Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Stéphane Girard co-organized the workshop "Learning with functional data", held in Lille (October 2016), He was also a member of the organizing committee of “Journées MAS de la SMAI”, held in Grenoble (August 2016)

• Florence Forbes and Stéphane Girard co-organized a session “Dimension reduction for regression” at the ERCIM conference in Séville, Spain (December 2016).

• Julyan Arbel organized the Bayesian nonparametric prediction session at the International Society of Bayesian Analysis Conference, June 2016. He also co-organized the StaTalk Workshop on Bayesian nonparametrics, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri, Italy, February 19.

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Stéphane Girard was the president of the scientific committee of the CIMPA conference “Méthodes statistiques pour l'évaluation des risques extrêmes”, held in Saint-Louis, Sénégal (April 2016), .

• Stéphane Girard was a member of the conference program committee of the “Mathematical Finance and Actuarial Sciences conference” organized by the AIMS (African Institute for Mathematical Sciences), Mbour, Sénégal (July 2016).

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• Stéphane Girard is Associate Editor of the Statistics and Computing journal since 2012 and Associate Editor of the Journal of Multivariate Analysis since 2016. He was co-editor of the book Statistics for astrophysics, clustering and classification, vol. 77, EDP sciences, 2016.

  He is also member of the Advisory Board of the Dependence Modelling journal since december 2014.

• F. Forbes is Associate Editor of the journal Frontiers in ICT: Computer Image Analysis since its creation in Sept. 2014. Computer Image Analysis is a new specialty section in the community-run openaccess journal Frontiers in ICT. This section is led by Specialty Chief Editors Drs Christian Barillot and Patrick Bouthemy.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

In 2016, S. Girard has been a reviewer for Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, Extremes and Dependence Modelling.

In 2016, F. Forbes has been a reviewer for Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Statistics and Computing, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis .

In 2016, Julyan Arbel has been reviewer for NIPS 2016, ICML 2016, AISTATS 2016, the Annals of Statistics, Bayesian Analysis, Bernoulli, Biometrics, the Canadian Journal of Statistics, the Hacettepe Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, the Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, SoftwareX, Statistics and Computing.

Invited Talks

Stéphane Girard has been invited to give a talk to the following conferences:

- “Extreme value modeling and water ressources” workshop (Aussois) [29],

- 3rd conference of the International Society for Non-Parametric Statistics (Avignon) [37],

- “Extremes - Copulas - Actuarial sciences” workshop (Luminy) [40],

- Statistics workshop at Tilburg University (Netherlands)

- ERCIM CFE-CMStatistics (Seville, Spain) [39].

Florence Forbes has been invited to give talks at :

- the 23th summer session of the Working Group on Model-based Clustering, Paris, July 18-23, 2016.

- the Fédération Rhône-Alpes-Auvergne day on multivariate data analysis in Grenoble, October 2016,

- the 11th Peyresq summer school on signal and image processing (July 2016): 5 hour lecture on Bayesian Analysis and applications [67].

- a special session on Dimension reduction for regression at the ERCIM CFE-CMStatistics conference, December 2016, in Seville, Spain [35],

- at the annual meeting of the MultiPlaNet project (Defi Imag'In CNRS) in Orsay in December 2016, on the inversion of the Hapke's model from photometric measurements.

Julyan Arbel has been invited to give talks at the following seminars and conferences:

- Rencontres Statistiques Lyonnaises, Institut Camille Jordan, November 23. Invited talk: Bayesian nonparametric inference for discovery probabilities.

- Séminaire de Statistique du LJK, Université Grenoble Alpes, November 17. Invited talk: Bayesian nonparametric inference for discovery probabilities.

- The Bayes Club, Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics, University of Amsterdam, October 7. Invited talk: Bayesian nonparametric inference for discovery probabilities.

- Séminaire de Statistique, Université Lille 3, October 6. Invited talk: Bayesian nonparametric inference for discovery probabilities.

- Séminaire de Proba-Stat, Université Paris 12 Créteil, October 4. Invited talk: Bayesian nonparametric inference for discovery probabilities.

- Séminaire de Proba-Stat, Université de Franche-Comté, Besancon, September 5. Invited talk: Bayesian nonparametric inference for discovery probabilities.

- ISBA World Meeting, Sardinia, Italy, June 13-17. Invited talk: Bayesian nonparametric inference for discovery probabilities.

- Mistis Seminar, Inria Grenoble, France, February 12. Talk: Infinite mixture models in Bayesian nonparametrics.

Julyan Arbel presented at the following contributed sessions in conferences and workshops:

- NIPS Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, Poster: Truncation error of a superposed gamma process in a decreasing order representation, Poster: Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference workshop, Dec 9.

- NIPS Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, Sequential Quasi Monte Carlo for Dirichlet Process Mixture Models, Practical Bayesian Nonparametrics workshop, Dec 9.

- Journées MAS, Grenoble, France, August 29-31. Poster: Bayesian nonparametrics, why and how?

- Third Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting, Florence, Italy, June 19-21. Talk: A moment-matching Ferguson & Klass algorithm.

- Journées de Statistique de la SFdS, Montpellier, France, May 30 - June 3. Talk: Bayesian nonparametric inference for discovery probabilities.

- StaTalk Workshop, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri, Italy, February 19. Talk 1: A gentle introduction to Bayesian Nonparametrics. Talk 2: Species sampling models.

- MCMSki V, Lenzerheide, Switzerland, January 5-7. Invited talk: A moment-matching Ferguson & Klass algorithm.

Emeline Perthame has been invited to give a talk at:

- the statistics seminar at University of Caen in October 2016 on an Inverse regression approach to robust non-linear high-to-low dimensional mapping.

Gildas Mazo has been invited to give a talk at:

- a special session on Copulas at the ERCIM CFE-CMStatistics conference, December 2016, in Seville, Spain.

Alexis Arnaud gave a talk at:

- a GdR ISIS meeting on Méthodes d'apprentissage statistiques et applications à la santé 2016-10-21, Telecom Paris, on Automatic segmentation and characterization of brain tumors using robust multivariate clustering of multiparametric MRI.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

Stéphane Girard is at the head of the associate team (Statistical Inference for the Management of Extreme Risks and Global Epidemiology) created in 2015 between iistis and LERSTAD (Université Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Sénégal). The team is part of the LIRIMA (Laboratoire International de Recherche en Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées), http://mistis.inrialpes.fr/simerge.

Scientific Expertise

• Stéphane Girard was in charge of evaluating research projects for the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium.

• Stéphane Girard is a Voting Member for the International Society for NonParametric Statistics (ISNPS).

Research Administration

• Stéphane Girard has been at the head of the Probability and Statistics department of the LJK (Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann) from September 2012 to September 2016.

• Grenoble Pole Cognition. F. Forbes is representing Inria and LJK in the pole.

• PRIMES Labex, Lyon. F. Forbes is a member of the strategic committee. F. Forbes is representing Inria.