Pr. Didier AUSSEL

7-11 March 2016
Mexico – Puebla – Monterrey
Pr. Didier AUSSEL
Professor of Applied Mathematics, Lab. PROMES UPR CNRS 8521, University of Perpignan
His research topics are: optimization, variational analysis and applications to mathematical economics.
More precisely his research is mainly concentrated on variational inequalities, Nash equilibrium, Quasiconvex
optimization, all of these theories being applied to the study of electricity market and energy project.
He is director of the Doctoral school "Energy-Environment", the institution dealing with all the PhD programs in
Sciences at University of Perpignan, South of France and is also director of the "GdR MOA" of the CNRS, a research
group composed of around 250 members which is dedicated to Optimization and Applications.
He is teaching Mathematics at University in Master program and in the engineer school Sup'EnR and in the recent years
developped collaborations (with publications) with the following universities:
Univ. Pacifico-Lima-Pérou, IMCA-Lima-Pérou, IIT Delhi-Delhi-Inde, IITKanpur-Kanpur-Inde,
IMPA-Rio de Janeiro-Brésil, Czech Acad. Sciences-Prague-Czech Rep., Univ. Diego Portales-Santiago-Chili
CMM-Santiago-Chili, RMIT-Australie, 2Ei-Ouagadougou-Burkina-Faso, MIT-USA, Univ. Sapienza-Rome-Italie,
IIT Madras-Madras-Inde.
Conference 1:
Topic: Mathematics of non -cooperative games
Complete title: "Mathematical analysis of non- cooperative market theory: new challenges and new applications"
Starting from the pioneering works of J.F. Nash in the 60', the theory of non cooperative markets/exchanges has received
an increasing interest in the community of mathematician and economists. Nevertheless the lack of adapted mathematical
and numerical tools to handle these very complex problem has essentially limited the research and applications to the
linear case.
Our aim in this talk is to emphasize the important and recent progresses in optimization and non-smooth analysis that that
allow now:
- first to consider more complex and realistic models of non cooperative markets/exchanges (multi-leader-follower games,
generalized Nash equilibrium problems...)
- second, and indeed consequently, to be able to treat a very wide class of applications
Examples of application in deregulated electricity markets and inductrial eco-parks will be presented.
Conference 2:
Topic: Quasiconvex optimization.
Title: "From convex to quasiconvex optimization: theory and applications".
For several decades the community of researchers in optimization has intensively developed the theory and numerical
analysis of applications of the so-called "convex problem", that is "minimizing a convex function over a convex set". Indeed
convexity of sets and functions carries a lot of interesting properties. In this talk we intend to show how the use of these
properties, but in a different way, has open the path for a the mathematical analysis of a broader class of optimization
problems: the quasiconvex optimization.
7-11 March 2016
Mexico – Puebla – Monterrey
Pr. Anna CHROSTOWSKA
Anna Chrostowska obtained her PhD degree in Chemistry in 1986 at the Warsaw University of Technology (Poland). She
started her academic career at the Agriculture University of Warsaw in 1984. In 1991 she moved to the University of Pau
where she is working as professor at the Research Institute on Analytical Sciences and Physical Chemistry for Environment
and Materials (IPREM, UMR CNRS 5254). Professor Anna Chrostowska is teaching organic and organometallic chemistry
for license and master students. Her research is centered on experimental and theoretical studies of the electronic structure
and reactivity of organic and organometallic species in the gas phase. She published over 80 scientific papers (JACS,
Organometallics, Angew. Chimie, Tetrahedron Lett., Chem. Comm., etc), supervised fifteen PhD candidates and was invited
by different German, Japanese, Chinese, Polish, Canadian or American Universities.
A. Chrostowska was a dean of the Chemistry department, the president of the research council for sciences sector at the
University of Pau and she is actually a director of the Doctoral School “Exact Sciences and their Applications” (20112020). She is also an expert for National Agency for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES).
Conference 1:
“Fascinating Boron-Nitrogen-Containing Heteroaromatic Compounds. Electronic Structure Analysis.”
Ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UV-PES) is a well-established technique to provide ionization energies of molecules in gas phase. These experimental data supported by quantum calculations for the consistency of the assignments of
PE spectra provide fundamental information about electronic structure and bonding that is obtained by no other technique.
Representative examples to illustrate the advantages and wide applicability will be exclusively chosen from our research in
the field of Boron(B)-nitrogen(N)-containing heteroaromatic compounds which are a family of heterocycles that are isoelectronic and isostructural to the family of classical organic counterparts as benzene, or mono-nitrogen containing heterocycles such as pyrrole, indole, iso-indole or anthracene. Their development significantly expands the structural diversity
and potential utility of aromatic compounds, but the properties and reactivity of such BN-aromatic heterocycles have not
been fully explored due to the lack of available synthetic methods for their preparation. In this presentation, we provide a
comprehensive analysis of the electronic structure of BN-heterocycles such as 1,2-dihydro-1,2-azaborine[1], two BN indoles[2,3], 1,2-dihydro[1,3,2]diazaborolo[1,5-a]pyridine[4] and two BN-anthracenes[5], in comparison with their carbonaceous derivatives.
7-11 March 2016
Mexico – Puebla – Monterrey
Pr. Thierry CONSTANTIEUX
After studying chemistry at the University Bordeaux I, he completed his PhD under the supervision of Dr. J.-P. Picard and
Dr. J. Dunoguez in 1994. During his PhD, he spent some training periods in Spain (San Sebastian, Pr. Claudio Palomo)
and Italy (Florence, Pr. Alfredo Ricci). In 1995, he was appointed Assistant-Professor at University of Aix-Marseille III
(France). He completed his Habilitation in 2004, at Aix-Marseille Université (France), where he is currently full professor
of organic chemistry. His main research interest is focused on the development of new eco-compatible synthetic
methodologies, especially enantioselective organocatalyzed cascades and domino multicomponent reactions from 1,3dicarbonyl compounds, and their applications in heterocyclic chemistry. Since 2012, he is the scientific coordinator of one
of the four research teams (STEREO team, 14 permanent people) of “Institut des Sciences Moléculaires de Marseille (iSm2).
In 2015, he has been elected as Director of the Doctoral School of Chemical Sciences, at Aix-Marseille Université (around
100 PhD students).
Pr. Thierry Constantieux is author or co-author of 8 book chapters, 9 reviews (including 1 Chem. Rev. and 1 Chem. Soc.
Rev.) and more than 60 articles. He has been appointed as visiting professor in various countries, including China (Wuhan),
India (Bangalore) and Senegal (Dakar). He is currently involved in scientific collaborations with Spain (Madrid), Algeria
(Oran) and Argentina (Buenos Aires).
Conference 1:
“Organocatalytic Enantioselective Domino and Multicomponent Reactions from 1,2- and 1,3-Dicarbonyls for the
synthesis of polyheterocycles.”
Our group is interested for several years in the synthesis of (poly)heterocyclic molecules via new selective Michael additioninitiated domino and multicomponent reactions involving a 1,2-or a 1,3-dicarbonyl compound,[1] a Michael acceptor and
various amines. More recently, we focused our attention on the stereoselective outcome of these domino and multicomponent reactions, especially those involving ketoamides as substrates.
In this context, we developed the first organocatalytic enantioselective conjugate addition of 1,2-[2] and 1,3-ketoamides[3] to
unsaturated carbonyls or nitroolefins, using amino-thiourea bifunctional catalysts. An unprecedented cooperative effect of
the amide function in the activation of these pronucleophiles has been evidenced.[4] The synthetic potential of the Michael
adducts bearing the extra amide function was highlighted through domino (spiro)annulations leading to synthetically valuable intermediates precursors of highly enantioenriched (spiro)heterocycles of biological and synthetic interest. Recent
developments in this field will be presented.[5] The highest level of complexity has been reached with the enantioselective
synthesis of polyfunctionalized molecules containing a 2,6-DABCO core.[6]
References:
[1] a) D. Bonne et al., Chem. Eur. J., 2013, 19, 2218. b) X. Bugaut et al., in Multicomponent reactions in organic synthesis, Eds: J. Zhu, Q. Wang, M.-X. Wang, Wiley-VCH, 2014, Chap. 5, p. 109. c) Stereoselective multiple bond-forming transformations in organic synthesis. D. Bonne, J. Rodriguez Eds,
Wiley-VCH,2015.
