Melanie Siebenhofer successfully defended her dissertation, entitled “A Provably Good Connection: Spanning Trees, Edge Expansion, and Semidefinite Programming”, on March 20, 2025, with an  mpressive presentation. This marks the fifth defense by a doctoral candidate from the doc.funds doctoral school “Modeling – Analysis – Optimization of discrete, continuous, and stochastic  ystems.”

The examination committee, consisting of Barbara Kaltenbacher, Mirjam Dür (University of Augsburg), and Anja Fischer (TU Dortmund), was highly impressed by the scope and quality of the  dissertation, as well as by Melanie Siebenhofer’s confident and thorough responses to their questions.
 

 
Der Beitrag Defense of Melanie Siebenhofer erschien zuerst auf University of Klagenfurt.