Section: Dissemination

Popularization

• Olivier Teytaud has written a popularization paper on Chess algorithms in Interstices.

• We made two demonstrations, in Taiwan, of parallel automatic player evaluation; the events were advertised in general audience newspapers (MoGo web page ). Our Taiwanese partner has a motivation around PISA (international student assessment) and eTeaching.

• We also made in Brisbane a general audience demonstration of games against humans, with 7 wins out of 12 against professional players in fair games in 7x7 (MoGo web page ).

• Yann Ollivier organizes a bi-monthly math seminar for undergrad students on Saturdays at Institut Henri Poincare (together with X. Caruso, I. Kortchemski, R. Mansuy and A. Taveneaux), with 100+ participants at each session.

• Yann Ollivier takes part in the organization of the European Union Contest for Young Scientists (science fair for high school students from 30+ countries organized by the European Commission).

• Yann Ollivier belongs to the scientific steering committee for the elaboration of a brochure L'explosion des mathémathiques presenting a wide range of applications of mathematics, edited by the SMF and SMAI.

• Philippe Caillou was a teacher at the GAMA Winter School in Can Tho (Vietnam) in November 2012. The winter school objective was the diffusion of multi-agent based simulation methodology with the GAMA Platform to non-computer scientist in Can Tho Biology and Environment University.