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2023
PhD defense of Igor Dias da Silva on Optimisation of UAVs deployment and coordination for exploration and monitoring applications -- I3S, room 007, Sophia Antipolis, France -- september 21, 2023.
Attend Journées Scientifiques Inria -- Bordeaux, France -- August 30 till September 1st, 2023.
PhD Fabrice Lécuyer Member of the PhD committee of Fabrice Lécuyer on Ordering nodes to scale to large real-world networks -- Paris, France -- July 6, 2023.
UCA-Majulab Workshop 2023 co-organisation of the UCA-Majulab Workshop: quantum technologies & photonics -- Nice, France -- June 19-21, 2023.
Attend Algotel & CoRes 2023 -- Cargèse, Corsica -- May 21-26, 2023.
I will present our paper "Groupage sur le chemin pour borner la largeur de coupe", a joint work with Jean-Claude Bermond, Michel Cosnard and Frédéric Havet.
The proceedings of the conference are online.
Attend the "Prospective seminars" of Inria axis "Computational Neuroscience and Medicine" and "Modeling and Control for Life Sciences" -- Rungis, France -- March 15-16, 2023.
Sagemath has moved to GitHub. Check the repository and the preliminary description of the new development process.
Attend Journées du GDR RSD (GDR RSD) -- Lyon, France -- January 26-27, 2023.

2022
Attend the Journées Scientifiques Inria -- Rocquencourt, France -- November 23-25, 2022.
This summer I have mentored Enjeck Mbeh Cleopatra (second year student at University of Bamenda, Cameroon) and Georgia Channing for Google summer of code projects with Sagemath. Both projects concerned the implementation of Gabow's algorithms for the edge connectivity and packing arborescences in digraphs.
ROAD-AI Attend the annual meeting of the Inria-Cerema project Routes et Ouvrages d'Art Diversiformes, Augmentés & Intégrés (ROAD-AI) -- Paris, France -- September 26, 2022.
PhD Arthur Finkelstein Member (and president) of the PhD committee of Arthur Finkelstein on Recherche de plus court chemin multimodal de point à point dépendant du temps -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- September 22, 2022.
Attend the "Prospective seminars" of Inria axis 1) Networks and Telecommunications, 2) Embedded and Real-time systems + Architecture, languages and compilation + Distributed programming and software engineering, and 3) Distributed and High Performance Computing -- Rungis, France -- September 13-15, 2022.
I'm now Head of Science of the Inria research centre at Université Côte d'Azur. The nomination is for 4 years. This is a big challenge.
This summer, I suppervised the internship of Margaux Schmied (M1) on the computation of shortest smooth path with uniformely bounded stretch. She did a poster to present her findings -- July-August 2022.
Attend the 1st UCA QuantAzur days -- Nice, France -- June 16-17, 2022.
Attend AlgoTel & CoRes 2022 -- Saint-Rémy-Lès-Chevreuse, France -- May 30 till June 3, 2022.
I will present our paper entitled Dominer pour calculer l'hyperbolicité des graphes.
Attend the 10th Workshop on GRAph Searching, Theory and Applications (GRASTA) -- Porquerolles, France -- May 16-20, 2022.
MULTIMOD Presentation of the achievements of ANR project MultiMod at the ANR webinaire for CE22 -- March 29, 2022.
Tutorial at the Python working group seminar of the LINCS on a brief introduction to Sagemath -- March 23, 2022.
Quantum Attented the workshop on Mathematics for Quantum Technologies -- Nice, France -- March 4, 2022.
Attend ROADEF 2022, co-chair of stream Optimisation dans les réseaux de télécommunication intelligents from GDR RSD and RO -- Lyon, France -- February 23-25, 2022.
Keynote speaker at the working group session of axis CAGDO and GT GT2L on The k-shortest simple paths problem: time and space trade-offs -- February 25, 2022.
Our paper entitled On Finding k Earliest Arrival Time Journeys in Public Transit Networks, co-authored with Ali Al-Zoobi, Arthur Finkelstein and Jean-Charles Régin, has received the best paper award of the 11th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES) -- Online -- February 3, 5, 2022
The code of our algorithms is here.
Attend Journées du GDR RSD (GDR RSD) -- Rennes, France -- January 20-21, 2022. --postpone--
hyperbolicity Our paper Hyperbolicity Computation through Dominating Sets has been accepted to ALENEX'22. The code (C++) of the algorithms proposed in this paper is available on gitlab.

