In this week's IRIF letter, a new CNRS Senior Research Scientist, Tayssir Touili, has joined the lab. The interns welcome meeting will be held next week. Renovation works are planned for next week. We also remind you that monday 1st of April is a holy day and that the IRIF building will be closed.
Mirna Džamonja, associate member of the lab and Quentin Aristote, PhD student have both won a prize for their work.
To conclude this equality month, we asked 5 questions to the founder of the queerif meetings to understand the importance of such a committee.
The focus of this week is on three 2024 Pint of Science event made by IRIF researchers.
Two collaborations calls, in Singapore and Toronto University, are now open to registration.

Enjoy reading and have a nice weekend!

• Interns welcome meeting: We are pleased to invite you to the IRIF interns welcome meeting to be held on Tuesday, April 2nd starting at 10:00 in room 3052. Participation for new interns is MANDATORY.

• Meeting room: please note that the meeting table of room 4005 has been transferred to room 4071A. Eventually, it will no longer be possible to use 4005 as a meeting room.

• Renovation work: Outside works will be carried out from 02/04/24 to 06/04/24. As a result, there will be minor noise disturbance due to the operation of the machinery. More specifically, work will be carried out on the fireman's ladder support areas on the ground floor at the heart of the building (nothing on the façades).

• Administration workload: Due to a heavy workload compounded by Natalia's departure, there may be delays in handling your requests. The secretariate is doing its best to address your needs. We appreciate your understanding and kindly request that you anticipate your requests as much as possible and take into account that it may take some days to process them.

• PhD student seminar: On May 31, 2024, the seminar for doctoral students of the SIF (French Computer Science Society) will be held. This year, the seminar will focus on the theme “Diversity of research methods in computer science.” The submission deadline is March 30, 2024. More information about the event on the SIF website.

• New CNRS Senior Research Scientist: We welcome a new DR CNRS at IRIF, Tayssir Touilli. Her areas of interest are Malware Detection, Software Verification and Formal Methods. You can meet her in room 4028A.

• BMS Prize: The Belgian Mathematical Society (BMS) has awarded Mirna Džamonja (CNRS, IRIF, Université de Paris) the BMS "Godeaux lecture prize". “The prize is awarded every year, upon proposal from a BMS board member, to a prominent belgian or international mathematician who is invited to give a talk at a conference in Belgium.” Congratulations!

• Helena Rasiowa Prize: Congratulations to Quentin Aristote, who won the Helena Rasiowa prize for the best student paper at the 32nd EACSL conference on Computer Science Logic for the article: Active Learning of Deterministic Transducers with Outputs in Arbitrary Monoids

• Queerif founder interview: to conclude this equlity month, we had a talk with the founder of the queerif meeting. “In January 2024, a member of the lab initiated the Queerif meetings to bring together LGBTQIA+ members and create a safe space for this community. The founder of the QueeRIF meetings explains to us through five questions why it was important for him and necessary for the LGBTQIA+ community to set up this committee.

“Hence, I have experienced what a difference it can make to actually have a queer meetup for a given social context. […] Also, crucially, the meetup is meant as a safe space, where you can talk about how you feel and be sure that you don't have to justify it or be judged for what you are.”

Read the interview here.

• NUS calls: 3 new calls for tender between NUS (National University of Singapore) and Université Paris Cité have been published. You have until May 31, 2024 to submit. If you need information, please contact Dr. Mariana Losada, mariana@nus.edu.sg with in cc internationalisation.iro@u-paris.fr. More information on the website.
  • A research call for tender
  • A PhD international mobility call for tender
  • A educational innovation call for tender

• 1st Joint call Paris Toronto: “The aim of the fund is to provide initial support for the development of research links and catalyze further collaboration”. If you are interested by this project please submit your application intention before May 3, 2024. The closure of the call is fixed on May 13, 2024. See the call in french or in english. Since it's a joint call, only one position can be submitted on the OVPI Application Portal.

• JNIM 2024: The presentation materials for the speakers at the IFM research group 2024 National Conference are now available on the conference website.

• [LAST CALL] Webinar on Development of European projects in collaboration: on April 16, 2024 at 2:30 (during 1h30), a webinar is organised on the development of European projects in collaboration. You can register here

• Solemn Thesis Awards 2024: Registration for the solemn thesis awards of the Chancery will takes place through a digital platform. One award concerns scientific PhDs. The College of Doctoral Schools (CED) is responsible for centralizing and submitting the list of pre-selected candidates.
  • The deadline for sending files to the doctoral school at ufr-ed386@math.univ-paris-diderot.fr is April 8th. These files should contain 1. a cover letter in French (maximum one double-sided sheet), 2. a curriculum vitae in French (including postal, e-mail and telephone contact details), 3. a short summary of the thesis in French (between 500 and 1,000 characters maximum), 4. pre-submission reports in French or in the original language, 4. the defense report / minutes in French or in the original language, and 5. a letter of recommendation from the thesis supervisor concerning the application for the Chancellery Prize and, if applicable, of two (maximum) other members of the jury, in French or in the original language.
  • The doctoral shools will rank applications and transmit them to CED by April 23rd.
  • Pre-selected candidates will be contacted by the CED and will have to submit a complete application file by May 24, 2024.
  • More information here.

• Open-source software training: The CNRS Institutes for Humanities & Social Sciences and for Mathematics jointly organize this training session which will address several issues related to open-source software. It will be held from Monday 1st July, 2024 at 2pm to Wednesday 3rd of July, 12:30pm at Villa Clythia in Fréjus, in-person only. You can register here.

• Collaboration in medecine: As part of the creation of the inIdEx, which replaces the Labex, the forming laboratory NABI (Nanomedicine, Extracellular Biology, Integratome and Health Innovations) is seeking to identify lecturers or researchers in computer science at UPC who work on problems applied to health or who would be interested in collaborations with physicians. If this applies to you, you are invited to send a message to: Bruno Andreotti, andreotti@phys.ens.fr

• Handicap PhD grant: A call for handicap PhD grants is open until April. This grant funds a doctoral contract over 3 years and extension months funded by the Ministry. For the procedure, please contact the doctoral school : ufr-ed386@math.univ-paris-diderot.fr.

Partner newsletter : Newsletters are sent sporadically to IRIF members. They are listed below.

• La lettre du CNRS of March 26, 2024
• Le lettre n°86 of March 27, 2024
• La newsletter de l'Agence nationale de la recherche of March 28, 2024
• Fil info recherche de l'Université Paris Cité of March 28, 2024
• La lettre innovation du CNRS of March 28, 2024