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Julien Mairal, a former PhD student in the Willow team, wins several PhD thesis prizes
Julien Mairal, a former PhD student of Jean Ponce and Francis Bach in the Willow team, wins for his PhD thesisabout "Sparse coding for machine learning, image processing and computer vision",
http://www.di.ens.fr/~mairal/resources/pdf/phd_thesis.pdf :
- Best Thesis 2011 Prize of Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies of the EADS foundation.
http://www.fondation.eads.net/en/2011-best-thesis-prize-winners
- runner-up for the 2011 Gilles-Kahn prize (computer science). Prize awarded by Specif (society of computer science researchers and teachers of France) and supervised by the Académie des Sciences.
http://www.specif.org/prix-these/historique.html
- the 2010 PhD thesis prize from AFRIF (pattern recognition)
http://www.afrif.asso.fr/node/12
ACM programming contest
A group of computer science and physics students took part in the Southwestern European Regional Programming Contest(integrated in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest) in Madrid on November 19th and 20th, 2011. They won the 5th, 8th and 14th ranks and they received 2 silver medals
More information about this contest : http://swerc.eu/
Photos of our teams : http://diplome.di.ens.fr/PhotosConcoursACMSWERCnov2011.pdf
Xavier Rival obtains an ERC grant
Xavier Rival, a young researcher of the Abstraction team, obtains an ERC (European Research Council) grant.More information: http://www.inria.fr/centre/paris-rocquencourt/actualites/xavier-rival-laureat-erc-2011
New chair of the Computer science department
As from 1 September 2011, Jean Ponce replaces Jean Vuillemin and becomes chair of the computer science department.ENS/INRIA Computer science summer school
Visual Recognition and Machine Learning Summer school at ENS Paris 25 -29 July 2011. More information : http://www.di.ens.fr/willow/events/cvml2011/Scientific board of the Computer science department
The scientific board of the Computer science department met on 11 and 12 May 2011.More information : http://www.di.ens.fr/ConseilScientifique.html.en
Death of Philippe Flajolet
“It is with deep sadness that I have learnt of Philippe Flagolet ‘s death. Like many others here, I have lost both a master and a friend.”Jean Vuillemin - 22 March 2011.
A book of tribute has been opened by INRIA for Philippe Flajolet : http://blog.inria.fr/hommage/philippeflajolet/2011/03/disparition-brutale-dune-figure-scientifique/
Sylvain Arlot has been awarded the price 'Marie-Jeanne Laurent-Duhamel' 2011 from the French Statistical Society
(price awarded for the Ph.D. dissertation of a French-speaking statistician; in 2011, the price is awarded to a fundamental research work):http://www.sfds.asso.fr/110-Le_Prix_Marie-Jeanne_Laurent-Duhamel
The award will be given to him during the 43rd "Journees de Statistiques" which will take place in Tunis, Tunisia, 23-27 May 2011: http://jds2011.tn.refer.org/index.htm
More information on the Ph.D. dissertation: http://www.di.ens.fr/~arlot/phd/these.htm
January 1st, 2011 - Creation of SIERRA, a new team on machine learning
The new INRIA/CNRS/ENS team is headed by Francis Bach, and will focus on theoretical and algorithmic aspects of machine learning, in collaboration with other fields such as computer vision (in particular with the WILLOW team), bioinformatics and audio processing.http://www.di.ens.fr/sierra/
Lecture "Cours Peccot " at Collège de France
Sylvain Arlot will give in January 2011 one of the two "Cours Peccot" lectures at College de France, on "Model and estimator selection for statistical learning". More information about the lecture : http://www.di.ens.fr/~arlot/peccot.htmIn 2010
Pierre-Alain Fouque 's defence of HDR thesis.
