Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network ma

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund's main train station, and from there, the S-Bahn takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network ma

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund's main train station, and from there, the S-Bahn takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Research Profile

Research Area "Algorithmic and Formal Foundations"

Algorithms are structured sequences of instructions that solve tasks. Computer science strives to develop effective algorithms for certain problems, which make do with minimal instructions and resources. A central question is under which conditions problems can be solved algorithmically at all. A special area of computer science is non-numerical information processing, which is based on formal logic mechanisms and developed from computational perspectives.

Exemplary research topics include the following:

Analysis of problems with respect to their algorithmic complexity
Discovery of efficient algorithms for concrete problems, for example by following natural phenomena (computational intelligence) or combination of efficient algorithms for subproblems to cope with complex challenges (algorithm engineering)
Estimation of the complexity of algorithms, for example the number of instructions to be executed
Experimental investigation of algorithms
Evaluation of heuristic and exact algorithms based on real application problems

Current research results

Tom J. Ameloot, Gaetano Geck, Bas Ketsman, Frank Neven, Thomas Schwentick: Reasoning on data partitioning for single-round multi-join evaluation in massively parallel systems. Commun. ACM 60(3): 93-100 (2017). DOI: 10.1145/3041063
Samir Datta, Raghav Kulkarni, Anish Mukherjee, Thomas Schwentick, Thomas Zeume: Reachability Is in DynFO. J. ACM 65(5): 33:1-33:24 (2018). DOI: 10.1145/3212685
Mark de Berg, Kevin Buchin, Bart M. P. Jansen, Gerhard J. Woeginger:
Fine-grained Complexity Analysis of Two Classic TSP Variants. ACM Trans. Algorithms 17(1): 5:1-5:29 (2021). DOI: 10.1145/3414845
Jonas Ellert, Johannes Fischer: Linear Time Runs Over General Ordered Alphabets. ICALP 2021: 63:1-63:16. DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.63