Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

• F. Forbes co-organized the workshop Statistical Challenges in Neuroscience in Warwick, UK in Sept. 2014, http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/crism/workshops/neuroscience/ .

• F. Forbes co-organized the workshop on Probabilisitic graphical models and structured data on graphs in Grenoble, in July 2014.

• Stéphane Girard co-organized the workshop "Extreme Value Theory, Spatial and Temporal Aspects", Besançon, https://trimestres-lmb.univ-fcomte.fr/Workshop-on-Extreme-Value-Theory

• Stéphane Girard co-organized the “Rencontres d'Astrostatistique”, Grenoble, http://astrostat2014.sciencesconf.org

• "Extremes and Copulas", Grenoble, http://mistis.inrialpes.fr/workshop-copulas-extremes .

• Stéphane Girard organized the workshop “Copulas and extremes”, Grenoble, http://mistis.inrialpes.fr//workshop-copulas-extremes.html .

• Marie José Martinez, Jean Baptiste Durand, Florence Forbes in collaboration with Iragael Joly (Grenoble Applied Economics Laboratory) organized the workshop "Statistics, Activities and Transportation" in Grenoble http://mistis.inrialpes.fr/workshop-statistique-transport.html as part of the MOTU project (2013-14).

• F. Forbes is a member of the committee for the 2nd SFRMBM (Société Francaise de Résonance Magnétique en Biologie et Médecine) conference in Grenoble in 2015, http://sfrmbm2015.sciencesconf.org/

• Stéphane Girard organized an invited session "Regression extremes" at the 7th international conference ERCIM, Pisa, Italy, december 2014.

• Florence Forbes is Associate Editor of the journal Frontiers in ICT: Computer Image Analysis since its creation in Sept. 2014. Computer Image Analysis is a new specialty section in the community-run openaccess journal Frontiers in ICT. This section is led by Specialty Chief Editors Drs Christian Barillot and Patrick Bouthemy.

• Stéphane Girard is Associate Editor of the Statistics and Computing journal since 2012. He is also member of the Advisory Board of the Dependence Modelling journal since decembre 2014.

• In 2014, Florence Forbes has been a reviewer for the NIPS and ICASSP conferences and for the Statistics and Computing journal.

• In 2014, Stéphane Girard has been a reviewer for Annals of Statistics, Journal of Statistical Software, Metrika, Lecture Notes in Statistics, RevStat, ESAIM Probability & Statistics, Journal de la Société Française de Statistique.

• F. Forbes and J.-B. Durand are part of an INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research) Network (AIGM, http://carlit.toulouse.inra.fr/AIGM ) on Algorithmic issues for inference in graphical models.

• F. Forbes and S. Girard were elected as members of the bureau of the “Analyse d'images, quantification, et statistique” group in the Société Française de Statistique (SFdS).

• F. Forbes and M-J. Martinez are members of the ERCIM working group on Mixture models.