Tom Friedetzky

Department of Computer Science
Durham University
Mathematical Sciences & Computer Science Building
Upper Mountjoy Campus
Stockton Road
Durham, DH1 3LE
United Kingdom

Office: MCS 2004
Telephone: +44 (0)191 334 4285
E-mail: tom.friedetzky@durham.ac.uk

Research interests

Theoretical Computer Science, in particular:

• randomised algorithms & probabilistic analysis,
• combinatorial algorithms,
• evolutionary processes,
• theoretical foundations of distributed algorithms,
• communication in networks (e.g., broadcasting, rumour spreading),
• load balancing (esp. balls into bins)

Please check out DBLP

Supervised PhD students

• Graduated
• • Chris Wastell - EPSRC DTA funded studentship
  • Sepehr Meshkinfamfard - EU FP7 Marie Curie ITN "Scaling by means of ubiquitous storage" (SCALUS)
  • Lars Nagel - EPSRC 1st Grant scheme

Teaching

During academic year 2020/21 I am teaching

• L3 Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures
• L4 Randomised Algorithms and Probabilistic Methods
• MSc Algorithms in MISCADA Core IIb

This and that

• Member of ACiD (Algorithms & Complexity in Durham)
• Our ACiD seminar, i.e., our CS theory group seminar
• List of some workshops and conferences