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Nicolas Ray

CV I Publications I Conferences

International conferences

  1. Ray, N. EnviroGRIDS: Building Capacity for a Black Sea Catchment Observation and Assessment System. ICPDR IMGIS meeting. Budapest, Hungary, October 19th, 2011
  2. Ray, N. Building Capacity for a Black Sea Catchment Observation and Assessment System. The enviroGRIDS project. Central European University, invited seminar. Budapest, Hungary, October 19th, 2011
  3. Gorgan, D., Giuliani, G., Abbaspour, K., Cau, P., Lehmann, A., Ray, N. Grid-based Spatial Data Processing Scenarios of the Black Sea Catchment Area. 13th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing. Timisoara, Romania, September 26-29, 2011

  4. Gorgan, D., Abbaspour, K., Cau, P., Bacu, V., Mihon, D., Giuliani, G., Ray, N., Lehmann, A. Grid based data processing tools and applications for Black Sea catchment basin. 6th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications (IDAACS'2011). Prague, Czech Republic, September 15-17, 2011
  5. Petitdidier, M., Lecca, G., Hluchy, L., Ivanovic, M., Kussul, N., Ray, N., Thieron, V. How grid computing helps flood prediction, ground water management and hydrological survey. 13th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Storms. Savona, Italy, September 7-9, 2011
  6. Ray, N. Experience from a FP7 project manager. Environment - climate change - Earth observation: European challenges for researchers Conference, World meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, June 15, 2011
  7. Ray, N., Giuliani, G., Lehmann, A. EnviroGrids: Building Capacity for a Black Sea Catchment Observation and Assessment System. SwiNG Scientific Advisory Council. University of Bern, Switzerland, June 10, 2011
  8. Lehmann, A., Ray, N., Giuliani, G., Barbosa, A., Abbaspour, K., Sozen, S., Gorgan, D., Uyttendaele, T. Sharing data sources for an integrated water resource assessment of the Black Sea catchment. OpenWater Symposium, Delft, The Netherlands, April 19-20, 2011
  9. Gorgan, D., Giuliani, G., Abbaspour, K., van Griensven, A., Kokoszkiewicz, L., Cau, P., Lehmann, A., Ray, N., Earth Science Oriented Data Processing Tools and Applications for Black Sea Catchment Basin. European Grid Infrastructure User Forum, Vilnius, Lithuania, April 11-15, 2011
  10. Gorgan, D., Cau, P., Abbaspour, K., van Griensven, A., Kokoszkiewicz, L., Giuliani, G., Lehmann, A., Ray, N., Charvat, K. Environment Oriented Applications in enviroGRIDS Portal. European Geosciences Union General Assembly. Vienna, Austria, April 3-8, 2011
  11. Ray, N., Giuliani, G., Lehmann, A. EnviroGRIDS contributions to GEOSS Data Core, and data relevant to Ecosystems SBA. 5th GEO European Projects Workshop (GEPW-5). Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, UK, February 8-9, 2011
  12. Ray, N., Giuliani, G., Lehmann, A. Wishes for the 2012-2015 GEO work plan - ECOSYSTEM (enviroGRIDS project). 5th GEO European Projects Workshop (GEPW-5). Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, UK, February 8-9, 2011
  13. enviroGRIDS consortium. EnviroGRIDS booth with posters, presentations and demo, managed by N. Ray. GEO-VII and 2010 Ministerial Summit Exhibition. Beijing, China, November 3-5, 2010
  14. Ray, N., Giuliani, G., Lehmann, A. EnviroGrids: Building Capacity for a Black Sea Catchment Observation and Assessment System. Watershed approach to Environmental Security: Fostering integrated water management in the Azov Sea Basin. NATO - Advanced Study Institute, Rostov-on-Don, Rostov, Russia, September 6-7, 2010
  15. Ray, N., Giuliani, G., Lehmann, A. EnviroGrids: Building Capacity for a Black Sea Catchment Observation and Assessment System. SwiNG Scientific Advisory Council. University of Lausanne, Switzerland, May 17, 2010
  16. Ray, N. EnviroGrids: Building Capacity for a Black Sea Catchment Observation and Assessment System. 5th Grid and e-collaboration workshop: from digital repositories to digital Earth communities. ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, May 12, 2010
  17. Gorgan, D., Rodila, D., Bacu, V., Giuliani, G., Ray, N. OGC and Grid Interoperability in enviroGRIDS Project. European Geosciences Union General Assembly. Vienna, Austria, May 2-7, 2010
  18. Gorgan, D., Rodila, D., Bacu, V., Giuliani, G., Ray, N., Charvat, K., Lehmann, A. Geospatial and Grid infrastructures interoperability in enviroGRIDS. 5th EGEE User Conference. Uppsala, Sweden, April 12-16, 2010
  19. Kokoszkiewicz, L., Yalew, S., van Griensven, A., Ray, N., Giuliani, G., Gorgan, D., Lehmann, A., Maier, A. Gridifying the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) for the sustainable development of the Black Sea region. 5th EGEE User Conference. Uppsala, Sweden, April 12-16, 2010
  20. Ray, N. Tracking the genetic legacy of past human populations through the grid. Swiss Grid Day. Bern, Switzerland, November 26, 2009
  21. Ray, N., Giuliani, G., Lehmann, A. EnviroGrids: Building Capacity for a Black Sea Catchment Observation and Assessment System supporting Sustainable Development. 3rd GEO European Project Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey, October 8-9, 2009
