Anu - Inria Associate Team Proposal

We propose to join the research efforts of Richard Brent’s team at ANU (Australian National University, Canberra, Australia) with those of the CACAO team from the “Centre de Recherche INRIA Nancy-Grand Est” (Nancy, France) into an INRIA associate team called ANC (Algorithms, Numbers, Computers). We wish to extend in such a way a long-term and successful cooperation between Richard Brent and Paul Zimmermann to all members of both teams, in particular young researchers. The support of the ANC associate team will allow to reinforce that cooperation, especially in the common scientific projects outlined in this document. 1. Composition of the Associate Team On the ANU side, the associate team composition is the following: • Prof. Richard P. Brent, ARC Federation Fellow (team leader, team contact on the ANU side); • Paul Leopardi, Postdoctoral Fellow; • Judy-anne Osborn, Postdoctoral Fellow; • Joerg Arndt, PhD student; • Jim White, Visiting Fellow. On the CACAO side, the team composition is the following: • Guillaume Hanrot, Research Director (team leader); • Pierrick Gaudry, Research Scientist; • Emmanual Thomé, Research Scientist; • Paul Zimmermann, Research Director (team contact on the CACAO side); • Alexander Kruppa, PhD student; • Damien Robert, PhD student; • Philippe Théveny, Associate Engineer. Cf http://www-direction.inria.fr/international/EQUIPES_ASSOCIEES/index.eng.htm (warning: on September 17, the english version was not completely up-to-date with respect to the french version). Deadline for application is October 19, 2007; the selection will be done on November 29, with announcement of results and funding for 2008 in December. In case of selection, the team should provide each year (midOctober) (a) a brief activity report including financial and scientific data for the current year; (b) a brief description of the work program with a provisional budget for the year to come; (c) a description of previously and recently obtained co-funding. An in-depth external scientific evaluation of each Associate Team is to be scheduled after three years of operation, i.e., end of 2010.