Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Research Visitors

Visits of International Scientists

• Christian Shulte (Software and Computer Systems, School of Information and Communication Technology, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden), Jan. 24-27, to initiate the generic implementation of Bandit algorithms in Gecode (see Section 3.2 ).

• Visits from a Taiwanese delegation, see the Franco-Taiwanese week . This included visits to Univ. Paris-Sud, to other universities (Paris-Nord, Limoges), to companies working around energy.

• One month visit from Cheng-Wei Chou, Taiwanese ph.D. student from National Dong-Hwa University.

• Francis Maes, Post-doc, Leuven University, Leuven, Nov. 20 to Dec. 21.

• One week visit from Muneki Yasuda associate professor in the department of Information science, Tohoku University.

• Xiangliang ZHANG (25-31 October 2012)

  • Continued collaboration on large scale clustering.

  • Institution: KAUST-King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia)

Internships

• Christopher DELGADO (from Apr 2012 until Sep 2012)

  • Subject: Designing lean classifiers for detectors and triggers

  • Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)

• Gaurav MAHESHWARI (from Apr 2012 until Sep 2012)

  • Subject: Sampling-based statistical analysis in large-scale physics experiments

  • Institution: IIT HYDERABAD (India)

• Mauro DI MASSO (from Mar 2012 until Sep 2012)

  • Subject: Evolutionary Adaptation and the Emergence of Speciation in a Population of Autonomous Robots

  • Institution: National University of Rosario (Argentina)

Visits to International Teams

• Olivier Teytaud has made a one-year visit (August 2011 to July 2012) in National University of Tainan, Taiwan, and to many other universities.