Pierre-Alain Fouque defended his HDR thesis on 10 December 2010 at 10.00 at ENS : " Some algebraic and statistical methods in Cryptanalysis" under the direction of Jacques Stern.ACM programming contest
A group of students of the the computer science department took part in the Southwestern European Regional Programming Contest (integrated in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest) in Madrid on November 20th and November 21st, 2010. Their teams won the 5th and 6th ranks and they received silver medals. More information about this contest at http://swerc.eu/Former ENS student honored with the Windows Azure Partner Award by Microsoft
Lokad has been founded in 2008 by Joannes Vermorel, who entered the ENS in 2002 to join the Computer Science Department as a student. Lokad specializes in statistical forecasting of the demand. Lokad has just been honored with the title of Windows Azure Partner of the Year. Lokad was selected among 3000 companies competing for the awards in the World. The last French company to receive an equivalent award was Dassault Systèmes two years ago.Computer science students meet Eric Rudder, Senior Vice-President of Microsoft
Sqwarea (http://www.sqwarea.com/ ) was the project taken over by 1st year computer science students at the ENS who were following the cloud computing course of Joannes Vermorel in 2010 (http://vermorel.com/) . This project included quite a few challenges, with a complex piece of algorithms to be implemented in the cloud. Students managed to brilliantly complete this project which is now live on the web thanks to the support of Microsoft France that has been generously offering to support all the cloud computing costs of this project. The project did not stay unnoticed, and Eric Rudder, Senior Vice-President of Microsoft met the Sqwarea students on May 25th to gain further insights in their work.Arrival of Marc Pouzet and his team
It is a pleasure and honour to welcome in the computer science department at ENS, Marc Pouzet, Professor at UPMC.Marc Pouzet is a well-known international expert in the field of "synchronous languages for embedded systems" and he will set-up a new team in that field.
2010 Best Tutorial Paper in communications
Mr François Baccelli with Mr Martin Haenggi, Mr Jeffrey G. Andrews, Mr Olivier Dousse and Mr Massimo Franceshetti have been selected winners of the 2010 Best Tutorial Paper (prize awarded to an outstanding tutorial paper published in any Communications society magazine or journal in the previous calendar year) for the paper :"Stochastic Geometry and Random Graphs for the Analysis and Design of Wireless Networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 27, No. 7, September 2009, pp. 1029-1046.
More information : http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1649958#
The award will be presented to them during the ICC conference - International Conference on Communications – which will take place in Capetown, South Africa , 23-27 May 2010. http://www.ieee-icc.org/2010/
The 13th International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography 2010 - PKC 2010 - will take place at ENS in May 26-28, 2010.
http://pkc2010.di.ens.fr/index.htm
Giuseppe Longo took part in the radio programme called "Place de la Toile" on France Culture on March 12, 2010:
http://sites.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/emissions/place_toile/index.php
Recruitment of a "maître de conférences" in computer sciences at ENS.
Details to read at : http://www.di.ens.fr/DiensNews.html Candidates are invited to contact the heads of the computer science teams : http://www.di.ens.fr/DiensTeams.html.en
Several members of TREC are among the organizers or the speakers of the programme ``Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences''of the Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, held in Cambridge, UK, from 11 January - 2 July 2010
http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/SCS/index.html
In 2009
TREC co-edited a special issue of JSAC (IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications)
entitled ``Stochastic Geometry and Random Graphs for Wireless Networks''http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/TOC/2009/September09cover.pdf
Pierre Bremaud (DI/TREC) received the 2009 "Prix France Télécom'' of the French Academy of Science.
http://www.academie-sciences.fr/prix/pdf/laureat_Telecom.pdfWillow and its research on computer vision
Willow and its research on computer vision are featured in the November 2009 issue of La Recherche, a monthly French language popular science magazine. Here is the article : http://www-roc.inria.fr/cluster-willow/neva/webtest/la_recherche.pdfACM programming contest
A dozen of students of the computer science department took part in the Southwestern European Regional Programming Contest (integrated in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest) which was held in Madrid on October 31st and November 1st, 2009. They obtained the following results :- 2nd rank (gold medal) for a team.
- 12th rank (bronze medal) for another team.
- 15th and 16th ranks for two other teams.
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