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.
Nerea Vadillo’s doctoral thesis was awarded the Prix des Sciences du Risque 2024 by the Fondation Optimind Part of Accenture, in partnership with AMRAE, France Assureurs and the Institut des Actuaires (https://www.sciencesdurisque.com/laureats2024). The award was presented on June 18 at the Pavillon Élysée in Paris, attended by over 200 insurance, risk management and academic professionals. With the growing demand for… Read more »
CERMICS is delighted to announce the opening of the Cauchy postdoctoral fellowship. Please visit the dedicated webpage for more information.
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.
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 »
This prize, aimed at under-30s, is awarded for the best paper presented at the EFI9 conference held in Bari from 12 to 14 February. The prize-winning work concerns the joint modelling of temperature and the price of electricity, in order to better understand and manage the risk associated with climate insurance products. It stems from a CIFRE thesis with AXA… Read more »
Gaspard Kemlin was a PhD student at CERMICS from September 2019 to November 2022, and defended his PhD in December 2022. He worked on Numerical analysis for Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory. He now is an associate professor at Picardie Jules Verne University.
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 »
On December 18, 2023, Julien Guyon was live on the French TV network La chaîne L’Équipe. In what might well be a TV world premiere, he commented on the draw probabilities of the UEFA Champions League, Europa League, and Europa Conference League, and how they evolve during the draw. Due to the draw constraints and draw procedure, the probabilities are not easy… Read more »
Virginie Ehrlacher received the 2023 Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in the “Young Female Scientist” category. Created in 2001 by the French Ministry of Research, the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize is designed to promote the role of women in research and technology in France. It highlights the exemplary careers of women in science who combine excellence and dynamism. It is awarded by the… Read more »