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Tom Friedetzky

Associated with

• ACiD (Algorithms & Complexity in Durham)
• NESTiD (Network Engineering, Science and Theory in Durham)

List of some workshops and conferences that I maintain together with Daniel Paulusma

Research interests

Theoretical Computer Science, in particular:

• theoretical foundations of distributed algorithms,
• randomised algorithms & probabilistic analysis,
• combinatorial algorithms,
• evolutionary processes,
• communication in networks (e.g., broadcasting, rumour spreading),
• load balancing (especially balls into bins)

Please check out DBLP

PhD students

Current

• Henry Austin – Durham Doctoral Studentship

Graduated

• Chris Wastell – EPSRC DTA funded studentship
• Sepehr Meshkinfamfard – EU FP7 Marie Curie ITN “Scaling by means of ubiquitous storage” (SCALUS)
• Lars Nagel – EPSRC 1st Grant scheme

Teaching & Admin 2026/27

Teaching

• COMP3811 Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures
• COMP3831 Nature Inspired Algorithms
• COMP53215 Algorithms and Complexity

Admin

• Sadly, none