In this week's IRIF letter, the convening of the lab council that will examine the IRIF PhD Grant precall; please note that the MPRI courses will be soon completely reviewed (you can propose new courses) and the summer closure from July 25 to August 19; last days to apply for Software Development @ IRIF.
On the news side, we still need volunteers to present to the highschool students for their intership.
Want to go on a new scientific adventure? Come to Tallinn by train with other lab members!
Discover David Saulpic's portrait new researcher at IRIF in the focus section.
Finally, note the information sessions for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships information session and for the Open4UPCité tool. Last days to apply for the Inria - Académie des sciences 2024 prize.

Enjoy reading and have a nice weekend!

• Lab council: the next lab council will be held on the 4th of June 2024 from 13:00 to 15:00 in room 3052 with the following agenda:
  
  • Présentation and ranking of the applications to the IRIF PhD precall (see below)
    We recall 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 usally open to all IRIF members, both face-to-face and remotely on Galene:conseil-labo. However attending this particular council will require physical presence and absence of conflict of interest.
    • Provisional dates for all lab councils (and general meetings) up to August 2024 are available here and by subscribing to this calendrar.

• IRIF precall for the ED386 phd grants - Deadline May 27nd, 2024 - According to the recommendation of Conseil de laboratoire & AG (March 29th, 2022), a pre-call is organized by IRIF in order to help potential applicants to improve their file before the formal call of the graduate school ED386. When possible, applying to the pre-call is strongly recommended. Link.

• MPRI courses (call for proposals): The course offering at the MPRI for the start of the 2025 academic year will be updated. For a course to be held at the MPRI from the start of the 2025 academic year, the course leader must submit a course proposal. Other people not currently teaching at MPRI may also submit proposals for new courses. Do not hesitate to pass on the information to those around you. Please send your proposal before 31 May 2024 to the MPRI steering committee: mpri-dir@sympa.lmf.cnrs.fr. Here is a course template that can be helpfull.

• Open position: IRIF General Secretary. Please spread the word. Application deadline: 30 May. This position is to replace Maximilien Lesellier who will leave IRIF on May the 30th. Nota bene: administrative operations will be reduced from June 1 till well into July. Please, anticipate significant delays in the treatement of administrative issues and contact direction@irif.fr in case of urgency.

• Submission of ERC projects: CNRS Sciences Informatique wrote us to encourage to prepare an ERC project submission. A meeting will be held on June 5th, 2024 from 1:30pm to 4pm by videoconference. More information and the program of the meeting are available in this document. If interested, please register before May 30. This meeting can help you either to plan your project but also to help and support other members with their ERC project. We remind you that those ERC projects concerns:
  • young researchers and teacher-researchers (C/EC), for the Starting and Consolidator categories, whose initial contributions have already been noticed.
  • senior C/ECs, for the Advanced category, whose work has received strong international recognition.

• Closure of the university: Due to the Olympic Games, the university will close on the evening of 25 July and reopen on the morning of 19 August. For administrative and technical staff, the day of 26 July will be an undifferentiated day of leave. Staff who have already taken their leave will therefore be credited with this day. Apart from this day, no other arrangements are planned.

• [Reminder] CNRS OPEN: CNRS Valorisation information event at IRIF on the new CNRS OPEN open source software project funding programme, will be hosted by Marian SCUTURICI, on 3 June 2024 (in the morning; details to be announced).

• [Reminder] The HCERES published on its site the final and public version of their rapport d'évaluation de l'IRIF (in French).

• Last Call for Projects: Software Development @ IRIF: The new Engineer for Software Development, Tomaz Mascarenhas, that we share with LMF and LIPN, will finish at the end of the month the projects he is currently working on. It is still time to propose new projects for him. You can request his services by filling this online form hosted by LIPN. If you submit a project please inform direction+projets-ir@irif.fr. Since the new projects should start on June the 1st, please submit your proposals by May the 23rd. See also this page.

• Congratulations to the IRIF members authors of the following accepted papers:
  • CAV:
    • Algebraic Reasoning Meets Automata in Solving Linear Integer Arithmetic. Peter Habermehl, Vojtěch Havlena, Michal Hečko, Lukaš Holik and Ondrej Lengal
  • PLDI:
    • Verification under Intel-x86 with Persistency. Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Mohamed Faouzi, Ahmed Bouajjani, K Narayan Kumar Chennai
  • Eurocrypt:
    • Fast Public-Key Silent OT and More from Constrained Naor-Reingold. Dung Bui, Geoffroy Couteau, Pierre Meyer, Alain Passelègue, Mahshid Riahinia
  • TQC:
    • (Quantum) complexity of testing signed graph clusterability. Kuo-Chin Chen, Simon Apers, Min-Hsiu Hsieh
    • Constant-depth circuits for Uniformly Controlled Gates and Boolean functions with application to quantum memory circuits. Jonathan Allcock, Jinge Bao, Joao F. Doriguello, Alessandro Luongo, Miklos Santha

• Internships tenth grade (2nd): From 17 to 21 June, 2024, IRIF will welcome highschool students for their intership. As always, we will be gratefull for volunteers if you could grant them with a meeting with them to tell us about your carreer and studies, if you could offer a popularised presentation on a subject of your choice or to run a programming workshop. If you are interested, please contact juliette.calvi@irif.fr, even only for information. Thank you very much in advance!

