On February 15, 2013, Markus von Detten has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Reengineering of Component-Based Software Systems in the Presence of Design Deficiencies". Markus von Detten is team member of the SFB 901 subproject B1 and his supervisor is Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Schäfer. We sincerely congratulate Markus on passing the examination!

The 65th "Theory Day" of the GI-special interest groups "Complexity" (KP), "Algorithms" (ALGO), and "Computational Geometry" (AG) will take place from 14 to 15 February 2013 at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute at the University of Paderborn.

On January 23, 2013, Prof. Dr. Manfred J. Holler will give a talk in the context of the SFB 901 colloquium. Title of the talk: Is this an adequate toy model for analyzing the Euro crisis? - Allocation of Responsibility in Collective Decision Making

On January 16, 2013, the 5th SFB 901 seminar in the winter semester will take place.

On December 18, 2012, Stephanie Drzevitzky has successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Proof-Carrying Hardware: A Novel Approach to Reconfigurable Hardware Security". Stephanie Drzevitzky is team member of the SFB 901 subproject B4 and her supervisor is Prof. Dr. Marco Platzner. We sincerely congratulate Stephanie on passing the examination!

On December 18, 2012, Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Becker will give a lecture about "Quality Engineering of Dynamic, Multi-Resource Systems" in the context of the SFB 901.

On December 12, 2012, Prof. Dr. Martin Skutella will give a talk in the context of the SFB 901 colloquium. Title: Unsplittable and k-splittable flows in single-source networks

On December 12, 2012, the 4th SFB 901 seminar in the winter semester will take place.

As panel members we could win over Dr.-Ing. Iris Hanheide (b.i.b)., B.SC. Anne Geburzi (dSpace) and Prof. Dr. Heike Wehrheim (University of Paderborn).

The paper "Eight Ways to put your FPGA on Fire -- A Systematic Study of Heat Generators" written by Markus Happe, Hendrik Hangmann, Andreas Agne and Christian Plessl within the SFB 901 project C2 wins the Best Paper Award on ReConFig 2012.