TCS @ Liverpool covers all areas of theoretical computer science:

  • algorithms and data structures
  • automata/logic
  • complexity theory
  • game theory and computational social choice
  • verification

Current Research Funding

EPSRC Games for Good
Responsive mode (Jan 2024 – Dec 2026)
Contacts: Patrick Totzke (PI), Qiyi Tang (CI) and Sven Schewe (CI).
EPSRC Computing over Compressed Graph-Structured Data
New Investigator Award (Dec 2023 – Dec 2026)
Contacts: Sebastian Wild (PI)
EPSRC The Next Generation of Hardness Results in Total Search
Standard (Sep 2022 – Aug 2025)
Contacts: John Fearnley (PI) and Rahul Savani (co-PI).

Past Funding

EPSRC Below the Branches of Universal Trees
New Horizons (Dec 2022 – May 2024)
Contacts: Sven Schewe (PI), Daniele Dell'Erba (CI), Patrick Totzke (CI) and Dominik Wojtczak (CI).
EPSRC Algebraic complexity theory via the algebraic geometry and representation theory of generalised continued fractions
Standard (Apr 2022 – Mar 2025)
Contacts: Christian Ikenmeyer (PI) and Purnata Ghosal (PDRA).
European Commission Synthesising Game Solving Techniques
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (Jul 2021 – Jun 2023)
Contacts: Sven Schewe (PI) and Daniele Dell'Erba (Fellow).
Royal Society Unambiguity in Infinite-state Systems
International Exchanges (Mar 2021 – Mar 2023)
Contacts: Patrick Totzke (PI), Filip Mazowiecki (CI) and Georg Zetzsche (CI).
Royal Society Lazy Finger Search Trees
International Exchanges (Mar 2021 – Mar 2022)
Contacts: Sebastian Wild (PI) and Kostas Tsichlas (CI).
EPSRC COSTRA – The Cost of Winning Strategies
New Investigator Award (Feb 2021 – Jan 2024)
Contacts: Patrick Totzke (PI) and Sougata Bose (PDRA).
European Commission Foundations of Composition
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (Aug 2020 – Jan 2021)
Contacts: Sven Schewe (PI) and Karoliina Lehtinen (Fellow).