Next Loria colloquium will take place on Tuesday, 10th December at 1:30 pm in the Amphitheater. We will have the pleasure to welcome Jean Cardinal, professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, with a presentation (in English) entitled "Combinatorics, Geometry, and Algorithms". Abstract: Numerous interactions exist between the fields of combinatorics, discrete geometry — in the tradition initiated, among others, by Paul Erdős — and theoretical computer science. It is often fruitful to consider combinatorial abstractions to tackle computational geometry…

Next Loria colloquium will take place on Thursday, 22nd May at 1:30 pm in the Amphitheater. We will have the pleasure to welcome Bettina Speckmann, full professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, with a presentation in English, entitled River channels and dual loops: computational geometry in the field. Abstract: Computational geometry is the area within algorithms research that deals with the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures for spatial data. In this talk I will present a variety…

Next Loria Colloquium will take place on Thursday, 26th June at 1:30 pm in Loria's amphitheater. We will have the pleasure to welcome Alexander Koller, Professor of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University, for a presentation in English, entitled Solving complex problems with large language models. Solving complex problems with large language models. One of the great promises that people connect with LLMs is that they can make complex problem-solving with computers accessible to lay users. Unlike traditional symbolic solvers (e.g.…