Nicolas Bousquet


nicolas DOT bousquet AT cnrs DOT fr
Phone: +334 56 57 48 19

Sabbatical at CRM-CNRS, Montréal in 2024-2025. CNRS Researcher, LIRIS, Lyon, France.

Bureau chercheurs invités
Laboratoire LACIM
Pavillon Président-Kennedy
201, avenue du Président-Kennedy
UQAM, Montréal, QC, Canada


Publications
Teaching
Talks




Since October 2016, I am a CNRS researcher. I am currently spending a year in Montréal at the CRM-CNRS (Centre de Recherche en Mathématiques) IRL (International Research Lab). I am hosted by the LACIM laboratory (Laboratoire d'Algèbre, de Combinatoire et d’Informatique Mathématique). If you pass through Montréal, do not hesitate to say hi. (And if you want information about sabbatical in CNRS international labs fell free to contact me).

Previously (and when I'll be back in France), I am working in Lyon in the LIRIS laborarory in the team GOAL (Graphs algOrithms and AppLications).
From 2016 to 2020, I was in Grenoble in the G-SCOP laboratory where I was a member of the Combinatorial Optimization (OC) team.

I defended my habilitation in Lyon the 3rd of July 2024 at 2pm. The manuscript can be found here and is entitled Journey on Configuration Graphs: Coloring and Independent Set Reconfiguration. The slides of the defense are there. My manuscript aims at giving an introduction to combinatorial reconfiguration and mentions many open problems in the field.

Formerly, I was an ATER (temporary assistant professor position) in Ecole Centrale de Lyon during the academic year 2015-2016. I was a member of the LIRIS laboratory in the GOAL (Graphes, AlgOrithmes et AppLications) team. Before, I was a postodoctoral fellow at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University where I worked with Adrian Vetta. My scholarship was partially funded by the GERAD (Groupe d'études et de recherche en analyse des décisions) at Université de Montréal.

I have defended my PhD the 9-th of December 2013 under the direction of Stéphane Bessy and Stéphan Thomassé at the Université Montpellier 2 (LIRMM). Its title was "Hitting sets, VC-dimension and Multicut". The manuscript can be found there and the slides of the defense can be found there.

I am interested in graph theory, game theory and combinatorics. My topics of research include but are not limited to:

I will be the local PI of the ANR project ENEDISC (Energy-Efficient Distributed Computing). Previously I was the PI of the ANR JCJC project GrR (Graph Reconfiguration). I was the frech PI of the PHC franco-lebanese "Cedre" project "ProLo" in 2022-23 (Price of Locality for Reconfiguration) and franco-japanese "Sakura" project DATCORE in 2018-19 (Development of Algorithmic Techniques for COmbinatorial REconfiguration). In 2019, I co-organized (with Marthe Bonamy), the third edition of the CoRe (Combinatorial Reconfiguration) workshop in Aussois (see here for more information).

Here is a list of current and former PhD students:

Publications

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International journals

International Conferences

Programs

Preprints

Misc

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Teaching

Talks

You can find the details and the slides of all my talks there. In this page, I just mention a couple of recent talks (to see the slides, click on the picture ):

Grants

I am, or have been PI of the following projects:

You may have seen me there:

Here is a complete list of events I attended to.