Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events: Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• Mathieu Desroches was one of the Program Chairs of the Waves Côte d'Azur conference, held in Nice, 4-7 June, 2019.

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Mathieu Desroches was on the Scientific Committee of the Waves Côte d'Azur conference, held in Nice, 4-7 June, 2019.

• Olivier Faugeras and Romain Veltz were on the Advisory Board of the 5th International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience, held in Copenhagen (Denmark), June 24 - 26, 2019.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• Olivier Faugeras is the co-editor in chief of the open access Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience. This journal has a 2-year Impact Factor of 2.091.

• Mathieu Desroches was Guest Editor of a Special Issue on “Excitable Dynamics in Neural and Cardiac Systems” of the journal Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation. This journal has 5-year Impact Factor of 3.637.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Fabien Campillo acts as a reviewer for Journal of Mathematical Biology.

• Mathieu Desroches acts as a reviewer for Physica D, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (SIADS), PLoS Computational Biology, Chaos: An International Journal of Nonlinear Science, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Journal of Neurophysiology, Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience, Nonlinear Dynamics.

• Olivier Faugeras acts as a reviewer for the Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience, the Journal of Computational Neuroscience, the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (SIADS).

• Martin Krupa acts as a reviewer for Nonlinearity, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), the SIAM Journal of Applied Dynamical Systems (SIADS).

• Romain Veltz acts as a reviewer for Neural Computation, eLIFE, SIADS, PNAS, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Plos Computational Biology and Acta Applicandae Mathematicae.

Invited Talks

• Emre Baspinar, “A geometric model with frequency-phase and its application to image enhancemen”, conference “Shape Analysis in Biology”, Sorbonne Université, Paris, November 2019

• Emre Baspinar, “A sub-Riemannian cortical model with frequency-phase and its application to orientation map construction.”, 1st meeting of the NeuroMod Institute, Fréjus (France), July 2019.

• Emre Baspinar, “A sub-Riemannian model of the visual cortex based on frequency-phase and its applications” [poster], 5th International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience, Copenhagen (Denmark), June 2019.

• Emre Baspinar, “A sub-Riemannian cortical model with frequency-phase and its application to orientation map construction.”, Waves Côte d'Azur Conference, Nice (France), June 2019.

• Mathieu Desroches, “Canards in excitatory networks”, XXXIXth Dynamics Days Europe Conference, Rostock (Germany), September 2019.

• Mathieu Desroches, “Canards and spike-adding in neural bursters”, International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), Valencia (Spain), July 2019.

• Mathieu Desroches, “Canards in excitatory networks”, SIAM Conference on Application of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird (USA), May 2019.

• Mathieu Desroches, “Slow-fast analysis of bursting oscillations: old and new”, Bilateral International Meeting UK-France, Royal Society, Chicheley Hall, Milton Keynes (UK), February 2019.

• Olivier Faugeras, “The meanfield limit of a network of Hopfield neurons with correlated synaptic weights”, Bilateral International Meeting UK-France, Royal Society, Chicheley Hall, Milton Keynes (UK), February 2019.

• Louisiane Lemaire, “Modeling the initiation of cortical spreading depression triggered by the hyperactivity of GABAergic neurons” [poster], 1st meeting of the NeuroMod Institute, Fréjus (France), July 2019.

• Louisiane Lemaire, “Modeling the initiation of cortical spreading depression triggered by the hyperactivity of GABAergic neurons” [poster], 5th International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience, Copenhagen (Denmark), June 2019.

• Martin Krupa, “Neuronal mechanisms for sequential activation of memory items”, International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), Valencia (Spain), July 2019.

• Martin Krupa, “Modeling cortical spreading depression induced by the hyperactivity of interneurons”, Waves Côte d'Azur Conference, Nice (France), June 2019.

• Simona Olmi, “Cross frequency coupling in next generation inhibitory neural mass models", Eugene Wigner Colloquium (Physics Colloquium), TU Berlin, Berlin (Germany), December 2019.

• Simona Olmi, “Cross frequency coupling in next generation inhibitory neural mass models, XXXIXth Dynamics Days Europe Conference, Rostock (Germany), September 2019.

• Simona Olmi, “Influence of network topology on spreading of epileptic seizure”, Waves Côte d'Azur Conference, Nice (France), June 2019.

• Simona Olmi, “Influence of network topology on spreading of epileptic seizure", XXIV Convegno Nazionale di Fisica Statistica e dei Sistemi Complessi, Parma (Italy), June 2019.

• Simona Olmi, “Enhancing power grid synchronization and stability through time delayed feedback control”, EPS conference “Statistical Physics of Complex Systems”, Stockholm (Sweden), May 2019.

• Simona Olmi, “The Kuramoto model with inertia: from fireflies to power grids”, School and Workshop on Patterns of Synchrony: Chimera States and Beyond, Trieste (Italy), May 2019.

• Yuri Rodrigues, “: A stochastic model of postsynaptic plasticity based on dendritic spine Ca${}^2+$ downstream proteins”, PhD Seminar, Inria Sophia Antipolis, December 2019.

• Yuri Rodrigues, “Towards a stochastic model of excitatory synapse”, 1st meeting of the NeuroMod Institute, Fréjus (France), July 2019.

• Yuri Rodrigues, “A stochastic model of postsynaptic plasticity based on dendritic spine Ca${}^2+$ downstream proteins” [poster], 5th International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience, Copenhagen (Denmark), June 2019.

• Halgurd Taher, “Heuristic mean-field model for short term synaptic plasticity” [poster], XXXIXth Dynamics Days Europe Conference, Rostock (Germany), September 2019.

• Halgurd Taher, “Enhancing power grid synchronization and stability through time delayed feedback control”, XXXIXth Dynamics Days Europe Conference, Rostock (Germany), September 2019.

• Halgurd Taher, “Mean-field model for short-term synaptic plasticity” [poster], 1st meeting of the NeuroMod Institute, Fréjus (France), July 2019.

• Romain Veltz, “Dynamics of a mean field limit of interacting 2D nonlinear stochastic spiking neurons”, 5th International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience, Copenhagen (Denmark), June 2019.

• Romain Veltz, “Analysis of a mean field of 2d spiking neurons, theory and numerics”, Bilateral International Meeting UK-France, Royal Society, Chicheley Hall, Milton Keynes (UK), February 2019.

Scientific Expertise

• Fabien Campillo was member of the local committee in charge of the scientific selection of visiting scientists (Comité NICE)

• Mathieu Desroches was on the Advisory Board of the Complex Systems Academy of the UCA${}^{\text{JEDI}}$ Idex.

• Olivier Faugeras was the President of the study group “Intelligence artificielle” of the Académie des Sciences de Paris. As such, he led the audition of experts of this research field, namely for 2019, Jean Ponce, Stéphane Mallat and Francis Bach. This study group has also produced a report for the 2019 G7 meeting.