The Workshop on Kernelization (Worker) is the biennial meeting of the kernelization community. Worker 2019 is to be held on June 3-7, 2019 in Norway. The registration is now open; the deadline is May 1st 2019.
There will be two invited tutorials:
- Coresets by Christian Sohler (Google Switzerland and Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany)
- Lossy Kernels by TBA
We will have the following invited talks:
- Streaming kernels, Rajesh Chitnis (University of Warwick, England)
- A new kernel for Feedback Vertex Set, Yoichi Iwata (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
- Sparsification for Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Bart Jansen (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
- Matroid-based kernelization: Subset Feedback Vertex
Set and Vertex Cover above lower bounds, Stefan Kratsch (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) - Polynomial kernels for Chordal and Interval Vertex Deletion, Pranabendu Misra (University of Bergen, Norway) and Marcin Pilipczuk (University of Warsaw, Poland)
- Kernelization in sparse graph classes, Sebastian Siebertz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
If you have any questions regarding Worker 2019, please contact Saket Saurabh. For questions regarding this website, please contact Manuel Sorge.
Previous installments of the Worker series:
- Worker 2015, University of Bergen, Norway
- Worker 2013, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Worker 2011, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Worker 2010, Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Worker 2009, University of Bergen, Norway
Worker 2019 receives support from the Research Council of Norway via project NFR MULTIVAL.