2021
PhD defense of Ali Al Zoobi on Practical computation of simple paths with length and diversity constraints in complex and multimodal networks -- Inria, Sophia Antipolis, France -- November 25, 2021.
PhD Nicolas Isoart Member (and president) of the PhD committee of Nicolas Isoart on Le problème du voyageur de commerce en programmation par contraintes -- I3S, Sophia Antipolis, France -- November 19, 2021.
Seminar on the Flinders Hamiltonian Cycle Problem Challenge at the Romanian Young Academy (RYA) -- online -- November 18, 2021.
PhD Samuel Masseport Referee and member of the PhD committee of Samuel Masseport on Consensus blockchain : incitation des utilisateurs d'un réseau à la participation et à la loyauté -- Montpellier, France -- October 12, 2021.
Attend AlgoTel/CoRes 2021 -- La Rochelle, France -- September 20 - 24, 2021.
Ali Al Zoobi will present our paper entitled De la difficulté de trouver des chemins dissimilaires.
Videos of the presentations are online.
Attend ALGO 2021 -- online -- September 6-10, 2021.
Attend the Quantum@UCA meeting organized by Academy 1 RISE of IDEX UCAJEDI -- July 12, 2021.
ROAD-AI Attend the kickoff meeting of the Inria-Cerema project Routes et Ouvrages d'Art Diversiformes, Augmentés & Intégrés (ROAD-AI) -- Paris, France -- July 9, 2021.
PhD Antonin Lentz Member of the PhD committee of Antonin Lentz on Calcul de plus courts chemins multicritères et problèmes géométriques connexes -- LaBRI, Bordeaux, France -- July 5, 2021.
Virtually attend the 25th International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM) -- online and Gothenburg, Sweden -- June 28 - July 1, 2021.
Huy Duong will present our paper entitled Minimum Disturbance Rerouting to Optimize Bandwidth Usage and co-authored with Brigitte Jaumard.
Co-chair of 19th Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA) -- online and Nice, France -- June 7-9, 2021.
Open-access proceedings: volume 190 of LIPIcs
hyperbolicity The code (C++) of the algorithms proposed in our paper for computing the hyperbolicity of graphs is now available on gitlab. It also implements a new far-apart pairs iterator.

2020
Attend (online) the joint ACP, CNRS GDR IA and RO International Autumn School on Combinatorial Optimization, Constraint Programming and Machine Learning -- online and Toulouse, France -- November 24-27, 2020.
Global Virtual SageDays 110 -- October 29-30, 2020.
I will give a talk on the Flinders Hamiltonian Cycle Problem Challenge (we used Sagemath for this challenge).
Attend (online) the 15th INFORMS Telecommunications and Network Analytics Conference -- online -- October 20-21, 2020.
Attend AlgoTel/CoRes 2020 -- Lyon, France -- September 28 - October 2, 2020.
Ali Al Zoobi will present our paper entitled Compromis espace-temps pour le problème des k plus courts chemins simples.
This summer I have mentored Vigul Gupta (third year student of dual degree (B.Tech + M.Tech) Mathematics and Computing course at IIT-BHU, India) for his Google summer of code project with Sagemath. He contributed the improvement of various method related to distances computation in (weighted) (directed) graphs. He has in particular implemented state-of-the-art methods for radius, diameter, eccentricities, etc. See his blog for more details.
Member of the PhD committee of Huy Duong -- online from Montréal, Québec, Canada -- July 27, 2020.
I co-supervised his PhD thesis with Brigitte Jaumard
Member (and president) of the PhD committee of Imane Oussakel -- online and Toulouse, France -- July 17, 2020.
kSSP The code (C++) of the algorithms presented in our SEA'20 paper for the k Shortest Simple Paths is now available on gitlab. We also provide a small interface to use it with Sagemath.
Attend SEA 2020 -- online (originally Catania, Italy) -- June 16-18, 2020.
Ali Al Zoobi will present our work on Space and time trade-off for the k shortest simple paths problem.
Global Virtual SageDays 109 -- May 28, 2020.
Sagemath participates to the 2020 edition of Google summer of code. I will mentor a student to improve distances computations in the graph module.
Attend ROADEF 2020 -- Montpellier, France -- February 19-21, 2020.
Attend Journées du GDR RSD (GDR RSD) -- Nantes, France -- January 23-24, 2020.

2019
Attended (evaluator and president of the jury) the PhD thesis of Paul Beaujean -- LAMSADE, Paris, France -- December 16, 2019.
    Attended (referee) the PhD thesis of Francesca Fossati -- LIP6, Paris, France -- November 29, 2019.
Attended (referee) the PhD thesis of Valentin Pollet -- LIRMM, Montpellier, France -- October 3, 2019.
Attend New Horizons in Computational Geometry and Topology -- Inria, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 5-6 2019.
This summer, I was a mentor for Sagemath in the context of Google Summer of Code. The students, Rajat Mittal, Georgios Giapitzakis Tzintanos, and Ritesh K have worked on improving various methods of the graph module related to shortest paths computation and implementing Yen's k-shortest simple paths algorithm. They have also implemented various graph traversal methods like Lex-BFS, Lex-DFS, Lex-UP, Lex-DOWN, and Lew-M. See the tickets on which the students have worked. Project reports can be found on students web pages.
Visit Concordia University in the context of associated-team EfDyNet -- Montréal Canada, July 12-27, 2019.
Seminar on the Flinders Hamiltonian Cycle Problem Challenge at the Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering of Concordia University, July 25, 2019.
Attend CoRes'19 and AlgoTel'19 -- Saint Laurent de la Cabrerisse, France -- June 3-7, 2019.
See the online proceedings in HAL for CoRes and AlgoTel.
I will give a keynote lecture on the Flinders Hamiltonian Cycle Problem Challenge.
Attended Workshop Complexité et algorithmes -- Roscoff, France -- April 3-5, 2019.
Laurent Viennot and myself will present recent achievements of ANR MULTIMOD.
MULTIMOD Project meeting of ANR project MultiMod -- Roscoff, France -- April 1-2, 2019.
Keynote speaker at the 21ème Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques des Télécommunications (AlgoTel 2019) -- Saint Laurent de la Cabrerisse, France -- June 3-7, 2019. See the online proceedings in HAL.
I will present what we did to win the Flinders Hamiltonian Cycle Problem Challenge.
CoRes 2019 Attend the 4e Rencontres Francophones sur la Conception de Protocoles, l'Evaluation de Performance et l'Expérimentation des Réseaux de Communication (CoRes 2019) -- Saint Laurent de la Cabrerisse, France -- June 2-3, 2019. See the online proceedings in HAL.
Attend the Journées non-thématiques RESCOM of GDR RSD -- Grenoble, France -- January 17-18, 2019.

