Pramod RastogiHe received his MSc degree from the University of Lucknow, MTech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and doctorate degree from the University of Franche Comté in France. His research activities are principally in the area of holographic interferometry, speckle metrology, fiber optics sensors, phase shifting and moiré. He is the author or coauthor of more than 175 scientific papers of which more than 140 are published in peer-reviewed archival journals. He is also the author of book chapters, Encyclopaedia articles, and has edited several books in the field of optical metrology. His guest-edited three special sections on Optics in Switzerland for Optical Engineering in 1995 are even today an invaluable source of reference relative to optical engineering activities in Switzerland both at the academic and industrial levels. He has guest-edited over a dozen special dedicated issues in archival journals. He has also chaired and organized several international symposiums, such as, the International Conference on Applied Optical Metrology, Balatonfüred, Hungary, June 8-11, 1998; or the Conference on Trends in Optical Non-destructive Testing, Lugano, Switzerland, May 2-5, 2000, or the Conference on Advanced Phase Measurement Methods in Optics and Imaging, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, May 16-21, 2010 etc. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (1993) and a Fellow of the Society of the Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (1995). He is also a recipient of the Hetényi Award for the most significant research paper published in Experimental Mechanics in the year 1982. He was Elected as a Member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) in 2014. He was recipient of the SPIE Dennis Gabor Award, 2014. The Dennis Gabor award is presented annually in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in diffractive wave front technologies, especially those which further the development of holography and metrology applications. He was an honorary visiting Professor at the IIT Delhi between 1999 & 2003. Since 2000 he has also been active in laying groundwork for collaboration with the Indian Institutes of science and technology. Between the years 2000 & 2004, he was doing this as a part of his broader activity as in-charge of relations with Asia. His initiatives have led to academic exchange programs involving faculty and students with a view to fostering networking, research linkages and partnerships. To cite a few of his many initiatives: his active contribution to the holding of a high level Indo Swiss Workshop on Science & Technology at Bangalore in 2003; the setting up of ISJRP - the pilot project on bilateral partnership in S&T between Switzerland and India - in 2004; developing ISBRI (Indo-Swiss bilateral research initiative) in 2006; etc. He remained as the main coordinator of the Indo-Swiss Joint Research Program between the period covering the program's inception in 2004 until February 2011. He is currently responsible for developing academic and institutional relations with the universities in India and South-East Asian countries. He has been instrumental in helping to open up a range of opportunities to the EPFL students, such as, doing their "mobility" years at one of the IITs or, their final year major projects or internships at one of the Indian institutions/companies. Over a hundred EPFL students have benefited from these programs. He was instrumental in establishing Internship program with the aim of promoting an awareness of EPFL among the IIT students. This program has become very popular among the IIT and IIITA students with several hundreds of them having benefited from this program. He played a key role in the setting up of the EPFL-IIT Madras joint postgraduate course on "Technology and sustainable development" in 2000-01. He was the co-director of the last edition of the course which was held between January and April, 2008.
Jacques LévyJacques Lévy (1952-) est professeur ordinaire de géographie et durbanisme à lÉcole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Il y dirige le Laboratoire Chôros et le programme doctoral Architecture et Sciences de la Ville.
Thématiques
Ses centres dintérêts principaux sont la théorie de lespace des sociétés, notamment au travers de la géographie du politique, des villes et de lurbanité, de lEurope et de la mondialisation. Il sintéresse à lépistémologie et aux méthodes des sciences sociales, avec une attention particulière pour la cartographie et la modélisation. Il travaille à lintroduction des langages non-verbaux, notamment audio-visuels à tous les niveaux de la recherche. Il a réalisé en 2013 un long métrage, Urbanité/s, qui se veut un manifeste pour le film scientifique.
Fonctions et activités
Il a été chercheur au CNRS (1984-1993), professeur à lInstitut détudes politiques de Paris (1989-2007) et professeur à lUniversité de Reims (1993-2004). Il est professeur invité à New York (NYU), Los Angeles (UCLA), Naples (IUO), São Paulo (USP), Mexico (Cátedra Reclus) et Sydney (Macquarie University), fellow au Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2003-2004).
