Presentation toEuropean Research

CouncilVikram Sharma

March 2013

Theoretical Computer Science (TCS)

Faculty -- 8

Ph.D. Students -- 21

Postdocs -- 3

The largest TCS group in India

Collaborations in EU

Collaborations in EU

Germany

Completed: 3 DST-DAAD projects (Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena University, and Humboldt University, Leibniz University).

Ongoing: 3 Indo-German projects funded by IMPECS (Saarland Univ., and Max-Planck Institute for Informatik (MPII), Saarbrücken).

Collaborations in EU

Germany

Completed: 3 DST-DAAD projects (Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena University, and Humboldt University, Leibniz University).

Ongoing: 3 Indo-German projects funded by IMPECS (Saarland Univ., and Max-Planck Institute for Informatik (MPII), Saarbrücken).

UK: 2 projects with University of Leicester and Royal Holloway, University of London.

Collaborations in EU

Germany

Completed: 3 DST-DAAD projects (Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena University, and Humboldt University, Leibniz University).

Ongoing: 3 Indo-German projects funded by IMPECS (Saarland Univ., and Max-Planck Institute for Informatik (MPII), Saarbrücken).

UK: 2 projects with University of Leicester and Royal Holloway, University of London.

Ongoing project with University of Lugano, Switzerland (2012-14).

Collaborations in EU

Germany

Completed: 3 DST-DAAD projects (Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena University, and Humboldt University, Leibniz University).

Ongoing: 3 Indo-German projects funded by IMPECS (Saarland Univ., and Max-Planck Institute for Informatik (MPII), Saarbrücken).

UK: 2 projects with University of Leicester and Royal Holloway, University of London.

Ongoing project with University of Lugano, Switzerland (2012-14).

Completed a project with Vienna University of Technology (2011-12).

Collaborations in EU (Contd.)France

Completed: 2 projects with LaBRI, Bordeaux.

Indo-French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR/CEFIPRA). Jointly with CMI.

DST (Indian), and MAE, CNRS, France. Jointly with CMI, IISc

Ongoing: 3 projects

CNRS, ENS Cachan and Universite Bordeaux-1 funded by Indian and French Govts; jointly with CMI, IISc.

INRIA, Rennes funded by INRIA; jointly with CMI and NUS, Singapore.

University of Paris-Diderot & Univ. Versailles. Funded by IFCPAR/CEFIPRA. Jointly with IIT, Bombay.

Collaborations in EU (Contd.)

Collaborations in EU (Contd.)

Member of ERC project lead by LORIA, Nancy, France. Involves collaboration between researchers in France, Netherlands, Denmark and UK.

Collaborations in EU (Contd.)

Member of ERC project lead by LORIA, Nancy, France. Involves collaboration between researchers in France, Netherlands, Denmark and UK.

ERC starting grant (2013-2017), University of Bergen, Norway.

Other Interactions in EU

Co-organized workshops

Aarhus, Denmark, 2010.

Leiden, Netherlands, 2010.

Dagstuhl, Germany, 2012.

11 PhD students did postdocs in EU.

Associate Program

Johannes Köbler, Humboldt Univ., Berlin.

Hans van Ditmarsch, LORIA, Lorrain, France.

Visitors from EU

Areas of Interest

Computational Complexity, Graph Theory

Algebraic & Discrete Algorithms

Parameterized and Exact Computation

Automata, Concurrency, Logic

Probabilistic Combinatorics

Computational Algebra

Student Placements

S. Srinivasa Rao, postdoc at University of Leicester, UK.

Somnath Sikdar, postdoc at RWTH, Aachen.

Sunil Simon, postdoc at CWI, Amsterdam.

Akshay Sundararaman, postdoc at IRISA, Rennes.

Raghavendra Rao, postdoc at Saarland University, Saarbrücken.

Amaldev Manuel, postdoc at LIAFA, Paris.

Soumya Paul, postdoc at IRIT, Toulouse.

Philip Geevarghese, postdoc at MPII, Saarbrücken.

M. Praveen, postdoc at LSV, Cachan