2018
Visit at UAI and DIM/Univ. Chile in the context of Inria associated team AlDyNet -- Santiago, Chile -- November 30 - December 15, 2018.
Attend Rencontres Inria-Industries (RII) sur la mobilité intelligente -- Station-F, Paris, France -- November 20, 2018.
Attend the HDR defense of Frédéric Giroire -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- October 11, 2018
Member (and president) of PhD committee of Amine Ait-Ouahmed -- Avignon, France -- October 15, 2018.
Referee and member of HDR committee of Fen Zhou -- Avignon, France -- September 26, 2018.
MULTIMOD Project meeting of ANR project MultiMod -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- September 11, 2018.
This summer, I was a mentor for Sagemath in the context of Google Summer of Code. The students, Sai Harsh Tondomker and Meghana M. Reddy have implemented, among others, algorithms for decomposing a graph into 3-connected components and organizing these componens as a SPQR-tree. See tickets #22157 and #25598 and the projects reports of Sai Harsh Tondomker and Meghana M. Reddy.
Attend (and organize) Summer School RESCOM 2018 of pôle RESCOM of GDR RSD on Apprentissage et fouille de données dans les réseaux -- Porquerolles, France -- June 18-22, 2018.
This summer, I'm mentoring students in the context of Google Summer of Code. The goal is to implement decomposition into 3-connected components of a graph, and the construction of a SPQR-tree in Sagemath.
Jianding Guo Attended (Examinator) the PhD defense of Jianding Guo: "Theoretical research on graph coloring - Application to resource allocation in device-to-device 4G radio system (LTE)" -- Université de Belfort Franche-Comté -- June 6, 2018.
Attend the 20ème Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques des Télécommunications (AlgoTel 2018) -- Roscoff, France -- May 29 - June 1, 2018. See the online proceedings in HAL.
I will present the paper Modèle d'optimisation pour la défragmentation de la capacité.
CoRes 2018 Attend the 3ème Rencontres Francophones sur la Conception de Protocoles, l'Evaluation de Performance et l'Expérimentation des Réseaux de Communication (CoRes 2018) -- Roscoff, France -- May 28-29, 2018. See the online proceedings in HAL.
Seminar On the Flinders Hamiltonian Cycle Problem Challenge -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- April 3, 2018.
Attend the Journées non-thématiques RESCOM of GDR RSD -- Toulouse, France -- January 18-19, 2018.
MULTIMOD Kickoff meeting of ANR project MultiMod -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- January 10, 2018.

2017
Article le défi des 1001 graphes by Nathann Cohen and myself published in Interstices (in french) -- December 12, 2017.
Seminar on the Hamiltonian Cycle Problem at the seminario del Doctorado en Ingeniería de Sistemas Complejos -- Santiago, Chile -- November 30, 2017.
Visit at UAI and DIM/Univ. Chile in the context of Inria associated team AlDyNet -- Santiago, Chile -- November 17 - December 2, 2017.
Course on the Hamiltonian Cycle Problem for students of Master MDFI -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- October 31, 2017.
Steering committee meeting of GDR RSD of CNRS -- LIP6, Paris, France -- October 17, 2017.
Guillaume Perez Attended (Examinator) the PhD defense of Guillaume Perez: "Decision Diagrams: Constraints and Algorithms" -- Université Nice Sophia-Antipolis -- September 29, 2017.
Nicolas Huin Attended the PhD defense of Nicolas Huin -- Université Nice Sophia-Antipolis -- September 28, 2017.
Attend the joint ACP and GdR RO Summer School on Constraints and Operational Research -- Porquerolles, France -- September 18-22, 2017.
I gave a presentation on the Flinders Hamiltonian Cycle Problem Challenge, a challenge we won together with Nathann Cohen in 2016. The slides of the presentation are available here.
This summer, I'm co-mentoring students in the context of Google Summer of Code. The goal is to implement modular decomposition algorithms for (di)graphs in Sagemath.
Visit Concordia University, Montréal Canada, July 1-14, 2017.
Attended the Green Days @ Sophia -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- June 26-27, 2017.
Attended the Journées Scientifiques Inria -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- June 14-16, 2017.
Attended the 19ème Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques des Télécommunications (AlgoTel 2017) -- Quiberon, France -- May 30 - June 2, 2017. See the online proceedings in HAL.
Attended the 17th Journée Combinatoire et Algorithmes du Littoral Méditerranéen (JCALM) on Designs -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- Mai 4-5, 2017.
Attended (referee) the PhD defense of Lorenzo Severini, L'Aquila, Italy - April 20, 2017.
I gave a seminar on the design of reliable fixed microwave backhaul networks at the MAORE team weakly seminar -- LIRMM, Montpellier, France -- January 20, 2017.
We organize the 2017 edition of the Journées non-thématiques RESCOM of GDR RSD -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- January 11-13, 2017. The first day is dedicated to communications in smart cities.

