MASCOT-NUM 2020 reschuled

MASCOT-NUM 2020 has been cancelled due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, and rescheduled to April 27–30, 2021.

A special meeting devoted to the MASCOT-NUM 2020 PhD students' day will be organized on September 17–18, 2020, in Grenoble Alpes University.

For more information:

• https://www.gdr-mascotnum.fr/mascot20.html
• https://www.gdr-mascotnum.fr/mascotphd20.html

WCCM ECCOMAS 2020 conference

A list of mini-symposia organized by MASCOT-NUM members at the WCCM ECCOMAS 2020 conference is available on the GdR web site:

http://www.gdr-mascotnum.fr/WCCMECCOMAS2020.html

Feel free to add missing MS or fix inaccurate entries.

The conference has been cancelled.

Save the date: Next MASCOT NUM meeting in May 2020

The 16th edition of the MASCOT-NUM annual conference will be held from 4th to 7th May, 2020.

Registration will open in January. The scientific program, as far as information on the registration are now available on the website:

http://www.gdr-mascotnum.fr/mascot20.html

We also recall that the first day of the annual Mascot-Num workshop is devoted to PhD students communications on topics related to the Mascot-Num network activities, i.e. sensitivity analysis, uncertainty quantification in simulation, design and modelling of computer experiments, model calibration and validation, structural reliability, optimization under uncertainty, data-driven modelling methods, etc.

PhD students are invited to submit a two-page abstract using the LaTeX abstract template http://www.gdr-mascotnum.fr/mascot20.html. Seven students will be selected by the Mascot-Num Scientific Committee for oral presentations on May 5th, 2020. The other accepted abstracts will be considered for the poster session to be held on the same day. The PDF file shall be sent by January 31th, 2020 to

gdr-mascotnum-contact@services.cnrs.fr.

Please specify in your email if you want your abstract to be considered for an oral presentation or a poster. Authors will be informed whether their abstracts have been accepted in oral or poster by end of february. A prize of 1000€ will be awarded for the best oral presentation by the Mascot-Num scientific committee. A prize of 500€ will be awarded for the best poster by the Mascot-Num scientific committee.

Regards,

The chairs Peter CHALLENOR, Céline HELBERT and Clémentine PRIEUR.

SIAM UQ20: Mini-Symposia organized by MASCOT-NUM members

A list of mini-symposia organized by MASCOT-NUM members at the SIAM UQ20 conference is available on the GdR web site:

http://www.gdr-mascotnum.fr/SIAM-UQ-2020.html

Feel free to add missing MS or fix inaccurate entries (remember, this is wiki!).

SIAM UQ20: Call for MS proposals

*** On behalf of GdR MASCOT-NUM's Organizing Committee ***

Dear GdR members, dear readers of the GdR news,

The next SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, UQ20, will take place in March 2020 on the Garching campus of TUM: https://siam-uq20.ma.tum.de/.

In order to support the organization of minisymposia (MS) by members of the MASCOT-NUM community, GdR MASCOT-NUM offers to provide (possibly partial) funding of the registration fees for the organizers of such minisymposia.

The funding will be limited to one person per MS (the "main chair"), and conditional on the acceptance of the MS by the organizers of the conference.

The proposals will be evaluated by the GdR Organizing Committee according to the following criteria:

1. Scientific relevance of the proposal with respect to MASCOT-NUM themes,
2. Scientific quality of the proposal and relevance of the invited speakers,

The presence in the list of speakers of a PhD student or young researcher associated with the GdR community will be appreciated positively, even though it is not a necessary condition to apply.

Please send your MS proposals to gdr-mascotnum-board@services.cnrs.fr before Sunday 15, 6 PM (apologies for the tight deadline) with the following information:

• MS title and abstract,
• Name + affiliation of the (possibly prospective) speakers,
• For each talk, if already known : title + abstract.
  

We are waiting for your proposals !

The GdR MASCOT-NUM Organizing Committee.


Note 1 : Young researchers invited in such sessions can apply to Student and Early Career Travel Support on the conference web site (deadline : 16 September).

Note 2 : Total or partial funding will be provided depending on the number of proposal selected for funding and on the actual registration fees (not published yet).

ETICS summer school

Here is the announcement of the next ETICS summer school :

Dear colleagues,

The next ETICS summer school (Ecole Thématique sur les Incertitudes en Calcul Scientifique) will be held at Fréjus, France, during the end of September (22-27).

The goal of this school is to develop the skills of researchers and engineers in the domain of uncertainty management of computer codes.

The prerequisites to possess are the mathematical bases of the uncertainty quantification science.

Lecturers:

• Dr. Aurélien Bellet (INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France) - Similarity and distance metric learning
• Prof. Bernard Bercu (Université de Bordeaux, France) - Asymptotic behavior of stochastic algorithms with statistical applications
• Prof. Jean-Michel Marin (Université de Montpellier, France) - TBA
• Prof. Youssef Marzouk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA)

Information and registration link: http://www.gdr-mascotnum.fr/etics.html

Regards,

Bertrand Iooss

And the winner is...

Several PhD student awards have been granted during the MASCOT 2019 conference last week :

• The best student presentation award has been granted to David Gaudrie (EMSE/PSA) and Adrien Spagnol (EMSE/SafranTech).
• The best student poster award has been granted to Jérôme Stenger (Université Toulouse/EDF R&D).

👍👍👍 Congratulations 👍 👍👍