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Salwa Faour

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Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Institut für Informatik Georges-Köhler-Allee 106 D - 79110 Freiburg im Breisgau Room: Phone: Fax: 106-00-003 +49 761 - 203 67417 +49 761 - 203 67412 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 "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

• Approximating Bipartite Minimum Vertex Cover in the CONGEST Model
  2021 Aalto CS Theory Seminar, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

Publications

Conference Papers


• Salwa Faour, Marc Fuchs, and Fabian Kuhn
  Distributed CONGEST Approximation of Weighted Vertex Covers and Matchings
  Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2021)
• 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