Schools CEA - EDF - INRIA

History

The CEA–EDF–Inria summer schools have existed since 1961! Let us relive together these decades of history of digital sciences.

A bit of history…

At the beginning, there were CEA and EDF

In 1960, CEA, jointly with Electricité de France (EDF), set up a Summer School on Numerical Analysis. In the CEA annual report of 1960, one can read: “The aim of this summer school is to provide to interested University specialists, as well as to those from the main computing centers in France, a high-level education in the field of numerical analysis“.
A first three-week session took place during the summer of 1961 at the Ecole des cadres des Bréaux (EDF). It was attended by 33 participants who followed subjects related to elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations and linear programming. Other sessions were then organized every year in July (1962–1969).

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Inria jumps aboard in 1969

In 1969, the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (Inria) was associated to the project. That same year, the three organizations organized the first session of an Summer School on Informatics.
The CEA, EDF, and Inria still organize these two summer schools every year. Since the 2000s, the themes are often fucused towards high-performance computing.

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…and of geography

1961–2001, Le Bréau-sans-Nappe, EDF

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2002–2010, Saint-Lambert-des-Bois, Centre Port-Royal

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2010–2015, Castle Cadarache, CEA

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Since 2016, Sorbonne University, Paris

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Themes since 1961

Year Numerical Analysis Informatics
1961 PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS & LINEAR PROGRAMMING
1962 DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
1963 APPROXIMATION THEORY
1964 LINEAR ALGEBRA
1965 PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
1966 CONTROL THEORY
1967 RANDOM PROCESSES
1968 INTEGRAL & INTEGRO-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
1969 MINIMIZATION PROBLEMS OPERATING SYSTEMS
1970 DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS MAN–MACHINE COMMUNICATION & GRAPHICS SYSTEMS
1971 CONTINUUM MECHANICS – FINITE ELEMENTS DATA STRUCTURES AND DATABANKS
1972 SINGULAR PERTURBATIONS MEASURES & SIMULATION OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS
1973 NUMERICAL METHODS & HYDRODYNAMICS SYNTAX ANALYSIS & ITS APPLICATIONS
1974 NONLINER SYSTEMS & STABILITY THEORY COMPUTER NETWORKS
1975 DATA ANALYSIS FUNDAMENTAL ALGORITHMS
1976 DYNAMICS OF STRUCTURES SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE & MEMORY HIERARCHY
1977 INTEGRAL EQUATIONS IN PHYSICS & MECHANICS MICROPROCESSORS & APPLICATIONS
1978 IDENTIFICATION & ADAPTIVE CONTROL PROGRAMMING METHODOLOGY – THEORY & PRACTICE
1979 NUMERICAL APPROXIMATION OF DIFFUSION – CONVECTION PHENOMENA INTERACTIVE GRAPHICAL SYSTEMS
1980 LINEAR ANALYSIS OF LARGE SPARSE MATRIX SYSTEMS NUMERICAL IMAGE PROCESSING & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
1981 TRANSPORT EQUATION DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS & DEPENDABILITY
1982 NUMERICAL MODELING OF TURBULENCE LANGUAGES AND TOOLS OF PROGRAMMING
1983 HOMOGENIZATION PARALLEL COMPUTING
1984 NONLINEAR MECHANICS COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN (CAD)
1985 INVERSE PROBLEMS & APPLICATIONS EXPERT SYSTEMS
1986 DYNAMICS OF STRUCTURES TRENDS IN NORMALIZED NETWORK ARCHITECTURES
1987 PARTICLE METHODS SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: ENVIRONMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT OF LARGE SCIENTIFIC CODES
1988 ELECTROMAGNETISM ROBOTICS
