Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

X. Hinaut : Co-organiser of the 2nd Automn Day of the Working Group (GT8) "Robotique et Neurosciences" of Groupe de Recherche (GDR) Robotique (CNRS), at LaBRI, 17th November 2016.

Member of the Organizing Committees

Projections, Interactions, Emotions - Journées PsyPhINe, 2016 (http://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/manifestations/psyphine-2016, N. Rougier)

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

F. Alexandre: SAB 2016

Reviewer

F. Alexandre reviewer for AMINA 2016; X. Hinaut for CogSci 2016.

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

• F. Alexandre: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience; npj Science of Learning; European Journal of Neuroscience; PLoS ONE;

• A. Garenne: Journal of Integrative Neuroscience

• X. Hinaut: PLoS ONE, Neural Networks, Intellectica, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, ReScience, Cognitive Computation.

Invited Talks

F. Alexandre: invited talk at the conference: “Modeling: success and limitations” (http://www.cnrs.fr/insmi/spip.php?article1876), Dec 6th and interview for the journal of the CNRS ( https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/modeliser-plus-pour-simuler-moins).

X. Hinaut: “Reservoir Computing for Robot Language Acquisition”, at IROS Workshop on Machine Learning Methods for High-Level Cognitive Capabilities in Robotics. Daejon, South Korea, October 2016 [9].

N. Rougier:

• Open Science, AdaWeek, November 2016, Paris

• ReScience, "La loi numérique, et après ?", November 2016, Meudon

• "One actor, two critics", Robotiques et Neurosciences, November 2016, Bordeaux

• "Advanced Scientific Programming in Python", July 2016, Austin, USA.

• "Computational Neuroscience", International School of Bioelectromagnetics, Erice, April 2016, Italy.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

X. Hinaut:

• member of the Administration Committee of Fresco association (French Federation of students in Cognitive Science)

• member of “open citizen labs” : MindLaBdx (Bordeaux), IA*lab and CogLab (La Paillasse, Paris).

Scientific Expertise

F. Alexandre is the french expert for Mathematics and Computer Science of the PHC (Hubert Curien Program) Utique for scientific cooperation between France and Tunisia.

Research Administration

• F. Alexandre is member of the Inria Evaluation Committee; Deputy Scientific Delegate and 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 till October 2016, 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, in charge of the http://classcode.fr project.