2016
Attended (referee) the PhD defense of Matthieu Kanj, Université de Rennes 1 / IRISA / IRT b<>com, Rennes, France - December 20, 2016.
PhD defense of Guillaume Ducoffe -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- December 9, 2016.
Seminar of Robert E. Tarjan on concurrent disjoint set union -- amphi Kahn, Inria Sophia Antipolis, France -- December 9, 2016.
The video of the seminar is now online. Enjoy !
Nathann Cohen and David Coudert won the Flinders Hamiltonian Cycle Problem (FHCP) Challenge by successfully solving 985 of the 1001 instances (see also the news on Université Côte d'Azur web site).
Visit at UAI and DIM/Univ. Chile in the context of Inria associated team AlDyNet -- Santiago, Chile -- October 24 - November 11, 2016.
I gave a seminar on the notion of hyperbolicity in graphs at the Complex Networks team weakly seminar -- LIP6, Paris, France -- October 12, 2016.
Attended the Journées Cloud organized by GDR RSD -- Nice, France -- September 13-14, 2016.
Keynote speaker at International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (AdHoc-Now) -- Lille, France -- July 4-5, 2016.
Presentation on the design of reliable wireless backhaul networks.
Attended the Journées Scientifiques Inria -- Rennes, France -- June 20-22, 2016.
New accepted paper: Data center interconnection networks are not hyperbolic, by Guillaume Ducoffe and myself. To appear in Theoretical Computer Science.
Attended the User-Centric Network Labex General Assembly -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- June 13, 2016.
Attended the 18ème Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques des Télécommunications (AlgoTel 2016) -- Bayonne, France -- May 24-27, 2016. See the online proceedings in HAL.
Paper with Guillaume Ducoffe: Liens entre symétries et étirements de routages dans les réseaux d'interconnexions de centres de données.
New accepted paper: Combinatorial optimization in networks with Shared Risk Link Groups, by Stéphane Pérennes, Hervé Rivano, Marie-Emilie Voge and myself. To appear in Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science (DMTCS).
Evaluation of COATI by Inria during the evaluation seminar of theme Networks and Telecommunications -- Rungis, France -- March 22-24, 2016.
I was the scientific coordinator of this evaluation seminar.

2015
Visit at UAI and DIM/Univ. Chile in the context of Inria associated team AlDyNet -- Santiago, Chile -- November 21 - December 5, 2015.
Attended the 16th Journée Combinatoire et Algorithmes du Littoral Méditerranéen (JCALM) on hyperbolicity-- Marseille, France -- November 19-20, 2015.
PhD defense of Fatima Zahra Moataz -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- October 30, 2015.
Attended ALGO 2015 -- Patras, Greece -- September 14-18, 2015.
I have a paper at ESA 2015: On Computing the Hyperbolicity of Real-World Graphs, by M. Borassi, D. Coudert, P. Crescenzi and A. Marino.
Visit the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens -- Athens, Greece -- September 7-11, 2015.
This summer, I was a mentor for the internship of Michele Borassi in the context of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC). He has significantly improved the graph module of Sagemath with the addition of interfaces to the Boost Graph Library and to igraph. He has also implemented new algorithms for centrality measures, hyperbolicity, etc. See here for more details on this intership. Great job and very good experience.
Visit the Department of Information Engineering at University of Florence -- Florence, Italy -- June 23-30, 2015.
Attended the Journées Scientifiques Inria -- Nancy, France -- June 17-19, 2015.
Attended the 17ème Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques des Télécommunications (AlgoTel 2015) -- Beaune, France -- June 2-5, 2015. See the online proceedings in HAL.
Our paper Unveiling Contacts within Macro-molecular assemblies by solving Minimum Weight Connectivity Inference Problems by Deepesh Agarwal, Christelle Caillouet, David Coudert, and Frederic Cazals has been accepted for publication in Molecular and Cellular Proteomics
Visit at UAI and DIM/Univ. Chile in the context of Inria associated team AlDyNet -- Santiago, Chile -- April 3-19, 2015.
Attended the 15th Journée Combinatoire et Algorithmes du Littoral Méditerranéen (JCALM) on advanced complexity-- Sophia Antipolis, France -- March 10-11, 2015.
The branch-and-bound algorithm for computing the pathwidth of graphs and the vertex-separation of digraphs we have proposed in hal-00966851 is now included in the standard distribution of Sagemath (since version 6.6.beta1). Enjoy it!

