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Mikkel Abrahamsen receives a DFF grant

Assistant Professor Mikkel Abrahamsen has received a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark of 6.2 million DKK for his project "Algorithms for Packing and Decomposition Problems".

Reconstructing The Evolutionary Tree of Life with BARC

Is it possible to reconstruct the evolutionary tree of life, despite our limited knowledge of the past? Recently, a group of three researchers from BARC-UCPH and two former UCPH researchers had a major break through on…

BARC hosts NWERC hub

22 teams from Denmark, Sweden and Norway participated in BARC’s NWERC hub on November 20 & 21, 2021 and contributed to a weekend of focused programming, academic presentations and fun networking.

The BARC Family Event

BARC opened its doors to an afternoon with families, welcoming Danupon Nanongkai to the team as well as his wife and daughter.

BARC turns 4

Four years ago today, on September 1, 2017, the BARC Centre officially began its journey.

From basic research to machine learning libraries

This is a story of foundational research, and innovative algorithms motivated by basic algorithmic questions, unfolding into real-world impact: the TensorSketch, from theory to practice.

Mikkel Thorup receives a Fulkerson Prize

Professors Thorup and Kawarabayashi have won an esteemed Fulkerson Prize for their paper “Deterministic Edge Connectivity in Near-Linear Time”.

Jakub Tětek joins BARC

BARC welcomes PhD student Jakub Tětek to the team.

BARC has 4 accepted papers at STOC '21

Again four BARC papers have been accepted at the prestigious ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC, as well as one paper by the closely affiliated complexity group MIAO headed by Jakob Nordström.

BARC result on national news site

New BARC result makes it onto national news.