Section: Dissemination

Animation of the scientific community

• Brigitte Plateau is the president of Grenoble-INP.

• Yves Denneulin is the director of Grenoble-INP ENSIMAG.

• Corinne Touati is the Grenoble INP correspondent for international relations with Japan.

• Yves Denneulin and Jean-Marc Vincent are co-directors of the LICIA (Franco-Brazilian Laboratory).

• Bruno Gaujal has been a member of selection committees in Grenoble.

Invited Talks

• Bruno Gaujal gave an invited talk at Piecewise Deterministic Markov Process Days, Marne la Vallée, 2012. He was invited to give a series of lectures at the Workshop Weak Kam Dynamics and mean field games and control, Warwick Mathematics Dept., 2012. He wa also invited to give a talk at the Complex systems workshop,Rescom, Paris, Nov. 2012.

• Bruno Gaujal and Corinne Touati are invited to give a one hour lecture each at the autumn school on Analyse D'Algorithmes et Modèles Aléatoires (ADAMA), Monastir, October 2012 on game theory for networks.

• Panayotis Mertikopoulos was invited to give talks at ENSEA, Wireless Networks Seminar, March 2012, Ecole Polytechnique, Economic Theory Seminar, March 2012, Games and Strategy in Paris (International Conference for Sylvain Sorin's 60th birthday), June 2012, Paris Game Theory Seminar, May 2012, University of Athens, Wireless Systems Seminar, October 2012.

• Arnaud Legrand has given an invited talk at JLPC (Argone), November 2012, at the workshop New challenges in scheduling theory, Frejus, Oct. 2012, and invited seminars at the PUC Rio and at UFRGDS, Brazil.

Journal, Conference and Workshop Organization

• Panayotis Mertikopoulos is the publications chair of Valuetools 2012 (the 6th International ICST Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools). He is also the co-organizer of the Paris Working Group on Evolutionary Games.

• Jean-Marc Vincent has been the general chair of the ASMTA conference, June 2012.

• Corinne Touati has been the general chair of ValueTools 2012, Cargese, Oct. 2012.

• Bruno Gaujal, Panayotis Mertikopoulos and Corinne Touati organized the Rescom summer school on Game Theory for networks, Vittel, June 2012.

• Panayotis Mertikopoulos was a publicity chair of the 11th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks.

• Arnaud Legrand has organized the simgrid user days in Lyon.

Program Committees

• Bruno Gaujal was the Technical Program Committee Chair of ValueTools 2012.

• Bruno Gaujal was program committee member of Wodes 2012.

• Panayotis Mertikopoulos was program committee member of ValueTools 2012.

• Arnaud Legrand was program committee member of IPDPS 2012.

Thesis Defense

• Marcio Bastos Castro, Improving the Performance of Transactional Memory Applications on Multicores: A Machine Learning-based Approach, Dec. 3, 2012.

• Kiril Geogiev, Débogage des systèmes embarqués multiprocesseur basé sur la ré-exécution déterministe et partielle, Dec. 4, 2012 [5] .

• Slim Bouguerra, Tolérance aux pannes dans des environnements de calcul parèlles et distribués: optimisation des stratégies de sauvegarde/reprise et ordonnancement, Apr. 12, 2012 [4] .

Thesis Committees

Members of the MESCAL project-team have served on the following PhD thesis committees

• Bruno Gaujal served on the thesis commitees of Laurent Jouhet (president), Adrien Brandejsky (reviewer), Xavier Koegler (reviewer).

Popular Science

• MESCAL actively promotes science to young and non-scientific audience. This year, Corinne Touati participated to the "stage Maths C2+" and the bi-annual "semaine de l'ingénieur" to promote the use of mathematics to junior high and high school students in Rhône-Alpes.

• Jean-Marc Vincent contributed to the national initiative for introducing computer science to high school professors in mathematics.