Salwa Faour
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Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Institut für Informatik Georges-Köhler-Allee 106 D - 79110 Freiburg im Breisgau
Email: salwa.faour@cs.uni-freiburg.de |
I am a PhD student at the University of Freiburg in the Algorithms and Complexity group. I earned both my M.Sc. and B.Sc. in mathematics from the Lebanese University, in Beirut, Lebanon. My current research interests lie in graph theory and distributed graph algorithms.
Teachings
- Seminar "Algorithms and Complexity" (Winter semester 2022/23)
- Graduate Course "Algorithm Theory" (Winter semester 2022/23)
- Seminar "Algorithms and Complexity" (Summer semester 2022)
- Graduate Course "Theoretical Computer Science - Bridge Course" (Summer semester 2022)
- Graduate Course "Theoretical Computer Science - Bridge Course" (Winter semester 2021/22)
- Seminar "Distributed Algorithms" (Summer semester 2021)
- Graduate Course "(Theory of) Distributed Systems" (Summer semester 2021)
- Graduate Course "Theoretical Computer Science - Bridge Course" (Summer semester 2021)
- Seminar "Algorithms and Complexity" (Winter semester 2020/21)
- Graduate Course "Theoretical Computer Science - Bridge Course" (Winter semester 2020/21)
- Seminar "Distributed Algorithms" (Summer semester 2020)
- Graduate Course "Theoretical Computer Science - Bridge Course" (Summer semester 2020)
Invited Talks
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Approximating Bipartite Minimum Vertex Cover in the CONGEST Model
2021 Aalto CS Theory Seminar, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Publications
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Conference Papers (arXiv version)
- Salwa Faour, Mohsen Ghaffari, Christoph Grunau, Fabian Kuhn, and Václav Rozhoň
Local Distributed Rounding: Generalized to MIS, Matching, Set Cover, and Beyond
ACM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2023) (video) - Salwa Faour, Marc Fuchs, and Fabian Kuhn
Distributed CONGEST Approximation of Weighted Vertex Covers and Matchings
Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2021) (video) - Salwa Faour and Fabian Kuhn
Approximating Bipartite Minimum Vertex Cover in the CONGEST Model
Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2020) (video)
(Best Paper Award)
Activities
- Organizing committee member of DISC2021, Freiburg, Germany, 4-8 October