Administrative stuff
Scientific Duties
Local duties
From 2006, I am co-organizing the weekly general seminar of the Laboratoire d’Informatique Gaspard Monge. Moreover, in 2008, I co-organized an interdisciplinary workgroup called “RécréAlgo” which aims at puting together skills of researchers of different domains (but all linked to the theoretical computer science) around hard algorithmic problems. Note that the idea gave rise to a new workgroup in the context of the LABEX Bézout organized by Cyril Nicaud.
I am also, from 2006, responsible of the bibliography of the laboratory. In order to facilitate the update of this last, I have developed a tool allowing to any member of the laboratory to manage its bibliography entries. This tool also allows an automatic update of the web pages relative to the publications of the laboratory. As a consequence to this experience, I have been asked to be in charge of expending such tool at the scale of the Université Paris-Est based on the tool HAL which leads to the actual HAL portal http://hal-univ-mlv.archives-ouvertes.fr.
Moreover, in collaboration with colleagues, we have implemented, in 2006, a shared teaching area allowing a collaborative work between teachers, reachable by our students and widely used.
Finally, I am responsible of the web page of the laboratory from 2009 and at the initiative of its new shape.
Committees
During the recruitment process of associate professors in 2009, I have been a member of the “selection committee” of the a) LIGM - Université de Marne-la-Vallée, b) LRI - IUT d’Orsay and c) LIFL - Faculté des sciences de Lille 1 (each for an associate-professor position). In 2010, I have, once again, been a member of the selection committee of the LRI - IUT d’Orsay. In 2011, I have been a member of the the selection committee of the a) LIGM - Université de Marne-la-Vallée and b) LRI - Faculté d’Orsay. In 2012, I have been a member of the selection committee of the LABRI - Université de Bordeaux. From January 2010, I am a member of the permanent committee and of the laboratory board of the LIGM.
I have been an external reviewer, among others, of the following journals: Algorithmica, Discrete Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science, Journal of Computational Biology, Information Processing Letters, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization. I have also reviewed extended abstract papers for conferences such as CPM, WABI, SPIRE, STACS, PSB, RECOMB-CG, IWOCA.
In September 2007, I have co-organized some honorary days for Maxime Crochemore in the context of the journées conjointes des groupes ”Analyse de séquences” du GDR Bio-Informatique Moléculaire et ”Combinatoire des mots, algorithmique du texte et du génome” du GDR Informatique Mathématique in Marne-la-vallée (http://www2.lifl.fr/SEQUOIA/Sequences/). This event has attracted around one hundred researchers. In January and December 2011, I have again co-organized this event in Rennes and Lille respectively (http://www.irisa.fr/symbiose/people/ppeterlongo/seqbi/).
I have been part of the program committee of RECOMB-CG editions 2008, 2009 and 2010, of WABI 2012. In October 2008, I have been part of the organizing committee of the 2008 edition of RECOMB-CG which took place in Paris, France involving 120 participants and has been published as Lecture Notes in BioInformatics volume n ̊5267 proceedings.
International Mobility Development
I have settled (as a local responsible) two Erasmus exchange agreements: one with the Bielefeld University (Germany) which started in 2006 and has allowed a student of our first year of Master in Computer Science to obtain his Master Thesis in Bioinformatic from the Bielefeld University after a year in Germany and the other with the Brno University (Czech Republic) which started in 2009 and allowed two Czech phd students to visit our laboratory for a week in December 2010. A third agreement is nowadays in the preparation phase (with the Milano University (Italy)). Moreover, in 2010, I have applied and obtained an international postdoc mobility grant from the Association Universitaire de la Francophonie for a colleague (PhD David Celestin Faye) from the University Gaston-Berger of Saint-Louis (Senegal) which allowed him to make two short visits (3 months + 1 month) in my laboratory to work on a common project with Olivier Curé and myself. With Dr Faye, we are in the process of extending our collaborations at the laboratory and university levels by exploring Erasmus Mundus agreements.
Finally, via the process of “invited months”, I have been able to provide some short terms visits to foreign collaborators to work with our team: Sylvie Hamel from Montréal, Canada (1 month in 2008), Jens Stoye from Bielefeld, Germany (1 month in 2008), Romeo Rizzi from Udine, Italy (1 month in 2009), Minghui Jiang from Utah, USA (1 month in 2011), Danny Hermelin from Saarbrucken, Germany (2 weeks in 2010), Xiao Yang from Iowa, USA(1 month in 2010), Riccardo Dondi from Milano, Italy (1 week in 2011), Sylvie Hamel from Montréal, Canada (1 week in 2011) and Xiaodong Wu from Iowa, USA (1 month in 2012).