Mar 21 2018
Created in 2010 by the Office for Science and Technology at the French Embassy in the United States, NETVA (New Technology Venture Accelerator) is a mentoring program tailored for young, innovative French companies hoping to discover or better understand the inner-workings of the North American high-tech market. For the 3rd consecutive year Inria partners with the program: the deadline for “made-in Inria” …
Mar 21 2018
To end gender discrimination, let’s start with language! A public science and technology institution, Inria has – even more so than the other French public scientific and technological institutes (EPSTs) – a lower proportion of women among its staff than in civil society, with regard to both scientists and the research support personnel. This proportion …
Mar 19 2018
In 2018, Inria offers 2 Post-Doc fellowships in the framework of the Inria@SiliconValley program. Extended deadline for application is May 11th, 2018 (initially April 30th). Postdoctoral grants are allocated to support existing associate teams as well as collaborations between Inria and California teams. Candidates interested in the projects currently supported by the Inria@SiliconValley program or projects under preparation for this …
Mar 15 2018
Meta&Co (Since 2015) Machine learning for meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging data* *formerly MetaMRI (from 2015 to 2017): Machine learning for meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging data Principal Investigators: Bertrand Thirion, PARIETAL project team, Inria Saclay Ile- de-France research center Russ Poldrack, Stanford University, Psychology department Research objectives: Meta&Co (since 2018) is an associate team that is …
Mar 14 2018
Christian Duriez, Inria researcher leading the DEFROST team in Lille, is currently spending 6 months in the Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine (CHARM) Lab at Stanford University, supported by a Fulbright fellowship. He tells us about his work and the collaboration with his California partner. Christian, what is your field of research? …
Feb 26 2018
NUM4SEP (Since 2017) Numerics for Spherical Electroporation Principal Investigators: Clair Poignard, MONC project-team, Inria Bordeaux – Sud-Ouest Research Centre Frederic Gibou, Dpt of Mechanical Eng., U.C. Santa Barbara Research objectives: The goal of NUM4SEP is to provide a link between the quite well-understood cell electroporation and the tumor-like multicellular spheroid models. The distribution of the electric field in tumors as …
Feb 26 2018
The Thomas Jefferson Fund is now accepting applications! Deadline is March 12th, 2018 Created by the Embassy of France in the United States and the FACE Foundation, the Thomas Jefferson Fund supports cooperation among the most promising young French and American researchers, and foster forward-looking collaborative research that addresses the most pressing global challenges. Each …
Feb 26 2018
Inria is glad to announce the selection of 2 new Associate Teams with California partners (University of California, Irvine and the RAND Corporation ) as part of the 2018 Inria Associated Team call. In addition, three teams that were created in 2015 (Meta&Co , formerly MetaMRI, GeomStats (both with Stanford University) and REALMS (with UC Berkeley) have …
Feb 26 2018
The new head of the Department of European and International Partnerships (DPEI), appointed on 1 February, Christine Morin has worked at the Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique Research Centre since 1991. From 2010, she was head of the Myriads team (a joint project team between Inria, Université de Rennes 1, INSA Rennes, the CNRS and ENS Rennes …
Feb 25 2018
Inria partners with the NETVA mentoring program so as to promote the participation of Inria startups. (see interview of 2017 laureate Arnaud Laprévote, CEO of Lybero.net and Gilles Fedak, co-founder of iEx.ce at the end of the article) Created in 2010 by the Office for Science and Technology at the French Embassy in the United States, …