[2] O. Baslé et al., Org. Lett., 2010, 12, 5246.
[3] M. M. Sanchez Duque et al., Org. Lett., 2011, 13, 3296.
[4] A. Quintard et al., Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21, 778.
[5] a) Y. Dudognon et al., Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 1980. b) H. Du et al., Chem. Eur. J., 2014, 20, 8458. c) S. Goudedranche et al., Chem. Eur. J., 2014, 20, 410.
[6] M. M. Sanchez Duque et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 14143.
Conference 2:
“Enantioselective Organocatalytic Synthesis of Six-Membered Nitrogen Heterocycles.”
Pyridine and its partially saturated derivatives are among the most commonly encountered motives in bioactive molecules.1
In view of the influence of chirality on the interaction with biological targets, there is a constant need for the development
of enantioselective methods to prepare these families of compounds. We have identified multicomponent reactions as efficient tool for the synthesis of structurally complex molecules that would otherwise require multiple steps. 1,3-Dicarbonyl
compounds, with their numerous electrophilic and nucleophilic reactive centers are interesting substrates for such transformations.2 The combination of diverse 1,3- dicarbonyls with enals and suitably functionalized amines in the presence of an
organocatalyst allowed accessing to enantioenriched polycyclic heterocycles. Depending on the substrate selection and by
adapting the mode of action of the organocatalyst (iminium activation or bifunctional hydrogen-bonding), the preparation
of pyrrolopiperazines,3 1,2,3,4- tetrahydropyridines,4 and a synthetic route towards the 2,6- diazabiclyco[2.2.2]octanone (2,6- DABCO) core have been developed.5 Recently, we have also prepared suitably substituted 4-aryl-1,4-dihydropyridines, whose oxidation accompanied by a central-to-axial conversion of chirality6 resulted in the production of
enantioenriched 4-arylpyridine atropisomers.7
References:
1 E. Vitaku, D. T. Smith, J. T. Njardarson, J. Med. Chem. 2014, 57, 10257.
2 X. Bugaut, T. Constantieux, Y. Coquerel, J. Rodriguez, in Multicomponent Reactions in Organic Synthesis (Eds.:J. Zhu, Q. Wang, M.-X. Wang), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2014, pp. 109.
3 H. Du, J. Rodriguez, X. Bugaut, T. Constantieux, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2014, 356, 851.
4 Y. Dudognon, H. Du, J. Rodriguez, X. Bugaut, T. Constantieux, Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 1980.
5 M. M. Sanchez Duque, O. Baslé, Y. Génisson, J.-C. Plaquevent, X. Bugaut, T. Constantieux, J. Rodriguez, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 14143.
6 (a) C. Wolf, in Dynamic Stereochemistry of Chiral Compounds: Principles and Applications, RSC, Cambridge, 2008, pp. 233- 271. (b) O. Quinonero, C. Bressy, X. Bugaut, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 10861.
7 O. Quinonero, M. Jean, N. Vanthuyne, C. Roussel, D. Bonne, T. Constantieux, C. Bressy, X. Bugaut, J.Rodriguez, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 1401-1405.
