Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair

• J.-C. Filliâtre chaired the fifth meeting of the IFIP Working Group 1.9/2.15 (Verified Software) in Vienna, Austria, July 2014.

Member of the organizing committee

• S. Boldo and G. Melquiond are members of the organizing committee for the 22nd IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (ARITH 2015), held in Lyon in June 2015.

• J.-C. Filliâtre organized the sixth meeting of the IFIP Working Group 1.9/2.15 (Verified Software) in Paris, France, December 2014.

• C. Paulin co-organized with Z. Shao (Harvard University) the Workshop on certification of high-level and low-level programs, July 7-11, 2014. This workshop was part of the IHP thematic trimester Semantics of proofs and certified mathematics, which took place in Paris from April to July.

Scientific events selection

Member of the conference program committee

• S. Boldo is a member of the program committee of the 7th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification (NSV-7). For 2015, she will be in the program committes of the 26th Journées Francophones des Langages Applicatifs (JFLA 2015), of the 8th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification (NSV-8) and of the 22nd IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (ARITH 2015).

• A. Charguéraud served on the external review commitee for POPL 2015.

• É. Contejean is a member of the program committee of the ACM SIGPLAN 2014 Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation, (PEPM 2014) affiliated with the POPL 2014 conference.

• J.-C. Filliâtre is a member of the program committees of the Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2014) and the Journées Francophones des Langages Applicatifs (JFLA 2014).

• C. Marché, member of program committee of the first international workshop Formal-IDE (F-IDE), held as a satellite workshop of ETAPS 2014 http://perso.ensta-paristech.fr/~etaps/ , and of the next workshop F-IDE 2015.

• C. Paulin is a member of the program committees of the conference Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2014) and the Coq Workshop 2014. For 2015, she will be in the program committees of the following conferences: Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP 2015), Mathematics of Program Construction (MPC 2015) and Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2015).

• A. Paskevich is a member of the program committee of the 11th International Workshop on User Interfaces for Theorem Provers (UITP 2014) affiliated with the FLoC 2014 conference.

Reviewer

The members of the Toccata team have reviewed papers for numerous international conferences, including: ARITH, CICM, CPP, ESOP, NFM, POPL, SLATE.

Journal

Member of the editorial board

• S. Boldo is member of the editorial committee of the popular science web site “)i(”:

  http://interstices.info/ .

• S. Boldo is member of the editorial board of Binaire http://binaire.blog.lemonde.fr , the blog of the French Computer Science Society.

• J.-C. Filliâtre is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Functional Programming.

• C. Paulin is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Formalized Reasoning.

Reviewer

The members of the Toccata team reviewed numerous papers for numerous international journals, including: Journal of Automated Reasoning (JAR), Transactions in Computational Sciences (TCS), Theory of Computing Systems (TCS), IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Journal of Scientific Programming, Journal of Field Robotics (JFR), Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (MSCS), Journal of Automated Software Engineering.

Invited Talks

• S. Boldo was invited speaker at the 16th GAMM-IMACS International Symposium on Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic and Validated Numerics conference (SCAN 2014) [25] about her methodology for the formal verification of floating-point programs.

• S. Boldo and G. Melquiond were invited speakers at an international workshop in Lyon, France called Mathematical Structures of Computation during the week 4: Formal Proof, Symbolic Computation and Computer Arithmetic. http://smc2014.univ-lyon1.fr/doku.php?id=week4 .

• C. Lelay was invited speaker at the 25th JFLA (Journées Francophones des Langages Applicatifs), Fréjus, France, Jan 10th, 2014 about “Coq passe le bac”: she tried the 2013 mathematics test of the scientific Baccalaureate in Coq at the same time as the students.

• C. Marché, “Calcul de plus faible précondition, revisité en Why3”, 25th JFLA, special session on selected representative papers of past editions, joint work with A. Tafat, Fréjus, France, Jan 11th, 2014.

• C. Marché, “Beyond SPARK2014: the ProofInUse project”, IFIP WG1.9/2.15, Vienna, Austria, Jul 15th, 2014.

• G. Melquiond was invited speaker at the 12th International Workshop on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT 2014).

• C. Paulin was invited speaker at the 25th JFLA (Journées Francophones des Langages Applicatifs), Fréjus, France, Jan 10th, 2014 to give a tutorial presentation of the ALEA library. She also gave an invited talk during the GDR-GPL “Journées Nationales”.

