Section: Dissemination

Animation of the scientific community

P. Del Moral is currently associate editor/editor for the following journals

• Chief editor : ESAIM: Proceedings since 2006.

• Associate editor : Applied Mathematics and Optimization since 2009.

• Associate editor Revista de Matemàtica: Teoria y Aplicaciones , since 2009.

• Associate editor : Stochastic Analysis and Applications since 2001.

P. Del Moral partipated to the following committees

• Scientific expert for the PES research grant selection committee of the French Ministry of Research in 2010, section CNU 25 and 26.

• Responsible with Xavier Warin (EDF R&D Clamart) of the theme modélisation stochastique et incertitude, of the strategic action EDF-INRIA since 2010.

P. Del Moral co-organized an interdisciplinary workshop on stochastic models and Bayesian inference in epidemiology in Bordeaux.

B. Bercu is responsible of the thematic group MAS (Modélisation Aléatoire et Statistique) at SMAI.

B. Bercu is an assistant director of the Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux (IMB). He is also a member of the IMB council and the UFR council of the University of Bordeaux. He is a member of the CNU section 26.

B. Bercu is co-responsible of the specialty "Modélisation Statistique et Stochastique" of the Master MIMSE.

F. Caron, P. Legrand and P. Del Moral co-organized the Machine Learning Summer School 2011 , organized near Bordeaux in September 4-17, 2011.

F. Caron gave a practical session on parametric and nonparametric Bayesian clustering at the Machine Learning Summer School 2011 in Bordeaux.

F. Caron was in the senior program committee of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2011 ).

F. Caron was in the program committee of the NIPS workshop on Choice Models and Preference Learning .

F. Caron was a reviewer for the following international machine learning conferences and journals this year: International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2011 ), Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2011 ), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B, Bayesian Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Statistics and Computing, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Automatica.

P. Legrand was a reviewer for the following international conferences and journals this year: Signal Processing, Evolve 2011 , EA 2011 .

P. Legrand and P. Del Moral were in the organizing committee of the international conference Evolve 2011 .

P. Legrand was in the organizing committee of the French summer school EA 2011 and the international conference EA 2011 .