Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

• Benjamin Huard organized and was a member of the program committee of two international conferences in 2015: the CTCQED15 conference in Dresden (1 week in June/July) and the Third Conference on Quantum Thermodynamics in Porquerolles (1 week in October).

• Alain Sarlette has organized an invited session on “quantum control” at IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2015 in Osaka.

Journal

Member of the editorial boards

• Mazyar Mirrahimi is an associate editor of System and Control Letters.

• Pierre Rouchon is an associate editor of SIAM J. of Control and Optimization.

Reviewer - Reviewing activities

• Benjamin Huard served as a referee for Nature, Science, Physical Review Letters and other physics journals.

• François Mallet served as a referee for Physical Review Letters .

• Mazyar Mirrahimi served as a referee for Nature Comm., Reviews of Modern Physics, and Physical Review Journals.

• Pierre Rouchon served as referee for IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, Automatica, System and Control Letters, and New J. of Physics.

• Alain Sarlette has been a reviewer for several automatic control and dynamical systems journals and conferences.

Invited talks

• Benjamin Huard gave an invited talk at the Colloquium of the Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, June 2015.

• Benjamin Huard gave an invited talk at the PIERS conference, Prague, July 2015.

• Benjamin Huard gave an invited talk at the Colloquium of the Physics department, University of Basel, Switzerland, Oct 2015.

• Benjamin Huard gave an invited talk at the workshop of University of Tokyo- Ecole Normale Superieure, Tokyo, Japan, Nov 2015.

• Philippe Campagne-Ibarcq gave an invited talk at the “Congrès du GDR IQFA”, Palaiseau, France, Novembre 2015.

• Philippe Campagne-Ibarcq gave an invited talk at the American Physical Society's March Meeting in Saint Antonio, Texas, March 2-6.

• Benjamin Huard and Mazyar Mirrahimi gave invited talks at the conference organized for the 30 years of Quantronics: Paris, June 22-25.

• François Mallet gave an invited talk at the 14th International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations In Gdansk, 29 June- 3 July.

• Mazyar Mirrahimi gave an invited talk at the Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics (FQMT) conference in Prague: July 27-August 1.

• Mazyar Mirrahimi gave an invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Quantum Control of Light and Matter: Mount Holyoke College, MA, August 2-7.

• Mazyar Mirrahimi gave an invited talk at Quantum Science Symposium in Cambridge, MA: Sept 21-22.

• Pierre Rouchon gave an invited talk at the Workshop on Control Systems and Identication Problems January 12-16, 2015 in Valparaso, CHILE.

• Mazyar Mirrahimi and Pierre Rouchon gave invited talks at the Oberwolfach Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Quantum Molecular Dynamics.

• Pierre Rouchon gave an invited talk at the PRACQSYS meeting in Sydney: 20-25 July 2015.

• Alain Sarlette gave an invited talk at the International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) in Beijing, August 10-14.

• Alain Sarlette gave an invited talk at the second international conference on Geometric Science of Information in Palaiseau, France, Oct 28-30.

Scientific expertise

• Benjamin Huard was a member of the ANR CES30 committee in 2015.

• Mazyar Mirrahimi is a member of the Technical Committee on "Distributed Parameter Systems" in IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control).

• Pierre Rouchon is a member of the "Conseil Scientifique du Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers" since 2014.