The HCERES days are now over!

The former and current directions want to thank all of YOU for all the efforts, energy and commitment that you have put for the success of this event. Many thanks to Jemuel, Marie-Laure, Maximilien, Natalia and Omur for having ensured the organization of the meeting and of the stay of the committee, to Juliette for the communication, organization, and presentation material, to Houy for the technical support up to the last minute technical solutions. Many thanks also to all the presenters of the poles and groups' talks and of the posters for their wonderful work, and of course many thanks to all those of you who contributed to the writing of the auto-evaluation report, for which we were warmly congratulated by the committee: quoting the committee president, “it clearly transpired that behind all the technical and administrative information, science was at the core of it”. Finally, your large attendance to the talks, breaks and the poster session was very appreciated by the committee, and has shown how much our lab is a lively place; a place to which we are proud to belong!

In this week's IRIF Newsletter, we would like to inform you that direct refunds to agents are no longer possible.
We thank you in advance for returning the badge holders to the administration team.
We remind you that Sylvain Perifel will defend his HDR on 4th December.
The focus is on the thesis of Filippo Brunelli.
The CNRS is organising a webinar on national subsidies and UPCité a Zoom meeting on the ERC Advanced 2024.

Enjoy reading and have a nice weekend!

• HCERES Badges : dear all, we thank you for your involvement during these three days of HCERES evaluation. Could you please return the badge holders to the administration team? We thank you in advance for this.

• Lab council: the next lab council will be held on 19th December, 2023. The agenda will be as follows:
  1. IRIF's scientific priorities
  2. FSMP post-docs
  3. Support for CNRS applications
  4. HCERES review
  Please remind that:
  • Members of the unit may ask for items to be added to the agenda up to eight days before the meeting, and the final agenda will be announced 7 days before the meeting on this page;
  • The lab council is open to all IRIF members, both face-to-face and remotely on Galene:conseil-labo (enter <Firstname Lastname> as the username and an empty password);
  • Provisional dates for all lab councils (and general meetings) up to August 2024 are available here and by subscribing to this calendrar.

• Trainee bonuses: they rise to €4.35/hour on 1 January 2024.

• Financial year-end: for mission reimbursments, all the files and receipts have to be handed out to secretariate before December 8, Incomplete or late requests will be adressed whem the service opens again in the end of January 2024.

• Finance: Direct refunds to agents will not be possible anymore for small expenses, both at CNRS and University. However it is possible to reimburse the costs of restaurants paid in advance with CNRS credits, only with the authorization from secretariat.

• CET: 1/ November 1st to December 31st 2023: input by agents on the Agate-Tempo application.
  2/ November 1st 2023 to 31st January 2024: input of option choices by agents. The choice of options is compulsory for all CETs with a balance of more than 15 days, even if they have not been credited this year. If no option is chosen, days in excess of 15 days will be automatically placed on the RAFP (Retraite additionnelle de la Fonction Publique).
  3/ February 1st 2024: end of the campaign.

• Renovation work :
  • Finishing assembling the walkways and installing the cladding,
  • Dismantling the scaffolding on Lepeaute street,
  • Architectural finishing work on the central areas, with openings to be planned,
  • Power cuts will be required during the work in the central areas. These are scheduled for the evening, but the days have not yet been defined.

• HDR Defense: Sylvain Perifel will defend his habilitation to direct research [HDR] on Monday 4 December 2022 at 2pm in the Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Amphitheatre of the Condorcet building. His subject is L'aléatoire par le prisme des polynômes et de la compression.

• Conseil d'UFR: félicitations à Giulio Manzonetto et Peter Habermehl qui ont été élus aux conseil d’UFR jeudi 23 novembre.

• diiP Distinguished Lecture: On 6 December, Prof. Joseph Sifakis (Verimag, CNRS), Turing Award winner, will give a talk on Testing System Intelligence. It will be done online at 4pm. You can find all the necessary information and the abstract here. You can log directly via this zoom link.

• Stages de décembre : du lundi 18 au vendredi 22 décembre, nous accueillerons des élèves de 3ème au sein de notre laboratoire. Entre exposés vulgarisés, rencontres avec des chercheurs et des doctorants, initiations à la programmation, nous avons besoin de votre mobilisation pour leur faire découvrir le monde de la recherche et de l'informatique ! Si vous souhaitez participer, proposer une activité ou un exposé, merci de contacter communication@irif.fr.

• Théâtre Forum : dans le cadre de ses missions de sensibilisation aux situations de harcèlement, la Faculté des Sciences organise pour l'ensemble des personnels de la Faculté des Sciences, un Théâtre Forum sur le harcèlement moral, le mardi 30 janvier de 12h30 à 14h en amphi 12 E à la Halle aux Farines. Ce Théâtre Forum vous est proposé par la « compagnie théâtrale d’action citoyenne et artistique » Synergies Théâtre. Un théâtre Forum est une performance interactive d’une durée de 90 minutes en deux parties. Pendant la première partie, vous assisterez à plusieurs scènes interprétées par les comédien.nes. La seconde partie vous permettra de rejouer les scènes avec les comédien.nes en incarnant l’un des personnages de l’histoire. Inscription auprès de Séverine Leidwanger, vice-doyenne Egalités, Diversité, Inclusion.