7-11 March 2016
Mexico – Puebla – Monterrey
Robert BAPTIST
Robert Baptist has been Research Director at Leti (Laboratory for Electronics & Information Technology,
http://www.leti.fr/), a member of the Leti’s management team and is now Scientific Advisor at the Technology Division
(CEATech) of the Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA, http://www.cea.fr). He participated in a civil
cooperation program as Associate Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería de Lima, and then obtained his
Doctorate degree in Solid State Physics on actinides from the University of Grenoble and Germany’s Institut für
Transurane, KFK, Karlsruhe in 1982. He is the author or co-author of 60 publications and 15 patents in physics and
microelectronics. He was in charge of the CEA transverse program on nanoscience and nanotechnology (ChimTronique)
from 2002 to 2008. He has participated in or led many European projects (EUROFE, NANO -ICT ...). He is currently editor
of the editorial lines "Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" and "Electronic Engineering" within ISTE-Wiley Editions and
Scientific Director of the MINATEC Nanolab project in Grenoble, as well as Co-Chair of the Advanced Materials Scientific
Council of Vietnam’s National University - Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM). He is also strongly involved in the NanoAndes
network and in the organization of nanosciences summer schools in Latin America.
Susana BONNETIER
Susana Bonnetier is coordinator of international academic collaborations at Leti’s Scientific Directorate. Susana
graduated from MIT with a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering and worked in industry for 15 years in the USA and
France before joining the Technology Research Division of CEA. She was born and raised in Venezuela and lived for 10
years in the USA before moving to France. Prior to her current position, she led the Carnot Program at Leti for 5 years,
coordinating transverse research projects within Leti and with members of the Carnot network of 34 French R&D institutes
(http://www.instituts-carnot.eu/). She was R&D project manager at Leti and Freescale Semiconductor, Marketing Manager
and part of the Industrial Policy Directorate at Saint-Gobain in France, Process Engineer at CertainTeed in the USA and
R&D Engineer at GE Aircraft Engines in the USA. Susana has enjoyed working with multidisciplinary and multicultural
teams in European and American countries since 1990, building bridges between Leti and UCBerkeley as part of a 4 month
assignment in 2010 and participating more recently in the NanoAndes network activities.
Conference 1:
“Scientific Research at Leti and its application in areas related to health, energy and information and
communication technologies.”
For many years, Leti has been performing scientific research with its fundamental research partners in the areas of
microelectronics, microsystems, optics and photonics, circuit design, and medical imaging. Leti’s engineers are trained to
create value for industry by transforming that research into technological innovations. In addition to Leti’s 1,700 employees,
there are more than 250 students of 40 different nationalities involved in research activities, which maintain Leti’s up-todate expertise in its core areas and contribute to its innovation excellence.
We will describe some scientific research projects and the resulting technological innovations that will be or have been
successfully transferred to industry.
7-11 March 2016
Mexico – Puebla – Monterrey
Pr. Serge DAUCHY
Serge DAUCHY (°1963) is Research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). After
undergraduate studies in history and law, he completed a PhD in Procedural Law at Paris 2 (1987) and a PhD in Legal
History at Ghent (1991). From 2002 to 2014 he was director of the Lille Center for Forensic history. Since 2009, he is
director of the Doctorate School for Law, Political Sciences and Management of the University of Lille and between 2012
and 2015 he has been President of the National Conference of Directors of Doctorate Schools in Legal Sciences.
He has been a member of the Editorial board of the Legal History Review since 2011 and a member of the International
Editorial and Advisory board of the Comparative Legal History Journal since 2014. He is president of the Royal
Commission for the editing of the Ancient Laws and Customs of Belgium (Federal Department of Justice) and Associate
professor at the University of Brussels.
He is working on the history of civil procedure and case law, on the circulation of legal literature in early modern Europe
and the overseas colonies and on the comparative history of Central courts. In 2010, he was awarded the Sarton Medal for
the History of Science.
Conference 1
"Justice must be seen done. Long-term representation of judges and judging in European legal icolonogy »
(cette thématique est présentée à l'ENM dans le cadre de la formation continue des magistrats)
Images have the ability of disclosing things and help organize mental representations. Far from clashing with or being irrelevant to legal
and judicial meanings, they actually help historians and jurists to clarify them. Yet, the deep foundations of justice are not to be found
primarily in learned doctrines or legal and political theories but merely in a collective imaginary. Justice must not only be done; it has
to be seen done, and even to be seen believed to be done.
