Section: Dissemination

Popularization

Internal or external Inria responsibilities

Martin Quinson is on the scientific board of the Blaise Pascal foundation, boosting the scientific outreach in the domains of Maths and Computer Science.

Articles and contents

• Anne-Cécile Orgerie participated to the radio program La methode scientifique by Nicolas Martin with Jean-Marc Jancovici, France Culture, October 17, 2018.

• Anne-Cécile Orgerie was interviewed by Agnes Rougier, Radio France Internationale, September 26, 2018.

• Anne-Cécile Orgerie was interviewed by Laure Cailloce for the Journal of CNRS, May 2018.

Education

• L codent L créent - An outreach program to send PhD students to teach Python to middle school students in 8 sessions of 45 minutes. Tassadit Bouadi (Univ. Rennes 1), Camille Maumet (VisAGeS) and Anne-Cécile Orgerie (Myriads) are coordinating the local version of this program, initiated in Lille. The first session in Rennes is planned for April 2019. The program is currently supported by: Fondation Blaise Pascal, ED MathSTIC, Inria and Fondation Rennes 1.

• Anne-Cécile is a member of the Jury for the Agrégation de Sciences Industrielles, an examination for future secondary teachers of engineering

• Martin Quinson is a trainer for the Agrégation de Sciences Industrielles.

• Martin Quinson is in charge of a M2 lecture on scientific vulgarization at ENS Rennes. The students are asked to come up with new activities (or improve existing ones) on their research field.

• Martin Quinson was a trainer during the SIF summer school on “Scientific Vulgarization in Computer Science”, held in Toulouse, June 6th-8th 2018.

Interventions

• Anne-Cécile Orgerie and Martin Quinson participated in the organization of a day for middle school student to deconstruct computer science-related stereotypes http://emergences.inria.fr/2018/newsletter-n53/l53-informaticiennes.

• Martin Quinson presented various unplugged activities to primary and secondary students over the year.

• Anne-Cécile Orgerie and Martin Quinson hosted 2 secondary students during one week (17th-21th december 2018).

Creation of media or tools for science outreach

• Martin Quinson initiated a new unplugged activity with Philippe Marquet (EPI Dreampal – Lille) and Corentin Ferry (student at ENS Rennes) called M999 to explain the internal behavior of a CPU. This activity is still to be tested live with pupils.

• Martin Quinson helped the M2 students of ENS Rennes to create or improve unplugged activities on their research topics. Activities on Classification, Image Reconstruction, Modeling, Cryptographic Protocols, Map-Reduce or Verifications are still incubating at this point.