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Julien Guyon Named “Quant Of The Year” 

Julien Guyon has been named “Quant of the Year” by Risk, the leading financial risk management magazine. The Risk Awards are the longest-running and most prestigious awards for firms and individuals involved in quantitative finance and financial risk management. Risk readers and contributors, which include quantitative analysts and financial engineers, voted Julien Guyon to receive the honor. Julien Guyon was… Read more »

An AI method by François Charton that resolves a 30-year conjecture mentioned in the New Scientist

François Charton, research engineer at Meta and PhD student at CERMICS, Jordan Ellenberg (U. Wisconsin), Adam Wagner (Deepmind), Geordie Williamson (U. Sydney), were interviewed by the New Scientist on their recent paper where they design an AI method called PatternBoost to generate interesting construction in mathematics coupling Transformers and classical search algorithm (see the news). As an example of application,… Read more »

François Charton and Amaury Hayat’s work on featured in the New Scientists

François Charton (PhD student at CERMICS and research engineer at Meta) and Amaury Hayat‘s (researcher at CERMICS) work was featured in the New Scientist. In collaboration with Alberto Alfarano (research engineer at Meta), their work consist in training deep language models to find global Lyapunov function for systems of ordinary differential equations, a mathematical problem open in general.

The CIRCLES project received the IEEE ITS Lead Institutional award 2024

The CIRCLES project received the IEEE ITS Lead Institutional award 2024, for “significant and outstanding contributions to the research and applications of ITS-related technologies”. This project was a collaboration between several institutions including Ecole nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, UC Berkeley, Rutgers University, Vanderbilt University and Temple University. The aim of the project is to reduce congestion and energy consumption… Read more »

Julien Guyon comments on the new format of the UEFA Champions League live on French TV

Julien Guyon was interviewed live on French TV on August 29, 2024 to comment on the new format of the UEFA Champions League (L’Equipe du Soir, on La chaîne L’Equipe). You can see the replay here (from 11’45” to 22′). Julien Guyon was also interviewed by the daily sports newspaper L’Equipe, both in the print and online versions.

Alexandre Ern’s paper (M2AN, 2016) received Frontiers of Science Award

A. Ern’s paper on Bridging the hybrid high-order and hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods (M2AN, 2016, with B. Cockburn and D. Di Pietro) was one of the three papers in Numerical Analysis receiving the Frontiers of Science Award at the International Congress of Basic Science (Beijing, 2024).

2024 Olympic Games: Sport and Science Teamed Up

Julien Guyon is invited to discuss with Rémi Carmignani, Brigitte Vinçon-Leite and Arthur Guillot-Le Goff how scientific innovations contribute to the development of athletic performance, to the creation of a better and fairer sporting environment, and to the creation of sustainable infrastructures for competitions. Watch the video here.

Gabriel Stoltz co-organizes the program “Materials Informatics” at IMSI, Chicago

The Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI), located on the campus of the University of Chicago, hosts a program on “Data-Driven Materials Informatics” from March 4th to May 24th. Materials informatics is an emerging field defined by the use of simulation tools combined with methods from data sciences and machine learning to better understand materials properties and design innovative… Read more »

Arrival of Loucas Pillaud-Vivien at CERMICS

Loucas Pillaud-Vivien joined the Applied Probability team at CERMICS on January the 2nd 2024. His research focuses on understanding the high-dimensional stochastic dynamics underlying the optimization procedures inherent to modern machine learning algorithms. He obtained his PhD at ENS/Inria Paris in 2020 under the supervision of Francis Bach and did his postdoctoral work at EPFL with Nicolas Flammarion, and then… Read more »