Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Frederic Mazenc has organized with Pablo Monzon, Alvaro Castaneda and Gonzalo Robledo the "Workshop and Spring School on Stability and Dichotomies on Differential and Delay Equations" of the Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias, October 17-26, 2017.

Scientific Events Selection

• Frederic Mazenc and Ali Zemouche were Associate Editor for the conferences 2018 American Control Conference, Milwaukee, USA, and the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Melbourne, USA, (2017).

• Frederic Mazenc was Associate Editor for the European Control Conference, Limassol, Cyprus (2018).

• Ali Zemouche has co-organized three invited sessions in international conferences (IEEE$-$ACC 2018, Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis, ACD 2017, International Conference on Systems and Control, ICSC 2017).

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Ali Zemouche was an invited session chair of the "14th International Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis, ACD 2017", which was held at Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania, from 16 to 17 November 2017.

• International Society of Difference Equations (ISDE) Board of Directors has favorably voted for the proposal submitted by Sorin Olaru to organize the International Conference on Difference Equations and Applications (ICDEA) in 2021 in Paris Saclay.

• Guillaume Sandou is a member of the Program Committee of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems, 2017, Hawai, USA

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Catherine Bonnet was a member of the Comité International Scientifique de MADEV17, Rabat, Marocco.

• Frederic Mazenc is member (Associate Editor) of the Control Editorial Board - IEEE - CSS.

• Ali Zemouche is member (Associate Editor) of the Control Editorial Board - IEEE - CSS.

• Ali Zemouche was involved in the Technical Program Committee and International Program Committee of the following international conferences:

  • IEEE American Control Conference, ACC 2017;

  • Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis, ACD 2017;

  • International Conference on Systems and Control, ICSC 2017;

  • Australian and New Zealand Control Conference, ANZCC 2017;

  • International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Control Applications, ICEECA 2017.

Reviewer

The team reviewed papers for several international conferences including IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE American Control Conference, European Control Conference, IFAC World Congress.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

Frederic Mazenc is member of the editorial boards (Associate Editor) of the following journals:

• IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control;

• European Journal of Control;

• Journal of Control and Decision.

Sorin Olaru is member of the editorial boards (Associate Editor) of the following journals:

• IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information;

• IEEE CSS-Letters.

Ali Zemouche is member of the editorial boards (Associate Editor) of the following journals:

• SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization;

• European Journal of Control;

• Cogent Engineering.

• Managing Guest Editor for a Special Issue in European Journal of Control

  • Title: Advanced Control and Observers for Complex Systems via LMIs

  • Organizers: Ali Zemouche et al.

  • url: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/european-journal-of-control/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-advanced-control-and-observer-design-for-no

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

The team reviewed papers for several journals including SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Systems and Control Letters.

Invited Talks

Stefanella Boatto gave a talk entitled 'Modeling epidemics dynamics due to Aedes mosquitoes : the example of Rio de Janeiro and how to approximate an epidemic attractor, Université de Bordeaux, 22 Dec 2017, a talk entitled 'The N-body pronlem on surfaces, Maxwell laws and the axioms of Mechanics', Fluid mechanics seminar, Dept. Mechanical Engineering , Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, 30 June 2017, a talk entitled 'SIR-Network model : epidemics dynamics in a city $\&$ climate variations', Seminar of Analysis and Differential Equations, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 20 June 2018, a talk entitled ' The N-body pronlem on surfaces, Maxwell laws and the axioms of Mechanics', IA Seminar, Physics Dept., Universirsity of Lisbon, Portugal 22 June 2017, Vortex Dynamics Group, a talk entitled ”N-body on surfaces of revolution: the rôle played by curvature and topology ', School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, UK, February 2017.

Catherine Bonnet and Frédéric Mazenc gave a talk entitled 'Modeling and Analysis of Cell Dynamics in Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Institute of Disease Modeling, Seattle, USA, 30 May 2017.

Ali Zemouche gave a talk entitled 'Nonlinear observer design for Lipschitz systems', University of Toulon (IUT de Toulon, France).

Ali Zemouche gave a talk entitled 'Observer-based stabilization of uncertain nonlinear systems via LMIs', Deakin University (Geelong, Australia).

Frédéric Mazenc gave a talk entitled Model reduction and predictor control, the Departamento de Ingeniaria de Control y Robotico of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico-city, August 2017.

Frédéric Mazenc gave several talks and lectures to the "Workshop and Spring School on Stability and Dichotomies on Differential and Delay Equations" of the Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias, Santiago de Chile, October 17-26, 2017.

Frédéric Mazenc was one of the speakers of the tutorial session entitled "Tutorial on time-delay and sampled-data systems" organized by Alexandre Seuret and Emilia Fridman in the IFAC World Congress of Toulouse, 9-14 July 2017. The title of his talk was Model reduction and predictor control.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

Catherine Bonnet is a member of the IFAC Technical Committees Distributed Parameter Systems and Biological and Medical Systems. She is a member of the SIAG/CST (SIAM Activity group Control System Theory) steering committee (2015-2017) and a member of the management committee of the COST Action FRACTAL (2016-2020).

Sorin Olaru is a member of the IFAC Technical Committees Robust Control and the IFAC CSS TC on hybrid systems.

Ali Zemouche is member of the IFAC Technical Committee Non-Linear Control Systems.

Scientific Expertise

Catherine Bonnet is a member of the Evaluation Committee of Inria since September 2015.

Since 2014, Frédéric Mazenc is an expert for the FNRS (Belgium). His mission consists in evaluating research projects funded by this institution.

Since 2012, Frédéric Mazenc is a, expert for the ANVUR (National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes, Italy). His mission consists in evaluating the contribution of Italian scientists.

Since 2011, Frédéric Mazenc is a, expert for the Romanian National Council for Development and Innovation (Romania). His mission consists in evaluating research projects funded by the this institution.

Research Administration

Catherine Bonnet is a member of the administration council of the association Femmes et Mathématiques, of the Parity Committee of Inria and of the Cellule veille et prospective of Inria (both created in 2015).

In 2017, Frédéric Mazenc was president of the commission scientifique du CRI Saclay-Ile-de-France. In 2017, Frédéric Mazenc was member of the Bureau du Comité des Projets du CRI Saclay-Ile-de-France. Since October 2017, he is Correspondant Inria Saclay A.M.I.E.S., http://www.agence-maths-entreprises.fr/