L'IRIF est une unité mixte de recherche (UMR 8243) entre le CNRS et l'Université Paris-Diderot, qui héberge deux équipes-projets INRIA.

Les recherches menées à l'IRIF reposent sur l’étude et la compréhension des fondements de toute l’informatique, afin d’apporter des solutions innovantes aux défis actuels et futurs des sciences numériques.

L'IRIF regroupe près de deux cents personnes. Six de ses membres ont été lauréats de l'European Research Council (ERC), trois sont membres de l'Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) et deux sont membres de l'Academia Europæa.

(Ordonnées par priorité et aléatoire)

1.2.2019
Enrica Duchi and Guillaume Chapuy (IRIF) organise February the 15th in Amphi Turing, a map day (Journée cartes) dedicated to combinatorial and probabilistic aspects of maps.

15.2.2019
Fabian Reiter wrote a short popularisation article in the Blog Binaire of the newspaper Le Monde. This article explains (in French) some aspects of his PhD thesis, recently awarded the Honorable Mention of the Gilles Kahn prize.

15.2.2019
In collaboration with Yoav Rodeh (Weizmann Institute of Science), Pierre Fraigniaud and Amos Korman from IRIF published a paper in the Journal of the ACM entitled “Parallel Bayesian Search with no Coordination”.

9.1.2019
IRIF has the great pleasure to welcome Jeremy Siek, professor at Indiana University Bloomingtom, who is visiting IRIF for five months. Jeremy is the creator of gradual typing and a world-renowed expert in typed programming languages. Meet him in office 4034a.

Gradual typing is a technique that allows the programmer to control which parts of a program check their type correctness (i.e., that apples are added to apples) before execution and which parts check it during their execution instead. It is often used to gradually add the before-execution check to dynamic languages, like JavaScript, which perform the check only at run-time, since it is generally better to find errors before the execution of a program rather than during its execution.

8.1.2019
IRIF has the great pleasure to welcome a new researcher (CNRS), Amaury Pouly, an expert in continuous models of computations, and the analysis and verification of continuous/hybrid dynamical systems.

1.2.2019
IRIF has the great pleasure to welcome Uri Zwick, professor at the Blavantik School of Computer Sience (University of Tel-Aviv), who is visiting for four months. His stay is financed by an FSMP chair. Uri is an expert in algorithms, data structures and games. Meet him in office 4048.

23.1.2019
FILOFOCS (French-Israeli Laboratory on Foundations of Computer Science), the first International Joint Unit in Israel, was just created by CNRS, Univ. Paris Diderot, Tel-Aviv Univ., Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem and Weizmann Institute. IRIF hosts its “mirror site” in France, and Adi Rosén from IRIF is deputy director.

5.11.2018
Amélie Gheerbrand and Cristina Sirangelo from IRIF co-organize with L. Libkin, L. Segoufin, and P. Senellart, the 2019 Spring School on Theoretical Computer Science (EPIT) on Databases, Logic and Automata, to happen the 7-12 April 2019 in Marseille. Preregistration before 13 January 2019.

Vérification
Lundi 18 février 2019, 11 heures, Salle 1007
José Ignacio Requeno (Université Grenoble Alpes) Parameter Synthesis for Extended Signal Temporal Logic Specifications

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are complex environments composed of embedded computers that monitor or control physical processes. Nowadays, they are ubiquitously present in most aspects of our live, ranging from power stations to communications, transport or finances. Guaranteeing a correct behaviour and a good quality of service (QoS) of such critical systems is imperative. Signal temporal logic (STL) is a specification language that is adapted for dealing with continuous time real-value properties which are characteristic in CPSs. Used in combination with formal models and model checking techniques, it allows the verification and validation of runtime executions. In this talk, I will present recent improvements in the STL language; including a new method for inferring the validity domain of parametric STL specifications.

Algorithmes et complexité
Mardi 19 février 2019, 11 heures, Salle 3052
Danupon Nanongkai (KTH) Distributed Shortest Paths, Exactly

This talk concerns the problem of quickly computing distances and shortest paths on distributed networks (the CONGEST model). There have been many developments for this problem in the last few year, resulting in tight approximation schemes. This left open whether exact algorithms can perform equally well. In this talk, we will discuss some recent progress in answering this question. Most recent works that this talk is based on are with Sebastian Krinninger (FOCS 2018) and Aaron Bernstein (ArXiv 2018).

