Section: Dissemination

Popularization

Internal or external Inria responsibilities

Isabelle Guérin Lassous has been the managing director of the Foundation Blaise Pascal until the end of June 2019. The objectives of the foundation are to promote mathematics and computer science and to attract young people to scientific fields like computer science and mathematics. The actions of the FBP focus on:

• a support to actors that promote mathematics and computer science via allocated funding based on call of proposals;

• a structuring of actors to increase the impacts of their actions, to coordinate the efforts and to share experiences;

• a development of innovative experiences via summer camps and clubs of mathematics and computer science.

Interventions

Isabelle Guérin Lassous participated to the project Science XX Elles organized by the association Femmes & Sciences, CNRS and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. A portrait has been realized and has been exhibited in from of the Musée des Confluences during La Fête de la Science in October 2019 (http://www.femmesetsciences.fr/lascience-taillexxelles/lyon/isabelle-guerin-lassous/. She also participated to a speed meeting with families visiting the Musée des Confluences during which she has promoting her research activity.

Isabelle Guérin Lassous spent one day in high school (lycée St Just in Lyon) to promote computer science and to present female computer scientists in from of terminal classes.

Isabelle Guérin Lassous participated to the Challenge Innovatech organized by the association Elles Bougent. She was a member of the selection committe who selected a scientific project designed by a group of young girls (in high school).