Defense of Melanie Siebenhofer
Melanie Siebenhofer successfully defended her dissertation, entitled “A Provably Good Connection: Spanning Trees, Edge Expansion, and Semidefinite Programming”, on March 20, 2025, with an mpressive presentation. This marks the fifth defense by a doctoral candidate from the doc.funds doctoral school “Modeling – Analysis – Optimization of discrete, continuous, and stochastic ystems.”
The examination committee, consisting of Barbara Kaltenbacher, Mirjam Dür (University of Augsburg), and Anja Fischer (TU Dortmund), was highly impressed by the scope and quality of the dissertation, as well as by Melanie Siebenhofer’s confident and thorough responses to their questions.
- Melanie Siebenhofer after the defense
- Melanie Siebenhofer with the committee and the supervisors (Barbara Kaltenbacher, Anja Fischer, Mirjam Dür, Melanie Siebenhofer, Angelika Wiegele, Clemens Heuberger)
- Melanie Siebenhofer with colleagues from the doc.funds doctoral school (Jan Schwiddessen, Verena Schwarz, Tobias Wolf, Melanie Siebenhofer, Jutta Rath, Diane Puges)
