Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• Bora Uçar was the general chair of 32nd IEEE IPDPS 2018 (IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium), held in Vancouver, Canada, May 21–25, 2018.

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Bora Uçar was a member of the organizing committee of ICGT 2018 (10th International Colloquium on Graph Theory and combinatorics), held in Lyon, July 9–13, 2018

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Anne Benoit was the program chair of 32nd IEEE IPDPS 2018 (IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium), held in Vancouver, Canada, May 21–25, 2018. She was also the global chair for topic 3: "Scheduling and Load Balancing" of the 24th Int. European Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EuroPar 2018), held in Torino, Italy, August 27–31, 2018.

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Bora Uçar was a member of the program committee of IA${}^3$, 2018 The Eight Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms, in conjunction with SC'18, November 11–16, 2018, Dallas, Texas, USA; CSC18, The 8th SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing, Bergen, Norway June 6-8, 2018; HiPC 2018; 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, Bengaluru, India, 17–20 December 2018; SC18 Doctoral Showcase of The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Dallas, TX, USA; 33rd IEEE IPDPS 2019 Workshops Committee, 33rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 20–24, 2019.

• Loris Marchal was a member of the program committee of IPDPS 2018 , ICPP 2018 and the workshop of IPDPS APDCM 2018.

• Jean-Yves L'Excellent was a member of the program committee of CSC18, The 8th SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing, Bergen, Norway June 6-8, 2018.

• Frédéric Vivien was a member of the program committee of IPDPS 2018, PDP 2018; EduPar 18, and the Poster session of SC18.

• Yves Robert was a member of the program committee of the FTXS, Scala and PMBS workshops co-located with SC'18 in Dallas, TX.

Reviewer

Bora Uçar reviewed a paper for 33rd IEEE IPDPS 2019.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• Anne Benoit is Associate Editor (in Chief) of ParCo, the journal of Parallel Computing: Systems and Applications (from July 2018). She is also a member of the editorial board (Associate Editor) of TPDS, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems since 2015, and of JPDC, the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, since 2011.

• Bora Uçar is a member of the editorial board of Parallel Computing, April 2016–on going, and SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX), May 2018–ongoing.

• Frédéric Vivien is Associate Editor of Parallel Computing (Elsevier) and of JPDC (Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing).

• Yves Robert is Associate Editor of JPDC (Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing) and TOPC (ACM Trans. On Parallel Computing).

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

Bora Uçar reviewed papers for the journals SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (4 in 2018); ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (2 in 2018); IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (1 in 2018); Future Generation Computer Systems (1 in 2018); IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1 in 2018); SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and applications (1 in 2018);

Anne Benoit, Loris Marchal, Yves Robert and Frédéric Vivien reviewed papers for the journals IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Invited Talks

• Bora Uçar delivered an invited talk at the Scientific Computing Group's Seminar at the Emory University, Atlanta, USA, September 2017.

• Frédéric Vivien delivered the keynote presentation of the 8th IEEE Workshop PDCO, held in conjunction with IPDPS 2018, in Vancouver, Canada, on Monday May 21, 2018.

• Yves Robert delivered a keynote presentation at SBAC-PAD'2018, the 30th International Symposium on Computer. Architecture and High Performance Computing.

• Yves Robert delivered the keynote presentation at SCALA'2018, the 9th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems, held in conjunction with SC'18

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Anne Benoit is a member of the Steering Committee of HCW (Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop, co-located with IPDPS) since 2018.

• Yves Robert is a member of the Steering Committee of IPDPS and HCW . He is the liaison between the Steering and Program committees of IPDPS.

• Bora Uçar is a member of the Steering Committee of Combinatorial Scientific Computing (2014–on going); and IPDPS for the years 2017–2019. He is also a vice-chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP).

Scientific Expertise

Yves Robert is an expert for the Horizon 2020 program of the European Commission and has reviews two projects in 2018.

Research Administration

Loris Marchal is responsible of the competitive selection of ENS Lyon Student for Computer Science.

Frédéric Vivien is the vice-head of the LIP laboratory since September 2017. He is a member of the scientific council of the École normale supérieure de Lyon and of the academic council of the University of Lyon.