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).
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.
…and of geography
1961–2001, Le Bréau-sans-Nappe, EDF
2002–2010, Saint-Lambert-des-Bois, Centre Port-Royal
2010–2015, Castle Cadarache, CEA
Since 2016, Sorbonne University, Paris
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 |
