On May 4, 2018, Darius Schlangenotto has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Consumer Responses to Paid Search - Empirical Evidence from a Bricks-and-Mortar Retailer".

On May 2, 2018, Prof. Dr. Marcin Bienkowski (University of Wroclaw) will give a talk about "On phase-based algorithms for online file migration" in the context of the SFB 901.

On March 20th, 2018, Dr. Bart de Keijzer (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam) will give a talk about "Algorithmic Mechanism Design for Markets" in the context of the SFB 901.

On February 21, 2018, Arne Schwabe has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Data-Centre Traffic Optimisation using Software-Defined Networks".

On February 13, 2018, Daniel Jung has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Local Strategies for Swarm Formations on a Grid".

On January 25, 2018, Robert Gmyr has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Distributed Algorithms for Overlay Networks and Programmable Matter".

On January 15, 2018, Prof. Dr. Tibor Jager from the Paderborn University will give a SFB-lecture about "Secure Communication with Minimal Latency in Times of Surveillance" in the context of the SFB 901.