Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair

Amos Korman has co-chaired and co-organized the BDA 2014 worksop http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~saketn/BDA2014/ .This 2 day workshop brought together leading researchers in biology and distributed computing (from institutions such as MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and Weizmann) aiming to create a common platform for collaborations.

Scientific events selection

Chair of conference program committee

Pierre Fraigniaud has chaired the C track of the 41st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2014).

Member of the conference program committee

Michel Habib was member of the program committee of the 39th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2014).

Invited talks

• Pierre Fraigniaud was keynote speaker at the 16th Interntional Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2014), Paderborn, Germany, Sep 28 - Oct 1, 2014.

• Adrian Kosowski made a tutorial at the 5th Polish Combinatorial Conference, Bedlewo, September 2014.

• Adrian Kosowski was invited speaker at Algotel 2014 - 16èmes Rencontres Francophones pour les Aspects Algorithmiques des Télécommunications, Ile de Ré, June 2014.

• Laurent Viennot was invited speaker at the SMBE Satellite Meeting on Reticulated Microbial Evolution, April 27-30, 2014, Kiel, Germany.

• Michel Habib made a tutorial at Ecole Rescom, France, May 2014.

Journal

Member of the editorial board

Pierre Fraigniaud is member of the editorial boards of Distributed Computing (DC), Theory of Computing Systems (TOCS), Fundamenta Informaticae (FI) and Journal of Interconnection Networks (JOIN).