Benjamin Hackl

Supervised / Mentored Students

  • Bachelor's Thesis Celina Strasser: Intersection of longest paths in connected graphs, 2021.
  • Bachelor's Thesis Samira Majser: Efficient recursive computation of the chromatic polynomial, 2022.
  • Bachelor's Thesis David Rackl: Cycles in the Collatz sequence -- An approach using 2-adic arithmetic, 2021.
  • Mentor PhD Thesis Shudian Zhao: Splitting into pieces: alternating direction methods of multipliers and graph partitioning, 2022.
  • Co-Supervisor PhD Thesis Sarah J. Selkirk: Statistics in Lattice Paths and Tree-like Structures, 2023.
  • Master's Thesis Celina Strasser: Combinatorial graph constructions via reinforcement learning, 2023.
  • Bachelor's Thesis Anna Tscharre: Fibonomialkoeffizienten und Fibonacci-Catalan-Zahlen, 2023.
  • Bachelor's Thesis Stefan Haan: Enumerative Combinatorics in Coq, 2023.
  • Bachelor's Thesis Benjamin Hofer: Reverse-Engineering the Lettericity of Trees, 2023.
  • Bachelor's Thesis Michael Hresc: Algorithmic Graph Pebbling, ongoing.
  • Bachelor's Thesis Bence Horváth: Billiards in Polyiamonds, ongoing.
  • Co-Supervisor Master's Thesis Daniel Horiatakis: Combinatorial Aspects of Knörrer-invariant Algebras, ongoing.
  • Bachelor's Thesis Alisa Ofner: Lineare Gleichungssysteme über verschiedenen algebraischen Strukturen am Beispiel der Sekundarstufe 1, ongoing.

While I am happy to discuss topics from discrete mathematics at any point, some ideas can be found below.

Students from both mathematics as well as from the teacher training program are very much welcome!

Teaching Experience

  • ST 2025
    • Lecture with integrated exercises Programming in C++
    • Seminar Mathematical Seminar
  • WT 2024/25
    • Lecture with integrated exercises Software Development
    • Lecture Exercise class Discrete and Algebraic Structures
  • ST 2024
    • Lecture Exercise class Discrete Mathematics
  • WT 2023/24
    • Lecture with integrated exercises Computer Mathematics
    • Exercise class Elementary Discrete Mathematics
  • ST 2023
    • Exercise class Linear Algebra and Analytic Geometry
    • Exercise class Analysis 2 for Teacher Training
  • WT 2022/23
    • Lecture + Exercises Elementary Discrete Mathematics
    • Lecture Exercise class Discrete Mathematics
  • ST 2021
  • WT 2020/21
    • Practical course Computer Mathematics
    • Lecture Exercise class Combinatorial Structures
  • ST 2020
    • Seminar Bachelor Seminar
    • Lecture Exercise class Complex Analysis
  • WT 2019/20
    • Practical course Scientific Texts with LaTeX and Version Control with git for Technical Sciences
    • Practical course Computer Mathematics
    • Practical course Symbolic Computation Lab
  • ST 2019
    • Lecture Exercise class Symbolic Computation
  • WT 2018/19
    • Practical course Computer Mathematics
    • Lecture Exercise class Combinatorial Structures
  • ST 2018
    • Exercise class Linear Algebra for Computer Science (Groups B, C)
  • WT 2017/18
    • Practical course Scientific Texts with LaTeX and Version Control with git for Technical Sciences
    • Lecture Exercise class Mathematical Analysis of Algorithms
  • ST 2017
    • Lecture + Exercises Elementary Number Theory
    • Exercise class Mathematics for Economic Sciences (Groups B, C)
  • WT 2016/17
    • Exercise class Mathematics for Economic Sciences (Groups B, C)
  • ST 2016
    • Exercise class Mathematics for Economic Sciences (Groups B, C)
  • WT 2015/16
    • Exercise class Analysis 1 for Computer Science (Groups A, B, C)
  • ST 2015
    • Tutorial Mathematics for Economic Sciences
    • Tutorial Analysis 2
    • Tutorial Algebraic Structures
  • WT 2014/15
    • Tutorial Mathematics for Economic Sciences
    • Tutorial Analysis 1
  • ST 2014
    • Tutorial Algebraic Structures
  • WT 2013/14
    • Tutorial Analysis 1
  • WT 2012/13
    • Tutorial Analysis 1