Mireille Bousquet-Mélou

Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (born 12 May 1967) is a French mathematician who specializes in enumerative combinatorics and who works as a senior researcher for the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) at the computer science department (LaBRI) of the University of Bordeaux.

Education and career Bousquet-Mélou was born in Albi, the second daughter of two high school teachers, and grew up in Pau where her family moved when she was three. She studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris from 1986 to 1990, She joined CNRS as a junior researcher in 1990, and completed a habilitation at Bordeaux in 1996. Her presentation at the congress concerned connections between enumerative combinatorics, formal language theory, and the algebraic structure of generating functions, according to which enumeration problems whose generating functions are rational functions are often isomorphic to regular languages, and problems whose generating functions are algebraic are often isomorphic to unambiguous context-free languages.

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