This conference proposes to present a long-term (self)-representation of judging and its main actors as paradigm of justice in the Western
World. Indeed, “Rendering justice” has influenced visual culture and arts or vice versa. Furthermore, it is also interesting to verify in
which justice is represented and presents itself to the outside world. In which ways images and narratives are made subject to the force
of judging.
Legal iconography representing the act and function of judging will be explored in a long-term perspective from the 12th until the early
19th century. Its purpose is to explore the specific dimensions of legal history that bear a relation to visual arts: the myth about the nonhumanness of the act of judging, the fallibility of the judges, their deontological bounds and the perception of the virtues of justice and
of good government that are mirrored in images and texts. The idea is thus to open a new window onto disciplinary and methodological
diversity in comparative legal and historical research (conference needs a powerpoint presentation).
Conference 2
«History of colonial law and justice. Some new Research avenues. »
Since about twenty years, legal historians have started to study law and justice in a colonial context. The main purpose of colonial legal
history is to study legal (and judicial) transplants, legal adaptation and innovation. How did law and justice adapt to local situations,
how were law and justice used to achieve political and economical objectives (as mercantilist or settlement policies)?
A study of colonial history should therefore always begin with a thorough grounding in the commercial policy of the different maritime
states of the Old Continent. The European interest in the colonial expansion was primarily a commercial interest. Governments and
merchants valued the colonies just as far as they contributed to the commercial and later also industrial prosperity of the home country.
This is the main reason why they actively promoted and upheld legal changes that brought the colonies within the bonds of their colonial,
i.e. commercial, empire.
The development of “colonial” law — whether by creation, adoption or adjustment of norms and practices and whether at the initiative
of legislators, judges and, economical actors — very soon became an essential element to shape the colonial organization and domination
from a political and legal as well as commercial point of view
Research should therefore focus on political choices of colonization (direct and indirect rule), on the production of particular colonial
law and on the main actors of colonial justice, but also on new and unexplored avenues.
7-11 March 2016
Mexico – Puebla – Monterrey
Dr Jean-Yves PUYO
Jean-Yves Puyo obtuvo su tesis doctoral en geografía y ordenación del territorio en 1996 (diplomo de la universidad de Pau).
Empezó su carrera científica el mismo año como profesor titular y investigador permanente del laboratorio “Société, espace,
territoire” (SET, UMR 5603, UPPA). Enseña a todos los niveles, de la licenciatura hasta las formaciones doctorales. Tiene
dos principales especialidades: historia y epistemología del pensamiento geográfico por una parte (después 8 año, ocupa la
carga de secretario de la comisión “Historia de la Geografía” de la Unión Geográfica internacional y ordenación forestal,
por otra.
Al nivel de su universidad, es el director de la Escuela doctoral Ciencias sociales y humanidades, con 320 doctorandos.
Ha publicado números estudios científicos (artículos, capítulos de libro, etc. y colabora con varios laboratorios españoles
(de las universidades Carlos III de Madrid, Oviedo, Universidad autónoma de Madrid, Fundación Duques de Soria,
Universidad de Gran Canaria,…). Por la anécdota, fue profesor invitado de la Cátedra (mexicana) de geografía humana
Élisée Reclus (CIESAS - Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora - Centro de Investigación en Geografía y
Geomática “Ing. Jorge L. Tamayo” - Colegio de Michoacán).
Por fin, es experto de la agencia francesa de evaluación de la investigación y de la enseñanza superior (HCERES).
Conference 1 :
“Ordenación del territorio y utopías”1
Durante el siglo XIX, los proyectos de ordenación territorial considerados hoy en día como utópicos fueron numerosos.
Son el resultado de un pensamiento moderno según el cual, gracias a los progresos de la ciencia y de la técnica, era posible
prescindir del medioambiente: el espacio era considerado entonces como “una página en blanco”, un simple soporte del
proyecto de ordenación a realizar.