2014
PhD defense of Alvinice Kodjo -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- December 18, 2014.
   Attended (referee) the PhD defense of Stéphane Raux, Paris, France - December 12, 2014.
PhD defense of Aurélien Lancin -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- December 9, 2014.
Attended (referee) the PhD defense of Massinissa Merabet, Montpellier, France - December 5, 2014.
Visit at UAI in the context of Inria associated team AlDyNet -- Santiago, Chile -- November 14-30, 2014.
PhD defense of Bi Li -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- November 12, 2014.
Participation to the thematic day on energy aware networks of Labex UCN@Sophia -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- October 14, 2014.
PhD defense of Khoa Truang Phan -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- September 25, 2014.
Member of the PhD committee of François Clad -- Strasbourg, France -- September 22, 2014.
Attended the Final review meeting of FP7 STREP EULER project -- Brussels, Belgium -- August 29, 2014.
Attended the Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2014) -- Copenhagen, Denmark -- June 29 - July 1st, 2014.
Presentation on Experimental Evaluation of a Branch and Bound Algorithm for computing Pathwidth.
Attended the Journées Scientifiques Inria -- Lille, France -- June 25-27, 2014.
Presentation on achievements of STREP EULER.
Attended the 16ème Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques des Télécommunications (AlgoTel 2014) -- Le-Bois-Plage-en-Ré France -- June 3-6, 2014.
Attended the HDR defense of Nicolas Nisse -- Sophia Antipolis -- May 26, 2014.
Attended the Summer School ResCom 2014 of pôle ResCom of GDR ASR -- Furiani, France -- June 12-16, 2014.
Lecture on the notion of hyperbolicity in graphs.
Attended the 6th Workshop on GRAph Searching, Theory and Applications (GRASTA) -- Cargèse, Corsica, France -- March 31 till April 4, 2014.
Presentation on a branch-and-bound algorithm for pathwidth.
Attended the FP7 STREP EULER project meeting -- Paris, France -- March 27-28, 2014..
Attended the Future Internet Assembly -- Athens, Greece -- March 18-20, 2014.
The presented poster is here
Visit the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens -- Athens, Greece -- March 16-22, 2014.
Visit the Research Unit 1 (RU1) of the Computer Technology Institute and Press "Diophantus" (CTI) -- Patras, Greece -- March 12-16, 2014.
Attended ROADEF'14, co-chair of stream Optimisation dans les réseaux, flots, et applications télécom -- Bordeaux, France -- February 26-28, 2014.

2013
Attended the Technical Advisory Board meeting and the Evaluation meeting of FP7 STREP EULER project -- Brussels, Belgium -- December 19-20, 2013.
Attended the PhD defense of Christian Glacet -- Labri, Univ. Bordeaux 1, France -- December 6, 2013.
Meeting of ADR Network Science - Alcatel-Lucent / INRIA Joint lab -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- December 5, 2013.
COMRED Journée du Pôle COMRED of I3S Laboratory -- Nice, France -- December 3-4, 2013.
Attended the AlDyNet Workshop on Algorithms and Randomness -- Santiago, Chile -- November 21, 2013.
Visit at UAI in the context of Inria associated team AlDyNet -- Santiago, Chile -- November 14-30, 2013.
Ronan's Day Attended the PhD defense Ronan Pardo Soares -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- November 8, 2013.
I was a referee for the PhD of Jiayi Liu -- Rennes, France -- November 4, 2013.
Invited speaker at the Bell Labs-NIST Workshop on Large Scale Networks, organized at the Mathematics of Networks and Communications Research Department of Bell labs -- Murray Hill, NJ, USA -- October 25, 2013.
Attended the FP7 STREP EULER project plenary meeting -- Antwerp, Belgium -- September 23-25, 2013.
Attended ALGO and so ESA - WABI - IPEC - ALGOSENSORS - MASSIVE - ATMOS - WAOA -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- September 2-6, 2013.
Attended the XXVI EURO - INFORMS Joint International Conference: "All roads lead to OR" -- Rome, Italy -- July 1-4, 2013.
Attended the Journées Scientifiques & Journée REP 2013 -- Rennes, France -- June 25-27, 2013.
Attended the 15ème Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques des Télécommunications (AlgoTel 2013) -- Pornic, France -- May 28-31, 2013.
Attended the summer school ResCom 2013 of GDR ASR of CNRS on content centric networks -- Porquerolles, France -- May 13-17, 2013.
Meeting of ADR Network Science - Alcatel-Lucent / INRIA Joint lab -- Paris, France -- February 28, 2013.
Creation of the COATI joint project-team between Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée and the I3S (UMR 7271 CNRS / UNS) laboratory -- January 1st, 2013.

2012
Attended the 11th Journées du Pôle ResCom du GDR ASR, Paris, France --- November 28-29, 2012.
2nd FP7 STREP EULER project review meeting, Sophia Antipolis, France - October 10, 2012.
Attended the PhD thesis of Ahmed Frikha, Rennes, France - September 28, 2012.
Visit Arie Koster at RWTH Aachen -- Aachen, Germany -- July 24-27, 2012.
Fête du LIRMM, Montpellier, France - July 12, 2012.
Alan Turing's Heritage, ENS-Lyon, France - July 2-3, 2012.
FP7 STREP EULER project plenary and TAB meetings, Ghent, Belgium - June 5-9, 2012.
Attended the 14èmes Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques de Télécommunications (AlgoTel'12) -- La Grande Motte, France -- May 29 - June 1, 2012. Proceedings available on HAL.
MASCOTTE DAYs -- Lac de Sainte-Croix, France -- May 10-11, 2012.
COATI Presentation of the COATI proposal for a joint project-team between INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée and the I3S (UMR 7271 CNRS / UNS) laboratory, CP INRIA -- Sophia Antipolis, France - April 12, 2012.
Evaluation of the Mascotte project-team at the evaluation seminar of the research theme Networks and Telecommunications of INRIA - Paris, France - March 21-23, 2012.
COATI Presentation of the COATI proposal for a joint project-team between INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée and the I3S (UMR 7271 CNRS / UNS) laboratory, Bureau CP INRIA -- Sophia Antipolis, France - March 16, 2012.
Presentation of Mascotte's research activities to a delegation of scientists form the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Sophia Antipolis, France - February 15, 2012.
Talk on energy efficiency in backhaul and backbone networks at academic day of the pole SCS, Sophia Antipolis, France - January 24, 2012.
FP7 STREP EULER project review meeting, Brussels, Belgium - January 13, 2012.
Visited Alcatel-Lucent Bell labs, Antwerpeen, Belgium, January 10-12, 2012.

