Extended stay support scheme
We propose to the IWOCA 2026 attendees an Extended Stay Support Scheme (ESSS) aiming at enhancing scientific collaborations and diminishing the carbon footprint of scientific research activities. Attendees are encouraged to combine their visit to Clermont-Ferrand by collaborations with local researchers.
This support scheme is primarily intended for participants travelling long distances and must be combined with an attendance to IWOCA. Upon acceptance, research institutes involved in this mechanism may (partially) cover standard expenses (accommodation, living expenses and traveling fees, plane excluded) and will provide material support for research activities.
A report about a former ESSS (STACS 2024) can be found here.
How to apply to the IWOCA 2026 Extended Stay Support Scheme?
- The name of the visitor (the IWOCA attendant) mentioning her or his affiliation, city and country of origin.
- The name of the (future) local collaborator.
- The dates of the visits.
- Few lines describing the subject of the collaboration.
Specific constraints
- For applying, the visitor should attend IWOCA 2026.
- The travel between the conference location and the location of the extened stay should be "low-carbon" (train, bus, carpooling... NO plane).
- Dates of the visit do not have to be directly adjacent to the conference dates, as long as the applicant avoids traveling by plane in between.
- If too many applications are received, further criteria of selection may have to be applied, such as favoring long distance participants or applying a « first come first served » policy.
The overall coordinator is Florent Foucaud. Please contact him for general inquiries or if you wish to include your research group/lab in the list of hosts.
Research units participating in the scheme
Clermont-Ferrand (host of IWOCA 2026)
LIMOS
Contact: Florent Foucaud : florent.foucaud [AT] uca.fr
Potential research teams: MAAD (algorithms, graphs, optimization)
In Lyon (2.5h by bus or train from Clermont-Ferrand):
LIP
Contact: Jean-Florent Raymond: jean-florent.raymond [AT] cnrs.fr
Potential research teams: MC2 (combinatorics, algorithms, complexity)
LIRIS
Contact: Laurent Feuilloley: laurent.feuilloley [AT] liris.cnrs.fr
Potential research teams: GOAL (graphs, algorithms, games)
In Paris and its surrondings (3.5h by train from Clermont-Ferrand)
LISN (Orsay)
Contact: Nicolas Thiéry: Nicolas.Thiery [AT] universite-paris.saclay.fr
Florent Hivert: Florent.Hivert [AT] universite-paris-saclay.fr
Johanne Cohen: johanne.cohen [AT] lri.fr
Potential research teams: GALAC (Graphs Algorithms and Combinatorics), ParSys (distributed algorithms)
DI-ENS (Paris 5th)
Contact: Chien-Chung Huang: villars [AT] gmail.com
Potential research teams: TALGO (algorithmics, graphs, optimization)
LIP6 (Paris 5th)
Contact : TBA
Contact: Please contact the head of the team you want to visit, with Fabrice Kordon in CC (fabrice.Kordon [AT] lip6.fr)
Potential research teams: ALMASTY (cryptography and security), APR (programming languages), MoVe (verification), QI (quantum computing),RO (operations research), and others
LIGM (Marne-la-Vallée)
Contact: Arnaud de Mesmay: arnaud.de-mesmay [AT] univ-eiffel.fr
Potential research teams: ADA (algorithms, bioinformatics, computational linguistic)
In Montpellier (4h by bus or 5h by train from Clermont-Ferrand)
LIRMM
Contact: Mickaël Montassier: Mickael.Montassier [AT] lirmm.fr (for ALGCO)
Michaël Poss: michael.poss [AT] lirmm.fr (for MAORE)
Potential research teams: ALGCO (algorithms and graphs), MAORE (optimisation, graph theory)
In Nice (8h by train from Clermont-Ferrand)
I3S
Contact: Nicolas Nisse: nicolas.nisse [AT] inria.fr (for COATI)
Christophe Crespelle: christophe.crespelle [AT] univ-cotedazur.fr (for MDSC)
Potential research teams: COATI (Combinatorics, Optimization, and Algorithms for Telecommunications, also with Inria), MDSC (Discrete Models for Complex Systems)