En un primero tiempo, presentaremos diferentes ejemplos, ciertos famosos – como El Mar Interior de Roudaire o Atlantropa
de Herman Sorgël – o desconocidos (el proyecto Duponchel de fertilización de las Landas de Gascuña, Francia), y los
debates que han engendrado. Son el producto “de su época” y por eso son muy diferentes en su contenido a los debates que
podrían darse hoy en día con los proyectos actuales. En un segundo tiempo, nos cuestionaremos sobre la influencia directa
o indirecta que estos debates han podido tener sobre proyectos recientes o actuales.
Fuentes bibliográficas
Marçot Jean-Louis, Une mer au Sahara, Paris, La Différence, 2003, 526 p.
Puyo Jean-Yves, « L’érosion des Pyrénées au service de la fertilisation des Landes de Gascogne : le projet « pharaonique » d’Adolphe Duponchel », in Figures d’Aquitaine, de la célébrité à l’oubli, Fr. Bart & B. Gallinato-Contino (dirs.), Bordeaux, CTHS & Presses
universitaires de Bordeaux, 2015, 210 p. (pp. 197-209).
Voigt Wolfgang, Atlantropa: Weltbauen am Mittelmeer. Ein Architektentraum der Moderne, Hamburg, Dölling und Galitz,1998, 144
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Jean-Yves Puyo, catedrático de geografía, laboratorio PASSAGES (CNRS UMR 5319, UPPA).
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7-11 March 2016
Mexico – Puebla – Monterrey
Pr. Bernard SABLONNIERE
Titles and functions
Head, Doctoral school of Biology and Health, Community of Universities, North of France
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Lille2, France
Neurobiologist, Center of Biology, Pathology and Genetics, Lille University Hospital, France.
Head, Laboratory of neurobiology, Center of Biology, pathology and Genetics, Lille University Hospital
Member of research group “Alzheimer and Tauopathies” Inserm UMR S 1172, JPARC, Lille, France
Member of institutional and scientific advisory boards
Head, Biochemistry and molecular biology department, University of Lille (2001-)
Vice-Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Lille (2001-2004 and 2010-2012)
Member of scientic advisory comitee INSERM (2003-2007)
Member of national concil of Universities (Biochemistry and molecular Biology section), (2006-)
Head, Master degree program in Biology and Health, University of Lille (2006-2012)
Head, Doctoral school in biology and Health, Lille (2012-)
Conference 1
“Genetics of spinocerebellar ataxias"
The spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs) are a genetically heterogeneous group of inherited neurodegenerative diseases that are
characterized by progressive cerebellar ataxia. To date, 34 unique subtypes attributed to distinct loci have been identified,
with the responsible gene discovered in 26 of them. Genetic mutations include CAG repeat expansions in several SCAs,
and conventional missense mutations for many of them. Our research team in Lille discovered a novel form of ataxia
characterized by a slowly and progressive course of the disease, associated with severe cognitive impairment, and mental
retardation. This SCA subtype named SCA21, was firstly examined in a large French family, allowing to identify the
identified causing gene, TMEM240, in 2014. Screening of more than 368 French ataxia families also detected distinct
mutations of TMEM gene in ten additional pedigrees. The TMEM 240 protein is a small synaptic protein whose function
remains unknown, to date. The expression is mainly observed in brain, particularly in cerebellar cortex and hemispheres.
Immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy examination of cerebellar tissue is now performed to go further into the
cellular subtype involved and to elucidate the function of this protein.
7-11 March 2016
Mexico – Puebla – Monterrey
Hélène Roux-de Balmann
Hélène Roux-de Balmann got a PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1988 at the University of Toulouse.
She was then enrolled to work as a researcher in the Chemical Engineering laboratory to investigate membrane processes,
focusing on the transport phenomena and the physicochemical mechanisms, especially in the food and environmental
applications.
She was responsible of a Master program from 2002 to 2007 and since 2007, she is Head of one of the 15 doctoral schools
of UT, the Doctoral School MEGeP, in the field of “Sciences and Technology”. From September 2013 on, she is the
international project manager of the School of doctors (doctoral college of the “Université de Toulouse”).
