Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair

• George Giakkoupis will be the General Chair of the 35th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2016), Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 2016.

Member of the organizing committees

• Davide Frey served as workshop and tutorial co-chair for the ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Middleware (Middleware).

• George Giakkoupis served in the conference committee and the steering committee of the 34th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2015), Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, July 2015.

• Anne-Marie Kermarrec is the vice-chair of ACM Eurosys.

• Anne-Marie Kermarrec has been a member of the Inria Parity committee (and leader of the recrutment group) since September 2015.

• Anne-Marie Kermarrec is a member of the steering committees of ACM Eurosys, Middleware, and the Winter School on Hot Topics in Distributed Systems.

• Anne-Marie Kermarrec is a member of the technical committee of the ACM Conference on Online Social Networks.

• François Taïani has been a member of the Steering Committee of the annual ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference since 2014.

• François Taïani has been a member of the Steering Committee of theIFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS) since 2013.

Scientific events selection

Member of the conference program committees

• Davide Frey served in the program committees of the following conferences.

  • 14th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), Cambridge, MA, USA, Sep 2015.

  • ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Middleware (Middleware), Vancouver, Canada, Dec 2015.

  • High Performance Computing (HiPC) 2015, Bangalore, India, Dec 2015.

• George Giakkoupis served in the program committee of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2016), Singapore, Jan 2016.

• Anne-Marie Kermarrec was a program committee member of the conferences.

  • Middleware 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada, December 2015.

  • Eurosys 2015, Bordeaux, France, April 2015.

  • SRDS 2015, Montreal, Canada, October 2015.

  • Systor 2015, Haifa, Israel, May 2015.

  • Netys 2015, Agadir, Moroco May 2015.

• François Taïani was a program committee member of the conferences.

  • Middleware 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada, December 2015.

  • IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), Cambridge, MA, USA, Sep. 2015.

  • IEEE 34th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2015), Montreal, Canada, October 2015.

  • The 45th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2015), Rio do Janeiro, Brazil, June 2015.

  • ICDCS 2015, The 35th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2015), Colombus, Ohio, USA, June-July 2015.

Journal

Member of the editorial boards

• Anne-Marie Kermarrec is an associate editor of IEEE Internet Computing.

• Anne-Marie Kermarrec is an associate editor of the Springer Computing Journal.

Invited talks

• George Giakkoupis. Vertex connectivity under sampling. Seminar of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Department, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Rennes, France, Sep 15 2015.

• George Giakkoupis. Bounds on the voter model in terms of graph expansion. Random Walks on Random Graphs and Applications Worshop, Eurandom, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Apr 14 2015.

• George Giakkoupis. Rumor spreading: Techniques and results. Tutorial, 8th Winter School on Hot Topics in Distributed Computing (HTDC), Flaine, France, Mar 18 2015.

• George Giakkoupis. Vertex connectivity under vertex sampling. PIMS Algorithmic Theory of Networks Seminar, University of Calgary, Canada, Mar 6 2015.

• Anne-Marie Kermarrec, TM Recommenders, Invited speaker at the 7th workshop on the Theory of Transactional Memory, Donostia, Spain 2015.

• Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Scalable personalization infrastructures, IST Austria, April 2015.

• Anne-Marie Kermarrec, TM Recommenders, Rennes, November 2015

• Nupur Mittal, Privacy-Conscious Information Diffusion in Social Networks, Rennes, November 2015.

• Michel Raynal, Concurrent Systems: Hybrid Object Implementations and Abortable Objects. at Euro-Par 2015.

• Michel Raynal, Communication Patterns and Input Patterns in Distributed Computing at SIROCCO 2015.

• François Taïani. Engineering Scale: Software and Distribution for Tomorrow's World. Keynote presentation at the Journées Nationales 2015 of the GDR GPL (France's research federation on software engineering and programming), Bordeaux, France, 9-12 June 2015.

• François Taïani. Large-Scale Systems And Self-Organization. Invited lecture at the Doctoral School “Interoperability and automatic adaptation for novel generation middleware systems” of Doctoral Program in Computer Science of CUSO (Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale), Neuchâtel, Switzerland, November 26th - 27th, 2015.

Leadership within the scientific community

• Anne-Marie Kermarrec has been a member of the Academia Europea since 2013.

• Anne-Marie Kermarrec co-organized the Workshop Inria/Technicolor on workshop on storage and data analytics , Rennes, Nov. 2015.

• Anne-Marie Kermarrec is a member of the scientific committee of the Société Informatique de France.

• Anne-Marie Kermarrec was a member of the Inria scientific board (Bureau du comité des projets) in Rennes until July 2015.

• François Taïani was the chair of the hiring committee for the position of Professor at University of Rennes 1 - ESIR.

Research administration

• Davide Frey is scientific correspondent for the DPEI in Rennes.

• Anne-Marie Kermarrec has been a member of the ERC panel for Consolidator Grants since 2013.