Monthly Archives: February 2022

Axel Parmentier was awarded the 2022 Robert Faure Prize

Axel Parmentier won the first prize in the Robert Faure Prize, awarded every three years to a researcher under 35 years old. Created in honor of Professor Robert Faure, a pioneer of Operations Research in France, the Robert Faure Prize aims to encourage an original contribution in the field of Operations Research and Decision Support. Particular attention is given to… Read more »

E. Cancès was co-awarded a Simons Foundation’s Target Grant on moiré materials

The physics of moiré materials has developed exponentially in the last few years, following in particular the experimental discovery by P. Jarillo-Herrero (MIT) et al. in 2018 of superconducting states in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). The topic of Moiré materials gives rise to new research directions at the interface between physics and mathematics. The project funded by the Simons Foundation brings together an… Read more »