Gerhard J. Woeginger
Gerhard J. Woeginger (31 May 1964 – 1 April 2022) was an Austrian mathematician and computer scientist who worked in Germany as a professor at RWTH Aachen University, where he chaired the algorithms and complexity group in the department of computer science.[1]
Biography
Woeginger was born on 31 May 1964 in
He was program chair of the European Symposium on Algorithms in 1997, of the algorithms track of the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming in 2003, of the European Conference on Operational Research in 2009, and of several other conferences.
In 1996, Woeginger won the
Until September 2016, Woeginger maintained a list of attempts to settle the P versus NP problem on his website.[6][7] As of its last update, the list tallied 116 attempts dating back to 1986 to settle the question in various ways.
Woeginger died on 1 April 2022, at the age of 57.[8]
References
- ^ Algorithmen und Komplexität (in German), RWTH, retrieved 26 October 2023.
- ^ a b c Gerhard Woeginger - Biography, Academia Europaea, retrieved 18 September 2015.
- ^ Gerhard J. Woeginger at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Die START-ProjektleiterInnen im Portrait: Jahrgang 1996 (in German), Austrian Science Fund, retrieved 19 September 2015.
- ^ "Gerhard Woeginger talking", Online Newsletter of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, TU/E, April 2012, retrieved 19 September 2015[permanent dead link].
- ^ The P-versus-NP page, Gerhard Woeginger, retrieved 26 October 2023.
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- ^ Algorithmen und Komplexität Startseite [Algorithms and Complexity Home Page] (in German), RWTH Aachen, Lehrstuhl für Informatik 1 – Algorithmen und Komplexität, retrieved 4 April 2022,
Am 1. April ist Prof. Gerhard Woeginger im Alter von 57 Jahren nach schwerer Krankheit überraschend verstorben.
[On 1 April, Prof. Gerhard Woeginger died suddenly after a severe illness at the age of 57.]
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