Andrés, who recently finished his PhD at the CC chair to then join the Barkhausen Institute, presented his work on “Embeddings of Task Mappings to Multicore Systems” at this year’s SAMOS Conference. What a pity that he couldn’t enjoy a trip to the beautiful island of Samos in Greece and profit from the the great atmosphere that characterises the conference. Andrés talked about an innovative way to think about the optimization space that arises when mapping applications to multicores. His approach makes it possible to transfer geometry-based optimization approaches to an otherwise complex and unstructured discrete space.