Courses
The winners of the Chairs of Excellence (and, formerly, the FSMP Prize) organize, as part of their stay in Paris, scientific courses and activities. These can be the subject of a video capture which can be found on their dedicated page.
Next course
From October 19 octobre 2026, a course by Xiaoming Yuan, Professor at University of Hong Kong, laureate 2026 of a FSMP chair co-financed by CEREMADE (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, CNRS), welcome at LJLL and CEREMADE.
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Xiaoming Yuan, Professor at the University of Hong Kong, laureate in 2026 of a FSMP chair of excellence co-financed by CEREMADE (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, CNRS), welcome at LJLL and CEREMADE in the frame of his chair, will give a course entitled Advanced Topics in OptimizATion at Institut Henri Poincaré (11, rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris) from Monday October 19th to Thursday December 17th 2026. The lectures will take place from 2 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Claude R. LeBrun, professor at Stony Brook, specialist in Riemannian geometry and 2025 laureate of a FSMP Chai co-financed by IMJ-PRG, gave 15 hours of courses on the theme of Einstein Metrics, Four-Manifolds, and Differential Topology as part of his chair.
Maurice Duits, professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) and specialist in analysis, probability and mathematical physics, welcome for 12 months at LPSM. As part of his chair, he gave 20 hours of lessons on the theme The Aztec Diamond: an analytic journey through random tiles.
Lauren Williams (University of Berkeley), winner of the 2014 Junior Chair, gave at the Henri Poincaré Institute a 20-hour course (over 10 weeks) entitled: "Introduction to cluster algebras".
Eitan Tadmor (University of Maryland), laureate of the FSMP Chair of Excellence in 2023, taught a doctoral-level course entitled Emerging Behavior in Collective Dynamics.
Uri Zwick (Tel Aviv University), winner in 2018 of the Chair of Excellence of the FSMP, gives, as part of his stay in Paris, a course entitled Games on Graphs and Linear Programming Abstractions, in data-t="4">room 3052 of the Sophie Germain building of Paris Diderot University (1 place Aurélie Nemours, 75013 Paris), Wednesdays from 2:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. from March 20 to May 22, 2019.
Philippe Rigollet (MIT), winner of an FSMP-Inria chair in 2021, will give a course at master 2 level and above, entitled An optimization perspective on sampling using optimal transport, on Tuesday May 31, Thursday 2 June, Tuesday June 7 and Thursday June 9atSorbonne University.
Martin J. Gander, professor at the University of Geneva and winner of the FSMP Chair in 2022, gives a mini-course entitled Time Parallel, time integration, which will be held over four sessions at theInstitut Henri Poincaré (11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie 75005 Paris). He will be assisted by Thibaut Lunet (Technische Universität Hamburg).
Sylvia Serfaty (Courant Institute), lauréate d'une Chaire d'excellence FSMP-PSL en 2022, donne dans le cadre de sa chaire un cours intitulé Systems with Coulomb-type interactions: mean-field dynamics and statistical mechanics. Le cours se déroulera en 8 séances les lundis de 13h30 à 16h à partir du 13 février 2023. Il se tiendra au DMA de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (45 rue d'Ulm, 75005, Paris).
Adrian Raftery(Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle), winner of the FSMP Chair of Excellence in 2020, will give a course entitled Statistical Demographyon TuesdaysSeptember 28,October 5, 12 and 19, 2021from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Council Room of theUniversity of Paris(Paris-Descartes), 45 rue des Saints-Pères, Paris 6e. The course will be taught in English. It will be held in person only (the course will be given in person).
Clément Mouhot (University of Cambridge), winner of the FSMP Chair of Excellence in 2020, gave as part of his chair a course entitled Regularity in collisional kinetic theory, old and new results.
Lieb–Thirring inequalities are bounds on the eigenvalues of Schrödinger operators. Rupert Frank will discuss several topics related to these inequalities at the intersection of functional analysis, microlocal analysis and spectral theory.
Zvi Lotker (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), winner of the 2015 Junior Chair, gave a 20-hour course at the Henri Poincaré Institute entitled Mathematics and algorithms of social networks.
The social sciences pose significant challenges to mathematical modeling, particularly for designing predictive methods. Partial Differential Equations are today a major tool in this field.
This workshop presented several case studies of PDE models in the social sciences: opinion dynamics and consensus building, crowd movements, economics and distribution of wealth.
This event was organized by the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris and constituted the closing of the Chair of Excellence of Peter Markowich (winner in 2011) at LJLL and CEREMADE. This day took place on Friday, January 24, 2014 at the Jacques-Louis Lions Laboratory, UPMC.
