Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• Stéphane Girard was chairman at the 2nd workshop on Multivariate Data and Software (Limassol, Cyprus) and at the International Workshop on Stress Test and Risk Management (Paris).

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Florence Forbes is a member of the scientific committees of the Bayes Comp 2020 conference in Gainesville, Florida, USA (January 2020) and of the Research school on Networks and molecular biology at CIRM in Marseille (March 2020).

• Sophie Achard was a member of the scientific committee of the Wavelet & Sparsity XVIII 2019 in San Diego and the organizer of a special session within this conference.

• Stéphane Girard and Julyan Arbel were members of the organizing committee of the 10th Statlearn international workshop "Challenging problems in Statistical Learning", Grenoble, http://statlearn.sfds.asso.fr. Stéphane Girard also co-organized (with D. Fraix-Burnet, IPAG) the 4th international school Stat4Astro "Variability and Time Series Analysis", Autrans, http://stat4astro2019.sciencesconf.org.

• Julyan Arbel was a member of the scientific committee of Statistical Methods for Post Genomic Data analysis (SMPGD), link. Julyan Arbel organized the session entitled `Bayesian Machine Learning' at the 12th International Conference of Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStat), University of London, UK (14-16 December 2019).

Seminars organization

• mistis participates in the weekly statistical seminar of Grenoble. Several lecturers have been invited in this context.

• Julyan Arbel is organizing monthly reading group Bayes in Grenoble on Bayesian statistics.

Scientific Events Selection

Reviewer

• In 2019, Florence Forbes has been a reviewer for CAP 2019 in Toulouse and for ICDHT 2019 in Tunis.

• In 2019, Julyan Arbel has been a reviewer for the Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting proceedings (BAYSM).

• In 2019, Florence Forbes and Julyan Arbel have been reviewers for the Research School on Statistics and Data Science (RSSDS2019).

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• Stéphane Girard is Associate Editor of the Statistics and Computing journal since 2012, Associate Editor of the Journal of Multivariate Analysis since 2016 and Associate Editor of REVSTAT - Statistical Journal since 2019. He is also member of the Advisory Board of the Dependence Modelling journal since December 2014.

• Florence Forbes is Associate Editor of the journal Frontiers in ICT: Computer Image Analysis since its creation in Sept. 2014. She is also Associate Editor of the Computational Statistics and Data Analysis journal since May 2018.

• Julyan Arbel is Associate Editor of Bayesian Analysis (BA) and of Statistics & Probability Letters (SPL) since 2019.

• Julyan Arbel and Florence Forbes are Associate Editors for the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics (ANZJS), since 2018.

• Sophie Achard is Associate Editor of Neural Processing Letters and Network Neuroscience since 2016.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• In 2019, Florence Forbes has been a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), Statistics and Computing (STCO), and Neural Processing Letters.

• In 2019, Stéphane Girard has been a reviewer for Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (JSPI), Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, Spatial Statistics.

• In 2019, Jean-Baptiste Durand has been a reviewer for Behavior Research Methods (BRM) and Statistics and Computing (STCO).

• In 2019, Julyan Arbel has been a reviewer for: Annals of Applied Statistics (AOAS), Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, Probabilités et Statistiques (AIHP), Bernoulli, Biometrika, Entropy, Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS), Journal of Nonparametric Statistics (JNS), Sankhy$\overline{\text{a}}$, Stats, Statistica Sinica, Statistics and Probability Letters (SPL), Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI).

Invited Talks

Florence Forbes has been invited to give talks at the following seminars and conferences:

• Glasgow Statistics Department, March 2019

• Conference on Applied Inverse Problems, AIP 2019, July 2019 [34]

• 51ème Journées de la Statistique, Nancy, France, June 2019 [35]

• Workshop on Model-based clustering, Vienna, Austria, July 15-19, [32]

• Research School on Statistics and Data Science, Melbourne, Australia, July 24-26, [33]

Julyan Arbel has been invited to give talks at the following seminars and conferences:

• Applied Inverse Problems conference, Grenoble, France, July 8-12, 2019. Invited talk: Understanding Priors in Bayesian Neural Networks at the Unit Level.

• 11th Workshop on Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Processes (BISP), Madrid, Spain, June 12-14, 2019. Invited talk: Understanding Priors in Bayesian Neural Networks at the Unit Level.

• Workshop on Multivariate Data Analysis, Limassol, Cyprus, April 14-16, 2019. Invited talk: Some distributional properties of Bayesian neural networks.

• Seminar, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, September 19, 2019. Invited talk: On some theory for Bayesian neural networks.

• Grenoble R User Group, Grenoble, France, April 11, 2019. Invited talk: R Markdown.

Sophie Achard has been invited to give talks at the following seminars and conferences:

• Workshop ATLAS, GDR MADICS, November 2019, Grenoble http://ama.liglab.fr/ATLAS/Wksp-22112019.html. Invited talks: Assessing reliability of resting-state fMRI graph analysis: challenges in measuring brain connectivity networks alterations for clinical applications.

• NeuroSTIC, GDR BioComp et ISIS, October 2019, Nice http://www.gdr-isis.fr/neurostic/?p=452. Invited talks: Brain connectivity for patients with consciousness disorders: statistical and clinical challenges

Stéphane Girard has been invited to give talks at the following seminars and conferences:

• 2nd workshop on Multivariate Data and Software (Limassol, Cyprus) [37],

• Workshop "Appréhender la grande dimension" (Paris) [36],

• Seminar, Nottingham University, UK "Estimation of extreme risk measures based on $L_p$- quantiles".

Antoine Usseglio-Carleve was invited to give a talk [38] at the 12th International Conference of Computational and Methodological Statistics, London, UK.

Marta Crispino was invited to give a talk [31] at the 12th International Conference of Computational and Methodological Statistics, London, UK.

Scientific Expertise

Florence Forbes is Scientific Advisor since March 2015 for the Pixyl company.

Research Administration

• Stéphane Girard is a member of the "Comité des Emplois Scientifiques" at Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes since 2015.

• Since 2015, Stéphane Girard is a member of the INRA committee (CSS MBIA) in charge of evaluating INRA researchers once a year in the MBIA dept of INRA.

• Florence Forbes is a member of the "Comité Développement Technologique" for software development projects at Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes since 2015.

• Florence Forbes is a member of the "Comite d'organisation stratégique" of Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes since 2017.

• Florence Forbes is a member of the Executive Committee of the Grenoble data institute.

• Florence Forbes has been a member of the Selection committee for assistant professors at Ensimag Grenoble and at Ecole Centrale Lille in 2019.

• Florence Forbes is a member of the advisory committee of the Helmholtz AI Cooperation Unit https://helmholtz.ai/, since 2019.

• Sophie Achard is co-director of pôle MSTIC whithin Université Grenoble Alpes, since 2017.

• Julyan Arbel is a scientific committee member of the Data Science axis of Persyval Labex (Machine learning: fundamentals and applications, and Data linking, sharing and privacy), link, since 2019.