  22. Ray, N., Giuliani, G. and A. Lehmann. EnviroGRIDS - Gridifying the Black Sea catchment to support its sustainable development. EGEE '09 Conference. Barcelona, Spain, September 21-25, 2009
  23. Ray, N. EnviroGrids: Sustainable Development of the Black Sea Catchment. Adapting to changing water quantity and quality in a changing climate: a presentation of the EU "ACQWA" and "ENVIROGRIDS" projects coordinated by University of Geneva". Side event of the World Climate Conference 3. Geneva, Switzerland, September 2, 2009
  24. Ray, N. EnviroGrids: Sustainable Development of the Black Sea Catchment. Grid Computing: a new tool for Science and Innovation. Veli Lošinj, Croatia, August, 25-29
  25. Ray, N. Tracking the Genetic Legacy of Past Human Populations through the Grid. Grid Computing: a new tool for Science and Innovation. Veli Lošinj, Croatia, August, 25-29
  26. enviroGRIDS Consortium. enviroGRIDS booth with posters and demo, managed by Nicolas Ray. Grid and Pervasive Computing 09. Geneva, Switzerland, May 4-8, 2009
  27. Ray, N., Giuliani, G., Maier A., Gorgan, D., Lehmann, A. and the enviroGRIDS consortium. 2009. EnviroGRIDS - Gridifying the Black Sea catchment to support its sustainable development. 4th EGEE User Conference. Catania, Italy, March 2-6, 2009
  28. Ray, N. 2008. Inferring past demography using spatially-explicit population genetics models. AHRC CECD Theme A workshop: Demographic processes and cultural change. Missenden Abbay, Great Missenden, UK, September 2-6, 2008
  29. Ray, N. and L. Excoffier. 2008. Tracking prehistoric movements of human populations using genetic diversity and environmental constraints. Modelling the complexity of past population movement, interactions and landuse. Karman Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. Institute of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Bern, Switzerland. April 25-26, 2008
  30. Hofer, T., Ray, N. and L. Excoffier. 2008. Spatial distribution of allele frequency differences among human populations. Biology08 Conference, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. February 7-8, 2008
  31. Fontaine, M. C., Piry, S., Ray, N., Tolley, K. A., Duke, S., Birkun, A. Jr., Ferreira, M., Jauniaux, T., Llavona, A., Öztürk, B., Öztürk, A. A., Ridoux, V., Rogan, E., Sequeira, M., Siebert, U., Vikingsson, G. A., Bouquegneau, J.-M., Michaux, J. R., and S. J. E. Baird. Rise of Barriers in Continuous Populations of a Cetacean: The Harbour Porpoise in Old World Waters. 17th Biennial Conference of the SMM. Cape Town, South Africa. November 29th-December 3rd, 2007
  32. Coulon, A., Cosson, J.F., Ray, N. and A. J. M. Hewison. 2007. Inferring the influence of landscape on roe deer gene flow using connectivity estimates based on a weighted combination of several landscape features. In 25 years of Landscape Ecology: Scientific Principles in Practice - Proceedings of the 7th IALE World Congress - Part 1. 303-304. Wageningen, The Netherlands. July 8-12, 2007
  33. Excoffier, L., Fagundes, N. and N. Ray. 2007. Building better human demographic models to detect selection at the molecular level. Jacques Monod Conference on Evolutionary genomics. Roscoff, France, May 2007
  34. Ray, N (keynote speaker). 2007. Tracking the legacy of past populations via the Grid. 5th International HealthGrid Conference. Geneva, Switzerland. April 24-27, 2007
  35. Ray, N. 2006. SPLATCHE on the Grid. 2nd EGEE Bioinformatics Applications meeting. Institute of Biology and Chemistry of Proteins, Lyon, France. November 7, 2006
  36. Ray, N. 2005. Recovering the geographic origin of a spatial expansion using genetic diversity. Demogenetics of fragmented populations. La Fouly, Switzerland. September 14-17, 2005
  37. Estoup, A., Baird, S., Beaumont, M., Cornuet, J.-M., Ray, N., Currat, M. and L. Excoffier. 2005. Approximate Bayesian computation to infer on the spatial expansion dynamics of invading species: application on cane toad Bufo marinus. ESEB meeting. Krakow, Poland. August 15-19, 2005
  38. Ray, N. 2005. A realistic simulation framework to model the demography and the genetic diversity of populations: application to prehistoric humans. CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, University of Porto, Portugal. Jul. 11, 2005
  39. Ray, N. 2005. Incorporating environmental heterogeneity in spatially-explicit simulations of human genetic diversity. Simulations, Genetics and Human Prehistory - A Focus on Islands. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, UK. Jul. 29 - Aug. 1, 2005
  40. Excoffier, L., Ray, N. and M. Currat. 2005. Human paleogenetics. Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogeny Conference. Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris. June 17-18/20-21, 2005
  41. Ray, N. 2005. Uncertainties when modeling migrations on a lattice. Decision making for complex problems in conservation, workshop. ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems (MASCOS), University of Melbourne, Australia, February 27th-March 4th, 2005
