Theory of Computation



Participants Information

Participants: 31
Speakers: 10
Female participants: 04
Male participants: 27
Participants from SC/ST category: 05

Lab Sessions

  • Weighted Finite Automata
  • Image Compression using Weighted Finite Automata
  • YACC-LAB

Topics Covered

  • Introduction to Theory of Computation
  • Mathematical Foundation for TOC
  • Automata Theory, Formal Languages, Chomsky's Hierarchy, Undecidability
  • Designing of FA and Regular Expressions
  • Properties of Regular Languages
  • Pumping Lemma for Regular Languages
  • Context Free Grammers
  • Push Down Automata
  • Pumping Lemma for Context Free Languages
  • Introduction to Turing Machine
  • Turing Machines & Computability
  • Basic Time and Space Complexity Classes
  • Non-Determinism and the Class NP
  • Introduction to Theory of NP Completeness
  • Teaching/Learning Process, Intractable Problems, Weighted Finite Automata
  • Image Compression using Weighted Finite Automata, Weighted Finite Automata for Image Authentication, Distributed Finite Automata
  • Input/Output Automata, Intractable Problems
  • Church-Turing Hypothesis and Undecidability
  • Computation/Space/Communication Complexity Theory
  • Probabilistic Turing Machines and Randomization, Theory of Quantum Computation
  • Applications of Abstract Machines and Languages, Application of Automata in ECC
  • Research Issues in Theory of Computation

Highlights



List of External Speakers

Dr. V. C. V. Rao(Chief Guest), Associate Director, C-DAC, Pune

Prof. Jayalal Sarma, Assistant Professor, IIT, Madras

Prof. Kannan Srinathan, Assistant Professor, IIIT, Hyderabad

Dr. Dinesh Gopalani, Assistant Professor, MNIT, Jaipur

Mr. Shibin George,Software Engineer, Qualcomm



List of Internal Speakers


Prof. T.Ramesh , Professor, Dept of CSE, NIT Warangal

Prof. D. V. L. N. Somayajulu, Professor, Dept of CSE, NIT Warangal

Dr. U.S.N.Raju, Assistant Professor, Dept of CSE, NIT Warangal

Dr. P. Venkata Subba Reddy, Assistant Professor, Dept of CSE, NIT Warangal

Dr. R. S. Selvaraj, Assistant Professor,Dept of Maths, NIT Warangal

Dr. Manjubala Bisi, Adhoc Faculty, Dept of CSE, NIT Warangal



Feedback Summary


  • FDP covered entire syllubus of most of the Universities.
  • Discussed the applications of Theory of Computation.
  • Resource persons from IIT, IIIT, NIT, Software have handled the sessions.
  • More advanced and research topics are also covered so that the participants can start research in this area.
  • They are highly appreciative of the hospitality.
  • They expressed their gratitude to Electronics and ICT Academy NITW for its initiative to conduct these workshops for improving the quality of technical education.
  • Session design (flow and relevance) was effective and duration was appropriate.