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name: focs19-best-paper
date: 2019-09-11


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A. Balliu and D. Olivetti (former **IRIF PhD students**), J. Hirvonen and M. Rabie (former **IRIF postdocs**), with S. Brandt and J. Suomela broke an old lower bound open question on Maximal Matchings. Their paper will be presented at [[http://focs2019.cs.jhu.edu/awards/|FOCS]] as **Best Paper**.