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Michel Rigo

University of Liège
Department of Mathematics
Grande traverse 12 (B37)
B-4000 Liège
Belgium




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Short CV (last updated September 2014)

Michel Rigo (born 19 December 1975)

Education:

• Licence en Sciences Mathématiques (4-year studies), University of Liège, June 1997;
• Ph.D. in sciences "Abstract numeration systems and recognizability", University of Liège, March 2001;
• Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches "Systèmes de numération abstraits et combinatoire des mots", Univ. Paris Sud, June 2010.

Career:

• October 1997 - September 2002 : Teaching Assistant, Math. Dept., Univ. of Liège,
• October 2002 - September 2003 : Post-doctoral fellow, chargé de recherches FNRS,
• October 2003 - December 2010 : Professor, Math. Dept., Univ. of Liège (chargé de cours, puis professeur en 2007),
• January 2011 - : Full Professor, Math. Dept., Univ. of Liège,
• October 2011 - : vice-head of the Math. Dept., Univ. of Liège.

Teaching duties: Linear algebra, Formal Language Theory, Combinatorics on Words, Graph Theory. For details, see here. I am lecturing to students in Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science.
(past) Teaching duties: Discrete Mathematics, Theory of Computation and Complexity, Geometry.

Publications: Full list available here (local repository, also slides of talks)

• 34 papers in international peer-reviewed journals,
• 3 chapters of books,
• 12 peer-reviewed conference proceedings (including 7 Lect. Notes in Comput. Sci.),
• co-editor of vol. 135 of the Encyclopedia of Math. and its Applications, Combinatorics, Automata and Number Theory, Cambridge Univ. Press (2010),
• author of a 2-volume book, Formal languages, Automata and Numeration Systems, ISTE-Wiley (2014).

Supervisor of

• 3 Ph.D thesis (E. Charlier 2009, L. Waxweiler 2009, A. Lacroix 2013),
• 7 post-doctoral fellows (E. Duchêne, M. LeGonidec, T. Kärki, N. Rampersad, P. Salimov, A. Parreau, E. Rowland),
• 49 Master thesis.

Scientific duties/animation: Organizer of 3 international schools "Combinatorics, Automata and Number Theory", 5 international conferences, PC member of 17 international conferences, Expert for several foreign research agencies, referee for more than 30 journals and conferences, reviewer for MathSciNet, Zentralblatt, member of 16 Ph.D. committees, "rapporteur" for 7 Ph.D., guest/invited editor for 5 issues of international peer-reviewed journals.

Prizes: Prix Laubin (2003), Prix Wernaers 2010 (Fonds ISDT Wernaers), Prix Lucien Godeaux (2010) Société Royale des Sciences de Liège.

Membership: BMS, SMF, AMS.

Finally, I am also deeply concerned about raising public awareness of mathematics, I have created the group "antenne Maths à Modeler à Liège" and I have given more than 400 talks in high schools (during the last 8 years).

Research topics

MSC: 68R15, 68Q45, 03B25, 03D05, 11A67, 11B85, 11U05, 11U10, 11T06, 12L05, 91A05, 91A46.

I am interested in

• Exotic numeration systems
• Representation of integers and real numbers in abstract number systems
• Recognizable sets of numbers
• Automatic sequences
• Cobham's theorem and related questions
• Combinatorics on words (finite and infinite)
• Automata theory
• Formal language theory
• Combinatorial games
• Symbolic Dynamics

My co-authors

corresponding to accepted or published papers only

• Bell, Jason P.
• Berthé, Valérie
• Charlier, Emilie
• Duchêne, Eric
• Vandomme, Elise
• Durand, Fabien
• Fraenkel, Aviezri S.
• Grabner, Peter J.
• Halava, Vesa
• Harju, Tero
• Honkala, Juha
• Kärki, Tomi
• Lacroix, Anne
• Le Gonidec, Marion
• Lecomte, Pierre
• Maes, Arnaud
• Nicolay, Samuel
• Nowakowski, Richard J.
• Rampersad, Narad
• Salimov, Pavel V.
• Steiner, Wolfgang
• Waxweiler, Lauent