Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

Sylvain Arlot:

• Sylvain Arlot organized a workshop at IHES on statistics and learning in the Paris-Saclay area.

• Sylvain Arlot co-organized (with Francis Bach, Inria Paris, and Alain Celisse, Univ. Lille 1) a 2-day workshop at IHES about computational and statistical trade-offs in learning.

Jean-Michel Poggi:

• Organization Special Invited Session entitled “Advances in Random Forests”, 22nd International Conference on Computational Statistics, Oviedo, Spain, 23-26 August 2016.

Member of the Organizing Committees

Gilles Celeux is one of the co-organizers of the international working group on model-based clustering. This year the workshop took place in Paris.

Sylvain Arlot co-organized the 1st Junior Conference on Data Science and Engineering at Paris-Saclay (at LAL, Orsay).

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

Jean-Michel Poggi was:

• President of the Scientific Programme Committee, ENBIS 2017, Naples, 10-14 June 2017

Member of the Conference Program Committees

Jean-Michel Poggi was:

• Member of the Scientific Committee of CESS 2016, Conference of European Statistics Stakeholders, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 20-21 October 2016

• Member of SPC ENBIS-2016, Sheffield, UK, 11-15 September 2016

• Member of the Scientific committee of the journées MAS 2016, Grenoble

• Member of SPC COMPSTAT 2016, 22nd International Conference on Computational Statistics, Oviedo, Spain, 23-26 August 2016.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

Gilles Celeux is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal de la SFdS. He is Associate Editor of Statistics and Computing, CSBIGS.

Pascal Massart is Associate Editor of Annals of Statistics, Confluentes Mathematici, and Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning.

Jean-Michel Poggi is Associate Editor of Journal of Statistical Software, Journal de la SFdS and CSBIGS.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

The members of the team have reviewed numerous papers for numerous international journals.

Invited Talks

The members of the team have given many invited talks on their research in the course of 2016.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

Jean-Michel Poggi is:

• Vice-President ENBIS (European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics), 2015-18

• Vice-President FENStatS (Federation of European National Statistical Societies) since 2012

• Council Member of the ISI (2015-19)

• Member of the Board of Directors of the ERS of IASC (since 2014)

Scientific Expertise

Jean-Michel Poggi is member of the EMS Committee for Applied Mathematics (since 2014).

Research Administration

Jean-Michel Poggi is the president of ECAS (European Courses in Advanced Statistics) since 2015.

Sylvain Arlot coordinates (jointly with Marc Schoenauer, Inria Saclay) the math-STIC program of the Labex Mathématique Hadamard.