Four French institutes have just been selected by [the jury mandated by] the French Government to become interdisciplinary institutes for artificial intelligence (3IA): • ANITI (Toulouse), centred at l’Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées • MIAI @ Grenoble Alpes (Grenoble), centred at l’Université Grenoble Alpes • PRAIRIE (Paris), centred à Inria • 3IA Côte d’Azur (Nice), centred […]
Category: Paris
heart of Paris
Notre Drame
Gone…!
Even stronger and farther-reaching a symbol of Paris than the Eiffel Tower, the Notre-Dame-de-Paris cathedral is now burning down. Only Hugo can make for the memory of this monumental loss: “Sur la face de cette vieille reine de noscathédrales, à côté d’une ride on trouve toujours une cicatrice. Tempua edax, homo edacior; ce que je […]
absint[he] post-doc on approximate Bayesian inference in Paris, Montpellier and Oxford
As a consequence of its funding by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) in 2018, the ABSint research conglomerate is now actively recruiting a post-doctoral collaborator for up to 24 months. The accronym ABSint stands for Approximate Bayesian solutions for inference on large datasets and complex models. The ABSint conglomerate involves researchers located in […]
how a hiring quota failed [or not]
This week, Nature has a “career news” section dedicated to how hiring quotas [may have] failed for French university hiring. And based solely on a technical report by a Science Po’ Paris researcher. The hiring quota means that every hiring committee for a French public university hiring committee must be made of at least 40% […]
postdoctoral position in computational statistical physics and machine learning
permanent position for research on computational statistics and “omics” data
There is an opening at the French agronomy and genetics research centre, INRA, for a permanent research position on the country campus of Joyu-en-Josas, south-west of Paris, with focus on computational statistics (incl. machine-learning) and collaborations on omics data. The deadline is March 4. (The procedure is somewhat involved, as detailed in the guide for […]