Andrew McRae, together with Nicolas Boumal (EPFL, Switzerland), received the 2026 SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Best Paper Prize. This prize is awarded every three years to the author(s) of the most outstanding paper, as determined by the prize committee, on a topic in optimization published in the four calendar years preceding the award year. Andrew and Nicolas received the… Read more »
Amaury Hayat, permanent researcher in the MAS team, was interviewed in two articles of Le Monde about his work in AI for mathematics : Tout ce que l’IA a déjà révolutionné dans la recherche scientifique and Les agents, ces IA qui prennent des décisions de chercheurs
Amaury Hayat, permanent researcher in the MAS team, and François Charton, PhD student at CERMICS, were interviewed in Le Figaro to share their opinion on the future of mathematics with the advent of AI : « Personne n’avait imaginé que cela irait aussi vite » : l’essor fulgurant et inattendu des IA en mathématiques, ultime bastion de l’intelligence humaine
On Tuesday June 2nd, Amaury Hayat was interviewed together with Sylvia Serfaty, on AI and mathematics. See the podcast link.
CERMICS is recruiting a researcher on topics of data science/machine learning, for 3+1 years, with teaching duties of about 100h per year. The funding is coming from the interdisciplinary center Hi!Paris. See the job description. Important: The deadline for recommendation letters has been extended to May 17th.
The SMAI-GAMNI Ph.D. prize was created in 2005 to reward doctoral research in applied mathematics for engineering sciences. Each year, the prize is awarded to a thesis defended in France within a range of topics, including PDEs, numerical analysis, scientific computing, mechanics, and climate modeling. The laureate is then nominated by SMAI-GAMNI as a candidate for the European Ph.D. awards… Read more »
The ROADEF RO/AD prize aims at highlighting the research of Master’s students in Operational Research and Decision Analysis. Nicolas Corvol, a graduate of the MPRO was awarded this prize for his Master’s thesis entitled “Integrating Revenue Management into the Supply Chain for New Vehicle Distribution”. This work was carried out in collaboration with Renault and CERMICS and lays the foundations… Read more »
On February 25, 2026, Frédéric Meunier was appointed president of the ROADEF, the French Operations Research and Decision Support Society, for a two-year term. The mission of the society is to promote the scientific field of Operations Research and Decision Support in France.
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 »