Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair

• Pierluigi Crescenzi was co-chair of the 16th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, 9-11 September 2015, Florence, Italy.

• Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela is member of the Steering committee of WG, Workshop on Graph Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science, and of ATMOS, Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems. He was Chair of the 12th Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems (MAPSP), 8-12 June 2015, La Roche-en-Ardenne, Belgium.

• Marie-France Sagot is since 2010 member and since 2014 Chair of the Steering Committee of the International Conference LATIN (http://www.latintcs.org/ ). She is member of the Steering Committee of the European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) since 2002 and of the International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA) since 2008.

Member of the organising committees

• Leen Stougie was co-organiser with Nikhil Bansal (TU Eindhoven) and Sem Borst (TU Eindhoven) of the EURANDOM/Networks workshop Scheduling under Uncertainty, 1-5 June, 2015, EURANDOM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

• Fabrice Vavre organised the symposium "Evolution and ecology of trait loss and dependency" at the 15th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Lausanne, August 9-14, 2015 in collaboration with J. Ellers (Amsterdam).

Scientific events selection

Member of the conference program committee

• Pierluigi Crescenzi was a member of the program committee for the following international conferences in 2015: 30th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 8th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC).

• Roberto Grossi was a member of the program committee for the following international conferences in 2015: 26th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM), 26th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA), ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA).

• Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela was a member of the program committee for the following international conferences in 2015: 40th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS), 14th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA).

• Nadia Pisanti was a member of the program committee for the following international conferences in 2015: 11th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA), 22nd International Symposium on String Processing and Information REtrieval (SPIRE), 4th International Symposium on Network Enabled Health Informatics, Biomedicine and Bioinformatics (Hi BI BI), 16th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS), 15th Workshop on Algorithms in BIoinformatics (WABI), IEEE Conference on Information Reuse and Integration in Health Informatics (IEEE IRI-HI), 5th IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS).

• Marie-France Sagot was a member of the program committee for the following international conferences in 2015: 8th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC), 26th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM), 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA), 23rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), 23rd Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB), 40th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS), The Prague Stringology Conference 2015, 19th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), 13th RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics (RECOMB-CG), The 15th Workshop of Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI).

• Blerina Sinaimeri was a member of the program committee of the 10th International Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM).

Reviewer

Besides the above, various other members of ERABLE have been reviewer for other international conferences such as FAW, IWOCA, and WADS.

Journal

Member of the editorial board

• Pierluigi Crescenzi is member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Computer and Systems Science and Electronic Notes on Theoretical Computer Science.

• Roberto Grossi is member of the Editorial Board of Theory of Computing Systems (TOCS) and RAIRO – Theoretical Informatics and Applications – Informatique Théorique et Applications.

• Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela is member of the Editorial Board of Theoretical Computer Science and Transaction on Algorithms Engineering.

• Nadia Pisanti is since 2012 member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Computer Science and Application (IJCSA).

• Marie-France Sagot is member of the Editorial Board of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (subseries of Lectures Notes in Computer Science), Journal of Discrete Algorithms, BMC Bioinformatics, and BMC Algorithms for Molecular Biology.

• Leen Stougie is member of the Editorial Board of Transactions on Algorithms Engineering since 2010, Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science since 2011, and Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization since 2013.

Cristina Vieira is Executive Editor of Gene, and since 2014 member of the Editorial Board of Mobile DNA.

Reviewer for Journals

Members of ERABLE have reviewed papers for the following journals: Theoretical Computer Science, Algorithmica, IEEE/ACM Transactions in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), Algorithms for Molecular Biology, Scientific Reports, Journal of Computational Biology, BMC Bioinformatics, Computing and Informatics, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Genetica, Gene, Genome Biology and Evolution, Genetical Research, Genome Research, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, PLoS Genetics, Mutation research, mBio, Frontiers in Microbiology, Infection, genetics and evolution, PLoS Biology.

Invited talks

Pierluigi Crescenzi gave three seminars (University of Padova; FSMP, Paris; Istituto Stensen, Florence); Leandro Ishi Soares de Lima gave a talk at the SeqBio Meeting in Paris; Gunnar Klau gave four invited lectures (CS Colloquium of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany; Bertinoro Computational Biology 2015, Italy; Amsterdam Data Science Seminar, The Netherlands; Integrated Systems Biology Symposium at Maastricht, The Netherlands); Vincent Lacroix made two invited presentations in the context of training meetings (Formation Bioinformatique pour les NGS Montpellier; Formation FC3Bio Lyon); Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela gave two seminars, one at TU Berlin, Germany, and the other at Laboratorio Nazionale CINI-InfoLife, Certosa di Calci, Italy; Nadia Pisanti gave four seminars (IMT Lucca; Laboratorio Nazionale CINI-InfoLife, Certosa di Calci, Italy; Glaxo-Novartis, Siena, Italy; Internet Festival 2015, Pisa, Italy); Blerina Sinaimeri gave three seminars (LIRMM, Montpellier, France; Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy; Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Leen Stougie gave an invited plenary lecture at the MOABI-workshop in Paris; Fabrice Vavre gave two invited talks (Symposium Communication between genomes, and Symposium Mathematical modeling and new methods for dengue control, Paris in both cases) and one seminar (University of Groningen, The Netherlands).

Leadership within the scientific community

Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela is Member of the Council of EATCS, the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.

Leen Stougie is Chairman of the Dutch Network on the Mathematics of Operations Research (Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde (LNMB)) and member of the Board of the research school ABRI-VU, Amsterdam.

Cristina Vieira is director of the GDRE “Comparative genomics” since the latter was renewed in 2010.

Marie-France Sagot and Fabrice Vavre are members of the Steering Committee of the LabEx Ecofect (http://ecofect.universite-lyon.fr/ ).

Scientific expertise

Marie-France Sagot is member of the Advisory Board of the CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and chair of the “Commissions Scientifiques Spécialisées” (CSS) of the INRA for the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. She was also a Panel Member for the ERC.

Fabrice Vavre is member of the Section 29 of the Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique (CoNRS).

Research administration

Hubert Charles is director of the Biosciences Department of the Insa-Lyon.

Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela is Director of the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Nadia Pisanti is since 2013 member of the Board of the Regional PhD School of Computer Science at the University of Pisa, Italy; she was in 2015 member of the hiring committee of 2 Researcher positions at the University of Pisa.

Marie-France Sagot was until December 2015 member of the Scientific Advisory Board (“Conseil Scientifique (COS)”) for the Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes Research Center.

Alain Viari is since 2012 Deputy Scientific Director at Inria responsible for the domain “Digital Health, Biology and Earth”. He thus represents Inria at several national instances related to Life Sciences, Health and Environment.