• 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.

• Women in formal Mathematics workshop: The Women in Logic group organise the workshop Women in formal Mathematics as part of the Hausdorff Institute program on Prospects of Formalized mathematics on June 6-7. The deadline for abstract submission is June 3, 2024.

• Brigitte Stenhouse is giving a seminar “Lending authority from ‘French analysis’” in the work of Mary Somerville on 24 May, at 1:45pm. It is possible to attend online. More information on this mail.

• [LAST CALL] Women in Math and Computing Day: The event takes place on 21 May on the campus of the University of Paris-Saclay. There will be 3 presentations by female mathematicians and computer scientists and a round table discussion on “careers in maths and computer science”. All the practical information is available on the event page.
  • “Une conjecture en géométrie non commutative” de Maria Paula Gomez Apa
  • “Federated learning in biotech” de Maria Telenczuk
  • “Décrypter l’Évolution des Espèces grâce à l’Informatique” de Fanny Pouyet

• Rail travel for conferences: This year, the conferences ICALP, LICS and FSCD will be happening in Tallinn (8-13 July). And Tallinn is difficult to reach by train from Paris… Let us recall that the IRIF internal regulation is to use train instead of plane if the total travel time by train is 5 hours or less, or at most 1 hour longer than by airplane. Of course Tallinn if much farther than that. Nevertheless, a group of motivated colleagues of the lab is organizing an eco-responsible journey to Tallin, using trains and boat, turning this mission into a scientific adventure! The lab is supporting them. If you want to be part of it, please contact as soon as possible Gabriel.Scherer@irif.fr.

• MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships: The deadline for applications for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) ‘Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024’ call is 11 September 2024 at 17:00 (Brussels time). This call supports postdoctoral researchers by enabling them to be funded for a period of 2 or 3 years. UPCité is organising an information session (in English) to explain the terms and conditions of this call for proposals and to give you advice on how to make the most of your application. Date: Wednesday 22 May 2024 from 2.30 p.m. to 5 p.m. (Paris time) on Zoom. To take part, send a registration request to projets.recherche.sciences@u-paris.fr. Further information in this email.

• DIM QuanTIP Day: This day will be held on May 29, from 9am to 6pm at amphi 1 de l'IUT, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Villetaneuse. This day will present the state of progress of the QuanTiP roject, the scientific results obtained with its various themes and partners, and the calendar of calls for projects and forthcoming events. The event will cover the 4 main themes of the project: Quantum Computing, Quantum Simulators, Quantum Communications, Quantum Sensors and Metrology. More information on their website and in the newsletter which you can find below.

• Open4UPCité tool: UPcité is holding an information session on Tuesday 28 May from 12.30 to 1.30 pm to find out more about Open4UPCité, a search engine for identifying funding opportunities via calls for projects. The connection link and further information can be found in this email.

• Entrepreneurship Residential School: DIM QuanTiP is joining forces with MaTerRE and Quantum Saclay to organize an Entrepreneurship Residential School from June 12 to 14, 2024. All information needed in this mail.

• Convergences : journées scientifiques de l'Institut Pasteur et de l'Université Paris Cité 17 juin 2024

• [LAST CALL] INRIA prize - Académie des sciences 2024: (Application deadline: 12 noon on Friday 24 May 2024)
  • The Inria grand prize – Académie des sciences (25000€) : It rewards a scientist who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of computer science and mathematics.
  • The Inria Innovation prize - Académie des sciences – Dassault Systèmes (20000€) : it rewards a scientist or a team of scientists (maximum of 6 people) who have been particularly active in the field of transfer and innovation in computer and mathematical sciences.
  • The Inria prize - Académie des sciences young researchers (20000€) : rewards a scientist under the age of forty […] who has made a major contribution to the field of computer science and mathematics through his or her research, transfer or innovation activities.
  • More informations on this page.

• [LAST CALL] Young Researcher Programming School: you can now register to the young researcher programming school of the GDR GPL. It will take place in Argelès-sur-Mer (Pyrénées Orientales), from June 17 to June 21, 2024. The program is available here. It is mandatory to register before May 17, 2024.

• ED386 doctoral contracts: The call for applications for doctoral contracts for the ED386 Sciences Mathématiques de Paris Centre will open on Monday 06 May and will run until 09 June 2024. All the information and the form are available on the ED386 UPCité website - “CD ED386 2024/2025” section. Please send your application at amina.hariti@u-paris.fr

• Quantum PhD Thesis: The Graduate School of Quantum Technologies launches a call for five three-year PhD thesis funding who is open in the field of quantum technologies at Université Paris Cité. Submit your application by completing this file by Thursday May 23, 2024 by email to quantech@listes.u-paris.fr. Submit your application before May 31, 2024. Research projects must:
  • be conducted either at the IRIF Laboratory or at the MPQ Laboratory;
  • fall within the scientific perimeter defined by the Quantum Flagship.

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

• La lettre de l'INSMI from May 6, 2024
• Newsletter de CNRS Sciences Informatiques #45 from May 6, 2024
• DIM QuanTIP Newsletter from May 14, 2024
• La Lettre Innovation du CNRS - édition spéciale VivaTech from May 14, 2024
• AAP 2024 DIM QuanTiP Newsletter from May 17, 2024