Section: Dissemination

Popularization

• Since 2010, Ch. Kazantsev is the Director of the IREM of Grenoble http://www-irem.ujf-grenoble.fr/irem/accueil/ . The Institute is under rapid development now, joining about 30 teachers of secondary schools of the Grenoble region and 15 university professors. They work together 16 times a year on the development of the teaching strategy for the educational community. In addition to this, IREM is the editor of two journals: "Grand N" destined to primary schools teachers and "Petit x" – to the secondary schools. As a director and as an animator of IREM, Ch. Kazantsev has participated at

  • the week of Mathematics, the 17 and 21 March 2014,

  • the festival "Remue-Méninges", Echirolles, 22-25 April 2014,

  • the internship MATHC2+ in June and in October 2014,

  • the "Journées Nationales de l'APMEP": presentation of two workshops with M. Gandit "Sky: between historical and simulated data",

  • the "Fête de la science" with workshops "28 nuances de sciences" and "Récréation mathématique pour tous".

• M. Nodet gave talks and made posters to explain how the "problem-based learning" (a special case of "active learning") approach was introduced in mathematics for Grenoble university undergraduates, see e.g. [75] and [61] .

• M. Nodet (in collaboration with A. Rousseau and S. Minjeaud) wrote a chapter of an outreach book "Brèves de maths" [59] .

• M. Nodet gave outreach talks about "mathematics for environmental modelling" in various occasions: for the Grenoble maths Olympiades awards, twice for the "Science Fair 2014" (one for undergraduate students, one for secondary school pupils), for a daily visit of highschool students at Valence university.

• M. Nodet supervises a maths club "Math en Jeans" for secondary school pupils at two schools around Grenoble, which consists in proposing open research subjects to the students and supervising them over the year, in collaboration with the teachers.

• E. Blayo gave several outreach talks, in particular for the inauguration of the Fédération Rhône-Alpes-Auvergne de Mathématiques (Lyon, February 28), for the ceremony of the Christian Le Provost prize of the French Academy of Science (Saint Brieuc, April 18), and for MathC2+ internships.