Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Promotion of Mathematics in the industry

• M. Deaconu is involved in the Fédération Charles Hermite Forum which will be held in Nancy in January 2018.

• A. Lejay has been appointed as representative of the Agence Mathématiques et Entreprise (AMIES) for the Grand-Est Region.

• D. Talay continued to serve as a member of the Scientific Committee of the AMIES National Agency aimed to promote interactions between Mathematics and Industry.

• D. Talay continued to serve as the Vice-President of the Fondation d'Entreprise Natixis which aims to contribute to develop research in quantitative finance. He also serves as a member of the Scientific Committee of the Foundation.

Scientific Events Organisation

• M. Bossy co-organized the Closing workshop of the project MECASIF On reduced order methods for wind and marine current power held at Inria Sophia Antipolis, February 20-22, 2017.

• M. Bossy co-organized the Wokshop EDF-UCA : HPC and fluid flow held at Inria Sophia Antipolis, November 23 - 24, 2017.

• N. Champagnat co-organizes with Marianne Clausel (Univ. de Lorraine) the weekly Seminar of Probability and Statistics of IECL, Nancy.

• D. Talay and N. Touzi (Ecole Polytechnique) organized and chaired the conference `PDE and Probability Methods for Interactions', Inria Sophia Antipolis, March 30-31, 2017 (https://project.inria.fr/pde2017/).

• D. Talay organized the workshop `Singular Mckean-Vlasov Dynamics', Inria Sophia Antipolis, September 14-15, 2017.

• D. Villemonais and M. Kolb organized (Univ. of Paderborn) a workshop entitled “Quasistationary Distributions: Analysis and Simulation” at Paderborn in September 2017 (http://math.uni-paderborn.de/ag/arbeitsgruppe-wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie/forschung/konferenzen/).

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• A. Lejay is member of the conference program committees of Journées de Probabilités 2017 (Aussois, France) and of CEMRACS 2017.

• D. Talay is serving as a member of the ICMNS 2018 Conference Program Committee.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• N. Champagnat serves as an Associate Editor of Stochastic Models and of ESAIM: Probability & Statistics until June.

• N. Champagnat was co-editor-in-chief with Béatrice Laurent-Bonneau (IMT Toulouse) of ESAIM: Probability & Statistics since June.

• A. Lejay is one of the three editors of the Séminaire de Probabilités and Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM).

• D. Talay serves as an Associate Editor of Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Probability, Uncertainty and Quantitative Risk, ESAIM Probability and Statistics, Stochastics and Dynamics, Journal of Scientific Computing, Monte Carlo Methods and Applications, Oxford IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, Éditions de l'École Polytechnique. He also serves as Co-editor in chief of MathematicS in Action.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• M. Deaconu wrote reviews for manuscripts submitted to Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics and Mathematics and Computers in Simulation.

• C. Fritsch wrote reviews for manuscripts submitted to Journal of Biological Systems and Chaos, Solitons & Fractals.

• A. Lejay wrote reviews for Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, Séminaire de probabilités, Annals of Applied Probability, Physical Review E, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques, Boundary Value Problems , Journal of Hydrology, Electronic Journal of Probability, Quantitative Finance and Economics and Journal of Theoretical Probability.

• D. Talay reported on applications to the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

• D. Talay reported on an application to the FONDECYT Program, Chile.

• D. Talay reported on applications to the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong.

• D. Talay reported on manuscripts submitted to Electronic. J. of Probabibility, SINUM, Annals Applied Probab., J. Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées.

• E. Tanré wrote reviews for manuscripts submitted to European Journal of Applied Mathematics.

• E. Tanré serves has a permanent reviewer of Mathematical Reviews of the American Mathematical Society (MathSciNet).

• D. Villemonais wrote reviews for Mathematical Reviews of the American Mathematical Society (MathSciNet) and for manuscripts submitted to Complexity, Journal of Mathematical Biology and Annals of Applied Probability.

Invited Talks

• M. Bossy has been invited to give a talk at the Forecasting and Risk Management for Renewable Energy conference in Paris June 7-9, 2017.