2011
FP7 STREP EULER project meeting, Barcelona, Spain - November 7-9, 2011.
Visit Arie Koster at RWTH Aachen -- Aachen, Germany -- October 30 till November 4, 2011.
Attended the FIRE Conference co-located with the Future Internet Week, Poznan, Poland -- October 26-27, 2011.
Attended the 10th Journées du Pôle ResCom du GDR ASR, Paris, France -- October 20-21, 2011.
TERA-NET Attended the 2nd workshop Toward Evolutive Routing Algorithms for scale-free/internet-like NETworks (TERA-NET), co-located with DISC'11 - Roma, Italy - September 19, 2011.
ECOSCELLS ANR Verso ECOSCELLS project meeting -- Villarceaux, France -- June 9, 2011.
Attended the 10th Journée Combinatoire et Algorithmes du Littoral Méditerranéen (JCALM) -- Barcelona, Spain -- June 7-8, 2011.
Attended the 13èmes Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques de Télécommunications (AlgoTel'11) -- Agay, France -- May 23-26, 2011. Proceedings available on HAL.
FP7 STREP EULER project meeting, St-Raphael, France - May 10-12, 2011.
Journées responsable d'EPI -- Maison de la Chimie, Paris, France -- April 4-5 2010.
Giving presentation on Fixed parameterized algorithms for Shared Risk Link Groups at the MPLA graduate students seminar, University of Athens, Greece - February 25, 2011.
Interim meeting of the FP7 STREP EULER project, Paris, France - January 20-21, 2011.
Visit the Research Unit 1 (RU1) of the Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (RACTI) -- Patras, Greece -- From January 8 till March 31, 2011.

2010
Napoleão's Day Attended the PhD defense of Napoleão Nepomuceno -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- December 17, 2010.
Attended the closing meeting of the DCR project -- Paris, France -- December 6, 2010.
Attended the 9th Journées du Pôle ResCom du GDR ASR, Lyon, France -- November 25-26, 2010.
Julian's Day Attended the PhD defense of Julian Monteiro -- Sophia Antipolis, France -- November 16, 2010.
Attended the 12ème Journées Graphes et Algorithmes, CIRM, Marseille, France -- November 8-10, 2010.
Visited the LIRMM + seminar on FPT algorithms in WDM networks with SRLGs, Montpellier, France -- November 4-5, 2010.
Kick-off meeting of the FP7 STREP EULER project, Antwerp, Belgium - October 6-8, 2010.
Attended ICT 2010, Brussels, Belgium - September 27-29, 2010.
Attended the PhD thesis of Fen Zhou, Rennes, France - September 3, 2010.
Attended the 24th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXIV) - Lisbon, Portugal - July 11-14, 2010.
Attended the 37th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP'10) - Bordeaux, France - July 5-12, 2010.
TERA-NET Attended the 1st workshop Toward Evolutive Routing Algorithms for scale-free/internet-like NETworks (TERA-NET), co-located with ICALP'10 - Bordeaux, France - July 5, 2010.
Attended the FIRE week: future internet research and innovation - Barcelona, Spain - June 30, July 1, 2010.
Attended the 12èmes Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques de Télécommunications (AlgoTel'10) - Belle-Dune, France - May 31 - June 3, 2010. Proceedings available on HAL.
Visited the CITI laboratory -- Lyon, France -- May 27-28, 2010.
Workshop on dynamic compact routing (DCR project) -- Alcatel-Lucent Bell labs, Antwerpeen, Belgium -- May 5-6, 2010.
MASCOTTE DAYs -- Rocquebrune Cap-Martin, France -- May 3-4, 2010.
Attended the 11es Journées Doctorales en Informatique et Réseaux (JDIR'10) - Sophia Antipolis, France - March 24-26, 2010. Proceedings available on HAL.
Meeting of Alcatel-Lucent / INRIA Joint lab - Villarceaux, France - March 18-19, 2010.
COMRED Journée du Pôle COMRED of I3S Laboratory -- Sophia Antipolis, France - March 18-19, 2010.
Meeting of AdR HiMa, Alcatel-Lucent / INRIA Joint lab - Villarceaux, France - March 17, 2010.
Attended the EC negotiation meeting for STREP EULER - Brussels, Belgium - March 12, 2010.
Visited Alcatel-Lucent Bell labs, Antwerpeen, Belgium, March 11, 2010.
HDR Defense of my Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches - Sophia Antipolis, France - March 5, 2010.
Attended the IST FET AEOLUS meeting - Athens, Greece - January 20-21, 2010.
ECOSCELLS Meeting SP4, ANR Verso ECOSCELLS, Sophia Antipolis, France, January 15, 2010.
AGAPE Kick off ANR Blanc AGAPE, LIFO, Orléans, January 7-8, 2010.

