In this week's IRIF letter, a PhD student seminar is organised by the SIF.
A conference on “digital commons” organized by François Laroussinie will be held next week.
In the equalities comittee section, you'll find events organised for the equality month.
The Focus concerns an article of Quanta Magazine on Matrix Multiplication.
Registration for the Solemn Thesis Awards 2024 of the Chancery are now open.

Enjoy reading and have a nice weekend!

• [REMINDER] The rooms 3063, 3071, 4071 and 4071a are now open and can be booked on https://reservation.irif.fr/ and used by everyone. Be aware that these rooms are not furnished yet (please, after haveing used them, leave them empty).

• Webcontrat: all IRIF members who wish to host a research project at CNRS should have an access to Webcontrat. If this is not the case you can request this on this platform. Do not hesitate to contact the administration department if help is needed.

• The interns welcoming day will be held on April 2nd, 2024, at 10:30am, room 3052. More information to come.

• “Horizon Maths” conference“: This conference series allows exploring the applications and interactions of mathematics around a different theme for each edition. The next topic is about Mathematical Proof and Software Reliability and is organized under the direction of Hugo Herbelin (Inria, IRIF). It takes place on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, from 9 am to 6 pm, at the Henri Poincaré Institute (5 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 5th), Hermite Amphitheater. All the information on the website.

• 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.

• Conference: The 2nd french speaking conference «On éteint, on réfléchit, on discute » organized at Université Paris Cité by François Laroussinie focuses on «Les communs numériques» (“Digital Commons”). Serge Abiteboul and Valerie Peugeot are the invited speakers. It will be held on March 19, from 4pm-6pm. Join us, it is free of charge! Find all the information here.

• Reviewers' Choice Award 2024: The article ”The design principles of the Elixir Type System“, by Giuseppe Castagna, Guillaume Duboc and José Valim have received the Reviewers' Choice Award 2024 as the best paper of the year published in The Programming Journal. Congratulations to all of them.

• A half-day french seminar on women and math in textbooks is being organized this Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm at IHP by the Femmes et Mathématiques non-profit oragnisation. You can check the program and register for free here.

• La Science taille XX elles: Through 84 portrayals of women in research, discover various experiences of scientific women: a numeric exhibit imagined by CNRS & the non-profit Femmes&Sciences.

• “Just do maths!” exhibit: The “Just Do Maths!” exhibition by the FSMP will be installed at the IHÉS and inaugurated on April 4, 2024, with a conference by Catherine Goldstein and Clémence Perronnet on the role that female models can play in advancing equality in sciences. This conference is based on the recently published book “Matheuses” by CNRS editions. You can find all the information about the conference on the dedicated webpage. It will also be possible to attend this event online via Zoom.

• 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 of Humanities and Social Sciences and 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

• AAPG 2024: Individual support for preparing proposals for internships 2 of the AAPG 2024 is offered by the Department of Engineering and Project Management at the Faculty of Sciences. Only researchers who have been selected and have chosen Université Paris Cité as their managing institution can benefit from this support.
  If you are interested, please send the acronym of the project, the Project Type (PRC, PRCE, PRCI, JCJC, PRME), and the team status (project coordinator or partner) to the email address: projets.recherche.sciences@u-paris.fr.
  To help you, two usefull documents: Budget model version 2024 and administrative data of Université Paris Cité with updated information. This link leads to the ANR website for information about the ANR necessary documents.

• 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.

• CNRS Internal letter of March 3rd, 2024
• CNRS Hebdo #651 of March 14, 2024
• diiP Newsletter of March 15, 2024