs but that you suspect may be modeled as such.

We typically gather some problems beforehand to startup the discussion, if you want to suggest some (we warmly invite you to do so) email the local organizers or conte [at] di.unipi.it

GraphMastersOpen 2021

GraphMastersOpen 2021 is the third edition of GraphMastersOpen.
It will be held concurrently with StringMasters after IWOCA 2021 hosted by University of Ottawa, Canada, on July 8th, 2021. (IWOCA is from July 5 to July 7). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic both events will be held online.

(we included “open” in the workshop’s name to disambiguate from the pre-existing invitation-based workshop graphmasters)

The event is open to everyone with no registration fee. For organization reasons and to receive instructions, please email conte@di.unipi.it with a demonstration of interest.

Program

The workshop will take place in a dedicated Discord channel. Link will be provided to participants via email. To register, either register to IWOCA 2021 or email conte [at] di.unipi.it.

11:00-12:00 CEST First plenary problem introduction (Europe & Asia)
12:15-14:15 CEST Working session
14:30-15:30 CEST Second plenary problem introduction (America & Europe)
16:15-18:15 CEST Working session

Software

We will start the meeting in the Zoom room of IWOCA then migrate to Discord. If you did not receive the links email the organizer.

Participants

Alessio Conte, Università di Pisa (GMo organizer & chair)
Jacqueline Daykin, Aberystwyth University (SM organizer & chair)
Travis Gagie, Dalhousie University (SM organizer & chair)
Jarno Alanko, University of Helsinki
N R Aravind, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Golnaz Badkobeh, Goldsmith’s, University of London
Hideo Bannai, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Djamal Belazzougui, University of Helsinki
Ivan Bliznets, St. Petersburg Department of Steklov, Institute of Mathematics,Russia
Vincenzo Bonnici, Universitàdi Verona
Kshitij Gajjar, the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Roberto Grossi, Università di Pisa
Christopher Hampson, King’s College London
Tim Hartmann, RWTH Aachen University
Costas Iliopoulos, King’s College London
Dominik Köppl, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Niranjan Krishna
Martin Kučera, Czech Technical University in Prague
Manish Kumar, Ben-Gurion University
Abhiruk Lahiri, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Francesco Lanfolfi, Università di Pisa
Stefan Lendl, University of Gray
Zara Lim, King’s College London
Zsuzsanna Lipták, University of Verona
Andrea Marino, University of Florence
Giulia Punzi, Università di Pisa
Davide Rucci, Università di Pisa
Massimiliano Rossi, University of Florida
Florian Stober, University of Stuttgart
Alexander Tiskin, University of Warwick
Sebastian Wild, University of Liverpool
Lasse Wulf, Graz University of Technology

(if we forgot you send an email on the organizers to be included)

Related Events

IWOCA 2021  the 32nd International Workshop on Combinatorial algorithms, hosted by University of Ottawa, Canada, on July 5-7, 2021.

IWOCA Open Problems Session is a panel held during IWOCA (check the program for details) with the aim of collecting interesting open problems in the area of combinatorial algorithms. Participants of GraphMasters that would like to propose problems are encouraged to also present them in this panel.

StringMasters 2021  StringMasters is an forum on stringology which has taken place once to three times per year since 2007.

GraphMasters 2020

GraphMasters 2020 is the second edition of GraphMasters.
It will be held concurrently with IWOCA 2020 at LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France, on June 11th, 2020. (IWOCA is from June 8 to June 10). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic both events will be held online.

The event is open to everyone with no registration fee. For organization reasons and to receive instructions, you should email conte@di.unipi.it with a demonstration of interest.

Program

The workshop will take place in the Zoom room of IWOCA and a dedicated Discord channel. Links will be provided to participants via email.

All times are in CEST time (UTC+2).

10:00 – 11:00 Open problems introduction (Zoom) and introduction to Discord.

11:00 – 12:30 First working session (Discord)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 – 14:00 Second open problems introduction (Discord)

14:00 – 16:00 Second working session (Discord)

Software

We will start the meeting in the Zoom room of IWOCA then migrate to Discord. If you did not receive the links email the organizer.

We will try to keep a log of the problems presented using the coauthor system (courtesy of Erik Demaine): https://coauthor.csail.mit.edu/GraphMasters2020

In case shared whiteboards are needed, we will try using https://miro.com/ (creating a free account/logging in with google is sufficient, collaborators need to be invited via e-mail to your board).

Highlights from the workshop

Notes on the open problems can still be found at https://coauthor.csail.mit.edu/GraphMasters2020 (logging in with the same account).

Preliminary interest on the problems (first problem introduction session)
group “photo”

