UVSQ presentation at ODK kickoff meeting

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Université de Versailles – Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

by Luca De Feo

Sep 2, 2015. OpenDreamKit kickoff meeting.

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UVSQ by numbers

Source: http://www.uvsq.fr/l-uvsq-en-bref-234120.kjsp?RH=1188487374505&RF=1412332265807

• Est. 1991;
• 20.000 students;
• 32 research labs;
• 708 PhD students;
• Teaching/research staff: 1.110 people;
• Administrative staff: 744 people;
• A foundation to try and get some private money <www.fondation.uvsq.fr>;
• 11.700 fans on Facebook;
• 5.200 followers on Twitter.

Part of the Paris Saclay University (with UPSud).

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Who are we?

Luca De Feo, Nicolas Gama.

• Members of the CRYPTO team.
• Affiliated to the CS departement, moving to the Maths departement in a few months.
• Expertise: crypto, number theory, computer algebra, web security, web technologies, ...
• OSS experience:
  • Nicolas maintains NewNTL, a fork of NTL that is being merged back in;
  • I maintain FAAST, a library for finite fields;
  • I am a voracious user and modest contributor to SageMath;
  • Also checkout my GitHub.

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Our involvement

• Our main involvement is in WP3 - Component Architecture, which we lead.
• Also participating in selected tasks in other WPs.
• Close collaboration with UPSud node: regular meetings, sharing HR.

Keywords: Interfaces, Modularization, Packaging & distribution, Reproducibility, Open research, Cloud, Teaching.