Some Old and Some Recent Events

• Prof. Dr. Edith Hemaspaandra has won the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation in 2007.
• Prof. Dr. Lane A. Hemaspaandra has won the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation in 2006. Here is an interview (in German) with him and me about our research on "Complexity and Elections," and here is a picture of him receiving the award from Humboldt Foundation president, Dr. Wolfgang Fruehwald, in June 2007.
• Prof. Dr. Alan L. Selman, one of the founders of the field of computational complexity, received the prestigious Humboldt Research Award in 2006. Here is a picture.
• "Wechsung in Jena". Contributions (in German) to the Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Gerd Wechsung:
  • Ein Kreuzworträtsel für Gerd Wechsung. (A crossword puzzle for Gerd Wechsung.) Here you find the solution and the winners.
  • Erlkönig with Gedichtinterpretation. (A poem and its interpretation.)
  • Die späten Jahre - 1990 bis 2004. (A text, written jointly with Harald Hempel, about the years between 1990 and 2004 in Gerd Wechsung's life.)
• I was invited by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to participate in the 8th German-American Frontiers of Science Symposium (GAFoS) at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in Irvine, California, USA, in June, 2002.
• I was invited to be a lecturer of the 11th Jyväskylä Summer School at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, in August, 2001. Course MC 5: "Some Facets of Complexity Theory and Cryptography." Lecture Notes appeared in revised form in the ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 504-549, December 2002. [pdf] (2.8 MB).