Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

general chair, scientific chair

Monique Teillaud co-organized the “Workshop on Geometric Structures with Symmetry and Periodicity”, part of the Computational Geometry Week 2014, with Ileana Streinu (Smith College, Northampton, MA), in Kyoto University, Japan, June 8-9. http://www-sop.inria.fr/geometrica/events/wocg14-symmetry_and_periodicity/

Jean-Daniel Boissonnat organized the first GUDHI workshop in Sophia Antipolis, October 27-29. https://project.inria.fr/gudhi/first-gudhi-workshop/

Scientific events selection

responsable of the conference program committee

Olivier Devillers was program co-chair of 2014 Symposium on Computational Geometry.

member of the conference program committee

Monique Teillaud, European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA, http://algo2014.ii.uni.wroc.pl/esa/

member of the steering committee

• Jean-Daniel Boissonnat is a member of the steering committee of the international conference on Curves and Surfaces.

• Monique Teillaud is a member of the Steering Committee of the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA).

Journal

member of the editorial board

• Jean-Daniel Boissonnat is a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of the ACM, Discrete and Computational Geometry, Algorithmica, Journal on Computational Geometry, International Journal on Computational Geometry and Applications.

• Frédéric Chazal is a member of the Editorial Board of SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, Graphical Models and Discrete and Computational Geometry.

• Olivier Devillers is a member of the Editorial Board of Graphical Models.

• Monique Teillaud is a member of the Editorial Boards of CGTA, Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, and of IJCGA, International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications.

• M. Yvinec is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Discrete Algorithms.

• Monique Teillaud and Mariette Yvinec are members of the cgal editorial board.

Inria committees

• Frédéric Chazal was a member of the recruitment committee of Inria Saclay (vice-chair).

• Monique Teillaud was a member of the Inria Evaluation Committee until August.

  She was a member of the national Inria DR2 interview committee and the local CR2 interview committees in Nancy and Lille.

  She was also a member of the Advanced and Starting “Research Positions” interview committees.

• Monique Teillaud was a member of the local Committee for Technologic Development until her move to Nancy.

  She was also a member of the local committee for transversal masters.

National committees

• Jean-Daniel Boissonnat was a member of the Conseil de l'AERES (Agence d'Evaluation de la Recherche et de l'Enseignement Supérieur).

• Frédéric Chazal was a member of the Comités d'évaluation scientifique "Mathématiques et Informatique Théorique" of the ANR.

Web site

M. Teillaud is maintaining the Computational Geometry Web Pages http://www.computational-geometry.org/ , hosted by Inria Sophia Antipolis until November. This site offers general interest information for the computational geometry community, in particular the Web proceedings of the Video Review of Computational Geometry, part of the Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry.

Geometrica seminar

The seminar featured presentations by the following scientists:

• Omri Azencot (Technion) : An Operator Approach to Tangent Vector Field Processing

• Mirela Ben Chen (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) : Can Mean-Curvature Flow be Modified to be Non-singular?

• Benjamin Burton (University of Queensland) : Untangling knots using combinatorial optimisation

• A. Chiara de Vitis (Pavia) : Geometrical and Topological Descriptors for Protein Structures

• C. Couprie (Courant Institute) : Graph-based Variational Optimization and Applications in Computer Vision

• J. Demantke (IGN) : Geometric Feature Extraction from LIDAR Point Clouds and Photorealistic 3D Facade Model Reconstruction from Terrestrial LIDAR and Image Data

• Kyle Heath (Stanford University) : Image Webs: Discovering and using object-manifold structure in large-scale image collections

• N. Mitra (UCL London) : Computational Design Tools for Smart Models Synthesis

• P. Machado Manhães de Castro (UFPE, Brasil) : Invariance for Single Curved Manifolds

• Natan Rubin (Freie Universität Berlin) : On Kinetic Delaunay Triangulations: A Near Quadratic Bound for Unit Speed Motions

• D. Salinas (Gipsa Lab, Grenoble) : Using the Rips complex for Topologically Certified Manifold Learning

• Régis Straubhaar (Université de Neuchâtel) : Numerical optimization of an eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a domain in surfaces

• Jian Sun (Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University) : Rigidity of Infinite Hexagonal Triangulation of Plane

• Anaïs Vergne (Télécom ParisTech) : Algebraic topology and sensor networks

• Yuan Yao (School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University) : The Landscape of Complex Networks

• H. Zimmer (Aachen) : Geometry Optimization for Dual-Layer Support Structures