Dec. 6, 2021, 8:36 p.m.
Best theses competition - laureates and finalists
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of University of Wrocław in collaboration with Allianz Deutschland AG SA Oddział w Polsce organizes the best thesis competition.
Info on polish branch of Allianz: pdf, they are currently looking for a Quantitative Analyst.
Best Master's Thesis in Computer Science
The jury awarded two first prizes ex aequo for the best master's theses in computer science:
- Aleksander Łukasiewicz Intermediate complexity problems – new upper and lower bounds, advisor: Przemysław Uznański, 1st prize ex aequo - 2000 PLN
- Bartosz Kostka Sports programming in practice, advisor: Jakub Radoszewski (University of Warsaw), 1st prize ex aequo - 2000 zł
The jury awarded also two honorable mentions:
- Tomasz Nanowski Deep Multiplicative State Space Models for Intermittent Time Series Forecasting advisor: Jan Chorowski
- Artur Rosa Wykrywanie i śledzenie komórek prątków w programie ImageJ (in Polish), advisor: Andrzej Łukaszewski
Best Master's Thesis in Mathematics
- Iwo Gruca Hedging naturalny rent życiowych, advisor: Tomasz Rolski, 1st prize ex aequo - 1500 PLN
- Wojciech Fica On the favourite points of a random walk in a random environment, advisor: Dariusz Buraczewski, 1st prize ex aequo - 1500 PLN
- Mikołaj Czapp A constructive approach to Markov compacta, advisor: Jacek Świątkowski, 2nd prize - 1000 PLN
The final event for the bachelor's theses competition will take place on Friday, 10 December at 10.00. For those who cannot take part in person we provide live stream in the internet. The event will be held in Polish. The jury has chosen the following papers to be presented during the final.
Selected Bachelor's Theses in Computer Science
- Anadi Agrawal Faster Algorithms for the Longest Common Increasing Subsequence Problem, advisor: Paweł Gawrychowski (2nd prize, 1200 zł)
- Paweł Jasiak, Port of Mimiker Operating System for AArch64 Architecture, advisors: Krystian Bacławski, Piotr Witkowski (1st prize, audience award, 1600 zł)
- Michał Opanowicz Applying supervised and reinforcement learning methods to create neural-network-based agents for playing StarCraft II, advisor: Paweł Rychlikowski (2nd prize, 1200 zł)
- Wojciech Pawlik A General Game Playing agent using Monte-Carlo Tree Search with split moves, advisor: Marek Szykuła
- Mateusz Rzepecki Faster algorithms for the Permutation Pattern Matching Problem, advisor: Paweł Gawrychowski (audience award)
- Andrzej Turko A Sublogarithmic Approximation for Tollbooth Pricing on Cactus Graphs, advisor: Jarosław Byrka
- Jakub Urbańczyk, Dynamic Verification of Concurrency in Operating Systems, advisors: Krystian Bacławski, Witold Charatonik
Selected Bachelor's Theses in Mathematics
- Dawid Migacz Convergent sequences in various topological spaces, advisor: Piotr Borodulin-Nadzieja
- Katarzyna Hasal Martyngałowe metody wyceny opcji, advisor: Dariusz Buraczewski
- Tamara Frączek Czasy silnie stacjonarne i łańcuchy Markowa, advisor: Dariusz Buraczewski (1st prize, 1500 zł)
- Weronika Szota Czy mamy szanse żyć wiecznie? Analiza porównawcza długości życia w modelu dynamicznym, promotor: Marek Arendarczyk (audience award)
- Kacper Toczek Miary ryzyka dla jedno- i wielowymiarowego rozkładu Weibulla, advisor: Marek Arendarczyk (2nd prize, 1000 zł)
- Łukasz Stępień Układ Deby'a w opisie zjawiska półprzewodnictwa, advisor: Piotr Biler
- Rafał Łyżwa Funkcja klasy Gevrey z jednopunktową osobliwością, advisor: Jacek Zienkiewicz (1st prize, 1500 zł)
fot. Maria Kozan