The second SIGalgo.nl symposium will take place on October 15th, 2025 in Utrecht.
Date:
Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
Place:
The symposium will take place in the Johanna Hudig Gebouw (near the Dom tower, a 17 minute walk from Utrecht CS), Alex Brenninkmeijerzaal.
Registration:
Please register here.
Preliminary Program:
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Arrival, coffee |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Welcome, word from the board of SIGalgo, news |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Han Hoogeveen (UU): Planning Drivers at the Shunting Yard |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin (TU Eindhoven): City Sampling for Citizens’ Assemblies |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Sicco Verwer (TU Delft): Learning Deterministic Finite Automata by Coloring the Conflict Graph |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:10 | Ronald de Wolf (UvA & CWI): Introduction to Quantum Algorithms (double length talk) |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Frits Vaandrager (Radboud Universiteit): Algorithms for Black-Box Checking |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Ruben Hoeksma (U Twente): Stochastic Scheduling with Bernoulli-type Jobs through Policy Stratification |
| 14:50 - 15:20 | Break |
| 15:20 - 16:00 | Yasamin Nazari (VU): Graph Distance Structures and their Algorithmic Applications |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | David Mestel (Maastricht University): Kurt, meet Steve: the Decision Problem for Regular First Order Theories |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Ivan Bliznets (University of Groningen): Parameterized Algorithms and Number Theory: Covering by Arithmetic Progressions |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Gianmarco Picarella (UU): Computing Largest Subsets of Points Whose Convex Hulls have Bounded Area and Diameter |
| 16:40 | Closing Drinks in nearby café |