Section: Dissemination

Teaching - Supervision - Juries

The members of the project-team have taught the following courses.

At École des Ponts 1st year (equivalent to L3):

• Analyse et calcul scientifique, 30h (A. Levitt, G. Stoltz),

• Équations aux dérivées partielles et éléments finis, 15h (F. Legoll, P.-L. Rothé),

• Hydraulique numérique, 15h (S. Boyaval),

• Mécanique quantique, 10h (E. Cancès, A. Levitt),

• Méthodes numériques pour les problèmes en grande dimension, 17h30 (V. Ehrlacher, S. Boyaval),

• Optimisation, 15h, L3 (A. Lesage, A. Levitt),

• Outils mathématiques pour l'ingénieur, 15h (E. Cancès, G. Ferré, F. Legoll, T. Lelièvre, P-L. Rothé),

• Probabilités, 27h (M. Ramil)

• Projets de première année, 15h (J. Roussel, P. Terrier),

At École des Ponts 2nd year (equivalent to M1):

• Analyse de Fourier, 15h (A. Levitt),

• Analyse spectrale et application aux Équations aux dérivées partielles, 36h (F. Legoll, V. Ehrlacher),

• Contrôle de systèmes dynamiques et équations aux dérivées partielles, 18h (E. Cancès),

• Projet du département IMI, 12h (G. Ferré, M. Ramil, J. Roussel, L. Silva Lopes),

• Projets Modéliser Programmer Simuler (T. Lelièvre),

• Simulation moléculaire en sciences des matériaux, 6h (A. Levitt),

• Statistics and data sciences, 24h (G. Stoltz).

At École des Ponts 3rd year (equivalent to M2):

• Méthodes de quantification des incertitudes en ingénierie, 18h (V. Ehrlacher),

• Remise à niveau: outils mathématiques, 6h (A. Lesage).

At the M2 “Mathématiques de la modélisation” of Sorbonne Université:

• Introduction à la physique statistique computationnelle, 20h (G. Stoltz),

• Méthodes numériques probabilistes, 24h (T. Lelièvre),

• Problèmes multiéchelles, aspects théoriques et numériques, 24h (F. Legoll),

• Théorie spectrale et variationnelle, 10h (E. Cancès).

At other institutions:

• Analyse variationnelle des équations aux dérivées partielles, 32h, École Polytechnique (T. Lelièvre),

• Aléatoire, 32h, École Polytechnique (T. Lelièvre),

• Maths 1 et 2, 9h, L3, École des Mines (A. Levitt, G. Stoltz),

• Mathématiques pour l'ingénieur, 36h, L2, UPEC (S. Siraj-Dine),

• Numerical methods for partial differential equations, 21h, University of Chicago (C. Le Bris).

The following PhD theses have been defended in the group at École des Ponts:

• Amina Benaceur, Réduction de modèles en thermique et mécanique non-linéaires, Université Paris-Est, École des Ponts, defended on December 21th, 2018, supervised by A. Ern (CERMICS), co-supervised by V. Ehrlacher,

• Marc Josien, Etude mathématique et numérique de quelques modèles multi-échelles issus de la mécanique des matériaux, Université Paris-Est, École des Ponts, defended on November 20th, 2018, supervised by C. Le Bris,

• Julien Roussel, Analyse théorique et numérique de dynamiques non-réversibles en physique statistique computationnelle, Université Paris-Est, École des Ponts, defended on November 27th, 2018, supervised by G. Stoltz,

• Pierre Terrier, Reduced models for defect migration in metals, Université Paris-Est, École des Ponts and CEA Saclay, defended on December 19th, supervised by G. Stoltz and M. Athènes (CEA).

The following PhD theses are ongoing in the group at École des Ponts:

• Zineb Belkacemi, Machine learning techniques in molecular simulation, Université Paris-Est, Thèse CIFRE Sanofi, started November 1st, 2018, co-supervised by T. Lelièvre and G. Stoltz,

• Robert Benda, Multiscale modeling of functionalized nanotube networks for sensor applications, Ecole Polytechnique, started September 1st, 2018, supervised by E. Cancès and B. Lebental (École Polytechnique),

• Raed Blel, Monte Carlo methods and model redcution, started October 1st, 2018, supervised by V. Ehrlacher and T. Lelièvre,

• Lingling Cao, Mathematical analysis of models of thermo-electronic transport, Université Paris-Est, École des Ponts, started November 1st, 2016, supervised by E. Cancès and G. Stoltz,

