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Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Coordinates: 49°15′28″N 7°2′44″E / 49.25778°N 7.04556°E / 49.25778; 7.04556
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics
AbbreviationMPI-INF or MPII
Formation1988; 37 years ago (1988)[1]
Typeresearch institute
HeadquartersSaarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
Websitewww.mpi-inf.mpg.de

The Max Planck Institute for Informatics (German: Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, abbreviated MPI-INF or MPII) is a research institute in computer science with a focus on algorithms and their applications in a broad sense. It hosts fundamental research (algorithms and complexity, programming logics) as well a research for various application domains (computer graphics, geometric computation, constraint solving, computational biology).

Founded November 1988 by the Max Planck Society, Germany's largest publicly funded body for foundation research, MPII is located on the campus of Saarland University.

Research departments

Max Planck Institute for Informatics at Saarbrücken

As of early 2018 the institute had five directors, called scientific members. These are:

In addition to the departments, the institute hosts the research group on automation of logic, lead by Christoph Weidenbach. The programming logics department was, until his death in 2004, led by Harald Ganzinger.[2] The independent research group on computational genomics and epidemiology was led by Alice McHardy.

The institute, along with the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the entire Computer Science department of Saarland University, is involved in the Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum für Informatik.

The International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science (IMPRS-CS) is the graduate school of the MPII and the MPI-SWS. It was founded in 2000 and offers a fully funded PhD-Program in cooperation with Saarland University. Dean is Gerhard Weikum.

Awards and recognition

Institute faculty members have received numerous awards, including The Leibniz Prize awarded to Kurt Mehlhorn (1987), Hans-Peter Seidel (2003), and Anja Feldmann (2011); the Konrad Zuse Medal granted to Kurt Mehlhorn (1995), Thomas Lengauer (2003), and Gerhard Weikum (2021); and the Karl Heinz Beckurts-Preis given to Kurt Mehlhorn (1994) and Christian Theobalt (2017);[3] as well as ACM Fellowships given to Kurt Mehlhorn (1999), Gerhard Weikum (2006), Thomas Lengauer (2021), and Bernt Schiele (2021).

See also

References

  1. ^ "Informatikforschung im Saarland". Saarländischer Rundfunk (in German). Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  2. ^ "Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik: Departments".
  3. ^ "Christian Theobalt mit dem Karl Heinz Beckurts-Preis 2017 ausgezeichnet" (in German). Max Planck Institute for Informatics. 2017.

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