Séminaire Pluridisciplinaire d'Optimisation de Toulouse (SPOT) Multidisciplinary Optimization Seminar in Toulouse (SPOT)

Local organizing committee

• Jérôme Bolte (UT1 and TSE)
• Sonia Cafieri (ENAC)
• Serge Gratton (CERFACS, IRIT and ENSEEIHT)
• Didier Henrion (LAAS – CNRS)
• Pierre Maréchal (UPS and IMT)
• Frédéric Messine (LAPLACE and ENSEEIHT)
• Aude Rondepierre (INSA and IMT)

Periodicity and structure

Approximately a session per month, with two speakers (two talks of different type: a more fundamental and a more applied, a local speaker and an external speaker, a speaker from academy and a speaker from industry or services, etc).

Regular schedule: monday afternoon.

Venue

Unless indicated otherwise, thesis amphitheater (amphitéâtre des thèses), ENSEEIHT, 26 rue Pierre-Paul Riquet (metro station François Verdier), in the city center of Toulouse. Occasionally, SPOT is organized jointly with the MAD seminar at UT1 and takes place at the Manufacture des Tabacs, 21 allée de Brienne, in the city center of Toulouse.

List of seminars

Please see the French version.

Glossary

CERFACS (Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique) - research organization focusing on numerical and computational methods for research and industry

CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) - French governmental agency for scientific research

ENAC (Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile) - engineering school, part of Université de Toulouse, focusing on civil aeronautics

ENSEEIHT (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electronique, d'Electrotechnique, d'Informatique, d'Hydraulique et des Télécommunications) - engineering school, part of INPT, focusing on electrical engineering, electronics, computer science, hydraulics and telecommunications

IMT (Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse) - research laboratory federating the mathematics community of the Toulouse area

INPT (Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse) - university system, part of Université de Toulouse, composed of various engineering schools, a school of veterinary medicine and various research laboratories

INSA (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées) - engineering school located in major French regional cities Lyon, Rennes, Rouen, Strasbourg and Toulouse; INSA Toulouse is part of Université de Toulouse

IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) - research laboratory of UPS, CNRS, ENSEEIHT, INPT and UT1 focusing on computer science

ISAE (Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace) - engineering school, part of Université de Toulouse, focusing on aerospace engineering

LAAS (Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes) - research laboratory of CNRS focusing on computer science, control engineering, robotics, micro and nano technologies

LAPLACE (Laboratoire PLAsma et Conversion d'Energie) - research laboratory of UPS, CNRS, ENSEEIHT, INPT focusing on plasmas and conversion of energy

TSE (Toulouse School of Economics) - gathers experts in economics within Université de Toulouse

Université de Toulouse - consortium of universities, engineering schools (grandes écoles) and other institutions of higher education and research

UT1 (Université Toulouse 1 Capitole) - one of the 3 universities of Université de Toulouse, focusing on law, political sciences, economy and management

UTM (Université Toulouse 2 Le Mirail) - one of the 3 universities of Université de Toulouse, focusing on humanities

UPS (Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3) - one of the 3 universities of Université de Toulouse, focusing on sciences, technology, health and athletics