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 »
CERMICS is recruiting a researcher on topics of data science/machine learning, for 5 years, with teaching duties of about 100h per year. The funding is coming from the interdisciplinary center Hi!Paris. See the job description.
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 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 »
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 »
The École nationale des ponts et chaussées is organizing the 26th edition of the annual ROADEF congress of the French Society for Operational Research and Decision Support, from February 26 to 28, 2025. The organizing committee includes researchers from the laboratories CERMICS and LVMT. This congress is the largest French-speaking event aimed at bringing together researchers from various laboratories in… Read more »
Virginie Ehrlacher was distinguished as “chevalier dans l’ordre national du mérite”.
Julien Guyon was live on French TV on January 20 and January 22 (right after the end of the UEFA Champions League games) in the popular sports TV program L’Equipe du Soir on La chaîne L’Équipe to comment on the probabilities of teams advancing to the round of 16/playoffs. The new format of the Champions League (with a league phase… Read more »
David Gontier joined the Modeling, Analysis and Simulation team at CERMICS on January 1st, 2025. His research interests lie in applied mathematics for quantum physics and quantum chemistry. He defended his PhD in 2015 at CERMICS under the supervision of Éric Cancès. From 2016 to 2024, he held the position of Maître de Conférence at Université Paris-Dauphine. He obtained his… Read more »
Abbas Kabalan, PhD student at CERMICS in collaboration with SAFRANTech, won the first prize of the IRT System’X NeurIPS 2024 ML4CFD challenge together with Fabien Casenave (see announcement). The integration of machine learning (ML) techniques for addressing intricate physics problems is increasingly recognized as a promising avenue for expediting simulations. However, assessing ML-derived physical models poses a significant challenge for… Read more »