• M. Bossy has been invited to give a lecture talk at the CEMRACS in Marseille July 2017.

• M. Bossy has been invited to give a seminar talk at CMA MinesParisTech, in Sophia Antipolis November 2017.

• M. Bossy gave a talk at the International Workshop on BSDEs, SPDEs, Edinburgh 2017, at the MECASIF workshop, at the workshop on PDE and Probability Methods for Interactions, at theWorkshop on singular McKean Vlasov in Sophia Antipolis.

• N. Champagnat has been invited to give talks at the conference on Ecology and evolutionary biology, deterministic and stochastic models in Toulouse in October, at the Conference on Quasistationary Distributions: Analysis and Simulation in Paderborn, Germany in September, at the Workshop on Singular McKean-Vlasov equations and their applications in Sophia Antipolis in September, at the Journées Scientifiques Inria 2017 at Sophia Antipolis in June, at the Workshop on Multi-Scale Features of Selection in Population Genetics, Eurandom in Eindhoven, The Netherlands in March and at the Journées EDP pour la biologie évolutives in Avignon in March.

• N. Champagnat has been invited to give seminar talks at the Séminaire Modélisation Mathématiques et Calcul Scientifique de l'Institut Camille Jordan in Lyon in November, at the Séminaire du LPMA in Paris 6 (UPMC) in February, at the Séminaire de statistique in Avignon in January, at the Séminaire de probabilités et statistique du LMV in Versailles in January and at the Séminaire Calcul Stochastique de l'IRMA in Strasbourg in January.

• N. Champagnat gave a colloquium talk at the Colloquium of the Mathematical Institute in Mainz, Germany in February.

• N. Champagnat has been invited to give lectures at the Workshop/School on Stochastic PDEs, Mean Field Games and Biology (4h) at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) in L'Aquila, Italy in September and at the Doctoral School “New Trends in Markov Processes” (6h) in Les Diablerets, Switzerland in March.

• M. Deaconu has been invited to give a talk at the SIAM Conference on Control and its Applications, 10-12 July 2017, Pittsburgh, USA.

• M. Deaconu has been invited to give a plenary talk at the Forum des Jeunes Mathématicien-ne-s, 22-24 November 2017, Nancy.

• M. Deaconu has been invited to give a seminar talk at the Probability and Statistic Seminar at the Institut de Mathématiques in Marseille, in November.

• C. Fritsch has been invited to give seminar talks in February at the probability seminars of Paul Painlevé laboratory in Lille and of Fourier Institute in Grenoble, at the meeting of the Chair Modélisation Mathématique et Biodiversité in the VEOLIA head office in Aubervilliers and in MaIAGE seminar of INRA in Jouy-en-Josas. She has also been invited to give talk at the annual ModStatSAP day in Paris in March and at the HELENA seminar of the Institute of Groundwater Ecology in Munich and at the IRMAR probability seminar in Rennes in June.

• C. Fritsch gave a talk at the conference Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution in London in July.

• P. Helson gave a talk at the workshop Computational Neuroscience and Optical Dynamics in Sophia-Antipolis in May.

• P. Helson presented a poster at the conference International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience in Boulder (US) in June.

• A. Lejay gave a seminar talk at the Séminaire EDP de l'Institut Élie Cartan de Lorraine (Metz, France) in April 2017.

• A. Lejay gave talks at the national conference Brownian motion in cones: algebraic and analytic approaches at Toulouse in November and at the national conference Journées de Probabilités 2017 at Aussois in June.

• A. Lejay gave a talk at the international conference PDE & Probability Methods for Interactions at Sophia-Antipolis, February 2013; Monte Carlo Methods and Applications (MCM 2017) at Montréal in July 2017; Scicade 2017 at Bath in September 2017; Rough Paths in Toulouse at Toulouse in October 2017.

• P. Pigato has been invited to give seminar talks in January, at the Probability and Statistics Seminar of Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann (Grenoble) and at the Seminar Modern Methods in Applied Stochastics and Nonparametric Statistics of WIAS Berlin.

