Dunja Pucher successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “On the Stable Set and Graph Coloring Problems: Semidefinite Relaxations and a Quantum Annealing Approach” on April 27, 2026. 
She successfully defended her dissertation, taking the final step on her long journey towards a doctorate with flying colours and confidence. Her advisor, Dr. Franz Rendl, explains that his role was relatively straightforward: Dr. Pucher engaged independently with the research topics he had proposed, pursuing them with great creativity and a keen mathematical instinct, uncovering a number of surprising new insights.
We congratulate Dr. Pucher on this success and wish her all the best for her future professional career!
Der Beitrag Defensio by Dunja Pucher erschien zuerst auf University of Klagenfurt.