Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Sylvain Lazard organized with S. Whitesides (Victoria University) the 16th Workshop on Computational Geometry at the Bellairs Research Institute of McGill University in Feb. (1 week workshop on invitation).

• Monique Teillaud co-organized with Claire Mathieu Celebrating Claude Puech's birthday, Paris, June 12.

• Monique Teillaud co-organized the workshop Geometric Aspects of Materials Science with Vanessa Robins and Ileana Streinu, Brisbane, Australia, July 4–5.

• Monique Teillaud co-organized with the Astonishing partners the Astonishing workshop at Loria/Inria nancy, September 25–26.

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Sylvain Lazard was a member of the program committee of SoCG, Symposium on Computational Geometry.

• Monique Teillaud was a member of the program committee of WADS, Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium.

Reviewer

• All members of the team are regular reviewers for the conferences of our field, namely the Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG) and the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC) and also SODA, CCCG, EuroCG.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• Monique Teillaud is a managing editor of JoCG, Journal of Computational Geometry and a member of the editorial board of IJCGA, International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications.

• Marc Pouget and Monique Teillaud are members of the Cgal editorial board.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• All members of the team are regular reviewers for the journals of our field, namely Discrete and Computational Geometry (DCG), Computational Geometry. Theory and Applications (CGTA), Journal of Computational Geometry (JoCG), International Journal on Computational Geometry and Applications (IJCGA), Journal on Symbolic Computations (JSC), SIAM Journal on Computing (SICOMP), Mathematics in Computer Science (MCS), etc.

Invited Talks

• Monique Teillaud was an invited speaker of CATS, Computational & Algorithmic Topology, Sydney, Australia, June 27 – July 1st.

• Guillaume Moroz was invited to give a talk at the Effective Geometry and Algebra seminar at IRMAR.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

Steering Committees

• Monique Teillaud is chairing the Steering Committee of the Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG). She was a member of the Steering Committee of the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA) until September.

Learned societies

• Monique Teillaud is a member of the Scientific Board of the Société Informatique de France (SIF).

Scientific Expertise

• Monique Teillaud acted as a reviewer for the DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation).

Research Administration

Hiring committees

• Olivier Devillers was the representative of LORIA in the hiring committee for an Associate Professor (MCF) position (IUT St Dié/LORIA) and composed the committee with the president.

National committees

• L. Dupont is the secretary of Commission Pédagogique Nationale Carrières Sociales / Information-Communication / Métiers du Multimédia et de l'Internet (since May).

• M. Teillaud is a member of the working group for the BIL, Base d'Information des Logiciels of Inria.

Local Committees and Responsabilities

• O. Devillers: Elected member to Pole AM2I the council that gathers labs in mathematics, computer science, and control theory at Université de Lorraine.

• L. Dupont Instigator (June 2016) and head of the Bachelor diploma Licence Professionnele Animation des Communautés et Réseaux Socionumériques, Université de Lorraine.

• S. Lazard: Head of the PhD and Post-doc hiring committee for Inria Nancy-Grand Est (since 2009). Member of the Bureau de la mention informatique of the École Doctorale IAE+M (since 2009). Head of the Mission Jeunes Chercheurs for Inria Nancy-Grand Est (since 2011). Head of the Department Algo at LORIA (since 2014). Member of the Conseil Scientifique of LORIA (since 2014).

• G. Moroz is member of the Mathematics Olympiades committee of the Nancy-Metz academy. G. Moroz is member of the Comité des utilisateurs des moyens informatiques

• M. Pouget is elected at the Comité de centre, and member of the board of the Charles Hermite federation of labs. M. Pouget is secretary of the board of AGOS-Nancy.

• M. Teillaud is a member of the BCP, Bureau du Comité des Projets and of the CDT, Commission de développement technologique of Inria Nancy - Grand Est.

Websites

• M. Teillaud is maintaining the Computational Geometry Web Pages http://www.computational-geometry.org/, hosted by Inria Nancy - Grand Est since December. This site offers general interest information for the computational geometry community, in particular the Web proceedings of the Video Review of Computational Geometry, part of the Annual/international Symposium on Computational Geometry.