2009
Workshop on dynamic compact routing, Labri, Bordeaux, December 3-4, 2009.
ECOSCELLSKick off ANR Verso ECOSCELLS, Avignon, France, November 9, 2009.
Attended the 11èmes Journées Graphes et Algorithmes - JGA'09 - Montpellier, France, November 5-6, 2009.
Visited Alcatel-Lucent Bell labs, Antwerpeen, Belgium, October 22-23, 2009.
Meeting of Alcatel-Lucent / INRIA Joint lab, Paris, France, October 20-21, 2009.
Meeting of AdR HiMa, Alcatel-Lucent / INRIA Joint lab, Paris, France, October 1-2, 2009.
Attended the IST FET AEOLUS meeting - Athens, Greece - September 21-22, 2009.
complexnetworks.frVisited the Complex Networks group at LIP6, Paris, France, September 18, 2009.
Attended the 11èmes Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques de Télécommunications - AlgoTel'09 - Carry le Rouet, France, June 16-19, 2009. Online proceedings on HAL >> HERE <<.
Attended the Bell labs - INRIA Workshop on Fundamentals of Communications and Networking, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, June 1-3, 2009.
The ANR JC-JC DIMAGREEN (Design and management of green networks with low power consumption) has been approved.
Proceedings of AlgoTel'08, are now freely available online on HAL >> HERE <<.
Attended the 8th Journées du Pôle ResCom du GDR ASR, Paris, France, March 26-27, 2009.
Attended DIMAP workshop on Algorithmic Graph Theory AGT'09, Warwick, UK, March 23-25, 2009.
Attended the 13th Conference on Optical Design and Modeling, ONDM'09, Braunschweig, Germany, February 18-20, 2009.
Meeting of Alcatel-Lucent / INRIA Joint lab, Paris, France, January 15-16, 2009.
   Visit the Algorithms and combinatorics group of LIAFA, Univ. Paris 7, France, January 14, 2009.

2008
Attended the 7th Journées du Pôle ResCom du GDR ASR, Strasbourg, France, October 9-10, 2008.
   Visit the Algorithms and combinatorics group of LIAFA, Univ. Paris 7, France, October 3, 2008.
Attended the IST FET AEOLUS meeting - Athens, Greece - September 30, October 1, 2008.
Attended the 13th and last COST 293 GRAAL workshop, organized jointly with COST 295 DYNAMO, in conjunction with DISC'08 - Arcachon, France, September 23-26, 2008.
General chair of AdHocAmC 2008 - Sophia Antipolis, France, September 13, 2008. Proceedings on hal.
General chair of PhD-NOW 2008 - Sophia Antipolis, France, September 13, 2008. Proceedings on hal.
General chair of AdHoc-NOW 2008 - Sophia Antipolis, France, September 10-12, 2008.
Co-chair of IST FET AEOLUS workshop - Sophia Antipolis, France - September 8-10, 2008.
Visit Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 25 - August 29, 2008.
Attended the inauguration of Alcatel-Lucent / INRIA Joint lab, Paris, France, July 1-2, 2008.
Attended the 4th Journée Combinatoire et Algorithmes du Littoral Méditerranéen (JCALM), Sophia Antipolis, France, June 5-6, 2008.
 ESA  ESA 2008 PC meeting - Karlsruhe, Germany, May 24-25, 2008.
Attended the 10èmes Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques de Télécommunications - AlgoTel'08 - Saint Malo, France, May 13-16, 2008.
Attended the 12th COST 293 GRAAL meeting (in conjunction with HotTina, GRAAL/AEOLUS School on Hot Topics in Network Algorithms) - Bertinoro, Italy, May 8-9, 2008.
Attended the Workshop on Graph Decomposition: Theoretical, Algorithmic and Logical Aspects, CIRM, Luminy, Marseille (France), April 7-11, 2008.
Meeting at the COST office, Brussels, Belgium, March 17, 2008.
Attended the 2nd Workshop on GRAph Searching, Theory and Applications (GRASTA ) - Praia da Redonda, Ceara, Brazil, February 25-28, 2008.
Attended the 11th COST 293 GRAAL meeting - Bordeaux, France, February 18-20, 2008.
Attended the 9èmes Journées Doctorales en Informatique et Réseaux - JDIR'08 - Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, January 15-18, 2008.