Conference 1: membrane engineering, biorafineries, food and environmental applications
Membrane processes are now recognized technologies in the tool box of engineers interested in the development of efficient
and environmental friendly processes. Some examples will be provided in this presentation. Some scientific targets that
help to the development of membrane processes will be also discussed.
One example where membrane operations can play a role concerns second generation biorafineries using lignocellulosic
materials as an alternative to petroleum products (oil refinery) or agricultural plant materials (first generation biorefineries)
to produce biofuels, or different kinds of chemicals. Indeed, because of the complexity of the lignocellulosic materials,
there is still a need for improving the processes required to get any of these chemicals. Different operations can be integrated
at different stages, like for the purification of the fermentation broth to get the desired chemicals.
Membrane operations are also currently used in the food industry, in the field of whey processing, sugar and beverage
industries, wine making, and organic acid production from fermentation. Most of the time, they are used in combination
with other downstream operations, like ion exchange with resins. Such increasing applications were made possible thanks
to an improvement of the technology itself (membranes, module) as well as to a better understanding of the mechanisms
involved in the process. For desalination purpose for instance, it is now possible to get a selectivity, between the ions or
between organic solutes and ions, can be now associated to desalination.
Membrane processes can also be used to improve the treatment of different kinds of waste waters, more especially saline
waste waters the treatment of which is still very problematic. Indeed, oxidation either biological or chemical is currently
used for the treatment of the organic pollution, but such oxidation processes are inhibited in the presence of salts. A
combined process, including ED as a pretreatment for oxidation, can be used to treat such kind of waters.
7-11 March 2016
Mexico – Puebla – Monterrey
Prof. Didier THEILLIOL
Didier THEILLIOL received the Ph.D. degree in Control Engineering in 1993 (France). Since September 2004, he is a
full Professor in Research Centre for Automatic Control of Nancy (CRAN) at University of Lorraine where he co-ordinates
and leads national, European and International R&D projects. His current research interests include model-based FDI
method synthesis, for both Fault Monitoring and Prognostic Health Management contributions, and active FTC system
design for LTI, LPV, Multi-linear systems. He has advised 11 PhD students and published over 200 journal/conference
papers and a book entitled ‘Fault-tolerant Control Systems: Design and Practical Applications’ (2009). He is one of
European
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Didier THEILLIOL is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Reliability, ISA Transactions Journal,
International Journal of Applied Mathematics & Computer Science and more recently Journal of Intelligent and Robotic
Systems.
Conference 1:
“Fault-Tolerant Control Methods for Dynamic Systems based on Reliability:Application to Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle”.
Faults or failures such as defects in components, instruments, controllers and/or control loop can cause undesired reactions
and consequences such as damages to technical parts of the plant, to human life or to the environment. Design of control
systems to achieve fault-tolerance for closed-loop control of safety-critical systems has been an active area of investigation
for many years. It becomes more and more clear that there are certain trades-offs between achievable normal performance
and fault-tolerance capability. However, despite of the many efforts in control community, most of the contributions did not
consider or take into account the reliability of components, algorithms or soft computing structures to guarantee such
performance and to reduce the gap between nominal and faulty case. This talk aims at presenting new and innovative
research results on how to design Fault Tolerant Control Systems with particular attention to consider and combine
reliability analysis in the design procedure and/or real-time control synthesis. Current and future research is presented in
order to solve the above challenging research problems devoted to safety-critical systems. Application to Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle is considered for illustration.
7-11 March 2016
Mexico – Puebla – Monterrey
Prof. Shahid RAHMAN
Shahid Rahman is full professor for logic and epistemology at the University of Lille since 2001. He gathered a Masters
in Philosophy, Mathematics and Philology (Erlangen-Nürnberg), a PhD in philosophy and (on game-theoretical foundations for constructive logic and category theory), cognitive psychology and philology, and an Habilitation in Philosophy
(both at Univ. Saarland –Germany) Awarded by the ministry of education with the level of Professeur de la classe exceptionnelle in Philosophy.
