François Charton is appointed at the Scientific Advisory Board of ICARM. ICARM is one of the seven Mathematical Scientific Research Institutes (MSRI) of the NSF, together with IAS at Princeton, IPAM at UCLA, IMSI at Chicago, or SLMath at Berkeley (formerly known as MSRI at Berkeley). ICARM is located at Carnegie Mellon University and its mission is to support the… Read more »
The Paul Caseau Thesis Prize was created in 2012 by the Academy of Technologies and EDF, in memory of Paul Caseau, a founding member of the Academy of Technologies and former Director of Studies and Research at EDF. The prize is also supported by the Institut de France and the Academy of Sciences. Every year, this prize is awarded to… Read more »
École nationale des ponts et chaussées will host the 5th edition of the CJC-MA, the Congress of Young Researchers in Applied Mathematics, from March 2 to 4, 2026, in Champs-sur-Marne. Initiated by the SMAI, this annual conference is dedicated to early-career researchers in applied mathematics. This edition is organized by the laboratories CERMICS, LAMA, and LIGM, which all belong to… Read more »
As of January 1st, 2026, CERMICS became a joint research unit with CNRS (UMR 9032). See here for a presentation of the laboratory in this context.
Hervé Andrès received the special mention of the jury of the 2025 SCOR Actuariat PhD prize. His CIFRE thesis was co-supervised by Benjamin Jourdain (CERMICS) and Alexandre Boumezoued (Milliman). It is entitled “modelisation and validation of real-world economic scenarios for insurance : how to take the trajectorial properties into account?”.
Amaury Hayat was interviewed on French TV on Dec. 7th to present part of his work about the control and regulation of traffic flow with the consortium CIRCLES. This interview was part of the TV show E=M6 which dedicated an episode to road traffic flow. At ENPC, this work on the CIRCLES project was carried out with Nathan Lichtlé and outside ENPC… Read more »
Nathan Lichtlé, who completed his PhD at École des Ponts under the co-supervision of Amaury Hayat (CERMICS) and Alexandre Bayen (UC Berkeley), has received the 2025 Prix de thèse des Ponts, the school’s prize for the best PhD thesis, offered by the Fondation des Ponts. His thesis on the control of dynamic systems, combining theoretical advances with large-scale real-world applications… Read more »
Amaury Hayat, permanent researcher in the MAS team, and Fabian Glöckle, third year PhD student under the supervision of Amaury Hayat and Gabriel Synnaeve (Meta), were interviewed in Le Monde concerning their research work on AI for mathematics. They discussed the future of mathematical research with the advent of AI and the progress that has already been made.
Fabian Glöckle, third year PhD student under the supervision of Amaury Hayat and Gabriel Synnaeve (Meta), gave a seminar at College de France in the Chair of Combinatorics. He discussed the recent progress in automated theorem proving and the perspectives.
Andrew McRae joined CERMICS on November 1st, 2025. His research is on the mathematical theory of high-dimensional statistics and continuous optimization, particularly in the interaction of these two domains. He obtained his PhD in 2022 from Georgia Tech under the supervision of Mark Davenport and was then, from 2022 to 2025, a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL with Nicolas Boumal. For… Read more »