Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

Steering committee membership

• Pierrick Gaudry is a member of the steering committee of the ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) conference series.

• Emmanuel Thomé is a member of the steering committee of the ANTS (Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium) conference series (which gathers the program committee chairs and proceedings editors of previous conference editions).

Scientific events selection

Conference program committee chairing

• Jérémie Detrey was program chair for the poster session of the Conférence en Parallélisme, Architecture et Système (ComPAS 2014).

Conference program committee membership

• Jérémie Detrey was a member of the program committee of

  • the architecture track of the Conférence en Parallélisme, Architecture et Système (ComPAS 2014),

  • the Third International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America (Latincrypt 2014).

• Pierrick Gaudry was a member of the program committee of

  • the 18th International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography (PKC 2015),

  • the 5th International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields (WAIFI 2014).

• Emmanuel Thomé was a member of the program committee of

  • Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2014),

  • the Third International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America (Latincrypt 2014).

• Marion Videau was a member of the program committee of

  • Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2014),

  • the 17th Annual International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC 2014),

  • the Symposium sur la sécurité des technologies de l'information et des communications (SSTIC 2014).

Reviewing activities

• Jérémie Detrey reviewed submissions to

  • the architecture track of the Conférence en Parallélisme, Architecture et Système (ComPAS 2014),

  • Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2014),

  • the Third International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America (Latincrypt 2014),

  • the 16th Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2014),

  • the 6th International Conference on Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQCrypto 2014).

• Pierre-Jean Spaenlehauer reviewed submissions to

  • the 39th International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC 2014),

  • Symbolic-Numeric Computation (SNC 2014).

• Hugo Labrande reviewed submissions to

  • Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2014).

• Pierrick Gaudry reviewed submissions to

  • the 20th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security (Asiacrypt 2014),

  • the 12th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2014).

• Emmanuel Thomé reviewed submissions to

  • Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2014),

  • the Third International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America (Latincrypt 2014),

  • the 33rd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques (Eurocrypt 2014),

  • the 34rd International Cryptology Conference (Crypto 2014),

  • the 39th International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC 2014).

• Marion Videau reviewed submissions to

  • Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2014),

  • the 17th Annual International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC 2014),

  • the Symposium sur la sécurité des technologies de l'information et des communications (SSTIC 2014).

Journal activities

Editorial board membership

• Pierrick Gaudry is an editor of the journal Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing.

Reviewing activities

• Jérémie Detrey reviewed submissions to

  • the IEEE Transactions on Computers (IEEE TC),

  • the Journal of Cryptographic Engineering (JCEN),

  • the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS).

• Pierre-Jean Spaenlehauer reviewed submissions to Designs, Codes and Cryptography.

• Paul Zimmermann reviewed submissions to Mathematics of Computation, and declined several reviews for open-access and hybrid journals.

• Pierrick Gaudry reviewed submissions to Finite field and their applications and Mathematics of Computation.

• Emmanuel Thomé reviewed submissions to Designs, Codes, and Cryptography and Security and Communication Networks.

Invited Conferences

• Pierrick Gaudry gave invited talks at

  • the DLP 2014 workshop, in Ascona (Switzerland, May);

  • the SAC 2014 conference, in Montreal (Canada, August);

  • the Journées nationales du calcul formel 2014, in Marseilles (November).

• Emmanuel Thomé gave invited talks at

  • the ECC 2014 conference, in Chennai (India, October);

  • the Journées nationales du GDR IM 2014, in Paris (January);

  • the École de printemps Codage et Cryptographie 2014, in Grenoble (March);

  • the Journées de Sécurité des Systèmes d'information, in Rouen (November).

• Pierre-Jean Spaenlehauer gave invited talks at

  • the Journées nationales Codage et Cryptographie 2014, in Les Sept Laux (March);

  • the conference on Effective Moduli Spaces and Applications to Cryptology, in Rennes (June).

Other committees

• Pierrick Gaudry was a member of

  • the hiring committees for chargé de recherche positions in Inria Nancy – Grand Est, and associate professor positions in Univ. Lorraine and Univ. Montpellier 2.

• Marion Videau was a member of

  • the scientific committee of the CCA seminar (Codage, Cryptologie, Algorithmes),

  • the scientific committee of the Journées Codage et Cryptographie of GT-C2 of GdR-IM,

  • the LORIA laboratory council (elected),

  • the Commission des développements technologiques (CDT) of the Inria Nancy – Grand Est research center,

  • hiring committee for an associate professor position in Univ. Lorraine,

  • hiring committee for temporary teaching and research attaché (ATER) positions in Univ. Lorraine,

  • hiring committee for teaching contracts for PhD students (DCCE) in Univ. Lorraine,

  • admission committee for student applications for a master degree in informatics in Nancy.

• Paul Zimmermann was a member of

  • the jury d'admissibilité for chargé de recherche 1e classe and directeur de recherche 2e classe positions at Inria, and the jury d'admission for directeur de recherche 2e classe positions at Inria.

Seminar organization

Caramel seminar

Ten speakers were invited to our seminar in 2014: Armand Lachand, Pierre-Jean Spaenlehauer, Guillaume Moroz, Irene Márquez-Corbella, Nicholas Coxon, Christian Eder, Andrea Miele, Thomas Richard, Enea Milio, and Sebastian Kochinke.

Joint security seminar with the university master in informatics

The team is involved with other teams and the university master in informatics in the organization of the security seminar which started in 2013. Fourteen speakers were invited during 2014: Éric Leblond, Philippe Biondi, Eric Jaeger, Pierre-Michel Ricordel, Pascal Urien, Jérôme François, Thomas Voegtlin, Mathieu Cunche, Sébastien Bardin, Gwendall Legrand, Pierrick Gaudry, Sylvain Ruhault, Aline Gouget, and Raphaël Rigo.