Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

Alain Franc co-organized with IRSTEA Bordeaux, IFREMER Nantes and INRA Toulouse the biannual meeting of the Mexico Network at Inria, Ada Lovelace room, in November 2018 (see https://mexico2018.sciencesconf.org/) and s a member of the Scientific Committee. The theme of the meeting was “Optimization, Sensitivity Analysis, and Exploration of Model Outputs.” Mexico is a methodological network dedicated to methods of computer exploration of complex models. (http://reseau-mexico.fr)

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

Alain Franc is member of the editorial board of BMC Evolutionary Biology.

Pascal Durrens is a member of the editorial board of the journal ISRN Computational Biology.

Research Administration

David Sherman is a co-president of the INRA Commission for the Evaluation of Engineers (CEI IMP6) (INRA UAR0837 DEV Délégation à l'Evaluation). Every INRA staff engineer is evaluated by this commission every four years.

Alain Franc has been appointed "chargé de mission calcul" at INRA by INRA Delegate for Digital Transition. As such, his mission is to propose animations and solutions for the development of scientific computing at INRA, whatever the Research Department.