  42. Ray, N. 2004. Anisotropic catchment areas. Physical Accessibility Modeling Workshop. Pan American Health Organization, Washington DC, USA, October 21, 2004
  43. Ray, N. 2004. Modelling the migrations and the genetic diversity of populations: application to prehistoric humans. Monash University Biological Seminar. Melbourne, Australia. Aug. 5, 2004
  44. Ray, N. 2004. Habitat modelling for the Sambar deer in the Alpine region. Sambar deer monitoring & research in Yarra Ranges National Park. Maroondah Reservoir Park, Halesville, Australia. Feb. 4, 2004
  45. Excoffier, L., Currat, M. and N. Ray. 2002. Estimating sex-specific migration rates after a range expansion. Sex-specific genetic markers. La Sage, Switzerland, September 4-7, 2002
  46. Ray, N., Currat, M. and L. Excoffier. 2002. Spatial simulations of prehistoric human migrations and genetic diversity. 22th Annual ESRI (Environmental System Research Institute) International User Conference. San Diego, USA, July 8-12 2002
  47. Ray, N., Currat, M. and L. Excoffier, L. 2002. Paleodemography modelling and genetic coalescence as tools for exploring human dispersal scenarios. Human Global Dispersal – British Academy International Networks Workshop. Southampton, UK, June 26-28, 2002
  48. Excoffier, L., Ray, N., Currat. 2002. Molecular diversity in spatially expanding populations. American Genetic Association annual meeting. Tempe, Arizona, USA, March 22-24, 2002
  49. Ray, N., Currat, M. and L. Excoffier. 2002. Dispersions humaines préhistoriques: modèles spatiaux basés sur les contraintes environnementales et la génétique. Spatial ecology seminar. University of Lyon 1, Lyon, France, February 11, 2002
  50. Excoffier, L., Currat, M. and N. Ray. 2001. Finding the geographical origin of the genes of a population: an environmentally-driven approach. Euresco conference. San Feliu de Guixols, Spain, November 15-19, 2001
  51. Excoffier, L., Ray, N., Currat, M. and J. Goudet. 2001. The molecular genetic structure of a species constrained by environmental and historic information. 8th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Aarhus, Denmark, August 20-25, 2001
  52. Excoffier, L., Currat, M. and N. Ray. 2001. Human past demography: inference from mtDNA and environmental data. Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology Seminar. Edinburgh, Scotland, June 5, 2001
  53. Ray, N., Currat, M., Goudet, J. and L. Excoffier. 2001. Environment-driven simulations of prehistoric human migrations and present genetic diversity. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. Visby, Gotland, Sweden, April 25-29, 2001
  54. Ray, N., Currat, M. and L. Excoffier. 2001. Simulation des migrations humaines préhistoriques à l'aide de données environnementales et génétiques. GDR Génomique des populations. Sète, France, March 13-14, 2001
  55. Ray, N., Currat, M., Goudet, J. and L. Excoffier. 2001. Simulations of prehistoric human migrations and genetic diversity driven by environmental constraints. Zoologia and Botanica. Neuchâtel, Switzerland, February 16-17, 2001
  56. Poloni, E. S., Ray, N., Schneider, S. and A. Langaney. 2000. Languages and genes: modes of transmission observed through the analysis of male-specific and female-specific genes. The Evolution of Language. Paris, France, April 3-6, 2000
  57. Ray, N. 1999. Study of amphibian migrations and pond connectivity within a GIS framework VIth Herpetological Congress of the Coordination Center for the protection of amphibians and reptiles (KARCH). Fribourg, Switzerland, December 12, 1999

Other talks/conferences

  1. Ray, N. 2009. Approches spatiales en génétique des populations. Geomatic certificate. University of Geneva, Switzerland, January 7, 2009
  2. Ray, N. 2008. Least-cost paths (and beyond) in population genetics. Internal Seminar Series. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland. May 7, 2008
  3. Ray, N. 2007. Tracking the genetic legacy of past human populations. Lecture series in Ecology and Evolution. University of Bern, Switzerland. October 9th, 2007
  4. Ray, N. 2007. Modelling demography and genetics of past human populations. Grid/HPC event at University of Bern, Switzerland. June 22, 2007
  5. Ray, N. 2002. Étude de la migration des amphibiens et de la connectivité entre étangs à l’aide d’un Système d’Information Géographique. DESSNE internal workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, February 6, 2002
  6. Ray, N., Currat, M., Goudet, J. and L. Excoffier. 2001. Simulation des migrations humaines préhistoriques: un modèle de dispersion basé sur les contraintes environnementales. SPACE workshop. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, February 9, 2001
  7. Ray, N. 1998. Using GIS for migration and landscape connectivity studies. International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) workshop. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, July 16, 1998

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