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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »