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Scientific day for the creation of UMR 9032

2026-10-06T00:00:00+02:00

On Friday, November 6th, we organize a scientific day to celebrate the creation of CERMICS as a joint research unit with CNRS. See the program of the event.

Arrival of Laura Grazioli (CNRS researcher)

2026-10-01T00:00:00+02:00

Laura GRAZIOLI joined our lab as a CNRS researcher from 1st October. She was trained as a theoretical chemist, obtaining her PhD at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, under the supervision of Prof. Ju4rgen Gauss and Prof. Stella Stopkowicz. She later decided to deepen her knowledge of the mathematical aspects of quantum chemistry, joining us as a postdoc from 2024. Her research interests are mainly in the domain of wave function theory for the description of electronic states, placing her research at the interface between theoretical chemistry and applied mathematics.

Julien Guyon writes in the French newspaper L’Equipe

2026-07-17T00:00:00+02:00

Julien Guyon wrote in the French newspaper L’Equipe a brief, accessible overview of the fundamental concepts of bias, variance, and randomness, using the 2026 World Cup football draw as an example: Which team was the luckiest/unluckiest during the draw? And also in English in the quantitative finance magazine Risk. This is joint work with Thomas Buchholtzer, a student in the IMI department at École des Ponts, who is set to begin a PhD this fall.

Andrew McRae receives the 2026 SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Best Paper Prize

2026-06-06T00:00:00+02:00

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 prize for their paper “Benign Landscapes of Low-Dimensional Relaxations for Orthogonal Synchronization on General Graphs”. This work provides rigorous theoretical guarantees on the nonconvex landscape of a low-dimensional relaxation for orthogonal group synchronization problems, which appear in many practical applications such as robotics, imaging, and computer vision.

See the interview with the prize winners.

Amaury Hayat was interviewed in Le Monde

2026-06-05T00:00:00+02:00

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 and François Charton were interviewed in Le Figaro

2026-06-04T00:00:00+02:00

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.

Amaury Hayat was interviewed in “Les Matins” on France Culture

2026-06-02T00:00:00+02:00

On Tuesday June 2nd, Amaury Hayat was interviewed together with Sylvia Serfaty, on AI and mathematics. See the podcast link.

New position at CERMICS on data science/machine learning

2026-04-01T00:00:00+02:00

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.

Noé Blassel receives the SMAI-GAMNI PhD prize

2026-03-30T00:00:00+02:00

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 of the ECCOMAS society.

This year, the prize was awarded to Noé Blassel for his thesis on the mathematical analysis and computation of trajectorial properties in molecular dynamics. Defended in December 2025, the thesis was carried out at CERMICS under the supervision of Tony Lelièvre and Gabriel Stoltz.

You can read his interview about his prize.

Vincent Boulard receives the 2026 Perronet Prize

2026-03-26T00:00:00+01:00

Vincent Boulard, a PhD student at CERMICS and LJLL, receives the 2026 Perronet Prize, which is awarded each year to the best graduating engineering student of the École nationale des ponts et chaussées.