Section: Dissemination

Scientific Animation

Editorial boards of scientific journals

• Jean-Daniel Boissonnat is a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of the ACM, Discrete and Computational Geometry, Algorithmica, International Journal on Computational Geometry and Applications.

• Frédéric Chazal is a member of the Editorial Board of SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, Graphical Models and Discrete and Computational Geometry (start in Jan. 2014).

• Olivier Devillers is a member of the Editorial Board of Graphical Models.

• Monique Teillaud is a member of the Editorial Boards of CGTA, Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, and of IJCGA, International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications.

• M. Yvinec is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Discrete Algorithms.

• Monique Teillaud and Mariette Yvinec are members of the cgal editorial board.

Conference program committees

• Jean-Daniel Boissonnat was a member of the PC of the Symposium on Geometry Processing SGP 2013.

• Jean-Daniel Boissonnat chaired WoCG (Workshops in Computational Geometry) and was a member of the program committee of the Young Researchers Forum, two satellite events of the ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry SoCG 2013.

• Frédéric Chazal was a member of the PC of the ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry 2013, of the the Scientific committee of the SMAI 2013 conference, and of Geometric Science of Information (GSI 2013).

• Monique Teillaud was a member of the PC of EuroCG, the European workshop on computational geometry.

Steering committees

• Jean-Daniel Boissonnat is a member of the steering committee of the international conference on Curves and Surfaces.

• Monique Teillaud was a member of the Computational Geometry Steering Committee until April.

• Monique Teillaud has been a member of the Steering Committee of the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA) since September.

Inria committees

• Jean-Daniel Boissonnat was a member of the recruitment committee of Inria Rhône-Alpes.

• Frédéric Chazal was a member of the recruitment committee of Inria Saclay (vice-chair).

• Monique Teillaud is a member of the Inria Evaluation Committee.

  She was a member of the national Inria DR2 interview committee and the local CR2 interview committee.

• Monique Teillaud is a member of the local Committee for Technologic Development.

  She was also a member of the local committee for transversal masters.

Other committees

• Jean-Daniel Boissonnat is a member of the Conseil de l'AERES (Agence d'Evaluation de la Recherche et de l'Enseignement Supérieur).

Conference organization

• O. Devillers and M. Teillaud coorganized the workshop on Geometric Computing (http://www.acmac.uoc.gr/GC2013/ Heraklion, Greece, January) with Menelaos Karavelas (University of Crete) and Elias Tsigaridas (EPI PolSys ).

• M. Teillaud coorganized the Dagstuhl Seminar on Computational Geometry [38] (http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=13101 , March 4-8) with Otfried Cheong (KAIST) and Kurt Mehlhorn (MPI Saarbrücken)

• M. Teillaud coorganized the Dagstuhl Seminar on Drawing Graphs and Maps with Curves [39] (http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=13151 , April 8-12) with Stephen Kobourov (University of Arizona) and Martin Nöllenburg (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

• O. Devillers organized the workshop of ANR Presage (Valberg, France, June).

• M. Teillaud (chair) and O. Devillers coorganized ALGO 2013, in cooperation with members of EPI abs and Coati (http://algo2013.inria.fr/ . Sophia Antipolis, France, September 2-6). ALGO 2013 combined the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA) and six more specialized conferences and workshops. There were about three hundred attendees.

• D. Cohen-Steiner organized the 2013 edition of the “Journées de Géométrie Algorithmique” held at the CIRM, Luminy in December http://quentin.mrgt.fr/events/jga2013.html .

Web site

M. Teillaud is maintaining the Computational Geometry Web Pages http://www.computational-geometry.org/ , hosted by Inria. This site offers general interest information for the computational geometry community, in particular the Web proceedings of the Video Review of Computational Geometry, part of the Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry.

Geometrica seminar

The seminar featured presentations by the following scientists:

• Omri Azencot (Technion) : An Operator Approach to Tangent Vector Field Processing

• Mirela Ben Chen (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) : Can Mean-Curvature Flow be Modified to be Non-singular?

• Benjamin Burton (University of Queensland) : Untangling knots using combinatorial optimisation

• A. Chiara de Vitis (Pavia) : Geometrical and Topological Descriptors for Protein Structures

• C. Couprie (Courant Institute) : Graph-based Variational Optimization and Applications in Computer Vision

• J. Demantke (IGN) : Geometric Feature Extraction from LIDAR Point Clouds and Photorealistic 3D Facade Model Reconstruction from Terrestrial LIDAR and Image Data

• Kyle Heath (Stanford University) : Image Webs: Discovering and using object-manifold structure in large-scale image collections

• N. Mitra (UCL London) : Computational Design Tools for Smart Models Synthesis

• P. Machado Manhães de Castro (UFPE, Brasil) : Invariance for Single Curved Manifolds

• Natan Rubin (Freie Universität Berlin) : On Kinetic Delaunay Triangulations: A Near Quadratic Bound for Unit Speed Motions

• D. Salinas (Gipsa Lab, Grenoble) : Using the Rips complex for Topologically Certified Manifold Learning

• Régis Straubhaar (Université de Neuchâtel) : Numerical optimization of an eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a domain in surfaces

• Jian Sun (Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University) : Rigidity of Infinite Hexagonal Triangulation of Plane

• Anaïs Vergne (Télécom ParisTech) : Algebraic topology and sensor networks

• Yuan Yao (School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University) : The Landscape of Complex Networks

• H. Zimmer (Aachen) : Geometry Optimization for Dual-Layer Support Structures