Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

Member of the Organizing Committees

Catherine Bonnet is member of the organizing committee of SIAM CT19, Chendu China, July 2019. Islam Boussaada is co-animator of the national working group GT OSYDI of the GDR MACS funded by CNRS. Giorgio Valmorbida was member of the Organizing committee of the 2nd Workshop on DElays and COnstraints on Distributed parameter systems (DECOD-2018).

Scientific Events Selection

• Catherine Bonnet was Associate Editor for the conferences 2019 American Control Conference, Philadelphia, USA.

• Islam Boussaada was Associate Editor for 14th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems, Budapest, Hungary.

• Frédéric Mazenc was Associate Editor for the conferences 2019 American Control Conference, Philadelphie, USA, and the 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami, USA, (2018).

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Catherine Bonnet is a member of the scientific committee of the GDRI (International Research Group funded by CNRS) SpaDisco since 2017.

• Catherine Bonnet, Islam Boussaada and Sorin Olaru are members of the International Program Committee of the Joint IFAC Conference 7th Symposium on System Structure and Control (SSSC 2019) and 15th IFAC Workshop on Delay Systems, Sinaia, Roumania, Sept 2019.

• Islam Boussaada was a member of the International Program Committee for 14th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems (TDS 2018), Budapest, Hungary.

• Frédéric Mazenc and Giorgio Valmorbida are members (Associate Editors) of the Control Editorial Board - IEEE - CSS. Sorin Olaru was member of the International Program Committee of the 9th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design - ROCOND and of the IEEE Mediterranean Control Conference.

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

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

• IEEE Control Systems Letters;

• IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, Oxford Press.

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 at the biomathematics Seminar of Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille, Aix-Marseille univerité, February 2018, Marseilles, France. Title of her talk: 'Modelling epidemics dynamics due to Aedes mosquitoes : the example of Rio de Janeiro. How to approximate an epidemic attractor and to estimate the infectivity rate'.

Frédéric Mazenc was a plenary speaker of the conference POSTA2018, August 2018, Hangzhou, China. Title of his talk: 'Stability of Positive Systems With Delay: Changes of Coordinates, Comparison Systems, Lyapunov Functionals'.

Giorgio Valmorbida gave an invited talk at the International Workshop on Robust LPV Control Techniques and Anti-Windup Design, April 2018, Toulouse, France. Title of his talk: 'Anti-Windup Design for Synchronous Machines'.

Giorgio Valmorbida gave an invited talk at the Meeting of the GT CSE (groupe de travail Commande de Systèmes Éléctriques) , May 2018, Paris, France. Title of his talk: 'Anti-Windup Design for Synchronous Machines'.

Giorgio Valmorbida gave an invited talk at the 2nd Workshop on Stability and Control of Infinite-Dimensional Systems (SCINDIS-2018), May 2018, Wurzburg, Germany. Title of his talk: 'Convex Optimization Methods to Solve Integral Inequalities'.

Giorgio Valmorbida gave an invited talk at the 2nd Workshop on DElays and COnstraints on Distributed parameter systems (DECOD-2018), November 2018, Toulouse, France. Title of his talk: 'Stability Analysis of Piece-wise Affine Discrete-Time systems'.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

Catherine Bonnet is a member of the IFAC Technical Committees on Distributed Parameter Systems and on Biological and Medical Systems. She is a member of the management committee of the COST Action FRACTAL (2016-2020). Sorin Olaru is a member of the IFAC Technical Committees on Robust Control and on Optimal control. He is a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Hybrid Systems. He is a Senior Member IEEE since 2012.

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 an 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 an 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). She is a member of the Bureau du Comité des Projets du CRI Saclay-Ile-de-France.

In 2018, Frédéric Mazenc is a member of the commission scientifique 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/