I am a PhD student at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Technical University of Eindhoven and a member of the Algorithms group.

Research Interests:

• Computational geometry
• Graph drawing
• Automated cartography

I am also kind of involved in programming contests.

• Flow Map Layout via Spiral Trees
  K. Verbeek, K. Buchin, and B. Speckmann.
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2011 (to appear).
  Information Visualization 2011.
  
  
• Geometric Simultaneous Embeddings of a Graph and a Matching
  S. Cabello, M. van Kreveld, G. Liotta, H. Meijer, B. Speckmann, and K. Verbeek.
  Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications, 15(1), pp. 79–96, 2011.
  
  
• Necklace Maps
  B. Speckmann and K. Verbeek.
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 16(6), pp. 881–889, 2010.
  Information Visualization 2010.
  
  

• Angle-Restricted Steiner Arborescences for Flow Map Layout
  K. Buchin, B. Speckmann, and K. Verbeek.
  Proc. 22nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC), 2011 (to appear).
  
  
• Homotopic Rectilinear Routing with Few Links and Thick Edges
  B. Speckmann and K. Verbeek.
  Proc. 9th Latin American Theoretical Informatics Symposium (LATIN), pp. 468–479, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6034, 2010.
  
  
• Geometric Simultaneous Embeddings of a Graph and a Matching
  S. Cabello, M. van Kreveld, G. Liotta, H. Meijer, B. Speckmann, and K. Verbeek.
  Proc. 17th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD 09), pp. 183–194, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5849, 2010.
  
  
• On Planar Supports for Hypergraphs
  K. Buchin, M. van Kreveld, H. Meijer, B. Speckmann, and K. Verbeek.
  Proc. 17th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD 09), pp. 345–356, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5849, 2010.
  
  
• Area-Universal Rectangular Layouts
  D. Eppstein, E. Mumford, B. Speckmann, and K. Verbeek.
  Proc. 25th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG), pp. 267–276, 2009.
  
  

• Rectangular Cartograms: the Game
  M. de Berg, F. van Nijnatten, B. Speckmann, and K. Verbeek.
  18th Annual Multimedia Review of Computational Geometry, Proc. 25th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, pp. 96–97, 2009.
  
  Webpage Rectangular cartograms: the game
  
  

• Angle-Restricted Steiner Arborescences for Flow Map Layout
  K.Buchin, B. Speckmann, and K. Verbeek.
  Abstr. 27h European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG), pp. 35–38, 2011.
  
  
• Homotopic Rectilinear Routing with Few Links and Thick Edges
  B. Speckmann and K. Verbeek.
  Abstr. 25th European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG), Brussels, Belgium, pp. 243–246, 2009.
  
  
• Area-Universal Rectangular Layouts
  D. Eppstein, E. Mumford, B. Speckmann, and K. Verbeek.
  Abstr. 25th European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG), Brussels, Belgium, pp. 247–250, 2009.
  
  

last modified: 30-Aug-2011