Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair

• Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela is member of the Steering committee of WG, Workshop on Graph Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science, and of ATMOS, Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems.

• Marie-France Sagot was from 2010 to 2016 member and from 2014 to 2016 Chair of the Steering Committee of the International Conference LATIN (http://www.latintcs.org/). She is member of the Steering Committee of the European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) since 2002 and of the International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA) since 2008.

Member of the organising committees

• Leen Stougie was co-organiser, together with Neil Olver and René Sitters of the 8th Workshop on Flexible Network Design, July 4-8, 2016, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Scientific events selection

Member of the conference program committee

• Laurent Bulteau (external collaborator of ERABLE) was a member of the program committee for the following international conferences in 2016: 41st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2016) and 11th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects of Information and Management (AAIM).

• Pierluigi Crescenzi was a member of the program committee for the following international conferences in 2016: 17th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS), 31st IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS).

• Roberto Grossi was a member of the program committee for the following international conferences in 2016: 12th Latin American Theoretical Informatics Symposium (LATIN), 27th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA), 8th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN).

• Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela was a member of the program committee for the following international conference in 2016: 15th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA).

• Nadia Pisanti was a member of the program committee for the following international conferences in 2016: 10th International Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM), 5th International Symposium on Network Enabled Health Informatics, Biomedicine and Bioinformatics (Hi BI BI), 5th RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Computational Cancer Biology (RECOMB-CCB), 16th Workshop on Algorithms in BIoinformatics (WABI), 6th RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Massively Parallel Sequencing (RECOMB-Seq), 12th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA), 7th International Conference on Information Technology on Bio- and Medical-Informatics (ITBAM), 6th IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS).

• Marie-France Sagot was a member of the program committee for the following international conferences in 2016: Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Prague Stringology Conference 2016, 11th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects of Information and Management (AAIM), 20th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), 14th RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics (RECOMB-CG), 16th Workshop of Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI).

• Leen Stougie was a member of the program committee of the following conferences in 2016: 18th Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO), Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA).

Reviewer

Besides the above, various other members of ERABLE have been reviewer for other international conferences, such as SODA etc.

Journal

Member of the editorial board

• Pierluigi Crescenzi is member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Computer and Systems Science and Electronic Notes on Theoretical Computer Science.

• Roberto Grossi is member of the Editorial Board of Theory of Computing Systems (TOCS) and RAIRO – Theoretical Informatics and Applications – Informatique Théorique et Applications.

• Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela is member of the Editorial Board of Theoretical Computer Science and Transactions on Algorithms Engineering.

• Nadia Pisanti is since 2012 member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Computer Science and Application (IJCSA).

• Marie-France Sagot is member of the Editorial Board of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (subseries of Lectures Notes in Computer Science), Journal of Discrete Algorithms, BMC Bioinformatics, and BMC Algorithms for Molecular Biology.

• Leen Stougie is member of the Editorial Board of Transactions on Algorithms Engineering since 2010, Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science since 2011, and Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization since 2013.

• Cristina Vieira is Executive Editor of Gene, and since 2014 member of the Editorial Board of Mobile DNA.

Reviewer for Journals

Members of ERABLE have reviewed papers for the following journals: Theoretical Computer Science, Algorithmica, IEEE/ACM Transactions in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), Algorithms for Molecular Biology, Scientific Reports, Journal of Computational Biology, BMC Bioinformatics, Computing and Informatics, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Genetica, Gene, Genome Biology and Evolution, Genetical Research, Genome Research, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, PLoS Genetics, Mutation research, mBio, Frontiers in Microbiology, Infection, genetics and evolution, PLoS Biology.

Invited talks

Clara Benoit-Pilven gave a lecture (Workshop Colib'read, November 7-8, 2016).

Roberto Grossi gave an invited talk (Eleventh International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management (AAIM), Bergamo, Italy, July 18-20, 2016).

Gunnar Klau gave an invited talk (Simon's Institute for the Theory of Computing, Workshop on Network Biology, April 11-15, 2016).

Vincent Lacroix gave a lecture+demonstration (Workshop Colib'read, November 7-8, 2016). He also made an invited presentation in the context of a CNRS training meeting (Formation Bioinformatique pour les NGS Montpellier, March 24, 2016)

Hélène Lopez-Maestre gave a lecture (Workshop Colib'read, November 7-8, 2016).

Nadia Pisanti gave two invited talks (Data Driven Innovation Open Summit, Rome, May 20-21, 2016; Conference Mathematical Foundations in Bioinformatics (MatBio), London, UK, July 20, 2016).

Marie-France Sagot gave two invited talks (German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB), Berlin, Germany, Sept 12-15, 2016; First Workshop on Enumeration Problems and Applications (WEPA), Aubière, France, Nov 21-22, 2016).

Blerina Sinaimeri gave a talk (University of Palermo, Sept 27, 2016).

Leen Stougie gave two lectures (Graduate School on Methods for Discrete Structures, Free University Berlin, 25 April 2016; 7th Cargese Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization, October 9-14, 2016).

Laura Urbini gave a lecture (Warwick University, Computer Science Department, November 10, 2016).

Leadership within the scientific community

Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela is Member of the Council of EATCS, the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.

Leen Stougie was Chairman of the Dutch Network on the Mathematics of Operations Research (Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde (LNMB)) from February 2011 to January 2016. From February 2016, he is Member of the general board of the LNMB. He is also Chairman Program Committee Econometrics and OR, VU Amsterdam and Member of the Board of the research school ABRI-VU, Amsterdam.

Cristina Vieira is director of the GDRE “Comparative genomics” since the latter was renewed in 2010.

Marie-France Sagot and Fabrice Vavre are members of the Steering Committee of the LabEx Ecofect (http://ecofect.universite-lyon.fr/).

Scientific expertise

Marie-France Sagot is member of the Advisory Board of the CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and chair of the “Commissions Scientifiques Spécialisées” (CSS) of the INRA for the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. She was also a Panel Member for the ERC.

Fabrice Vavre is member of the Section 29 of the Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique (CoNRS).

Research administration

Hubert Charles is director of the Biosciences Department of the Insa-Lyon.

Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela is Director of the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Nadia Pisanti is since 2013 member of the Board of the Regional PhD School of Computer Science at the University of Pisa, Italy.

Alain Viari is since 2012 Deputy Scientific Director at Inria responsible for the domain “Digital Health, Biology and Earth”. He thus represents Inria at several national instances related to Life Sciences, Health and Environment.