Section: Dissemination

Animation of the scientific community

Bruno Cessac is a reviewer for the CONYCIT (Chile) and COFECUB (Brasil) program and for the journals Physica D, Nonlinearity, Chaos, Journal of Statistical Physics, IEEE Transaction in Neural Networks, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Journal of Computational Neuroscience. He is in charge of internships organisation in the Master of Computational Biology, Nice.

Pascal Chossat is deputy scientific director of INSMI, the newly created mathematics institute of CNRS, in charge of the international relations of CNRS in this field. He is the coordinator of a geographic EraNet (EC program) named New Indigo for the development of scientific networks between European member states and India.

Olivier Faugeras is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Technology. He is on the Editorial board of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV). He is the co-editor in chief of the Journal of Mathematical neuroscience, Springer: Website: http://www.mathematical-neuroscience.com/ He is a member of the Institut Thématique Multi-organismes Neurosciences, Sciences cognitives, Neurologie, Psychiatrie. He is a member of the ERC PE1 panel. He co-organized a thematic semester at CIRM, Luminy, France, October-December 2011, on “Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Neuroscience” which featured four one-week workshops and six one-week courses. For more information see Website: http://www-sop.inria.fr/manifestations/SemesterCirm/ .

Pierre Kornprobst has been the coordinator of the MSc 2 in Computational Biology and Biomedicine (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis) until September 2011, together with Frédéric Cazals (Website: http://cbb.unice.fr ).