The three new laureates of the CIMPA-CARMIN program have arrived in France to participate in the IHP Trimester "Analytics, Inference and Computation in Cosmology" from September 3th to December 14th, 2018. Before going to IHP in Paris, Shabbir SHAIKH from India, Nirban BOSE from India and Nassima KHALDI from Algeria, are spending one week in Cargèse (Corsica) to attend the kick-off School. We wish them a wonderful IHP Trimester.