Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria International Labs

LIRIMA

Associate Team involved in the International Lab:

SIMERGE

• Title: Statistical Inference for the Management of Extreme Risks and Global Epidemiology

• International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):

  • UGB (Senegal) - LERSTAD - Abdou Kâ Diongue

• Starting year: 2015

• See also: http://mistis.inrialpes.fr/simerge

• The objective of the associate team is to federate some researchers from LERSTAD (Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches en Statistiques et Développement, Université Gaston Berger) and mistis (Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes). The associate team will consolidate the existing collaborations between these two laboratories. Since 2010, the collaborations have been achieved through the co-advising of two PhD theses. They have led to three publications in international journals. The associate team will also involve statisticians from EQUIPPE laboratory (Economie QUantitative Intégration Politiques Publiques Econométrie, Université de Lille) and associated members of modal (Inria Lille Nord-Europe) as well as an epidemiologist from IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) at Dakar. We aim at developing two research themes: 1) Spatial extremes with application to management of extreme risks and 2) Classification with application to global epidemiology.

Informal International Partners

The context of our research is also the collaboration between mistis and a number of international partners such as the Statistics Department of University of Washington in Seattle, Université Gaston Berger in Senegal and Universities of Melbourne and Brisbane in Australia. In 2016, new collaborations had started with the statistics department of University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, USA and with the statistics department of McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

The main active international collaborations in 2016 are with:

• F. Durante, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.

• K. Qin and D. Wraith resp. from RMIT in Melbourne, Australia and Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.

• E. Deme and S. Sylla from Gaston Berger university and IRD in Senegal.

• M. Stehlik from Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz, Austria and Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile.

• A. Nazin from Russian Academy of Science in Moscow, Russia.

• M. Houle from National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.

• N. Wang and C-C. Tu from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

• R. Steele, from McGill university, Montreal, Canada.

Participation in Other International Programs

Alexis Arnaud received an award from the MITACS program, for a 5 months visit to McGill university in Montreal.