The 2022 Marc Yor Prize has been awarded to our colleague Nicolas Curien.

https://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Laureats/laureats-2022-des-prix-thematiques.html

The 2022 EDF Ampère Prize has been awarded to our colleague Yann Brenier.

https://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Laureats/laureat-2022-du-prix-ampere-de-l-electricite-de-france-yann-brenier.html

Alice Contat, a PhD student at LMO (director: Nicola Curien), has won the 2022 Young French Talent Prize for Women in Science ("Prix jeune talent France 2022 pour les Femmes et la Science").

Welcome to Susanna Zimmermann (PR), Antoine Levitt (PR), Benoît Gaudeul (MCF), Thi Nguyen Dang (MCF), Matthew Morrow (DR CNRS), Cyril Letrouit (CR CNRS), and Etienne Boursier (CR INRIA).

Camille Horbez has won an ERC starting grant for his project, "Artin groups, mapping class groups and Out(Fn)".

Jean Coursol passed away this Wednesday, June 1, 2022.

He was a key pillar in the creation of the department's probability and statistics team. His death takes us back to the revolutionary era when applied mathematics pushed for a place in Orsay, a time whose memories are engraved in the walls of old maths building 425. Jean Coursol and Claude Jouron led the push with the support of some big names and strong-willed individuals, so success was never in doubt! Jean then gathered up a crowd of students and drove them to action, communicating his passion for applied mathematics as …

Our colleagues Thomas Gauthier and Benjamin Schraen, along with Susanna Zimmermann (who will join the department in September 2022) have been named junior members of the Institut Universitaire de France:
https://www.iufrance.fr/detail-de-lactualite/295.html

We have learned with sadness of the death of John Coates, Professor at Cambridge, and member of our department from 1978 to 1984.

A tribute to John by Jean-Michel Bismut, Laurent Clozel, and Luc Illusie can be found here (in French).

July 12 at the IMO, details here.

This prize for 2022 has been awarded to our colleague Pascal Auscher and to Moritz Egert (TU Darmstadt, who was employed at LMO during the writing) for their book, Boundary value problems and hardy spaces for elliptic systems with block structure. 

https://ffsb.espais.iec.cat/en/the-ferran-sunyer-i-balaguer-prize/