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Inria Awards 2012

Pierre-Louis Lions : Grand Prize Inria

Isabelle Bellin -

The scientific influence of Pierre-Louis Lions, an exceptionally gifted and active mathematician, covers the worlds of academe, industry and commerce. For 30 years, he has generated highly original ideas in numerous domains such as mathematics, physics, economics, and industrial digital simulation. His theories have been adopted by many scientists, both theoretical and applied mathematicians.

Francis Bach - © Inria / Photo J.M. Ramès

Inria Awards 2012

Young researcher Inria award: Francis Bach

Isabelle Bellin -

A trained mathematician, Francis Bach has become an internationally acknowledged specialist in the field of statistical machine learning. A field he has been boldly exploring for some ten years now. His research at the interface between applied mathematics, statistics, and computer science finds applications in an impressive variety of domains, such as artificial vision, processing of audio signals, bioinformatics, and cerebral imaging.

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Marie Doumic-Jauffret - © Inria

European Research Council 2012

Marie Doumic-Jauffret: modelling amyloidosis

Technoscope - 17/10/2012

Marie Doumic-Jauffret is one of 4 Inria candidates selected in the young researcher category for the ERC European call for projects 2012. Her project, called Skipper, aims to improve understanding of amyloidosis, a group of diseases that includes prions and Alzheimer’s, in order to help biologists identify therapeutic solutions.

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Metadata for a better understanding of the past

Laure Guion - 26/10/2012

2014 marks the centenary of the First World War. But how can such an event be commemorated when the relevant historical resources are scattered throughout the whole of Europe and historians have not yet been able to conduct an exhaustive study of all of them? Laurent Romary explains how, with the CENDARI project, computational sciences can provide a solution to this problem and come to the aid of all social sciences.

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Ivan Laptev - © Inria

European Research Council 2012

Ivan Laptev: Advancing Computer Vision

Technoscope - 27/09/2012

Ivan Laptev is one of the four INRIA candidates selected for a European Research Council (ERC) grant in the young researchers category 2012. His subject, “Computer Vision”, aims to mimic the human visual system thanks to algorithms that analyse motion, detect events and recognise objects in video sequences. He explains his work to us in more detail and outlines some potential applications.

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The "Internships" programme

Each year, Inria welcomes students from all over the world for a research training experience through the Internships programme. Undergraduate, masters or PhD students come and spend a few months in an Inria research team. Two students, Michail Zervos and Nadia Khalfa, talk about their successful experience and offer advice to all those who may be interested in the Internships programme.

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W3C chooses Inria to open its France office

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is opening an office in France, to be hosted by Inria, in order to consolidate its relations with industry and with other participants in the French ecosystem. The new office is to develop and coordinate the community of French W3C members.

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Innovate through the digital sciences

Discover CONNECT, the magazine for SMEs seeking innovation through the digital sciences, and get access to ICST news, updates on the state of research and applied technology for industry, portraits of partners who have participated in Inria research teams working with innovative SMEs, special reports and other features. Come on, CONNECT!

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ALMA, the world’s largest radio telescope project

Céline Acharian - 22/12/2011

Inria and ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array), alongside the CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, the French National Academy for Arts and Crafts), are working together to design the man-machine interfaces that will control the revolutionary radio-telescope currently being built in the Atacama desert, to the north of Chile.

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Productive partnership for high performance computing

30/09/2011

As the fifth workshop of the Inria-Urbana-Champaign joint lab (Joint Laboratory on Petascale Computing-JLPC) came to an end in Grenoble, Franck Cappello, its co-director, took stock of the activities of this institution dedicated to high-performance computing. Two years after its creation, it was now time to review its most emblematic results and to present its current research on climate and the international G8 Exascale project, with which the joint laboratory is associated.

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European Research Council 2011

Dale Miller: “Making proof universal”

Sophy Caulier - 9/01/2012

As the beneficiary of an ERC Advanced Grant for experienced researchers, Dale Miller has embarked on the difficult path of establishing proof. His aim? In this field, which is highly abstract but which has a definite impact on the real world, he wishes to standardise proof systems and issue certificates for such systems in order to promote greater confidence in them.

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Technology Transfer at Inria

Strategic partnerships with large industrial players

The strategic partnerships that Inria establishes are long-term bilateral partnerships with large industrial groups, formalized in a framework agreement. A research program is developed jointly by Inria and its partner based on the industrial player’s proposed priority topics. Research projects, fitting into this program, are then developed jointly by Inria’s teams and the partner. In addition, a steering committee and a scientific committee ensure that the collaboration is consistent and runs smoothly.

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Virtual reality immersion

The Inria Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique centre has a virtual reality immersion platform: Immersia.

The Immersia virtual reality room is made up of a 10x3 metre front screen and two 3x3 metre side projection surfaces. Images are projected onto these screens from behind in order to avoid shadows and thus increase the user's immersion. A projection on the ground will also contribute to improved immersion. It will maintain stereoscopic vision for total immersion. The position of users in the environment is identified and monitored by infrared cameras, which permits greater interaction.

Thanks to this new virtual reality platform, the Bunraku team has initiated the structuring of the French and European community in the field of virtual reality and maintains numerous international collaborations. The platform is an important element of the Visionair European project (Vision advanced infrastructure for research) in the Infrastructures programme of the 7^th European FPRTD.

Some examples of collaborations:

GVT (Generic Virtual Training) is a generic training tool developed by the Inria Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique centre, in collaboration with the National Engineering School of Brest, the European Virtual Reality Centre (Brest), and the company Nexter Systems. GVT combines information, procedures and practice in a virtual environment.

The "Virtual Museum" allows the user to move around a museum "by thought". It is an example of an application of the OpenViBE software, which makes it possible to design, test and use brain-computer interfaces. It is intended for researchers as well as clinicians or even video game developers. OpenViBE has been developed by the Inria Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique centre, in collaboration with CEA, Inserm, and FTR&D.

Keywords: Réalité Virtuel Immersion Technology Platform