Section: Dissemination

Animation of the scientific community

The Algorithms project runs a biweekly seminar devoted to the analysis of algorithms and related topics. A. Bostan and F. Chyzak organize this seminar. Several partner teams in the grand Paris area attend on a regular basis, and also take part in two regular workshops, Alea and the “Journées Nationales de Calcul Formel”, both gathering around 80 people in Luminy.

Alin Bostan has joined the Advisory Board of the MEGA conference (Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry). He has served as a member of the hiring committees in computer science at the University Paris 13, and at the University Lille 1. He has been a member of the PhD thesis committee for Carole El Bacha, who defended on Nov. 25 her thesis “Méthodes algébriques pour la résolution d'équations différentielles matricielles d'ordre arbitraire” at the University of Limoges.

Nicolas Broutin is co-organizer with Luc Devroye (McGill, Montreal) of the 23rd International Meeting on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2012), to be held in Montreal next June. With Luc Devroye and Gabor Lugosi (Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), they have received the funds to organize a one-week workshop at the Banff International Research Station (Canada), on “Sparse random graphs and network algorithms”, to be held in February 2012.

Bruno Salvy is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Symbolic Computation and of the Journal of Algebra (section Computational Algebra). He is organizing the working group Computer Algebra of the CNRS GDR IM (Mathematical Computer Science). This year, he is a member of the program committee of AofA 2012, Montreal. He is a co-organizer of the conference “Philippe Flajolet and Analytic Combinatorics” that pays homage to Philippe Flajolet in December. He has been a member of the PhD committees of Marc Mezzarobba and Jérémy Berthomieu (Polytechnique) and of the committee for the habilitation of Damien Stehlé (ENS Lyon). He has also been a member of the committees hiring researchers at Inria (CR, DR) and Professors in combinatorics at LIPN (Paris 13).