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 »
Pierre-Cyril Aubin joined the Optimization team at CERMICS on December 2nd, 2024. His research focuses on convergence guarantees for optimization algorithms and gradient flows, especially for general costs and measure spaces. He obtained his PhD in 2021 at Ecole des Mines Paris – PSL under the supervision of Nicolas Petit. From 2021 to 2024, he was a postdoctoral researcher first… Read more »
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 »
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 (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, 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 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.
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).