Notable facts 2006

• Robin Milner, holder of the highest disctinction scientific computing, the medal Turing, is the first recipient of a computer chair Blaise Pascal, assigned to LIX for one year, starting on September 15, 2006.


• The symposium autumn laboratory has been a huge success. Held from November 13 to 15 per Catuscia Palamidessi on "Emerging Trends in Concurrency", it was necessary to close the inscription 120 people (maximum size of the amphi chosen). The symposium was attended by virtually all major world specialists from the competition, including two medals Turing (Robin Milner and Toni Hoare) and the event was international highlight of the year in this area.


• The LIX is one of the laboratories that have brought the project Digiteo, labelized RTRA late 2006.


• The research team MeASI Common to CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique and CEA was officially installed in the premises of LIX since autumn 2006. MeASI means Modeling and Analysis Systems Interaction, also called "complex industrial systems." MeASI is a component of the chair of the same name Thales funded by the Department of Science Ecole Polytechnique.


• The Cryptology team set a new world record by building a cryptosystem elliptical size 10 ** 2500 (compared with 10 ** 80, the estimated number of atoms in the universe!). The previous record (10 ** 2000) belonged to them already. This extraordinary record results from new advances in the field of number theory and algebra by an international team composed of Alin Bostan (INRIA-Rocquencourt), Tomas Enge (LIX), Pierrick Gaudry (LORIA), Preda Mihailescu (University Göttingen), Francois Morain (LIX), Bruno Salvy (INRIA-Rocquencourt) and Eric Schost (University of London, Canada).