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Strong BARC performance at NCPC 2022

This weekend "The Balloon Animals", including two PhD students from BARC, won a convincing victory at the NCPC 2022

Math and mushrooms

The BARC team took a trip to Gribskov in northern Zealand and had a great time foraging for the proliferating fungi

BARC welcomes a new Centre Administrator

BARC welcomes Helen Porter to the team.

BARC welcomes three new postdocs

BARC welcomes Boel Nelson, Mingmou Liu and Niv Dayan to the team.

BARC welcomes four new PhD students

BARC welcomes PhD students David Rasmussen Lolck, Hanwen Zhang, Shuyi Yan, and Joel Andersson

Thore Husfeldt explains the algorithms behind Tinder

Thore Husfeldt appeared in the Danish news program Deadline with a brief explainer of the role played by algorithms, in particular matching algorithms occasioned by the centenary of the online dating platform Tinder. In…

Best Student Papers at ICALP 2022

Both Best Student Papers for Track A at this year’s ICALP are written by representatives of BARC.

TECHNOLOGY & CLIMATE

Neural networks behind social media can consume an infinite amount of energy

Artificial neural networks are deployed intensively by social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to recommend content that matches user preferences. The process is energy intensive and generates heavy carbon…

Four accepts at STOC 22

The BARC team is represented yet again at the STOC conference.

5 BARC presentation at FOCS this week!

FOCS 2021, the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, is taking place this week as a virtual conference and again this year BARC is well represented.