Christian Laforest

Professor of computer science.

ISIMA, LIMOS,

Campus universitaire des Cézeaux,

1, rue de la Chebarde,

TSA 60026, CS 60026,

63178 AUBIERE CEDEX,

France

Phone: (+33/0) 4 73 40 74 41

Fax: (+33/0) 4 73 40 76 39

Mail : laforest AT isima.fr

Activités de vulgarisation (French)

Des articles de vulgarisation.

Dans le magazine Tangente :

Sur le site The conversation (lecture libre et gratuite ; articles courts) :

Autres.

Une chaine Youtube de vulgarisation sur les graphes

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Research Activities

My present research interests are around (but not limited to) the following topics:

  • Graph algorithms and theory (mainly: vertex cover, independent dominating set, Steiner tree)

  • Discrete optimization

  • Approximation algorithms (Worst case analysis and Average case analysis)

  • Online algorithms (and adaptative algorithms)

  • Random algorithms

  • Multicriteria optimization/approximation

  • Distributed algorithms

I often use Maple to test my algorithms on graphs and to make calculations.

Past (or secondary) interests/projects:

  • Scheduling algorithms, Networks algorithms (among them optical networks)

  • Past projects (I mention my specific contributions in each project):

    • Multipoints (QoS in networks, funded by CNRS): Works on bi-criteria Steiner trees (weight and induced distances)

    • AcTAM (QoS and pricing, funded by CNRS): Works on multi-criteria scheduling and shared costs in broadcast trees.

    • ROM and ROM-EO (optical networks and QoS; 2 projects funded by RNRT, with industrial partners as Alcatel and France Télécom): Conception and study of Optical routing via Eulerian cycles in directed graphs.

    • ALGOL (optimization of algorithms to capture spacial pictures in satellites, funded by ACI masse de données): Algorithms and approximation results on the quality of the capture.

    • Project TODO (funded by the French ANR): Time versus Optimization in Discrete Optimization.

    • Project SHAMAN (funded by the French ANR) : Self-organizing and Healing Architectures for Malicious and Adversarial Network

Publications

See this page (not always up to date).

PhD students (past and present):

Alexis Irlande (1998->2002, with Jean-Claude Konig 50%) [Assistant professor in Colombia]

Christian Destré (2001->2004, with Sandrine Vial 50%) [R&D project manager at Orange]

Fabien Baille (2002 ->2005, with Evripidis Bampis 50%) [Working as software dev.]

Nicolas Thibault (2003->2006, 100%) [Assistant professor at Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris, since 2009]

François Delbot (2006->2009, 100%) [Assistant professor since 2011]

Romain Campigotto (2008->2011, 50% with Eric Angel) [Now working in a company (after a PostDoc at LIP6, Université P.&M. Curie, Paris)]

Raksmey Phan (2010-> 2013, 100%) [now "ingénieur de recherches")

Benjamin Momège (2011->2015, 50% with M. Kanté, regional funding from Auvergne and CNRS) [now post doc]

Alexis Cornet (2015-> 2018 100%) [now ATER].

Each of them received a "bourse du ministère de la recherche", except Raksmey Phan (granted by TODO ANR project) and Benjamin Momège (granted from CNRS and Région Auvergne).