2007
Attended the 40th - Lille, France, December 10-11, 2007.
Attended the evaluation seminar of INRIA COM B - Paris, France, November 13-14, 2007.
Attended the 10th COST 293 GRAAL meeting - Rome, Italy, October 29-31, 2007.
Proceedings of AlgoTel'07, are now freely available online on HAL >> HERE <<.
Attended the IST FET AEOLUS meeting - Athens, Greece - October 1-2, 2007.
Attended the 5th Journées du Pôle ResCom du GDR ASR, ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France, September 20-21, 2007.
ARC INRIA CaRMa Attended the ARC CARMA workshop, INSA Lyon, France, July 9-11, 2007.
Attended the summer school ResCom'07, Calcatoggio, Corse, France, june 16-23 2007.
Attended the SIROCCO 07 - Castiglioncello (LI), Italy, June 6-8, 2007.
Attended the 9th COST 293 GRAAL meeting - Castiglioncello (LI), Italy, June 4-6, 2007.
AlgoTel'07 PC co-chair, Ile d'Oléron, May 29 - June 1 2007.
Attended the 4th Workshop on Optimization of Optical Networks (OON 07), Montreal Canada, Mai 2-3, 2007.
Visited the Concordia University, Montreal Canada, April 11 - May 27, 2007.
Attended the 4th Journées du Pôle ResCom du GDR ASR, LIP6, Paris, France, March 15-16, 2007.
Joint meeting Alcatel-Lucent / INRIA, Paris, March 9, 2007.
Attended the IST FET AEOLUS Workshop on Scheduling - Nice, France, March 8-9, 2007.
Attended the joint COST 293 GRAAL and COST 295 DYNAMO Discussion Workshop and MC meetings, Maribor, Slovenia, 31st january to 4th february 2007.

2006
Attended PaRISTIC, Nancy, France, November 22-24 2006.
Attended the 1st Journée Combinatoire et Algorithmes du Littoral Méditerranéen (JCALM), Sophia Antipolis, France, October 20, 2006.
Attended the IST FET AEOLUS meeting - Athens, Greece - October 13-14, 2006.
Attended The 1st Workshop on GRAph Searching, Theory and Applications (GRASTA), Anogia, Crete, Greece - October 9-12, 2006.
Attended the 3rd Journées du Pôle ResCom du GDR ASR, Paris, France, September 25-26, 2006.
Attended the 7th Management Committee meeting, European Action COST 293 Graal, Zurich, Switzerland, Sept 8-10, 2006.
Attended the IEEE-LEOS ICTON 06, Nottingham, UK, june 18-22 2006. (Invited Talk).
Attended the 6th Management Committee meeting, European Action COST 293 Graal, Nottingham, UK, june 18-22 2006.
Attended ResCom'06 (program committee co-chair), Presqu'île de Giens, France, june 11-16 2006.
Member of the organizing committee of InterSense'06 - Nice, France, May 30-31, 2006.
Attended AlgoTel'06 (program committee member), Trégastel, France, may 9-12 2006.
Visited the Concordia University, Montreal Canada, April 24 may 7, 2006.
Attended the 3rd Workshop on Optimization of Optical Networks (OON 06), Montreal Canada, April 27-28, 2006 (invited talk).
Visited the graphs and algorithms project of LIFO, Orléans, France, April 10-11, 2006.
Attended the ADONET/COST293 Spring School on Combinatorial Optimization and Communication Networks, ACSS'06, and the 5th Management Committee meeting, European Action COST 293 Graal, Budapest, Hungary, March 20-24, 2006.
Attended the 2nd Journées du Pôle ResCom du GDR ASR, Lille, France, March 6-7, 2006.
3rd Extreme Carving Session, ECS'06 - Zinal, Switzerland - February 11-13, 2006. (very refreshing)
Attended the 3rd Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services, WONS 06, Les Ménuires, France - January 18-20, 2006.
Attended the 3rd Workshop of the COST Action 295 DYNAMO and a join Wireless WG meeting of COST Action 293 Graal, Les Ménuires, France - January 16-17, 2006.

2005
Symposium in Honour of Jean-Claude Bermond - Sophia Antipolis, France - December 8-9, 2005.
Attended the IP IST AEOLUS Kickoff meeting - Athens, Greece - November 28-29, 2005.
Attended PaRI-STIC, Panorama des Recherches Incitatives en STIC, LABRI, Bordeaux, France, Nov 21-23, 2005.
Attended the 1st Journées du Pôle ResCom du GDR ASR, réunion d'automne, Nice, France, Nov. 8-9, 2005.
Attended the 4th Management Committee meeting, European Action COST 293 Graal, UPC Barcelone, Sept 29 - Oct 1, 2005.
Attended the 7th Internation Colloquium on Graph Theory ICGT 05, Presqu'ile de Giens, France, September 12-16, 2005.
Attended the 9th summer school Internet Nouvelle Génération, ING 05, Côte d'Opale, June 13-17, 2005.
Attended the 3rd Management Committee meeting, European Action COST 293 Graal, ENST Paris, May 27-28, 2005.
Attended SIROCCO 2005, Mont Saint-Michel, France, may 24-26 2005.
Attended AlgoTel 2005, Presqu'île de Giens, France, may 11-13 2005.
Montreal University, Montreal Canada, April 09-16 2005.
Attended the 2nd Workshop on Optimization of Optical Networks (OON 05), Montreal Canada, April 14-15 2005 (invited talk).
Attended the IST FET CRESCCO final review meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 4-6 2005. Co-located with ETAPS 05.
Organisation of the 3rd Management Committee meeting, European Action COST 293 Graal, ENST Paris, May 27-28, 2005.
Attended the Spring TAROT Workshop, Paris, March 17-18, 2005.
Attended the 1st Discussion Workshop of European Action COST 293 Graal, Milano, Italy, February 9-11, 2005.
Attended ONDM 05 in Milano, Italy, February 7-9, 2005.
Member of the program commitee of AlgoTel 2005 that will be held at Presqu'île de Giens, France, may 11-13 2005.
Chair of the Optical Networks Working Group, European Action COST 293 Graal