Participants

Alessio Conte (organizer, chair) – University of Pisa , Italy
Ralf Klasing – University of Bordeaux , France
Murugan V – SAS, VIT University , India
Siddharth Gupta – Ben Gurion University , Israel
Manish Kumar – Ben Gurion University , Israel
Saidur Rahman – Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology , Bangladesh
Yeva Fadhilah Ashari – Institut Teknologi Bandung , Indonesia
Luigi Laura – Università Internazionale Telematica Uninettuno , Italy
Selma Djelloul – LRI – Université Paris-Saclay , France
Kshitij Gajjar – Technion , Israel
Protik Bose Pranto – Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology , Bangladesh
Luca Mariot – Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca , Italy
Bishal Basak Papan – Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology , Bangladesh
Daniel Gibney – University of Central Florida , USA
Abhiruk Lahiri – University of Haifa , Israel
Toni Böhnlein – Bar-Ilan University , Israel
Ida Pu – Goldsmiths, University of London , UK
Amir Nikabadi –
Aditya Guha Roy –
Dibyayan Chakraborty –
Venkatesh Raman – The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, Tamil Nadu , India
Mehdi Araghi – University of Ottawa , Canada
Quanquan Liu – MIT , USA
Sachin Jakhar – IIT DELHI , India
Sandra Kingan – Brooklyn College, CUNY , USA
Lucia Moura – University of Ottawa , Canada
Fabian Frei – ETH Zurich , Switzerland
Gabriel Valiente – Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya , Spain
Ashwin Jacob – The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, Tamil Nadu , India
Pratibha Choudhary – Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur , India
Ananya D. Christman – Middlebury College , USA
Archit Chauhan – Chennai Mathematical Institute , India
Konrad K. Dabrowski – Durham University , UK
Matjaž Krnc –
Florent Foucaud – Universite de Bodeaux , France
Luca Pepè Sciarria – University of Rome Tor Vergata , Italy
Henning Fernau – University of Trier , Germany
Oluwaseun Lijoka – University of lethbridge , Canada
Sukanya Pandey – Universiteit Utrecht , Netherlands
Florian Sikora – Dauphine University , France
Avinandan Das –
Meike Hatzel – TU Berlin , Germany
Tim Hartmann –
Kazuhiro Kurita – National Institute of Informatics , Japan
Francesco Landolfi – University of Pisa , Italy
Giulia Punzi – University of Pisa , Italy
Roberto Grossi – University of Pisa , Italy
Nicola Prezza – LUISS University , Italy
Kunihiro Wasa – National Institute of Informatics , Japan
Janet Fierson – Lasalle University , USA
Erik Demaine – MIT , USA

Related Events

IWOCA 2020, the 31th International Workshop on Combinatorial algorithms, will be held in the same venue on June 8-10, 2020.

IWOCA Open Problems Session is a panel held during IWOCA (check the program for details) with the aim of collecting interesting open problems in the area of combinatorial algorithms. Participants of GraphMasters that would like to propose problems are encouraged to also present them in this panel.

GraphMasters 2019

GraphMasters 2019 was the first edition of GraphMasters.
It was held at the Computer Science department of University of Pisa on July 22nd, 2019, the day before IWOCA 2019 was hosted in the same location.

The 2019 edition of StringMasters for algorithms and problems concerning strings was co-hosted with GraphMasters 2019. The workshop will be held on July 22nd, 2019 at the Computer Science Department of University of Pisa ( Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, Pisa, Italy , Building C, 2nd floor)

There is no registration fee for the event, but for organization reasons you should email conte@di.unipi.it (or the StringMaster 2019 organizers) to show your interest before June 22nd (A month before the workshop). In alternative, attendants of IWOCA 2019 will get a chance to show their interest in the registration form.

See this page for more details on reaching the venue and finding food in Pisa.

Participants

In no specific order

Alessio Conte (organizer, chair) University of Pisa
Giovanna Rosone (organizer, StringMasters 2019 co-chair)
Rossano Venturini (organizer, StringMasters 2019 co-chair)
Kunihiro Wasa (panel chair) National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Andrea Marino University of Firenze
Roberto Grossi University of Pisa
Giulia Punzi University of Pisa
Gabriele Fici University of Palermo
Kazuhiro Kurita Hokkaido University
Giordano Da Lozzo Roma TRE University
Yeganeh Bahoo Torudi University of Manitoba, Canada
Sandip Benerjee Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Sujoy Bhore Technische University of Wien, Austria
Arindam Biswas The Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai, India
Gennaro Cordasco Universita’ della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy
Lucia Draque Penso Ulm University, Germany
Zola Donovan AFRL, USA
Dalibor Froncek University of Minnesota Duluth, USA
Harmender Gahlawat Indian Statistical Istitute, Kolkata, India
Rahul Raj Gupta IIT Guwahati, India
Costas Iliopoulos King’s College London, UK
Sushanta Karkamar IIT Guwahati, India
Tomohiro Koana TU Berlin, Germany
David Kubel University of Bonn, Germany
Kostantinos Mampentzidis Aarhus University, Denmark
Christodoulos Mitillos Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Arti Pandey IIT Ropar, India
I Vinod Kumar Reddy IIT Bhilai, India
Charles Colbourn Arizona State University, USA
Violet Syrotiuk Arizona State University, USA
Hiroki Arimura Hokkaido University

Related Events

IWOCA 2019, the 30th International Workshop on Combinatorial algorithms, will be held in the same venue on July 23-25, 2019. See the website for the call for papers (abstract registration: February 20, submission deadline: February 25).

StringMaster 2019 is this year’s installment of the StringMasters workshop on string related problems. It will be held on the same day and location as GraphMasters. People interested in both workshops can freely move between them.

Upcoming events

GraphMasters 2021 @ IWOCA 2021, Ottawa, Canada

GraphMasters 2022 @ IWOCA 2022, Trier, Germany

Organize GraphMasters

If you’d like a GraphMasters workshop to be organized as a standalone workshop or co-hosted with another event/conference email Alessio Conte at conte [at] di.unipi.it.

The spirit of the workshop is informal, and the only requirement is to provide working space for participants to present and work on open problems.
Providing coffee breaks and lunch can help the participants socialize but is not required.