Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair

Nicolas Rougier: Program chair for the EuroScipy 2015 conference. Organization of the “Tentatives, Tentations, Intentions” conference (Nancy, December 2015).

Member of the organizing committees

Frédéric Alexandre: Member of the organizing committee of the Conference “Cognition and Innovation”, Paris, November 5-6th, cf http://fondation-cognition.org/?q=node/259 .

Scientific events selection

Member of the conference program committees

Frédéric Alexandre: Member of program committee of CAP 2015 (french conference on Machine Learning)

Reviewer

• Nicolas Rougier: Reviewer for EuroScipy 2015, Scipy 2015, ICANN 2015.

• Frédéric Alexandre: Reviewer for the International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering; for the International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EPIROB 2015);

Journal

Member of the editorial boards

• Frédéric Alexandre: Review Editor for Frontiers in Neurorobotics;

• Nicolas Rougier: Editor in chief for ReScience, review editor for Frontiers in Neurorobotics.

Reviewer - Reviewing activities

• Nicolas Rougier: Reviewer for PLOS ONE, Frontiers in Neuroscience, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques

• Frédéric Alexandre: Reviewer for Cognitive Computation, PlosOne, Applied Intelligence

Invited talks

• Nicolas Rougier: Invited tutorial (“Neural Fields and cognition”) at the 24th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting in Prague; Invited talk (“Distributed, Asynchronous, Numerical and Adaptive computing: from neurons to behavior.” at the first meeting og the BioComp initiative; Invited tutorial (“matplotlib for beginner”) at EuroScipy 2015.

• Frédéric Alexandre: invited talk at the symposium “Modeling the early visual system: From natural vision to numerical applications” of the 12th meeting of the French Neuroscience Society; Invited talk at the special day on modeling irrationality in cognition, organized jointly by the french society of Artificial Intelligence and the french society of Research on Cognition; Invited talk at the scientific council of IMB (institute of mathematics in Bordeaux, june 23rd);

Scientific expertise

Expert for the BBSRC research council (UK) (Nicolas Rougier)

Research administration

• F. Alexandre is member of the Inria Evaluation Committee; Vice-head of the Project Committee of Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest; Corresponding scientist for Bordeaux Sud-Ouest of the Inria COERLE ethical committee; Member of the national Inria committee for international chairs; Member of the local Inria committee for young researchers hiring; Member of the steering committee of the regional Cluster on Information Technology and Health; of the regional Cluster on Robotics; Expert of the ITMO 'Neurosciences, Sciences Cognitive, Neurologie, Psychiatrie'

• N. Rougier is vice-head of the Mnemosyne team-project; elected member of the Inria Evaluation Committee; Responsible of the local Inria committee for invited professors; Member of the steering committee for the BioComp CNRS consortium; Editor in chief and co-founder of ReScience.

• Thierry Viéville is in charge, at the Inria national level, of the institute science outreach actions and depends on the Direction Générale Déléguée à la Science for this part of his work. He is, for Inria, at the origin of the http://classcode.fr project, and drives it [18] , [12] .