Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Olivier Faugeras and Romain Veltz were on the Advisory Board of the 4th International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience, held in Antibes Juan les Pins (France), June 11 - 13, 2018.

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Mathieu Desroches was on the Program Committee of the 4th International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience, held in Antibes Juan les Pins (France), June 11 - 13, 2018.

• Mathieu Desroches was on the Scientific Committe of the 2nd International workshop in Neurodynamics (Ndy'18), held in Castro-Urdiales (Spain), September 26-29, 2018.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

Olivier Faugeras is the co-editor in chief of the open access Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience. This journal has obtained in 2018 an Impact Factor of 2.4.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Fabien Campillo acts as a reviewer for Journal of Mathematical Biology.

• Mathieu Desroches acts as a reviewer for Physica D, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (SIADS), PLoS Computational Biology, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Journal of Neurophysiology, Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience, Nonlinear Dynamics.

• Olivier Faugeras acts as a reviewer for the Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience, the Journal of Computational Neuroscience, the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (SIADS).

• Martin Krupa acts as a reviewer for Nonlinearity, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), the SIAM Journal of Applied Dynamical Systems (SIADS).

• Romain Veltz acts as a reviewer for Neural Computation, eLIFE, SIADS, PNAS, Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Invited Talks

• Pascal Chossat, “Stability of Simple and Pseudo Simple Heteroclinic Cycles in ${ℝ}^4$”, Perspectives in Nonlinear Science Workshop, Cargese (France), March 2018.

• Pascal Chossat, “Computational aspects of equivariant bifurcation theory”, Colloque Symmetry and Computation, CIRM (France), April 2018.

• Pascal Chossat, “Geometry in neurosciences: the example of the visual cortex” (plenary talk), Systèmes dynamiques et systèmes complexes - Une conférence pour célébrer les 60 ans de Jean-Marc Gambaudo, Nice (France), Juin 2018.

• Pascal Chossat, “Perception of images by the visual cortex: geometry in neuroscience” (plenary talk), VI Iberoamerican meeting Geometry, Mechanics and Control, Guanajuato (Mexico), August 2018.

• Pascal Chossat, “Transitions de phase dans le plan hyperbolique, application à la détection des textures par le cortex visuel primaire”, Colloque Géométrie et représentation de la couleur, UPMC, November 2018.

• Mathieu Desroches, “Canards and spike-adding in neural bursters”, MURPHYS-HSFS-2018 meeting, CRM, Barcelona (Spain), May 2018.

• Mathieu Desroches, “Three-Timescale Dynamics: Canards and Spike Adding”, New Trends in Mathematical Biology, CRM, Barcelona (Spain), June 2018.

• Olivier Faugeras, “Predicting neuronal correlations in large size networks based on meanfield analysis”, Workshop Mean-field Approaches to the Dynamics of Neuronal Networks, EITN, Paris (France), January 2018.

• Olivier Faugeras, “Neural networks do not become asynchronous in the large size limit when synaptic weights are correlated: there is no propagation of chaos”, Worshop InSpire – New Insights on Complex Neural Dynamics, , Cergy (France), June 2018.

• Olivier Faugeras, “Neural networks do not become asynchronous in the large size limit: there is no propagation of chaos”, ICMNS 2018, Antibes (France), June 2018.

• Elif Köksal Ersöz, “Anticipation via canards”, MURPHYS-HSFS-2018 meeting, CRM, Barcelona (Spain), May 2018.

• Elif Köksal Ersöz, “Anticipation via canards in excitable systems”, XXIII National Conference on Statistical Physics and Complex Systems, Parma (Italy), June 2018.

• Elif Köksal Ersöz, “Canard mediated mixed-mode bursting oscillations in a rate model”, European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB 2018), Lisbonne (Portugal), July 2018.

• Elif Köksal Ersöz, “Canard mediated mixed-mode bursting oscillations in a rate model”, 2nd International workshop in Neurodynamics (Ndy'18), Castro-Urdiales (Spain), September 2018.

• Martin Krupa, “Heteroclinic chains in a model of associative memory”, Systèmes dynamiques et systèmes complexes - Une conférence pour célébrer les 60 ans de Jean-Marc Gambaudo, Nice (France), June 2018.

• Romain Veltz, “On a toy network of neurons interacting through nonlinear dendritic compartments”, ICMNS 2018, invited talk, June 2018.

• Romain Veltz, “On a toy network of neurons interacting through nonlinear dendritic compartments”, Mean-field approaches to the dynamics of neuronal networks, EITN, 2018.

• Romain Veltz, “On a toy network of neurons interacting through nonlinear dendritic compartments”, Systèmes dynamiques et systèmes complexes - Une conférence pour célébrer les 60 ans de Jean-Marc Gambaudo, Nice (France), June 2018.

• Romain Veltz, “Models of neurons interacting through nonlinear dendritic compartments”, Séminaire de Probabilités et Statistique, LJAD, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, October 2018.

Scientific Expertise

• Fabien Campillo was member of the local committee in charge of the scientific selection of visiting scientists (Comité NICE)

• Fabien Campillo was member of the HCERES visiting committee for the evaluation of the INRA Research Unit MAIAGE.

• Fabien Campillo was member of the visiting committee of the LIRIMA International Laboratory.

• Mathieu Desroches was on the Advisory Board of the Complex Systems Academy of the UCA${}^{\text{JEDI}}$ Idex.

• Olivier Faugeras made a presentation in front of the CCNE (Comité Consultatif National d'Ethique) reporting on the work made by the group “éthique et IA” that he was the president of at the Académie des Sciences de Paris in preparation of their revision of the law on bioethics.

• Olivier Faugeras was the President of the study group “Intelligence artificielle” of the Académie des Sciences de Paris. As such, he led the audition of experts of this research field, namely for 2018, Jean Ponce, Stéphane Mallat and Francis Bach. This study group has also produced a report for the 2019 G7 meeting.