Bernard Ries
- Assistant Professor - DIMAP
Biography
Bernard Ries obtained his M.Sc. in 2004 at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. He finished his PhD thesis in 2007 at the same Institute. His PhD advisor was Prof. Dominique de Werra. In 2008-2009, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University, New York. He has been an invited researcher at several universities: CNAM (Paris, France), Memorial University (St. John's, Canada), University of Haifa (Haifa, Israel), and Gdansk University of Technology (Gdansk, Poland). Since October 2009, he's an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (DIMAP) at the University of Warwick. He is also member of the Operational Research and Management Sciences group (ORMS) at Warwick Business School.
Research interests
Graph Theory, Combinatorial Optimization, Computational Complexity, Heuristics, Scheduling
Teaching activity this year
Doctoral
- WB7120 Quantitative Research Methods: FTRES
Undergraduate
- IB2070 Mathematical Programming 2
Publications
Journal articles
- Blockers and Transversals in some subclasses of bipartite graphs : when caterpillars are dancing on a grid. Discrete Mathematics 310 (2010) (Published): 132-146.
- Complexity of two coloring problems in cubic planar bipartite mixed graphs. Discrete Applied Mathematics 158 (2010) (Published): 592-596.
- Degree-constrained edge partitionings in graphs arising from discrete tomography. Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications 13 (2009) (Published): 99-118.
- Graph coloring with cardinality constraints on the neighborhoods. Discrete Optimization 6 (2009) (Published): 362-369.
- Blockers and Transversals. Discrete Mathematics 309 (2009) (Published): 4306-4314.
