Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair

• Christophe Biernacki was the General chair of the “47èmes Journées de Statistique de la SFdS” in Lille (JdS 2015, http://jds2015.sfds.asso.fr/ ). It holds during one week from June 1st to 5th 2015 with about 200 talks and about 400 registrations. It is the main annual French statistical conference, with international audience.

• Christophe Biernacki co-organised a one-day meeting “Big-Data : Une vision globale Gestion, Analyse, Ethique et Logiciels” in Paris on March 13 2015 (http://www.sfds.asso.fr/393-Big-Data ). It brought together about 80 registered people.

• Sophie Dabo participates to the organisation of the Ecole Mathématique Africaine, 30/11-5/12 2015, Institut Polytechnique de Yamoussoukro, Côte d'ivoire

• Benjamin Guedj is a founder and co-organizer of the YSP seminar (Young Statisticians and Probabilists), from the SFdS (Société Française de Statistique).

• Benjamin Guedj is the organizer of the Modal team weekly seminar.

• Benjamin Guedj is the co-organizer of the "Ateliers de la Statistique" from the SFdS.

Member of the organizing committees

• Christophe Biernacki co-organized a one-day meeting “Statistique et données massives : enjeux et perspectives” in Paris on October 13th 2015 (http://bigdata2015.sfds.asso.fr/comite-dorganisation/ ).

• Sophie Dabo co-organisate session "Asymptotic properties in nonparametric problems (EO116)" in "The 8th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics" (CMStatistics 2015)

• Sophie Dabo co-organisate of "Forum of Young Mathematicians", Lille, 27-29, November, 2015

• Guillemette Marot is a member of the organizing committee of seminars from Bilille platform. More information about all seminars is available on https://wikis.univ-lille1.fr/bilille/animation .

• Benjamin Guedj has been a member of the steering committee of the 47th Journées de Statistique (JdS 2015, Lille, June 2015) from the SFdS.

Scientific events selection

Member of the conference program committees

• Christophe Biernacki was in the conference program committee of the “Sixièmes rencontres des jeunes statisticiens” in parc ornithologique du Teich (near Bordeaux) on August 28th to September 2nd (http://rencontres-jeunes-statisticiens.sfds.asso.fr/ ).

• Julien Jacques is member of the program committees of StatLearn’15 (Grenoble, april 2015) and StatLearn’16 (Vannes, april 2016).

• Benjamin Guedj has been a member of the program committee of CaP'2015 (Conférence Francophone sur l'Apprentissage automatique, Lille, July 2015).

• Alain Celisse was a member of the Journées de Statistique de la SFdS program committe.

Journal

Member of the editorial boards

• Christophe Biernacki is an Associate Editor of the North-Western European Journal of Mathematics (NWEJM).

• Sophie Dabo is an Associate editor of Revista Colombiana de Estadistica

• Benjamin Guedj has been a reviewer for the conference CaP'2015 (Conférence Francophone sur l'Apprentissage automatique, Lille, July 2015).

• Cristian Preda is an Associate Editor for the Journal Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability (http://www.springer.com/statistics/journal/11009 ) and Romanian Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science (www.rjm-cs.ro/).

Reviewer - Reviewing activities

• Christophe Biernacki has acted as a reviewer for the a dozen journal papers: Journal de la Société française de Statistique (JSFdS), Journal of Classification (JoC), Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (CSDA), Journal of Statistical and Planning Inference (JSPI), Advances in Data Analysis and Classification (ADAC), Communication in Statistics – Theory and Methods, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DAMI), Journal of Statistical Software (JSS), Statistica Sinica, Electronical Journal of Statistics (EJS), Canadian Journal of Statistics (CJS).

• Sophie Dabo is reviewer of Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Statistics, Journal Afrika Statistika, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Nonparametric statistics, Annales de l'ISUP, Electronic journal of statistics, Metika, Annals of Statistics

• Julien Jacques has referee in 2015 papers for CSDA and Statistical Papier.

• Benjamin Guedj is a reviewer for the following journals: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A), Journal of the American Statistical Association, Molecular Ecology Resources, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, BMC Medical Research Methodology, Neurocomputing.

• Alain Celisse is a reviewer for the folloowing journals: Annals of Statistics, JMLR, Bernoulli, JMVA,...,

• Guillemette Marot has reviewed in 2015 papers for BMC Bioinformatics and the Journal of Bioinformatics Research Studies.

Invited talks

• Christophe Biernacki has been invited to give a talk at the following meetings:

  • a tutorial “Model-based clustering/imputation with missing/binned/mixed data using the new software MixtComp” at the MissData conference in Rennes on June 18-19 2015 (http://missdata2015.agrocampus-ouest.fr/infoglueDeliverLive/ ).

  • two lectures, named “Part I: CorReg Linear regression with correlated and numerous data” and “Part II: MixtComp Supervised classification with mixed data, missing data and uncertain data”, at the National Institute for Public Health (RIVM) in Utrecht (The Netherlands) on April 8-9 2015.

  • a lecture “Clustering: evolution of methods to meet new challenges” to the one-day clustering meeting of Orange Labs, Issy Les Moulineaux on October 20th 2015 (http://www.vincentlemaire-labs.fr/Clustering2015/ ).

  • a research talk at CMStatistics 2015 (ERCIM 2015) in London (UK) on December 12-14 2015 [25] .

• Sophie Dabo give an invited talk at Tunisian Association of Statistics and Applications Conference, march 2015 and an invited talk at the African Women in Mathematics Association Conference, july 2015, Kenya.

• Julien Jacques has given an invited talks at CMStatistics 2015 (London, UK, december 2015), ISI2015 (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, July 2015). He has been also invited at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II to give a talk on a workshop on Ordinal Data Modelling.

• Alain Celisse has given invited talks at

  • Nice: Calibration project meeting

  • Rennes: talk at the seminar

  • LSTA/UMPC: talk at the seminar

  • IHP: talk at the séminaire parisien de statistique

• Vincent Vandewalle has given invited talks at

  • Classification society meeting, June 2015, Mc Master University, Hamilton, Canada [31]

  • 8th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics, December 2015, Senate House, London, United Kingdown [33]

Scientific expertise

• Christophe Biernacki is an elected member to the “Conseil National des Universités” (CNU) since October 2015.

• Sophie Dabo, Expertise of l'Oreal's Award "Womens in Science" since 2014.

• Julien Jacques is referee for ANRT PhD grant.

Research administration

• Christophe Biernacki is “Délégué Scientifique Adjoint" of the Inria Lille center since August 2014.

• Julien Jacques is responsible of the Data Mining & Decision team of ERIC laboratory (Université de Lyon).

• Vincent Vandewalle, with Chloé Friguet (Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Bretagne Atlantique) and Frédérique Letué (Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann): organisation of a roundtable during the "47èmes Journées de Statistique de la SFdS" about how to teach the big data [51] .