1989 TWO-PHASE FLOWS DATABASES & OBJECT LANGUAGES
1990 INFORMATICS COOPERATIVE
1991 ADAPTIVE MESHES, MULTIGRID, AND DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS
1992 SHELL MODELS PARALLEL COMPUTING
1993 HYPERBOLIC PROBLEMS & APPLICATIONS TO REACTIF & NON-REACTIF FLOWS VISUALIZATION IN SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING
1994 NEURAL NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS CONCEPTION & DEVELOPMENT OF USER INTERFACES
1995 MODELING & SIMULATION IN PHYSICO–CHEMISTRY (Applications to Materials and Polymers) SPECIFICATION & DESIGN OF SOFTWARE
1996 NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF STOCHASTIC PROBLEMS DBMS, MONITORS, DISTRIBUTION & PARALLELISM
1997 MULTISCALE METHODS AND WAVELETS IN NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS SAFETY OF OPEN SYSTEMS
1998 NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF MULTI-MATERIAL TURBULENT FLOWS PARALLEL TOOLS FOR INTENSIVE SIMULATIONS
1999 OPTIMIZATION EXTENDED ENTERPRISE: URBANISM OF THE INFORMATION SYSTEM AND OBJECT TECHNOLOGIES
2000 IMAGE ANALYSIS FORMAL METHODS
2001 RISK ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE
2002 MATERIAL DAMAGE MODELING HIGH-PERFORMANCE SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION AND VIRTUAL REALITY
2003 ADAPIVE METHODES AND CONSERVATION LAWS MODELWARE: TOWARDS THE MODELING AND SEMANTIZATION OF INFORMATION
2004 NUMERICAL AND COMPUTER METHODS FOR MULTIPHYSICS COUPLINGS SECURITY OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN HETEROGENOUS AND DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS
2005 TAKING INTO ACCOUNT UNCERTAINTIES IN NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS COLLABORATIVE NETWORK WORK
2006 DATA ASSIMILATION IN NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS DESIGN OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS
2007 MULTI-SCALE METHODS IN MATERIALS SCIENCES ADVANCED METHODS IN SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION
2008 MODEL REDUCTION AND OPTIMIZATION PETASCALE COMPUTING; FROM PROCESSOR TO COMPUTING CENTER
2009 TRANSPORT OF PARTICLES GRID MIDDLEWARE – EMERGING STANDARDS
2010 MESH GENERATION AND ADAPTIVITY HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
2011 UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION FOR VALIDATION OF NUMERICAL MODELS TOWARDS THE NEXT GENERATION OF VISUALIZATION SOFTWARE
2012 STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING FOR PARALLEL AND CONCURRENT COMPUTING
2013 PROGRAMMING FOR HETEROGENOUS PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES
2014 NUMERICAL METHODS FOR INTERFACE PROBLEMS IN FLUIDS AND SOLIDS WITH DISCONTINUITIES PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED DATA ANALYTICS
2015 LATTICE BOLTZMANN SCHEMES SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING WITH MODERN C++
2016 REDUCED-ORDER MODELS FOR NUMERICAL SIMULATION
2017 DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION UNDER UNCERTAINTY OF LARGE-SCALE NUMERICAL MODELS ANALYSIS AND TRANSFORMATION OF HPC CODES USING LLVM AND CLANG
2018 FLOATING-POINT ARITHMETIC & CODE QUALITY AN INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING AND HIGH PERFORMANCE WITH JULIA
2019 A NUMERICAL INTRODUCTION TO OPTIMAL TRANSPORT HANDS-ON TOUR TO DEEP LEARNING WITH PYTORCH
2020
2021 MULTI-FIDELITY, MULTI-LEVEL, MODEL SELECTION/AGGREGATION: HOW THE PRESENCE OF SEVERAL VERSIONS OF A CODE CAN IMPROVE THE PREDICTION OF COMPLEX PHENOMENA
2022 CERTIFICATION OF ERRORS IN NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS
PRESERVATION OF INVARIANTS BY POST-PROCESSING AND ADAPTIVITY (MESH, SCHEME, SOLVERS, MODEL) FOR INDUSTRIAL NEEDS
HYBRID AND ASYNCHRONOUS HIGH-PERFORMANCE PROGRAMMING
2023 Robust polyhedral discretizations for computational mechanics Quantum computing, what we should know after discovering qubits