Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• W. Perruquetti is the chairman of the IFAC Technical Committee “Social Impact of Automation”, International Federation of Automatic Control, TC 9.2, and a member of the IFAC Technical Committees “Nonlinear Control Systems”, TC 2.3, and “Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems”, TC 1.3.

• A. Quadrat is a member of the IFAC Technical Committee “Linear Control Systems”, International Federation of Automatic Control, TC2.2

• J.-P. Richard is a member of the IFAC Technical Committee “Linear Control Systems”, International Federation of Automatic Control, TC2.2

• G. Zheng is a member of the IFAC Technical Committee “Social Impact of Automation”, International Federation of Automatic Control, TC9.2

• G. Zheng is co-chair of the working group “Commande et pilotage en environnement incertain” of GRAISYHM

Member of the Organizing Committees

C. Jamroz, A. Quadrat, J.-P. Richard and G. Zheng were members of the organizing committee of “JAMACS'16 : Journées Automatique du GDR MACS 2016”, Villeneuve d'Ascq, 15-16/11/2016.

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

W. Perruquetti is a member of the steering committee of IFAC CPHS’16 (7-9 December 2016, Florianopolis, Brazil), an IPC member of IEEE VSS’16 (1-4 June 2016, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China) and of IFAC HMS'16 (August 30-September 2 2016, Kyoto, Japan) and an Associate Editor of the 20th IFAC World Congress (10-14 July 2017, Toulouse, France).

W. Perruquetti and J.-P. Richard are members of the Advisory panel (NOC) of 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, 10-14 July 2017.

Reviewer

The members of NON-A team are reviewers and contributors of all top-ranked conferences in the field of automatic control (IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IFAC World Congress, European Control Conference, American Control Conference, etc.).

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• A. Polyakov: International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

• A. Polyakov: Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (JOTA)

• A. Polyakov: Automation and Remote Control

• A. Quadrat: Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing (MSSP)

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

The members of NON-A team are reviewers of all top-ranked journals in the field of automatic control (IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, etc.).

Invited Talks

D. Efimov gave a plenary talk at the conference “JAMACS'16 : Journées Automatique du GDR MACS 2016”, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, 15-16/11/2016.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

The NON-A team is the leader in the field of non-asymptotic control and estimation using homogeneity framework.

Moreover, the NON-A team is also leader in algebraic systems theory. In particular, two invited sessions “Algebraic methods and symbolic-numeric computation in systems theory” were organized at the 22nd International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2016), University of Minnesota, USA, 12-15/07/2016. Moreover, a mini-workshop “New trends on multidimensional systems and their applications in control theory and signal processing” was organized at Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (CIRM), Luminy, France, 03-07/10/2016.

Scientific Expertise

A. Quadrat was a member of the “jury d'admission des concours Inria CR2 & CR1”. He was also a member of the “Commission des Emplois de Recherche”, Inria Lille, and a member of the “Authorité de déchiffrement” for the local elections.

Research Administration

• W. Perruquetti is Vice-deputy of INS2I CNRS.

• J.-P. Richard is an Expert for the French Ministry of Research, MENESR/MEIRIES.

• R. Ushirobira was a Member (nominated) of the “Comité du Centre” of Inria Lille (Dec. 2013 - Sept. 2016) and a Member of the “Commission de Développement Technologique” (CDT).