Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Scholarships:

• Alexandre Constantin supervised by S. Girard (mistis ) and M. Fauvel (INRA Toulouse) was granted a PhD scholarship on "Analyse de séries temporelles massives d'images satellitaires: Applications à la cartographie des écosystèmes" from CNES and the IDEX Université Grenoble Alpes – Initiatives de Recherche Stratégiques (IRS).

• Meryem Bousebata supervised by S. Girard (mistis ) and G. Enjolras (CERAG Grenoble) was granted a PhD scholarship on "Bayesian estimation of extreme risk measures: Implication for the insurance of natural disasters" from the Idex project named Risk@UGA.

Projects:

• In the context of another Idex project named Data@UGA, a 2-year multi-disciplinary project entitled "Tracking and analysis of large population of dynamic single molecules" was granted in November 2018 to mistis in collaboration with the GIN, coordinated by F. Forbes (mistis ) and V. Stoppin-Mellet (GIN).

Editorial and publishing activities:

• A new book entitled Handbook of mixture analysis, edited at CRC Press by Gilles Celeux (Inria), Sylvia Früwirth-Schnatter (Wien University), and Christian P. Robert (Université Paris-Dauphine) is now available (December 2018). Florence Forbes and Julyan Arbel have written 2 of the chapters in the book [49], [51].

• Marianne Clausel and Jean-Baptiste Durand co-published a chapter [48] on generative models in data science in the book Data Science. Cours et exercices, edited by Eyrolles (Paris).

• Stéphane Girard and Julyan Arbel have co-edited a book of proceedings following the Summer School Stat4Astro they organized in Autrans in 2017 [64].

New appointments:

• Stéphane Girard has been hired as a research collaborator by the CMAP (Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées de l'école Polytechnique) in the context of the Chair Stress Test, RISK Management and Financial Steering, led by the French Ecole polytechnique and its Foundation and sponsored by BNP Paribas.