Parcours Jacques Hadamard

Presentation

The Jacques Hadamard "à la carte" program aims to train students throughout the entire Master's programme (M1 + M2) and to provide them with the best possible conditions to undertake a doctoral thesis in all areas of mathematics. The entire course is completely "à la carte" and allows the selection of the most suitable courses from the offer of the Master of Mathematics at the University of Paris-Saclay. It therefore offers a very wide range of high-level courses in all areas of mathematics and allows students to discover from the inside the research activity in mathematics by confronting open and current problems.

Students are followed throughout the Master's degree by a mentor who, in consultation with the program director, supervises them and advises them on the courses best suited to their project.

Admissions procedure

All applications should be filled online. If you have the nationality of a country outside the european economic area but member of the Études en France agreement, then you need to apply on the  Paris-Saclay applications website. Otherwise, you need to use the national website  MonMaster.

Applications are open until March 24th 2025.

This programs targets the very best mathematics students. We only accept about 25 students per year.

Contacts and practical informations

Program director :

Patrick Massot

Administrative officer :

Véronique Leday

Adress :

Université Paris Saclay - Institut de Mathématique
Bâtiment 307 - Bureau 1C1 (1er étage)
91405 ORSAY CEDEX
Phone : +33 (0)1 69 15 79 91
Fax : +33 (0)1 69 15 57 94

Localisation :

Most lectures and exercises sessions take place in building 307 (Laboratoire de Mathématique, Campus d’Orsay), but there are exceptions.

 

Start of year 2025:

Masters's starter days will take place on September 2n and 3rd 2025 at Institut de Mathématiques d'Orsay (building 307).
Our start of term meeting for M1 will be on September 4th at 1:30pm in building 307.

Lectures will start on Monday 8th September.

Calendar 2025-2026:

Fall term: 8th September to december 10th
  Mid-term exams: week of October 20st
  Holidays: week of October 27th
  Final exams: week of December 15th

Spring term first part: January 5th to April 17th
  Mid-term exams: week of February 16th
  Holidays: week of February 30th
  Final exams: week of April 13th

Spring term second part: March 30st to June 12th (to be confirmed)
  Mid-term exams: week of April 6th (to be confirmed)
  Final exams: week of June 8th (to be confirmed)

 

Program

This is a "à la carte" program so, in principle, any course from the Master of mathematics of University Paris-Saclay (including M2 level courses) or from the école polytechnique fundamental maths M1 is accessible (after discussion with the program director). At least one course must be taken outside of Orsay in one our partner institution (ENS Paris-Saclay, École polytechnique or École Centrale).

It is important to understand that M1 level course in Orsay must be the main source of courses in this program. If you wish to attend mostly courses in École polytechnique or mostly M2 courses then you should apply to École polytechnique or to a M2 program respectively.

The following courses form the default menu. The English language course below should be replaced by a French language course if you are not fluent in French.

Note that M1 courses are taught in French.

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Course title Instructor ECTS Lectures TD TP Cours/TD Cours/TP TD/TP Projet Tutorat
Distributions and Fourier Analysis
Dominique Hulin 7.5 50h 60h
Algebra
Jean-Benoit Bost 7.5 50h 60h
Advanced algorithms
Marc-Antoine Weisser 2.5 10.5h 10.5h
Graph algorithms
François Pirot 2.5 10.5h 10.5h
Langue
Philippe Jumel 5 25h
MAO Option Calcul formel
Kevin Destagnol 5 25h 25h
MAO Option Calcul scientifique
Antoine Levitt, Bertrand Maury 5 25h 25h
MAO Option Probabilités-Statistiques
Paul Melotti 5 25h 25h
Mathématiques pour l'Intelligence articifielle
Gilles Blanchard 5 48h
Probability Theory
Jean-François Le Gall 7.5 50h 60h
Signal Processing and Information Theory
Laurent Oudre 5 20h 20h
General topology and algebraic topology
Patrick Massot 5 40h


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Course title Instructor ECTS Lectures TD TP Cours/TD Cours/TP TD/TP Projet Tutorat
Geometry
Frédéric Paulin 7.5 50h 60h
Lie groups for physics
Daniel Monclair 5 24h
History of Mathematics
Norbert Verdier, Jean-Marie Coquard 5 12h 12h
Mathematical Logic
Franck Benoist 5 50h
Mathématiques du traitement d’images
Gabriele Facciolo, Enric Meinhardt 5 22h 14h 6h
Number Theory
Frédéric Bourgeois 7.5 50h 60h
Evolution PDE's
Patrick Gérard 7.5 50h 60h
Mathematics for AI
Christophe Giraud 5 48h
Optimisation et optimisation numérique
François Alouges 7.5 33h 24h 12h
Projet
Michel Rumin 10
Statistics
Luca Ganassali 5 48h

Scholarships

Various scholarship fundings are available from:

- FMJH : both for French and foreign students
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- IDEX Paris Saclay : for foreign students only
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- « Mobility funding » Paris-Saclay : funding for internships abroad
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