Laura Vargas Koch
RWTH Aachen Univeristy | GDM (Games and Discrete Mathematics)
About Me
I am an assistant professor for algorithmic game theory and discrete mathematics at RWTH Aachen. My research interests are mainly in the area of approximation algorithms and dynamic routing games.
Before coming to Aachen, I was Bonn Junior Fellow at the research institute of discrete mathematics and the hausdorff center for mathematics, a PostDoc at ETH Zurich, hosted by Rico Zenklusen and a PostDoc at CMM in Santiago de Chile, hosted by José Correa. I completed my Ph.D. at RWTH Aachen under the supervision of Britta Peis.
TEACHING
Winter term 2023/24: Selected topics in discrete mathematics: Optimization and game theory in flow problems.
Summer term 2024: Linear and integer optimization.
Recent Activities
I am/ was member of the following PCs: IPCO 2025, ESA 2024, EC 2024, WAOA 2023, WINE 2023, EC 2023, WINE 2021.
I am/was co-organizing:
A Dagstuhl seminar on Dynamic Traffic Models in Transportation Science
The Day on Computational Game Theory 2024 in Bonn
A Dagstuhl Research Meeting on Mathematical Foundations on Dynamic Nash Flows 2020
Selected PUblications And Talks
Single-source unsplittable flows in planar graphs.
with Vera Traub and Rico Zenklusen
(SODA 2024) [arxiv]
Convergence of approximate and packet rounting equilibria to Nash flows over time
with Neil Olver and Leon Sering
(FOCS 2023)
Techniques for Generalized k-Center Problem
with Georg Anegg and Rico Zenklusen
(ESA 2022) [arXiv]
Convergence of a Packet-Routing Model to Flows Over Time
with Leon Sering and Theresa Ziemke
(EC 2021) [arXiv]
Podcast
To communicate our research topics to a broader audience and to entertain our students during the Covid pandemic we recorded 20 episodes of the German-speaking podcast Algo2Go together with Niklas Rieken and Björn Tauer.