• Mentorat en Sciences UPC - pour les doctorants: le mentorat est un accompagnement personnel bénévole, à caractère confidentiel, apporté par une personne expérimentée - mentor(e) – à une doctorante – mentorée. Les mentor.e.s., enseignant-e.s-chercheur.e.s Université Paris Cité, visent à :
  • informer sur le projet de carrière et l’insertion professionnelle ;
  • faire part de leur expérience ;
  • établir un espace d’échanges avec la doctorante.
    Des binômes, mentor.e/mentorée, seront constitués pour une année civile et conduiront à un minimum de 3 échanges entre binômes.
    De plus, les doctorantes pourront participer à des ateliers collectifs (sujets liés à leur avenir et à leur insertion professionnelle) : 2 tables rondes (proposé au cours de l’année) et 2 réunions (lancement du projet et bilan en fin d’année).
    Les doctorantes participant à cette initiative pourront la valoriser en bénéficiant de 16h de formation à ajouter dans le cadre de leur cursus doctoral (12h de janvier à août – 4h de septembre à décembre).
    Si vous souhaitez participer à ce projet, merci contacter Claire Fave ou Amina Hariti en envoyant un mail à l'adresse suivante : mentorat.sciences@u-paris.fr
  • We recall that IRIF has its own mentoring program open to all IRIF members. For more information see mentoring program page.

• Activity report for CNRS researchers: the deadline for submitting activity reports has been extended to December 14 at noon.

• Pint of Science 2024: The Labex Who Am I?, the DIM BioConvS, the EUR G.E.N.E, and the Faculté des Sciences of Université de Paris join forces to organize events during the next edition of the Pint of Science 2024 festival (May 13 to 15, 2024). They are looking for people wishing to be involved: to give a talk (short presentations on your research topics for the general public, in French or English) and/or to participate in the organization and animation of the events (integrate the organization team and ensure the smooth running of the evenings). If you are interested or have questions, contact Valérie Drouet before midnight on December 17, 2023.

• I&E Flyer: To better understand the purpose of the Commission, here is a flyer explaining our mission and goals.

• According to your employer:
  • University sustainable mobility bonus: Employees who choose an alternative and sustainable mode of transport (cycling, car-pooling) will be eligible for a “sustainable mobility package”. The timetable is as follows:
    • Receipt of applications by the Quality of Life and Working Conditions team: no later than 31 December 2023 (no applications will be accepted after this date)
    • Review of applications: until mid-February
    • Payment of the lump sum: second quarter of 2024
      Pour faire votre demande, trouvez votre numéro de matricule SIHAM, remplissez votre formulaire de demande en ligne, remplissez votre attestation sur l’honneur et ajoutez en pièce jointe l’attestation à la fin du formulaire. Plus d'informations dans la note de procédure.
  • CNRS mobility bonus: you have until December 31st to fill this form. See here for more information .

Filippo Brunelli defended his thesis in september. His subject was Algorithmic aspects of reachability in temporal graphs.

“I think temporal graphs are important as they can find application in a huge variety of domains, since many networks have inherent dynamic behavior.”

In his interview, he spoke about his subject and his passion for graphs and algorithms, his thesis subject, and what is ahead of him.

Here is the abstract of his thesis:

Temporal graphs arose with the need to better model contexts where the appearance of interactions or connections depends on time, such as epidemic propagation or transport networks. While classical notions such connectivity and shortest paths have been extensively studied in static graphs there is still room for improvement in the temporal case.

• Webinaire “Subventions Nationales” CNRS : un webinaire intitulé « Subventions nationales (hors ANR)» aura lieu mardi 12 décembre de 14h00 à 15h00 en visioconférence. Vous pourrez rejoindre la réunion Zoom sans inscription préalable (ID de réunion: 935 6128 2004 / Code secret: jN8aes).

• Session d'information ERC Advanced 2024 : vendredi 08 décembre 2023 (10h-12h00) une session d’information sur l’ERC Advanced 2024 est organisée sur Zoom par la Faculté des Sciences. Toutes les informations nécessaires sont dans ce mail.

• FSMP Chairs of Excellence: the call for applications to FSMP Chairs of Excellence for academic year 2024-2025 is extended until December 10th 2023. Research Chairs of excellence in Mathematics and in fundamental Computer Science, located in Paris: Offer description / Application form / Deadline: Sunday December 10th 2023 at 11:59 p.m., Paris time.

• Concours chercheurs et chercheuses CNRS : la date limite du dépôt des dossiers est fixée au 9 février. L’arrêté d’ouverture des concours ne sera publié que début décembre. Les jurys d’admission auront lieu fin juin-début juillet.

• IEEE Xplore - CNRS : un accès expérimental et temporaire à IEEE Xplore, plateforme sur laquelle la grande majorité des 150 revues et 6000 conférences du domaine « Computing and Processing » est accessible, est ouvert via bibCNRS. Date limite d’utilisation : 7 décembre 2023.

Partner newsletter : Les lettres arrivent sporadiquement aux membres de l'IRIF. Elles sont donc listées ci-dessous.

• Lettre d'information de la FSMP, MathsInfos n°62 de Novembre 2023
• La Lettre Innovation du CNRS de Novembre 2023
• La Lettre du CNRS de Novembre 2023
• Fil Info Recherche UPCité du jeudi 30 Novembre 2023
• La Newsletter de l'Agence nationale de la Recherche de Novembre 2023
• CNRS Hebdo édition du 25 Novembre 2023
• Newsletter diiP de Décembre 2023