• In January, Paolo Pigato has given a seminar talk at the Probability and Statistic Seminar of Institut Elie Cartan (Nancy).

• P. Pigato was invited to participate, from February 26th to March 4th, to the meeting "Mathematics of Quantitative Finance" in Oberwolfach, Germany.

• D. Talay gave a lecture at the workshop Stochastic Differential Equations: Regularity and Numerical Analysis in Finite and Infinite Dimensions, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, February 5-11.

• D. Talay gave an invited conference at the Moscow National Research University Higher School of Economics, Laboratory of Stochastic Analysis winter meeting, December 4-7.

• D. Talay gave a seminar at Ecole Polytechnique on October 17th.

• E. Tanré gave talks at Université du Maine and Université de Savoie.

• E. Tanré was invited in Edinburg to give a talk at the International Workshop on BSDEs, SPDEs and their Applications in the McKean-Vlasov special session (July).

• E. Tanré was invited to give a talk at the workshop PDE/Probability Interactions: Kinetic Equations, Long time and Propagation of Chaos (Luminy, September).

• D. Villemonais has been invited to give seminar talks at the Stochastic Analysis Seminar of Imperial College (London, UK), at the Séminaire de probabilités of Université de Lille, at the Séminaire de probabilités of Université de Rennes and at the Probability laboratory of the Univeristy of Bath (UK).

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• M. Bossy is serving as a vice president of the Inria Evaluation Committee.

• A. Lejay is the head of the Probability and Statistics team of the Institut Élie Cartan since September 2016.

• A. Lejay is member of the Conseil de Perfectionnement of the Master of Mathematics of the Université de Lorraine.

• D. Talay continued to chair the Scientific Council of the French Applied Math. Society SMAI.

• D. Talay served as a member of the scientific council of the Complex System academy of the UCA Idex.

• D. Talay is serving as a member of the committee in charge of preparing the application of Paris to the International Congress of Mathematicians 2022.

• D. Talay is serving as a member of the CMUP Advisory Commission (University of Porto).

• D. Talay is a member of the Comité National Français de Mathématiciens.

Scientific Expertise

• M. Bossy reported for the Paul Caseau Prize.

• M. Bossy participated in a Associated Professor position recruitment committee at CMA MinesParisTech.

• N. Champagnat reported on an research project submitted to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada.

• M. Deaconu has been a member of the Committee for junior permanent research positions of Inria Nancy - Grand Est.

• A. Lejay participated in a Professor position recruitment committee at Université de Lorraine.

• E. Tanré was member of the hiring committee 26 MCF at the `Ecole Centrale de Paris'.

• E. Tanré reported on an application submitted to CONICYT (Chilean Funding Agency).

• D. Talay served as a member of the committee for positions in Applied Mathematics at the Ecole Polytechnique.

• D. Talay served as a member of the committee for a professor position at UCA University (Nice, France).

• D. Talay served as a member of the committee for an assistant professor position at Lille University.

• D. Talay is chairing the 2019 Pionneer ICIAM prize committee.

Research Administration

• M. Bossy has been a member of the DTK-Committee.

• N. Champagnat is a member of the Comité de Centre, the COMIPERS and the Commission Information Scientifique et Technique of Inria Nancy - Grand Est, Responsable Scientifique for the library of Mathematics of the IECL, member of the Conseil du laboratoire of IECL (as responsable scientifique of the library). He is local correspondent of the COERLE (Comité Opérationel d'Évaluation des Risques Légaux et Éthiques) for the Inria Research Center of Nancy - Grand Est. He is also local responsible of GdR MAMOVI for Univ. Lorraine.

• M. Deaconu is a member of the Bureau du Comité de Projets of Inria Nancy - Grand Est, and of the Comité de Projet of Inria Nancy - Grand Est.

• A. Lejay is member of the Pôle AM2I of the Université de Lorraine since 2017.

• A. Lejay is member of the theses committee of the Institut Élie Cartan de Loraine.