The Department of Mathematics, School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Viswha Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, organised a Talk on “Trees in Various Science” on February 6, 2015.

Prof. Xavier Viennot is an Emeritus researcher director at CNRS, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France. Prof. Viennot received his Ph. D. From University of Paris in 1971 and got a Doctoral thesis (these d’Etat) in 1974 at University Paris, under the direction of M. P. Schutzenberger, pioneer in France for the birth of theoretical computer science and the renaissance of combinatorics. His research interest are in enumerative, algebraic and bijective combinatorics, in interaction with other parts of mathematics, computer science and theoretical physics. Professor Viennot is a recipient of the silver medal of CNRS. He has written two books and about one hundred papers, in mathematical, computer science and physics journals.

A comprehensive review of the Trees in Various Science and its application to real life was discussed.