Petra Mutzel

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Petra Mutzel
Nationality German
Alma mater University of Cologne
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Institutions University of Bonn
Doctoral advisor Michael Jünger

Petra Mutzel is a German computer scientist, a University Professor of computer science at the University of Bonn. [1] Her research is in the areas of algorithm engineering, graph drawing and combinatorial optimization.

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Education and career

Mutzel earned a diploma in 1990 from the University of Augsburg, in mathematics with computer science. She then earned a doctorate in computer science from the University of Cologne in 1994 under the supervision of Michael Jünger, [2] [3] and her habilitation in 1999 from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. She held a professorship at the Vienna University of Technology beginning in 1999, moving to the Technical University of Dortmund in 2004 and then to the University of Bonn in 2019. [4]

Contributions

In graph drawing, Mutzel has contributed in work on planarization, [5] crossing minimization in layered graph drawing, [6] and SPQR trees, [7] and co-edited a book on graph drawing. [8] She was both the program chair and organizational chair of the 9th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, in Vienna in 2001. [9]

Mutzel's other contributions include works on the Ising model, [10] steganography, [11] and Steiner trees. [12] In 2012, she was program committee co-chair of the Meeting on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX). [13]

Selected publications

Related Research Articles

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hasse diagram</span> Visual depiction of a partially ordered set

In order theory, a Hasse diagram is a type of mathematical diagram used to represent a finite partially ordered set, in the form of a drawing of its transitive reduction. Concretely, for a partially ordered set one represents each element of as a vertex in the plane and draws a line segment or curve that goes upward from one vertex to another vertex whenever covers . These curves may cross each other but must not touch any vertices other than their endpoints. Such a diagram, with labeled vertices, uniquely determines its partial order.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Graph embedding</span> Embedding a graph in a topological space, often Euclidean

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">SPQR tree</span> Representation of a graphs triconnected components

In graph theory, a branch of mathematics, the triconnected components of a biconnected graph are a system of smaller graphs that describe all of the 2-vertex cuts in the graph. An SPQR tree is a tree data structure used in computer science, and more specifically graph algorithms, to represent the triconnected components of a graph. The SPQR tree of a graph may be constructed in linear time and has several applications in dynamic graph algorithms and graph drawing.

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In graph theory, the planarity testing problem is the algorithmic problem of testing whether a given graph is a planar graph (that is, whether it can be drawn in the plane without edge intersections). This is a well-studied problem in computer science for which many practical algorithms have emerged, many taking advantage of novel data structures. Most of these methods operate in O(n) time (linear time), where n is the number of edges (or vertices) in the graph, which is asymptotically optimal. Rather than just being a single Boolean value, the output of a planarity testing algorithm may be a planar graph embedding, if the graph is planar, or an obstacle to planarity such as a Kuratowski subgraph if it is not.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Layered graph drawing</span> Graph drawing with vertices in horizontal layers

Layered graph drawing or hierarchical graph drawing is a type of graph drawing in which the vertices of a directed graph are drawn in horizontal rows or layers with the edges generally directed downwards. It is also known as Sugiyama-style graph drawing after Kozo Sugiyama, who first developed this drawing style.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Angular resolution (graph drawing)</span> Sharpest angle between edges at a vertex

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In topological graph theory, the Hanani–Tutte theorem is a result on the parity of edge crossings in a graph drawing. It states that every drawing in the plane of a non-planar graph contains a pair of independent edges that cross each other an odd number of times. Equivalently, it can be phrased as a planarity criterion: a graph is planar if and only if it has a drawing in which every pair of independent edges crosses evenly.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Radio coloring</span>

In graph theory, a branch of mathematics, a radio coloring of an undirected graph is a form of graph coloring in which one assigns positive integer labels to the graphs such that the labels of adjacent vertices differ by at least two, and the labels of vertices at distance two from each other differ by at least one. Radio coloring was first studied by Griggs & Yeh (1992), under a different name, L(2,1)-labeling. It was called radio coloring by Frank Harary because it models the problem of channel assignment in radio broadcasting, while avoiding electromagnetic interference between radio stations that are near each other both in the graph and in their assigned channel frequencies.

Simultaneous embedding is a technique in graph drawing and information visualization for visualizing two or more different graphs on the same or overlapping sets of labeled vertices, while avoiding crossings within both graphs. Crossings between an edge of one graph and an edge of the other graph are allowed.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sum coloring</span>

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References

  1. Mutzel, Petra. "Petra Mutzel's academic website".
  2. Faculty profile, TU Dortmund, retrieved 2014-07-04.
  3. Petra Mutzel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ""Education and Positions" section on Petra Mutzel's academic homepage".
  5. Jünger & Mutzel (1996).
  6. Jünger & Mutzel (1997).
  7. Gutwenger & Mutzel (2001).
  8. Jünger & Mutzel (2004).
  9. GD 2001 Archived 2013-04-30 at the Wayback Machine web site, retrieved 2014-07-04.
  10. De Simone et al. (1995).
  11. Hetzl & Mutzel (2005).
  12. Ljubić et al. (2006).
  13. ALENEX 2012 web site, retrieved 2014-07-04.