• Rafaël Coyaud, Méthodes numériques déterministes et stochastiques pour le transport optimal, Université Paris-Est, École des Ponts, started October 1st, 2017, supervised by A. Alfonsi (CERMICS) and co-supervised by V. Ehrlacher,

• Qiming Du, Mathematical analysis of splitting methods, École Doctorale Sciences Mathématiques de Paris Centre, started September 1st, 2016, supervised by A. Guyader (Sorbonne Université) and T. Lelièvre,

• Grégoire Ferré, Efficient sampling methods for nonequilibrium systems, Université Paris-Est, École des Ponts started October 1st, 2016, supervised by G. Stoltz,

• Adrien Lesage, Multi-scale methods for calculation and optimization of thin structures, started October 1st, 2017, supervised by F. Legoll, co-supervised by V. Ehrlacher and A. Lebée (École des Ponts),

• Sofiane Martel, Modélisation de la turbulence par mesures invariantes d'EDPS, Université Paris-Est, École des Ponts, started January 1st, 2017, supervised by S. Boyaval and co-supervised by J. Reygner (CERMICS),

• Pierre-Loïk Rothé, Numerical methods for the estimation of fluctuations in multi-scale materials and related problems, started October 1st, 2016, supervised by F. Legoll,

• Mouad Ramil, Metastability for interacting particle systems, started October 1st, 2017, supervised by T. Lelièvre and J. Reygner (CERMICS),

• Laura Silva Lopes, Numerical methods for simulating rare events in molecular dynamics, started October 1st, 2016, supervised by J. Hénin (IBPC) and T. Lelièvre,

• Sami Siraj-Dine, Modélisation mathématique des matériaux 2D, École des Ponts, started October 1st, 2017, supervised by E. Cancès, C. Fermanian and co-supervised by A. Levitt.

Project-team members have participated in the following PhD juries:

• E. Cancès, PhD of Marco Vanzini (“Auxiliary systems for observables: dynamical local connector approximation for electron addition and removal spectra”), defended at Ecole Polytechnique in January 2018,

• E. Cancès, PhD of Giovanna Marcelli (“A mathematical analysis of spin and charge transport in topological insulators”), defended at Sapienza University of Rome in February 2018,

• E. Cancès, PhD of Mi-Song Dupuy (“Analyse de la méthode projector augmented-wave pour les calculs de structure électronique en géométrie périodique”), defended at Université Paris Diderot in September 2018,

• E. Cancès, PhD of Carlo Marcati (“Discontinuous hp finite element methods for elliptic eigenvalue problems with singular potentials, with applications in quantum chemistry”), defended at Sorbonne Université in October 2018,

• V. Ehrlacher, PhD of Mi-Song Dupuy, (“Analyse de la méthode projector augmented-wave pour les calculs de structure électronique en géométrie périodique”), defended at Université Paris-Diderot in September 2018.

• V. Ehrlacher, PhD of Nicolas Cagniart, (“Quelques approches non linéaires en réduction de complexité”), defended at Sorbonne Université in November 2018,

• V. Ehrlacher, PhD of Jules Fauque, (“Modèle d’ordre réduit en mécanique du contact. Application à la simulation du comportement des combustibles nucléaires”), defended at Ecole des Mines de Paris in November 2018,

• V. Ehrlacher, PhD of Ahmad Al-Takash, (“Development of numerical methods to accelerate the prediction of the behavior of multiphysics under cyclic loading”), defended at ENSMA in November 2018,

• F. Legoll, PhD of Brian Staber (“Stochastic analysis, simulation and identification of hyperelastic constitutive equations”), defended at Université Paris-Est in June 2018,

• T. Lelièvre, PhD of Bob Pépin (“Time Averages of Diffusion Processes and Applications to Two-Timescale Problems”), défended at Université du Luxembourg, April 2018,

• T. Lelièvre, PhD of Michel Nowak (“Accelerating Monte Carlo particle transport with adaptively generated importance maps”), defended at Université Paris Saclay, September 2018,

• T. Lelièvre, PhD of Ze Lei (“Irreversible Markov Chains for Particle Systems and Spin Models: Mixing and Dynamical Scaling”), défended at Ecole Normale Supérieure, December 2018,

• G. Stoltz, PhD of Sabri Souguir (“Simulation numérique de l'initiation de la rupture à l'échelle atomique”), defended at Ecole des Ponts in November 2018.