Director of the research MESHS-project ADA, that unifies 19-research laboratories in the Humanities and Social Sciences of Nord-Pas de Calais (France). He edits two book series in Springer (LEUS and LAR) and three more in College
Publications. His main researches concern philosophy and history of logic and epistemology with special emphasis on
game-theoretical approaches. He successfully adviced so far, 14 PHD students, most of them gathered academic propositions including assistants, associate and full professorships.
Conference 1:
“The Dialogical Conception of Logic”
A brief examination on the most recent literature in logic will make it apparent that a host of research in this area is devoted
to the study of the interface between games, logic and epistemology. These studies provide the basis of ongoing enquiries
in the history and philosophy of logic, going from the Indian, the Greek, the Arabic, the Obligationes of the Middle Ages
to the most contemporary developments in the fields of theoretical computer science, computational linguistics, artificial
intelligence, social sciences and legal reasoning. In fact, a dynamic turn, as Johan van Benthem puts it, is taking place where
the epistemic aspects of inference are linked with game theoretical approaches to meaning.
In regard to the birth of this turn, it could be placed around the 1960's when Paul Lorenzen and Kuno Lorenz developed
dialogical logic --- inspired by Wittgenstein's language games and mathematical game theory --- and when some time later
on Jaakko Hintikka combined game-theoretical semantics with epistemic (modal) logic. If we were to pinpoint a precise
date, the very beginnings of the dynamic turn could be situated in 1958, with Lorenzen's talk``Logik und Agon''.
The main purpose of the talk is to provide an overview of the fundamental principles of the Dialogical Conception of Logic
developed in Lille and discuss its philosophical links to Robert Brandom’s rationalist pragmatism and to the fullyinterpreted-language framework of constructive type theory of Per Martin-Löf.
If time permits it we also will present (briefly) some relevant examples in philosophy of language, mathematics, philosophy
of science and law
Conference 2:
Arguments by Exemplification, Symmetry and Analogy within legal reasoning
Legal reasoning deploys a plurality of argumentation forms among which arguments by parallel reasoning play a central
role. The latter, that has its roots in Aristotle can be declined in arguments by exemplification (or paradigmatic), symmetry
(or proportionality) and resemblance (o analogy), that of course admit further sub-distinctions .
One of the epistemological results emerging from very recent studies on the subject represent an innovative and
sophisticated form of reasoning that not only provide new epistemological insights of legal reasoning in general but they
also furnish a fine-grained pattern for parallel reasoning that can be deployed in a wide range of problem-solving contexts
and that does not seem to reduce to the standard forms of analogical argumentation studied in contemporary philosophy of
science. More specifically the main claim is that a dialectical conception of logic developed in the framework of
Constructive Type Theory provides the right instrument to stress three of the most salient features of this form of inference:
(1) the interaction of heuristic with logical steps,
(2) the dynamics underlying the meaning-explanation of the terms involved,
(3) the unfolding of parallel reasoning as similarity in action.
7-11 March 2016
Mexico – Puebla – Monterrey
Dr Bezunesh TAMRU
Mrs Bezunesh Tamru is a geographer and a full Professor. Her major field of study is urban geography in developing
countries. In her recent researches she focuses on peri-urban changes linked to globalization. She is the Vice-President in
charge of International Affairs at Paris8 University, and the director of its Ladyss, a research center in spatial and social
dynamics analysis. She is also a board member of the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at Paris 8.
She currently coordinates two international research programs: “Spatial evolution and vulnerabilities in Port-au-Prince
(Haiti)”, "Financial capital, land tenure and agro-business in Brazil towards an urban/rural link analysis". She is the
adviser of PhD candidates whom subjects are linked to vulnerabilities in urban development in Africa or the Caribbean. In
the early 2000, she worked as a senior researcher with the Institute of Research for Development (IRD), where she led
several research projects.