Three of our PhD students won a mathematics-industry competition
Three PhD students at the LMO—Vadim Lebovici, Olympio Hacquard, and Etienne Lasalle—have won one of the three competitions of the 2021 edition of the Mathematics and Industry Challenge organized by AMIES:
A video for potential future students of the Graduate School of Mathematics of Paris-Saclay University is now available online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmJE8qB75IE
Jean-Michel Bismut (LMO) and Jeff Cheeger (NYU) were awarded the Shaw prize “for their remarkable insights that have transformed, and continue to transform, modern geometry”.
Paris-Saclay University came first in mathematics in the Shanghai rankings for 2021:
The LMO Chair for 2021-2022 has been awarded to Tomoyuki Arakawa (RIMS, Kyoto University).
Augustin Touron has been awarded the Marie-Jean Laurent-Duhamel prize of the French Statistical Society (SFDS) for his PhD carried out at the LMO under the supervision of Elisabeth Gassiat:
https://www.sfds.asso.fr/fr/group/prix_et_bourses/544-le_prix_marie_jeanne_laurent_duhamel/
The EDF Ampère prize has been awarded to our colleague Guy David.
The Blaise Pascal prize has been awarded to our colleague Jean-Marie Mirebeau.
The Gabrielle Sand prize has been awarded to our colleague Olivier Schiffmann.
https://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Laureats/laureats-2020-prix-academie-des-sciences.html
2020 thesis prize of the chancellery of the Universities of Paris
One of the annual thesis prizes of the chancellery of the Universities of Paris has been awarded to Thibault Lefeuvre for his PhD thesis carried out at the LMO under the supervision of Colin Guillarmou.
Tony Yue Yu has obtained an ERC Starting Grant for his project, “Non-Archimedean Mirror Symmetry”.
2020 nominations to the Institut Universitaire de France: Elisabeth Gassiat (senior member), Sylvain Arlot and Quentin Mérigot (junior members).