Prabhu Manyem

Prabhu Manyem

Professor
Department of Mathematics
Shanghai University
Email: lastname AT gmail DOT com
Phone: +86-21-6613-4591.

Also at http://cn.linkedin.com/in/prabhumanyem

Click here for GTCO 2011 - Workshop on Graph Theory and Combinatorial Optimization

TRAVEL

February 2011:  Indonesia (University of Jember, Institute of Technology at Bandung and the University of Indonesia at Jakarta).

I was on research leave at National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, from January to July 2009, as a Research Associate Professor.

February-June 2008:  Research leave spent at the University of Durham, UK.

July 10-14, 2007:  Logic in Computer Science (LICS), Wroclaw, Poland.

December 2006:  US
(San Francisco; Lawrence, Kansas; Charlotte, NC; Raleigh/Durham, NC; Jacksonville, FL; Columbus, Ohio)
Seminar at NC State University, Raleigh

July 2006:   17th AWOCA (Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms), Ayers Rock, Australia.

December 2005:   FSTTCS, Hyderabad, India.  And a visit to TIFR, Mumbai.

Sept 26-30, 2005: Australian Mathematics Society annual meeting, Perth, Western Australia (organiser for a special session on Mathematics of Computer Science).

August 21-31, 2005: India (Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai).

July 2-13, 2005: University of Durham, UK, for the Algorithms and Complexity in Durham 2005 workshop, and visits to Kings College London and the University of Leicester.

March 25 to April 10, 2005: Visited Professor Ruey-Lin Sheu, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.

Conferences

Click here for the CATS 2009 homepage

CATS 2008 (Computing: The Australasian Theory Symposium), held at the University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia, January 22-25, 2008.

The 16th Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (AWOCA) 2005, held in Ballarat in September'05.

Education

Undergraduate Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India 1988

Masters Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India 1991

Ph.D. Operations Research with Computer Science minor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, 1996

        And then..... Research Fellow, School of Maths and Stats, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 1999-2004.

Teaching

         During 2005-09, I taught the following subjects at the University of Ballarat, Australia:  Linear Programming and Game Theory, Discrete Mathematics, Calculus, and Geometry.

         I used to teach Limits of Computing  (undergraduate course in Automata Theory, Languages and Computability) in the School of Computer Science at UniSA.
 

Research Interests

Combinatorial (Discrete) Optimisation, Computational Complexity, Approximability and Approximation Algorithms, Logic, Game Theory.

Recent Work:

Seminar Talk

Special issue of CJTCS, the Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science devoted to CATS 2009. Guest Editors: Rod Downey and Prabhu Manyem

Book Published: Routing Problems in Multicast Networks (my PhD thesis), VDM Verlag, 2010; Available through Amazon

ESO universal Horn formulae: machine level versus structure level hierarchy  ArXiv version.

Duality Gap, Computational Complexity and NP Completeness: A Survey  ArXiv version.

Lower Bounds on Syntactic Logic Expressions for Optimization Problems and Duality (using Lagrangian Dual) to characterize optimality conditions  ArXiv version.

Polynomial Time Maximization Classes: Syntactic Hierarchy (co-authored with Orestes Bueno), Fundamenta Informaticae, Volume 84, No.1, pages 111-133, 2008.

Syntactic Characterizations of Polynomial-Time Optimization Classes, Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 2008, No.2, pages 1-23, 2008.

I used to serve as the editor of E-Newsletters of CMSA  (Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia).

Research Students

Grants

Other Interests

Linux

Ubuntu Linux (free)

Open-source

Avoid Microsoft Office.  Use Google Docs which is free.

For more info, see my Google site.


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