Graphes
Mardi 19 février 2019, 14 heures, Salle 1007
Marthe Bonamy (CNRS - LABRI) Around Brooks' theorem

In this talk, we will discuss various results around Brooks' theorem: a graph has chromatic number at most its maximum degree, unless it is a clique or an odd cycle. We will consider stronger variants and local versions, as well as the structure of the solution space of all corresponding colorings.

Exposés hors-séries
Mercredi 20 février 2019, 13 heures, Salle 3052
Giulio Manzonetto (LIPN) A syntactic and semantic analysis of program equivalences

An important problem in theoretical computer science is to determine whether two programs are equivalent. For instance, this is needed to determine whether the optimizations performed by a compiler actually preserve the meaning of the input programs. For lambda calculi, it has become standard to consider two programs as equivalent whenever they can be plugged in any context without noticing any difference in their behavior. Such notion of equivalence depends on the behavior one is interested in observing. We provide syntactic and semantic characterizations of the equivalence arising by taking as observables the beta normal forms, corresponding to completely defined values. As a byproduct we obtain characterizations of the different degrees of extensionality in the theory of Böhm trees.

Preuves, programmes et systèmes
Jeudi 21 février 2019, 10 heures 30, Salle 3052
Damiano Mazza (CNRS) Intersection Types and Runtime Errors in the Pi-Calculus

We introduce a type system for the $\pi$-calculus which is designed to guarantee that typable processes are well-behaved, namely they never produce a run-time error and, even if they may diverge, there is always a chance for them to “finish their work”, i.e. to reduce to an idle process. The introduced type system is based on non-idempotent intersections, and is thus very powerful as for the class of processes it can capture. Indeed, despite the fact that the underlying property is $\Pi^0_2$-complete, there is a way to show that the system is complete, i.e., that any well-behaved process is typable, although for obvious reasons infinitely many derivations need to be considered.

Joint work with Ugo Dal Lago, Marc De Visme, Akira Yoshimizu

Exposés hors-séries
Jeudi 21 février 2019, 13 heures, Salle 3052
Pablo Arrighi (Aix-Marseille Université) Quantum, automata, computability and universality

After giving a brief introduction to quantum evolutions, whether finite (automata) or infinite-dimensional (operators), I will explore their impact upon computability and universality. Most of the results I will mention rely on a decomposition of quantum operators into quantum automata, which is based upon the tacit assumption of a fixed partial order. Time-allowing, I will try to touch on the topical question of quantum partial orders.

Exposés hors-séries
Jeudi 21 février 2019, 11 heures 45, Salle 1007
Samule Giraudo (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée) Graded graphs and operads

The set of all integer partitions admits the structure of a graded lattice, called Young lattice, which leads to a beautiful proof for the correspondence between pairs of Young tableaux of the same shape and factorial numbers. All this is due to the fact that this lattice is a differential poset, property introduced by Stanley. A generalization of this property has been provided by Fomin through graded graph duality. Some families of combinatorial objects admit such structures, and the counting of some Hasse walks reveal a nice combinatorics. We present here a new concept of graph duality, pairs of graded graphs of trees, and their lattice properties. We also show how to construct pairs of graded graphs from operads. This allows us to recover existing graphs (like the composition poset or the bracket tree) and to discover new ones.

Gâteau de l'IRIF
Jeudi 21 février 2019, 17 heures 30, in front of room 3052
Isaac Konan, Mahsa Shirmohammadi (IRIF CakeTM) Gâteau de l'IRIF

IRIF CakeTM is an amazing opportunity to meet people while simultaneously eating cakes baked by your fellow colleagues! Join us every Thursday, at 5pm, in front of room 3052 (Sophie Germain 3rd floor) for a weekly feast. You can also express your cooking skills and volunteer to bake a cake by sending an email to cake@irif.fr.

Catégories supérieures, polygraphes et homotopie
Vendredi 22 février 2019, 14 heures, Salle 1007
Cédric Ho Thanh (IRIF) The equivalence between many-to-one polygraphs and opetopic sets

Automates
Vendredi 22 février 2019, 14 heures 30, Salle 3052
Georg Zetzsche (MPI) Non encore annoncé.