Section: Dissemination

Animation of the scientific community

Organisation of Conferences and Workshops

Germain Faure and Assia Mahboubi organized an international workshop on the integration of SAT and SMT solvers into (Isabelle/)HOL on 10 and 11th September 2009 at LIX. People from Cambridge, Munich and Saclay attend this workshop.

Editorial charges

Assia Mahboubi serves in the program committee of the ITP-2010 (merge of the TPHOLs conference and ACL2 workshop) international conference.

Assia Mahboubi and Bruno Barras serve in the program committee of the JFLA 2010 national conference.

Committees

Assia Mahboubi has served in the committee “Commission de recrutement” for the “Maître de confèrence” position and “Chaire CNRS” in computer sciences at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS Lyon).

Referees

Germain Faure has served as referee for :

• the JFP'09 international journal,

• the CADE'09, FCT'09, FROCOS'09, RTA'09, and TLCA'09 international conferences and,

• the SMT'09 internation workshop.

Assia Mahboubi has served as referee for :

• the ICALP'09 and MKM'09 international conferences,

• the JFLA'10 national conference,

• the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, and the Journal of Formalized Mathematics and Computational Geometry, Theory and Applications international journals.

Bruno Barras refereed papers for JFLA'10 and Journal of Automated Reasoning.

Mathieu Boespflug refereed for the ICFP'09 international conference.

Visits

Assia Mahboubi has visited:

• Julien Narboux and Nicolas Magaud in December 2008 at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg. She has given a talk at the IGG team seminar.

• Georges Gonthier at Microsoft Research, Cambridge (UK) in January 2009.

• Marc Daumas and Erik Martin-Dorel in March 2009 at Perpignan Via Domitia University. She has given a talk at the ELIAUS team seminar.

• the LIP at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, where she gave a talk at the Plume team seminar.

• the CSL group, as International Fellow of the Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, from mid-October to late December 2009.

• Nikolaj Bjorner and Leonardo de Moura at Microsoft Research Redmond, main developpers of the Z3 SMT solver, in December 2009. She gave a talk at the RiSE group seminar.

Conferences

Denis Cousineau has participated and given a talk at the following events or conferences:

• the French CNRS GDR-IM working groupe LAC at École Normale Supérieure of Lyon (France),

• the European workshop TYPES in Aussois (France) and,

• the international workshop PSTT at McGill University in Montréal (Canada).

Assia Mahboubi has participated and given a talk at the following events or conferences:

• the ADT meeting on Formalized libraries in December 2008 (Sophia Antipolis),

• the DECERT ANR project kick off meeting in January 2009 in Rennes,

• the JFLA national conference. She was invited to teach a course on the ssreflect extention,

• Microsoft Tech Fest in February 2009 (Redmond, U.S.). She was representing INRIA at the Microsoft INRIA Joint Centre booth.

• the ADT meeting on Automatization for the Coq system in March 2009 (Paris),

• Dagstuhl Seminar 09411 “Interation versus Automation, the two faces of deduction” in October 2009.

Germain Faure has participated and given a talk at the following events or conferences:

• ARC, ADT, and AEx 2009 day organised by INRIA, Bordeaux (France).

• the French CNRS GDR-IM working groupe LAC at École Normale Supérieure of Lyon, France).

• the ANR Decert Décision certifiée meeting, Paris, France.

Bruno Bernardo has attended TPHOLs 2009 and the Coq workshop in Munich, Germany (August 2009). He presented a poster at the Emerging Trends of TPHOLs'09.

Chantal Keller attended the TYPES´09 meeting (Aussois). She presented her Maters's internship work about importing HOL-Light proofs into Coq.

Mathieu Boespflug attended LICS'09, NbE'09, and TYPES'09.

Arnaud Spiwack attended the TYPES'09 meeting (Aussois). He also took part in the Workshop “Formal Methods in Commutative Algebra” (Oberwolfach, Germany)

Bruno Barras participated to the following conferences:

• JFLA'09 from January 31 to February 3, Grenoble (France),

• the European workshop TYPES in Aussois (France),

• Workshop on Interactive Theorem Proving from August 24-25,Cambridge (UK),

• TPHOLs'09 and the First Coq Workshop from August 17-21, Munich (Germany).

Bruno Barras gave an invited talk at JFLA'09, and a regular talk at the Types workshop and the first Coq Workshop.

Popular science

Assia Mahboubi has given a popular science talk at the INRIA Saclay – Île-de- France popular science seminar “Unithé ou Café”.

Other charges

Bruno Barras is consultant in formal methods at Trusted Labs, located in Versailles.

Benjamin Werner is a member of the scientific council of INRIA.

Benjamin Werner was vice-president of the recruiting comitee for joung researchers (CR) of INRIA-Saclay. He was member of the recruiting jury of the chaire d'excellence (young researcher, mixed reserch / teaching position) ENS-Cachan and INRIA.

Gilles Dowek is vice-head of the department of computer science of École Polytechnique.

Assia Mahboubi is representant of LIX researchers at the “Comité Enseignement-Recherche” of the teaching department of École polytechnique (DIX).

Assia Mahboubi is in charge of the TypiCal seminar.

Assia Mahboubi and Germain Faure have presented the LIX laboratory to the incoming students of the École Polytechnique in 2009.

Germain Faure is the coordinator of the INRIA ARC Corias that involves teams from INRIA Nancy Grand-Est, Bordeaux Grand-Ouest, and Saclay Île-de-France.

Denis Cousineau and Jean-Marc Notin are the webmasters of the Coq and TypiCal websites.

Denis Cousineau is the webmaster of Dedukti website.