Section: Dissemination

Program committees and related activities

• Members of GRAVITÉ are in charge of courses on Information Visualization as part of Université Bordeaux I Master's degree in Computer Science (Master recherche).

• Maylis Delest has had the opportunity to give a seminar lecture at ENS Cachan Kerlann.

• Our team has organized a one-day tutorial session on advanced Tulip programming during the EGC 2009 last January.

• We were also involved in the “Fêtes de la Science” day, promoting visualization (and computer science) to (regional) High School and College students.

GRAVITÉ's members have been and will be involved in program or reviewing committees of major international and national scientific events, such as:

• EGC (French) Yearly conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Management (David Auber, since 2007)

• SYNASC Yearly Conference, Timisoara, Romania (G. Melançon, since 2005)

• CGIV Computer Graphics, Imaging, Visualization (G. Melançon, since 2005)

• ACM Symposium on Software Visualization SoftVis 2006 and SoftVis 2008 (David Auber)

• Eurographics IEEE EuroVis Symposium on Visualization (D. Archambault 2008, D. Auber since 2008, G. Melançon 2009)

• IEEE Information Visualization International Conference (Guy Melançon, since 2001; Dan Archambault 2009)

We also take part in various project evaluation process:

• Reviewer for the ANR Massive Data program 2006 – 2009 / 2007 – 2010

• President of the ANR Massive Data program 2006 – 2009 (Maylis Delest)

• Jury member for the ANR Massive Data program 2008 – 2011 (Guy Melançon)

• Jury member of the ASTI PhD Award, see http://www.asti.asso.fr/prix_these_2009 (G. Melançon)

• Jury member of the “La Recherche” magazine Award (G. Melançon)