Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair

• R. Azaïs: Organization of the weekly seminar of the Probability and Statistics group at the Institut Élie Cartan de Lorraine

• P. Vallois organised a meeting "Fédération Charles Hermite", with assurance societies in Luxembourg, 2015 October

Member of the organizing committees

A. Gégout-Petit co-organised the day "Méga données pour la santé" for the Fédération Charles Hermite, Nancy, March 2015.

Scientific events selection

Chair of conference program committees

A. Gégout-Petit was chair of 2015 "Forum des jeunes mathématicien-ne-s", Lille November 2015.

Journal

Member of the editorial boards

P. Vallois is in the editorial board of "Risk and Decision Analysis".

Reviewer - Reviewing activities

All the BIGS members are regular reviewers for journals in probability, statistics and machine learning as: Bernoulli, Scandinavian Journal of statistics, Stochastics, Journal of Statistical Planning Inference, Journal of theoretical Biology, IEEE Trans. Biomedical Eng., Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, LIDA, Annals of Applied Probability, Annals of Operations Research and Journal of Machine Learning Research, ICML and IJCAI conferences, ...

Invited talks

• P. Vallois: New York, Finance Department, April 2015

• P. Vallois: Journées de probabilités, Toulouse, May 2015

• P. Vallois: Conference in memory to Marc Yor, June 2015

• C. Lacaux: Invited as plenary speaker at Adventure in Self-Similarity, Cornell University, USA, June 2015

• C. Lacaux: Invited speaker at 9th International conference on Extreme Value Analysis, Session Max-stable processes and applications, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

• C. Lacaux: Invited as pleanary speaker at 4th Stochastic Geometry Days, Poitiers, August 2015

• R. Azaïs: Choix optimal parmi une classe d'estimateurs non paramétriques du taux de saut d'un processus markovien déterministe par morceaux. Rencontres de l'ANR Piece à Saint-Martin-de-Londres (May 2015)

• R. Azaïs: Recursive kernel estimates for piecewise-deterministic Markov processes. Rencontres de l'ANR Piece à Tours (November 2015)

• A. Muller-Gueudin: Certainty bands for the conditional cumulative distribution function and applications. Séminaire Statistique, Probabilités, Optimisation et Contrôle, Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne (June 2015)

Leadership within the scientific community

A. Gégout-Petit was the president of the french statistical society (SFdS) until June 2015.

Scientific expertise

• C. Lacaux: Elected member of the Conseil National des Universités (section 26) (2011–2015)

• R. Azaïs: Member of the Technological Development Committee (Commission de Développement Technologique (CDT) in french), Inria Nancy – Grand Est

Research administration

• C. Lacaux: Member of the board of SMAI-MAS group

• A. Gégout-Petit: elected member of the laboratory of mathematics "Institut Elie Cartan de Lorraine"

• P. Vallois: head of the "Fédération Charles Hermite", consortium of three laboratories from Université de Lorraine in mathematics (Institut de Elie Cartan), computer science (Loria) and automatics (CRAN)