• C. Paulin was invited speaker at the workshop “All about Proofs, Proofs for All” (APPA) as part of the Vienna Summer of Logic. She presented an introduction to the Calculus of Inductive Constructions. She wrote a chapter in the post-conference book [115] to appear next year.

Collective Responsibilities

• S. Boldo, elected member of the Inria Evaluation Committee until August 2014. She was in the committee in charge of selecting the Inria permanent researchers (CR2) in Bordeaux and Nancy and in the national committee for first-class Inria permanent researchers (CR1).

• S. Boldo, member of the national Inria admission committee.

• S. Boldo, C. Marché, and G. Melquiond, members of committees in charge of recruiting assistant professors at Université Paris-Sud.

• S. Boldo, member of the CLFP, comité local de formation permanente.

• S. Boldo, scientific head for Saclay for the MECSI group for networking about computer science popularization inside Inria.

• S. Boldo, member of the national popularization committee, comité de médiation scientifique, of Inria.

• A. Charguéraud is vice-president of France-ioi, a non-profit organization in charge of the selection and the training of the French team to the International Olympiads in Informatics (IOI). France-ioi also provides online exercises in programming and algorithmics—in average, over 70,000 such exercises are solved every month on the website.

• A. Charguéraud is a board member of the non-profit organization Animath, which aims at developing interest in mathematics among young students.

• A. Charguéraud and G. Melquiond are members of the committee for the monitoring of PhD students (“commission de suivi des doctorants”).

• S. Conchon and A. Paskevich, members of the “commission consultative de spécialistes de l'université”, Section 27, University Paris-Sud since December 2014.

• É. Contejean, leader of the VALS team since February 2014.

• É. Contejean, nominated member of the “conseil du laboratoire” of LRI since April 2010 till June 2014.

• É. Contejean, elected member of the “section 6 du Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique” since September 2012.

• É. Contejean, member of the committee of experts for the AERES evaluation of the Verimag laboratory (2014).

• É. Contejean, reviewer for the ANR (2014).

• É. Contejean, reviewer for the START program of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2014).

• S. Dumbrava, elected member of the “conseil du laboratoire” of LRI since June 2014.

• J.-C. Filliâtre is correcteur au concours d'entrée à l'École Polytechnique (computer science examiner for the entrance exam at École Polytechnique) since 2008.

• C. Lelay, elected member of the “conseil du laboratoire” of LRI from November 2011 to June 2014.

• C. Marché and S. Boldo, members of the “jury de l'agrégation externe de mathématiques” as experts in computer science, since 2012.

• C. Marché (since April 2007) and C. Paulin (since September 2010), members of the program committee of Digiteo Labs, the world-class research park in Île-de-France region dedicated to information and communication science and technology, http://www.digiteo.fr/ . C. Marché, president of this committee since July 2013.

• C. Marché, member of the executive team of the LRI (as “chargé de mission”), since July 2014.

• C. Marché, president of the hiring committee of one associate professor position (Maître de Conferences), Université Paris-Sud, April-June 2014. Member of another such committee.

• C. Marché, director of the ProofInUse Joint Laboratory between Inria and AdaCore, http://www.spark-2014.org/proofinuse

• G. Melquiond and C. Paulin, members of the “commission consultative de spécialistes de l'université”, Section 27, University Paris-Sud since April 2010. C. Paulin is the president of this committee since December 2014.

• G. Melquiond, elected officer of the IEEE-1788 standardization committee on interval arithmetic since 2008.

• C. Paulin, scientific leader of Labex DigiCosme http://labex-digicosme.fr (Digital Worlds: distributed data, programs and architectures), a project launched by the French Ministry of research and higher education as part of the program “Investissements d'avenir”, it involves the 14 research units in computer science and communications from the “Paris-Saclay” cluster.

• C. Paulin, president of the Computer Science Department of the University Paris-Sud https://www.dep-informatique.u-psud.fr/ , since February 2012.

• C. Paulin, president of the assembly of directors of graduate schools at the Université Paris-Sud since September 2012.

• C. Paulin, chaired the hiring committee for a professor position in computer science at Université Paris-Sud.

• In 2014, C. Paulin was elected member of the Informatics Section of Academia Europaea http://www.ae-info.org/ .

• A. Paskevich was in charge (together with C. Bastoul in 2012–2013 and B. Cautis in 2013–2014) of Licence professionnelle PER (L3) at IUT d'Orsay, Paris-Sud University since September 2012 till August 2014.