Project-CORTEX:Leadership within the scientific community

Section: Dissemination

Responsible for the axis MIS “Modeling, Interaction Simulation”, of the CPER with the Lorraine Region (F. Alexandre).
Head of the Network Grand-Est for Cognitive Science (F. Alexandre)
Member of the steering committee of the ARP PIRSTEC (Prospective on cognitive science and technology for the ANR) (F. Alexandre)
Member of the steering committee of the french association for Artificial Intelligence (AFIA) (F. Alexandre)
F. Alexandre and T. Viéville are members (and moderators) of the scientific committee of NeuroComp, the initiative to gather the french community in Computational Neuroscience (annual conference and web site: http://www.neurocomp.fr/ ). They were in the scientific committee of Neurocomp'09.

Reviewing for journals: Mathematical modelling of natural phenomena, SMC-Part B (F. Alexandre); Neurocomputing, Frontiers in Neuroscience, IJCNN,etc.. and several Computer Vision journals (T. Viéville).
Member of program committees: BioMed'09, CAP'09, ICDL'09, Sinfra'09, TAIMA'09 (F. Alexandre); Reconfig'09 (B. Girau);
Expertise for the European Commission (FP7; ICT) (F. Alexandre), for grants submitted to Dutch National Science Foundation (A. Hutt)
Expertise for several programs of the ANR and member of the evaluation committee of the program “Domaines Emergents” (F. Alexandre)
Expertise for french laboratories and Conseils Régionaux (Aquitaine, Bourgogne) (F. Alexandre)

Organization of conferences: organization of a workshop about cognition and computational neuroscience in the program PIRSTEC (F. Alexandre, Paris, 16 june);
Invited talks: Thierry Viéville, has been invited as speaker by the ASTS-PACA, in partnership with the Institut des Neurosciences Cognitives de la Méditerranée, for a large-public conference on Computational Neuroscience «Peut-on parler d'intelligence mécanique ?» and has been included as teacher in the «Formation Informatique et Objets Numériques» organized by INRIA for high-shool teachers.