Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing and Scientific Computing 2016 http://www.siam.org/meetings/pp16/, Paris. Co-chairs L. Grigori and R. Vuduc. The team Alpines as well as other members of Inria Paris and UPMC, were in charge of the local organization of this conference. There were a record number of 500 participants, 88 minisymposia sessions and 44 contributed talks.

Frederic Hecht: Organizing the 8th FreeFem++ days (December 2016, Paris)

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Laura Grigori: Member of Program Committee of IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2016.

• Laura Grigori: Member of Program Committee of HiPC 2016, IEEE Int'l Conference on High Performance Computing.

• Laura Grigori: Member of Program Committee of IEEE Cluster 2016.

• Laura Grigori: Member of Organizing Committee of 5th SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC) 2016.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

Laura Grigori

March 2014 – current. Member of the editorial board for the SIAM book series Software, Environments and Tools. See http://bookstore.siam.org/software-environments-and-tools/.

June 2013 – current. Area editor for Parallel Computing Journal, Elsevier

January 2016 – current. Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing.

January 2016 – current. Editorial board, Numerical linear algebra with applications Journal, Wiley.

Frédéric Nataf

2014 – current. Associate Editor, Journal of Numerical Mathematics, de Gruyter.

Invited Talks

• Laura Grigori: Invited plenary speaker, Fifth IMA Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization, Birmingham, (http://www.ima.org.uk/conferences/conferences_calendar/5th_ima_conference_on_numerical_linear_algebra_and_optimisation.cfm.html, September 7-9, 2016.

• Frederic Hecht: tutorial with FreeFem++, CEMRACS 2016 CIRM, Luminy, Marseille, july 18-22, 2016.

• Frederic Hecht: Graduate Course: An introduction to scientific computing using free software FreeFem++ , The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences , Toronto, Canada , 7-17 March . 2016.

• Frederic Nataf: tutorial on Domain Decomposition Methods, CEMRACS 2016 CIRM, Luminy, Marseille, july 18-22, 2016.

• Frederic Nataf: Invited plenary speaker, Franco-Scottish Seminar 2016: Linear Algebra and Parallel Computing at the Heart of Scientific Computing. 21 September 2016.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Laura Grigori: Chair of the SIAM SIAG on Supercomputing (SIAM special interest group on supercomputing), January 2016 - December 2017. Nominated by a Committee and elected by the members of this SIAG.

• Laura Grigori: Member of the PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, http://www.prace-ri.eu/) Scientific Steering Committee, September 2016 - current.

• Laura Grigori: Steering committee member, Challenge 7: Information and communication society, ANR (Comité de Pilotage , Défi 7), since November 2016.

Scientific Expertise

• Laura Grigori: November 2015 - current, expert to the Scientific Commission of IFPEN (French Petroleum Institute). Evaluation of research programs, PhD theses, work representing a total of 5 days per year.

• Xavier Claeys: Member of the hiring committee for the position of maître de conférence 26 MCF 4346 at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Spring 2016

Research Administration

Xavier Claeys

Correspondent of the Association pour les Mathématiques en Interactions avec les Entreprises et la Société (AMIES) for Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions

Laura Grigori

Member of the Director Committee (Comité Directeur) of GIS Geosciences franciliennes, since November 2015.

Member (nominated by Inria) of the Scientific Committee of the Mathematics Department of UPMC

Frédéric Hecht

Assistant Director of Fédération de Recherche en Mathématiques de Paris Centre, Fédération de Recherche en Mathématiques de Paris Centre, Since 2010