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Concurrency and parallelism: from models to systems
Scientific workshop organised, on Tuesday 9 November 2010, from 10am to 5pm, at the Grenoble Ecole de Management, in honour of Jean-Pierre Verjus, to celebrate his exceptional career in teaching and research spanning more than 40 years within Inria.
- Date : 9/11/2010
- Place : Grenoble Ecole de Management
- Guests : Louis Bolliet, Michel Raynal, Sara Bouchenak, Brigitte Plateau, Jean-Michel Müller, Jacques André, Paul Caspi, Sacha Krakowiak
- Organisers : Inria and Grenoble Ecole de Management during the "Free Open Source Software for Academia Conference" (fOSSa 2010).
10am > 5pm Focus on Science
Workshop "Concurrency and parallelism: from models to systems" organised in parallel with the Fossa 2010 conference
Location: Grenoble École de Management
- 9.30am Welcome
- 10am Introduction by Louis Bolliet, former research-lecturer at IMAG
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10.15am Jacques André, Inria Research Director, Retired
Inria's activity report: What a year!
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10.45am Sara Bouchenak, Lecturer at Université de Grenoble
Application of automation to distributed computing systems
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11.15am Michel Raynal, Professor, Université de Rennes 1, Senior Member of IUF
"Synchronisation is back, but is it still the same?"
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2pm Jean-Michel Muller, Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, member of the Arénaire IPT and the LIP laboratory
Floating-point arithmetic, or how to extract accurate information from approximate calculations.
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2.30pm Brigitte Plateau, Director of ENSIMAG
Performance, concurrency, and parallelism.
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3.00pm Paul Caspi, Research Director (emeritus) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, Verimag laboratory
Synchronous programming of critical instrumentation and control systems: brief summary and outlook.
- 3.30pm Conclusion by Sacha Krakowiak, Professor Emeritus at Université de Grenoble
- 4pm Closing break
12pm >2pm Focus on Honours
Jean-Pierre Verjus will receive from Thierry Grange, the school's director, an honorary degree from the Grenoble École de Management.
This ceremony will be followed by a buffet.
Jean-Pierre Verjus
A university professor, Jean-Pierre Verjus has served as Director of the IRISA-Inria Rennes research unit, Chairman of the assessment committee, Director of the Rhône-Alpes research unit, and Director of Scientific Information and Communications. On 1 September 2006, Jean-Pierre Verjus was appointed deputy managing director of Inria. He has been successively Chairman or member of more than 50 scientific committees or boards of directors of French or foreign laboratories or advisory committees within ministries and regional authorities.
Organisation
This day is organised by Inria and the Grenoble Ecole de Management during fOSSa 2010.
Scientific committee of the workshop: Bernard Espiau, Brigitte Plateau, François Rechenmann, Laurent Trilling, and Alain Viari.