Il est codirecteur de la revue de sciences sociales en accès libre EspacesTemps.net. Il codirige la collection Lespace en société aux Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes Il est conseiller scientifique de la revue Pouvoirs Locaux. Il est membre du jury du Grand Prix international de lUrbanisme (Paris). Il collabore avec plusieurs journaux et chaines de radio en France et en Suisse.
Publications
Il a publié en français, en anglais, en italien, en allemand, en espagnol, en portugais, en russe et en hongrois. Parmi ses six cents publications, on peut noter : Révolutions, fin et suite (avec Patrick Garcia et Marie-Flore Mattei, EspacesTemps/Centre Georges Pompidou, 1991), Géographies du politique (dir., Presses de Sciences Po/EspacesTemps, 1991), Le monde : espaces et systèmes (avec Marie-Françoise Durand et Denis Retaillé, Presses de Sciences Po/Dalloz, 1992 ; 2e édition 1993), Lespace légitime (Presses de la FNSP, 1994), Egogéographies (LHarmattan, 1995), Le monde pour Cité (Hachette, 1996), le dossier « Nouvelles géographies » (revue Le Débat, novembre 1996), Europe : une géographie (Hachette, 1997 ; nouvelle édition : Europe, une géographie. La fabrique dun continent, 2011), Mondialisation : les mots et les choses (avec le groupe Mondialisation du Gemdev, Karthala, 1999), Le tournant géographique (Belin, 1999), Logiques de lespace, esprit des lieux (co-dir. avec Michel Lussault, Belin, 2000), Repenser le territoire : un dictionnaire critique (avec Serge Wachter et al., LAube, 2000), From Geopolitics to Global Politics (ed., Frank Cass, 2001), Dictionnaire de la géographie et de lespace des sociétés (co-dir avec Michel Lussault, Belin, 2003, nouvelle édition 2013), La carte, enjeu contemporain (avec Patrick Poncet et Emmanuelle Tricoire, La Documentation Photographique, 2004), Les sens du mouvement (co-dir. avec Sylvain Allemand et François Ascher, Belin, 2005), le dossier « Eine geographische Wende » (revue Geographische Zeitschrift, 2005), Penser lespace pour lire la vieillesse (avec Pierre Brunel, Claudine Attias-Donfut, Jean Morval, PUF, 2006), Milton Santos, philosophe du mondial, citoyen du local (PPUR, 2007), Linvention du Monde (dir., Presses de Sciences Po, 2008), The City (Ashgate, 2008), Échelles de lhabiter (dir., PUCA, 2008), Le sfide cartografiche, (dir., avec Emanuela Casti, Il Lavoro Editoriale, 2010), Globalization of Urbanity (dir., avec Josep Acebillo et Chrisitan Schmid, iCUP, 2013), Réinventer la France (Fayard, 2013), Mondialisation : consommateur ou acteur ? (avec Jacques Cossart et Lucas Léger, Le Muscadier, 2013).
Pierre VandergheynstPierre Vandergheynst received the M.S. degree in physics and the Ph.D. degree in mathematical physics from the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. From 1998 to 2001, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Signal Processing Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. He was Assistant Professor at EPFL (2002-2007), where he is now a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer and Communication Sciences. As of 2015, Prof. Vandergheynst serves as EPFL’s Vice-Provost for Education. His research focuses on harmonic analysis, sparse approximations and mathematical data processing in general with applications covering signal, image and high dimensional data processing, computer vision, machine learning, data science and graph-based data processing. He was co-Editor-in-Chief of Signal Processing (2002-2006), Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2007-2011), the flagship journal of the signal processing community and currently serves as Associate Editor of Computer Vision and Image Understanding and SIAM Imaging Sciences. He has been on the Technical Committee of various conferences, serves on the steering committee of the SPARS workshop and was co-General Chairman of the EUSIPCO 2008 conference. Pierre Vandergheynst is the author or co-author of more than 70 journal papers, one monograph and several book chapters. He has received two IEEE best paper awards. Professor Vandergheynst is a laureate of the Apple 2007 ARTS award and of the 2009-2010 De Boelpaepe prize of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium.
