Call for Internship Proposals - May-Jul 2021.

We have several students interested in doing remote internships this summer. I have collected information about the area of interest of these students. The keywords include: Automata theory, logic,  algorithms, computational complexity, combinatorics, graph theory, machine learning, neural networks, cryptography, quantum computation, algebraic complexity theory (circuit lower bounds), automatic sequences, computer vision, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, functional programming.

Level of the students:
Most of these students are from BSc 2nd year (L2), and we have a couple of them from BSc 3rd year. They have a good mathematical maturity, and have had basic courses in theoretical computer science. 
 
Dates and Duration
For CMI the summer break is from May 2 to August 20. Already May, June, July will give a span of 3 months. Usually the internships are about 10-12 weeks long.  Hence the timeline would still permit French colleagues to take vacation in August if they wish.

Requirements
There is no formal requirement from CMI. No need for a report, presentation or marks.

Other logistics
As it is now only possible to have remote internships, there are not many bureaucratic hassles like convention-de-stage or visa. The interns and guides also need not worry about  finding accommodation. UMI ReLaX is willing to pay a stipend to CMI students working on such remote internships.

Nature of the internships
The internships can be some guided reading projects that may end in  improving/simplifying a proof/technique, and/or extending some results to "somewhat easy" generalisations/other settings. It sometimes gets straight to some research problem - sometimes easy, sometimes hard. It is mainly up to the host to decide the nature of the internship.

Why should you offer an internship proposal?
Most of our students end up going for higher studies in prestigious universities worldwide, and eventually do a PhD. The students get a flavour of research and an exposure to research areas and groups with such internships. This also gives a try-it-out period for the guides and the interns -- to know how it will be to work together. Very often successful internships have continued into a stronger collaboration resulting in publications and/or the intern eventually joining the host group for a PhD. 

Submission
If you have a proposal, please fill in the details here.  I will circulate the details to the students, and the interested students will contact you.

Contact
If you have any questions or comments please write to me. 
C Aiswarya, CMI (aiswarya@cmi.ac.in)