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.

On January 15, 2018, Prof. Dr. Axel Ngonga from the Paderborn University will give a SFB-lecture about "The Quest of Meaning" in the context of the SFB 901.

On December 11, 2017, Tobias Aufenanger (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg) will give a talk about "Machine Learning for Prediction Based Stratification in Economic Experiments" in the context of the SFB 901.

On November 27, 2017, Prof. Dr. Fethi Rabhi (University of New South Wales) will give a talk about "Big Data Analytics Has Little to do with Analytics" in the context of the SFB 901.

On November 16, 2017, Sven Walther has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Knowledge-based Verification of Service Compositions".

On November 14, 2017, Sören Riechers has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Scheduling with Scarce Resources".

The 4th CRC 901 advisory board meeting took place at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute on November 10, 2017.

On November 8, 2017, Pavel Podlipyan has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Local Algorithms for the Continuous Gathering Problem".