Nader Masmoudi (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), chair of excellence of the FSMP, gave a course and a seminar on the theme of Landau damping and inviscid damping from May 4 to June 28, 2016, at theInstitut Galilée de l'Université Paris 13 (99 avenue Jean-Baptiste Clément, Villetaneuse) and theIHP (11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 5e).
Antoine Mellet (University of Maryland), lauréat de la Chaire Junior 2014, a proposé un cours de 20 heures à l'Annexe du Collège de France (3 rue d'Ulm - 75005 Paris) de janvier à mars 2015.
Le cours a porté sur les EDP elliptiques non linéaires et problèmes à frontière libre : existence, régularité et homogénéisation.
Grigory Mikhalkin (University of Geneva), 2013 laureate of the Foundation Chair of Excellence hosted at the IMJ‑PRG, gave a course from October to December 2013 entitled Geometry of amoebas and organized at the same time with Ilia Itenberg (IMJ‑PRG) a seminar entitled Geometry and topology.
Grigory Mikhalkin (University of Geneva), 2013 laureate of the Chair of Excellence of the Foundation and who is in this capacity a stay at the IMJ, has been teaching since September 2014 a course entitled Tropical Geometry in Examples and organizes with Ilia Itenberg (IMJ‑PRG) a seminar entitled Geometry and topology.
Grigory Mikhalkin (Université de Genève), lauréat 2013 de la Chaire d'excellence de la Fondation et qui effectue à ce titre un séjour à l'IMJ, donne depuis septembre 2014 un cours intitulé Tropical Curves and their Enumeration. et organise avec Ilia Itenberg (IMJ‑PRG) un séminaire intitulé Géométrie et topologie.
Eva Miranda (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), laureate of the Chair of Excellence of the FSMP in 2017, hosted at CEREMADE and IMCCE and in collaboration with LAJIM, gave her a chair and framework course entitled Geometry and Dynamics of singular symplectic manifolds.
On February 6, 2009, the first session of the course of Sergey Neshveyev, 2008 winner of the Foundation Prize, took place.
Ivan Nourdin, winner of the 2011 Foundation Prize, gave a course from January 23 to March 19, 2012, on the theme of Gaussian approximation using Malliavin calculation, Stein's method to universality, at the annex of the Collège de France, 3 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris.
Kevin Zumbrun (Indiana University), winner of the 2014 Chair of Excellence, offered a 32-hour course (over 16 weeks) entitled "Stability of viscous shock waves and beyond", at the Institut Henri Poincaré (11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 5th). This course focused on the stability of shock waves in fluid mechanics.
Sorin Popa, Professor at the University of California, winner of the FSMP 2016 Chair of Excellence, gave in November 2016 2 courses at the Collège de France.
Sorin Popa, Professor at the University of California, winner of the FSMP 2016 Chair of Excellence, gave in November 2016 2 courses at the Collège de France.
Alessio Porretta (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) gave a course as part of a collaboration between the Chair of Finance and Sustainable Development and the LabEx SMP. This course focused on mean field game theory.
Entropy methods, the course of Christian Schmeiser (University of Vienna), winner of the FSMP Chair of Excellence, took place from Monday October 8, 2018 at the Institut Henri Poincaré (11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 5e). FREE ENTRANCE.
Jérémie Szeftel is the 2009 winner of the Foundation Prize. In this capacity, he taught the Paris Mathematical Sciences Foundation Course, a master's level course on his research. Its theme was: Around the L2 conjecture in General Relativity. The sessions were held in the annex of the Collège de France, 3 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris.
As part of the 2013 Chair of Excellence, Gunther Ulhmann organized from April 7 to 11, 2014 a conference entitled "Inverse Problems and Imaging" at the Henri Poincaré Institute.
Ben Webster (Northeastern University, Boston), winner in 2013 of a Junior Chair of the FSMP, gave 20 hours of courses on the theme of Higher representation theory in algebra and geometry.
Model reduction and data is the title of a conference organized in Jussieu on January 6, 7 and 8, 2014 by the LJLL and Anthony Patera (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 2013 winner of an FSMP Chaire of excellence.
In connection with the Clément Mouhot chair (University of Cambridge), the Christmas session / Mafran Days 2021 of the Cambridge Kinetic Group is taking place, from Wednesday 15 to Friday 17 December 2021 at Paris-Dauphine University.
Herbert Spohn (Technische Universität München), winner of the 2014 Chair of Excellence, offered a 20-hour course (over 10 weeks) entitled: "Integrable stochastic models in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class.