IRIF Newsletter of March 1st, 2024

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In this week's IRIF letter, the thematics schools campaign for 2025 are now open.
The next queerif meeting in planned for next tuesday.
The focus is on the “Digital Commons” conference organised by UFR thanks to François Laroussinie.
Many calls for tender are open (AAPG, ANR, and so on).

Enjoy reading and have a nice weekend!

Direction's announcements

  • [REMINDER] Project Deadline: the deadline International Researcher Invitations is approaching: March 13th. It is very important that there are many applications issued from IRIF since the number of missions awarded by the university is proportional to the number of applications. You you can apply through this Limesurvey link. All the information needed can be found in this 2023 Vademecum.
  • Internships: all information about internship agreements and how to fill them is available here.


News

  • Thematic schools: The thematic schools campaign for 2025 has been launched. To submit a project, you must send your statement of intent to IFSEM before March 15, 2024. You can find more information on this document. The guide for developing a thematic school as well as all document templates to be submitted are downloadable on the HRD website.


Equalities comittee

  • CNRS Webinar: On the occasion of International Women's Rights Day, the Mission for Women's Advancement at CNRS is pleased to invite you to the webinar 'Transforming Collective Dynamics into Concrete Actions: CNRS Equality Action Plan 2024-2026'. It will be held on march the 8th 2024 from 1:30pm to 4:30pm. It is mandatory to register. All the information needed and the registration link can be found on this page.
  • Next queerif meeting: the next queeRIF meetup will be on Tuesday, 5th of March at 18:00 at Raton Buveur near the lab. Participants can meet at 17:50 in front of the SG building (main entrance) to walk there, but feel free to come there directly. If you feel a bit queer, but aren't sure whether this is “queer enough”, or if you are unsure about all these things: you are welcome, please join. Queer IRIF visitors and friends/partners you would like to bring are of course also welcome.


IRIF & Environnement

  • 🚲Bike maintenance : A bicycle maintenance toolkit and a pump are available in the common space on 4th floor. Feel free to use it, but, please, put it back where you found it once you are done.


Focus on the next conference "On éteint, on réfléchit, on discute": Digital Commons

Organized within the Computer Science Department by François Laroussinie, the second french speaking conference « On éteint, on réfléchit, on discute » on «Les communs numériques» (“Digital Commons”) will take place on Tuesday, March 19, from 4 pm to 6 pm in auditorium 10E at La Halle aux Farines.

“While we often talk about the GAFAM, the monopolization of internet users' data, and their commercial exploitation, we also know and use open encyclopedia Wikipedia, the cartographic project OpenStreetMap, or open-source software that, conversely, relies on collaboration among internet users. So, there's a realm of computing that shares, cooperates, that creates 'common' resources. The term 'digital commons' has recently emerged, and we invite Serge Abiteboul and Valérie Peugeot to discuss it.”

Find all the information on the UFR conference page.


Calls for tender and information from partners

  • ANR USERFIRST: Présentation de l’outil d’aide au montage des projets ANR via USERFIRST mardi 27 février de 14 heures à 15 heures sur Zoom. ID de réunion: 964 4762 0017, code secret: 2zaZ8c.
  • 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.
  • Intership funding: As part of the SMARTS-UP Graduate Schools project, Université Paris Cité is launching a call for proposals to fund master's internships for foreign students enrolled in a foreign university. In particular, the graduate schools Mathematical Sciences and Quantum science cover IRIF research themes. To apply, fill this form and send it to smarts-up.mobility@u-paris.fr.

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


Agenda for the week of March 4 to March 8

Vérification · Lundi 04 mars, 11:00, 3052 and Zoom link ·
Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta), TBA

Formath · Lundi 04 mars, 14:00, 3052 ·
Guillaume Baudart, Schedule Agnostic Semantics for Reactive Probabilistic Programming

Automates · Lundi 04 mars, 16:00, Room 3052 ·
Yann Strozecki (DAVID, UVSQ), A tutorial on enumeration complexity: defining tractability

Combinatoire énumérative et analytique · Mardi 05 mars, 11:00, Room 3058 ·
Eleanor Archer, Limite d'échelle des arbres couvrants aléatoires

Algorithmes et complexité · Mardi 05 mars, 11:00, Room 3052 ·
Julian Wechs (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Subsystem decompositions of quantum circuits and processes with indefinite causal order

Preuves, programmes et systèmes · Jeudi 07 mars, 11:00, Room 3052 ·
Jérôme Feret (École normale supérieure), TBA

Séminaire des membres non-permanents · Jeudi 07 mars, 16:00, Room 3052 ·
Christoph Egger, Proving Negative Results: Oracle Separations

Automates · Vendredi 08 mars, 14:00, Room 3052 ·
Rémi Morvan (LaBRI), Automatic relations through the prism of graph colourability and algebraic language theory

Catégories supérieures, polygraphes et homotopie · Vendredi 08 mars, 14:00, Room 3058 ·
Emile Oléon (Ecole polytechnique), Delooping cyclic groups with lens spaces in homotopy type theory