Author Archives: gabriel.stoltz

Tony Lelièvre co-organizes the IP Paris Research Day 2025

Tony Lelièvre is the chair of the scientific committee for the forthcoming IP Paris Research Day 2025 which will be held on December 1, 2025 at Télécom Paris. This year, the scientific community will come together to celebrate the integration of École nationale des ponts et chaussées into IP Paris. The theme of this research day is: “Numerical Modeling in… Read more »

Louis Bouvier receives the AMIES PhD prize (3rd prize)

The Maths Enterprises & Society (AMIES) Thesis Prize was established in 2013 to promote doctoral theses in mathematics conducted in collaboration with a socio-economic partner, with direct benefits for that partner. It is sponsored by the societies Société Mathématique de France, Société Française de Statistique, and SMAI. Louis Bouvier, who completed his PhD with an industrial contract with Renault Group… Read more »

Award Ceremony at CERMICS

On Wednesday, September 10, Virginie Ehrlacher, researcher at CERMICS, will be awarded the National Order of Merit Medal. The medal will be presented by Laure Saint-Raymond, Professor at IHES. On this occasion, Laure Saint-Raymond will give a talk at the CERMICS Applied Mathematics Seminar at 2:30 pm in the seminar room. The medal ceremony will follow at 4:00 pm. During… Read more »

ICSP 2025 organized by CERMICS

The École nationale des ponts et chaussées is organizing the 17th edition of the triannual International Conference on Stochastic Programming, from July 27th to August 1st, 2025. This congress is the premier international event on stochastic programming, and more generally decision under uncertainty. The event will bring together researcher and industrials from around the world to discuss recent progress and application… Read more »

Louis Bouvier was co-recipient of the VeRoLog Doctoral Dissertation Prize

On June 17th, 2025, during the VeRoLog2025 conference, the prize for the best PhD thesis in Operations Research applied to Routing and Logistics in Europe was awarded. Louis Bouvier, who completed his PhD with an industrial contract with Renault Group and was supervised by Axel Parmentier at CERMICS, co-received the prize. Both his methodological contributions in Decision-Focused Learning and his… Read more »

Yating Hu receives the Shanghai Oustanding Graduate Award 2025

Yating Hu, a PhD student at Tongji University supervised by Peipei Shang (Tongji) and Amaury Hayat (CERMICS), has received the Shanghai Oustanding Graduate Award 2025 for her PhD thesis on control and stabilization of networks of density-velocity channels. She had previously received the Tongji University 2024 Outstanding Doctoral Scholarship and the Tongji University 2024 Excellent Student Model Award. During her PhD,… Read more »

Etienne Bernard was interviewed in ‘Le Monde’ about research and handicap

Étienne Bernard was interviewed by Le Monde as part of a report on deaf academics. He shared his experience as a disabled mathematician. In particular, he talked about the difficulty of doing research as a deaf non-English speaker in an environment where spoken English is crucial to a “normal” career.

Vincent Leclère invited to a public hearing at the Senate

Vincent Leclère was invited to participate in the public hearing on the future of electrical networks, organized by the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices (OPECST – Senate and National Assembly). He presented the various mathematical challenges (and potential solutions) posed by the ongoing ecological transition: optimal management and valuation of flexibility to address uncertainties; better consideration… Read more »

Best PhD works in Transport and Logistics in France: CERMICS in the Spotlight

On February 27th, 2025, during the ROADEF conference (the annual scientific meeting in operations research in France), the prize for the best PhD in transport and logistics in France was awarded. Louis Bouvier, who completed his PhD with an industrial contract with Renault Group and was supervised by Axel Parmentier at CERMICS, received the first prize. Yue Su and Thibault Prunet,… Read more »