19.12.2017
IRIF and ATOS have started the first Industrial PhD Thesis (CIFRE) on quantum algorithms in France. The PhD candidate Alessandro Luongo is co-advised by Iordanis Kerenidis and Frédéric Magniez.

29.11.2017
Amina Doumane was awarded the Gilles Kahn prize for her PhD thesis entitled « On the infinitary proof theory of logics with fixed points » supervised by Alexis Saurin, David Baelde and Pierre-Louis Curien.

29.11.2017
Wenjie Fang was awarded the Honorable Mention of the Gilles Kahn prize for his PhD thesis entitled « Aspects énumératifs et bijectifs des cartes combinatoires : généralisation, unification et application » and supervised by Guillaume Chapuy and Mireille Bousquet-Mélou.

27.11.2017
Scientific Day in memory of Maurice Nivat, professor at Paris Diderot University and a pionneer of theoretical computer science in France and in the world, who passed away on September the 21st, 2017.

25.11.2017
Back-to-work day of the “Automata, Structures, and Verification” pole, which gathers the research groups Automata and applications and Modelling and verification on November 25, 2017.

22.11.2017
6th French-Israeli Workshop on Foundations of Computer Science on November 22-23, 2017 at Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

15.11.2017
2-day workshop on December 7-8: Closing workshop of ANR project on Restricted Data Access Models and 1st IRIF-IQC Workshop on Quantum Information Processing (CNRS bilateral collaboration).

6.11.2017
IRIF newcomers Day on November 6, 2017 at Amphi Turing

1.11.2017
Pierre Fraigniaud (IRIF) will give a seminar at Collège de France as part of the annual Chair of Claire Mathieu (IRIF associate member) on Algorithms, November 18.

10.10.2017
Back-to-work day of the “Proofs, programs and systems” pole on October 12-13, 2017 at room 3052.

6.10.2017
Guillaume Lagarde and Sylvain Perifel have solved a 20-year old conjecture related to Lempel-Ziv. This will be presented at the 29th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithm (SODA 2018).

1.10.2017
Two papers coauthored by IRIF members will be presented at SODA’18, the main conference in algorithm design. Topics include the resolution of a 20-year old conjecture related to Lempel-Ziv, and a new approximation algorithm for recognizing Dyck languages.

1.9.2017
Claire Mathieu (IRIF associate member) holds the Chair in Informatics and Computational Sciences at College de France in association with Inria for the academic year 2017-18.

1.9.2017
IRIF has the great pleasure to welcome a new assistant professor: Bérénice Delcroix-Oger, an expert in combinatorics and computational algebra.

10.7.2017
Closing workshop of ANR project MealyM on July 10-13, 2017 at Amphi Turing.

15.6.2017
Victor Lanvin is awarded the first prize for the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals, undergraduate category. The prize will be presented on June the 24th at the Turing Award Cerimony in San Francisco.

1.3.2017
The 5-year ERC project CombiTop of Guillaume Chapuy has started on March 1st, 2017. The purpose of this project is to use the ubiquitous nature of certain combinatorial topological objects called maps in order to unveil deep connections between several areas of mathematics.

30.1.2017
Amos Korman has been interviewed by Le Monde for his recent results on ants with several co-autors at IRIF.

2.1.2017
IRIF organizes the 44th ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2017), Jussieu, Paris, January 15-21, 2017.