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PhD track Mathematics

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The PhD Track Mathematics is a 5 year-program at Institut Polytechnique de Paris opened to excellent students having completed their Bachelor in Mathematics or Applied Mathematics with highest honors. This five-year PhD Track is intended to train future high-level researchers in scientific and mathematical disciplines. 

It starts with a two-year period with advanced applied mathematics courses in the chosen field. Students also participate in research projects carried out by IP Paris Laboratories involved in the Track and attend seminars on specialized research topics. Supervised by experienced researchers at the forefront of research, they thus benefit from first-class research experience. At the end of the second year, the students who meet the academic requirements receive a Master Degree. Those who have achieved outstanding results and identified a thesis subject and a supervisor in one of the involved Labs are allowed to start a three-year PhD program.

Students are offered two pathways:

The goal of this program is to provide advanced training in mathematical modeling in economics, finance and actuarial science at the highest international level, with a strong emphasis on advanced quantitative methods for both theoretical and empirical analyses. Specific application domains include stochastic modeling for sustainable finance and energy finance, including renewable energy production. 

This pathway offers a wide choice of courses in all fields of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics and Research Internships. It is also possible to combine these disciplinary courses with relevant courses in other disciplines (like in Physics, Mechanics, Computer Science or Biology for example). 

• Bring excellent Bachelor students in mathematics and applied mathematics to the realization of a high level PhD in 5 years at Institut Polytechnique de Paris
• Develop a coherent training program, based on solid scientific bases
• Specialize in a variety of sub-areas of applied mathematics, to be chosen among the rich offer of IP Paris (second year).
• Integrate into the world of research by spending time within the research Labs, conducting a research project under the supervision of a faculty member, writing a research report (second year) and preparing manuscripts for publication in international peer-reviewed journals (PhD years).

The five-year curriculum of the PhD track trains students in cutting-edge research for them to pursue international careers in prestigious universities or leading companies in their domain. 

Every year, the program of every student has to be discussed and validated by his/her tutor, who is a member of the IP Paris faculty. According to the student’s specialization wishes, the course program will be individualized as much as possible.

This pathway starts with a two-year period with advanced courses on mathematical finance, financial econometrics, advanced times series,  actuarial sciences and green and sustainable finance. Students also participate in research projects carried out by IP Paris Laboratories involved in the Track and attend seminars on specialized research topics. Supervised by experienced scientists at the forefront of research in these domains, they thus benefit from first-class research experience. At the end of the second year, the students who meet the academic requirements receive a Master Degree. Those who have achieved outstanding results and identified a thesis subject and a supervisor in one of the involved Labs are allowed to start a three-year PhD program.

The first year of the PhD Track is based on the Master 1, Parcours Jacques Hadamard , with a large choice of courses, both in Fundamental and Applied Mathematics.

The second year of the PhD Track is mainly based on the Master 2 program Mathematics and Applications proposed by IP Paris and Partner Institutions (with a large choice of Mathematical Specializations, like for example Algebra, Analysis and Geometry – Analysis, Modeling and Simulation – Mathematics, Vision and Machine Learning – Probability and Statistics, etc.).

During these two years, other Educational Units are also proposed: French (for non French native speakers), English, Research Seminars (at IHES), for example. 

In the first and second years, it is also possible to follow courses from other Departments at Institut Polytechnique de Paris (Physics, Mechanics, Computer Science or Biology) and from the Master 1,2 of Paris-Saclay Mathematics  Department.

• Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST)
• Applied Mathematics Center (CMAP)
• Applied Mathematics UER (UMA)
• CMAP: Applied Mathematics Center (EP/CNRS)
• CMLS: Laurent Schwartz Mathematics Center (EP/CNRS)
• CREST: Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (ENSAE Paris)
• UMA: Applied Mathematics UER (ENSTA Paris)
• IDS : Image, Data, Signal (Télécom Paris)
• CITI: Communications, Images et Traitement de l’Information (Télécom SudParis)

Admission requirements

Academic prerequisites.

Completion of a Bachelor in mathematics, with highest honors, at Institut Polytechnique de Paris or equivalent in France or abroad.

Evidence of research potential is essential as the main goal of such a PhD program is to train first class researchers. 

Students who have completed the first year of an equivalent program may exceptionally be directly admitted to the second year (4-year PhD program).

Language prerequisites

A certificate of proficiency in English (level B2) is required (TOEIC, IELTS, TOEFL, Cambridge ESOL), except for native speakers and students who previously studied in English.

How to apply

Applications are exclusively online. You will be required to provide the following documents:

• Transcript 
• Two academic references (added online directly by your referees)  
• CV/resume 
• Statement of purpose

You will receive an answer in your candidate space within 2 months following the closing date of the application session. 

Fees and scholarships

Estimated fees for 2022-2023 are subject to increase

• Regular fees: 243€
• Engineer students enrolled in one of the five member schools of Institut Polytechnique de Paris (Ecole polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris, Télécom Paris and Télécom SudParis): 159€
• Special cases: please refer to the "Cost of studies" section of the FAQs

Applications and admission dates

Coordinators for the mathematics for finance, economics and sustainable development pathway.

Sonia Fliss

Stéphane Bijakowski 

Olivier Le Maitre 

Peter Tankov

Coordinator for the Mathematics Jacques Hadamard pathway

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Mathphdinfrance.

The FSMP is a partner in the COFUND MathPhDInFrance international docroral training program, cofunded by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions within the framework of the European Horizon Europe programme “Marie Sklodowska-Curie Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programmes” (Grand Agreement n°101126554). MathPhDInFrance  offers grants for co-tutored theses between a laboratory in the Paris region and one in another. Read more ...

MathInParis2020

The international Doctoral Training in Mathematical Sciences in Paris -  MathInParis2020  - Cofunded by Marie Sklodowska‑Curie Actions within the framework of the European Horizon 2020 program (Grant Agreement n° 945332),  offered 40 PhD fellowships  through two calls in 2020 and 2021. Read more...

Stays for PhD students

The Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris finances, for doctoral students who are members of a  laboratory affiliated with the foundation , scientific research stays in external laboratories (French or foreign) for periods of at least one month.

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Mathematical Sciences

The aims of the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences is to promote training for and through research in mathematics and fundamental computing at master and doctoral levels at Université Paris Cité.

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Training through research in mathematical science at Université Paris Cité is carried out thanks to world-renowned master’s and doctoral programmes covering a broad spectrum of subjects. These programmes offer students the opportunity to train in most areas of mathematics and fundamental computing, but also to learn about modern applications in areas such as data, machine learning, security, modelling, etc.

Among other actions conducted by the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences , the scholarship programme at master level is managed by the PGSM programme of the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris (FSMP) which exists for more than ten years. This scholarship programme, addressed to students from all over the world, offers the necessary support to pursue their studies in Paris. Students will be able to benefit the richness of the Parisian mathematical community, but also an ideal living and working environment.

Arnaud DURAND [email protected]

The courses are taught in French and English.

• Master Parisien de Recherche en Informatique (MPRI)
• Fundamental mathematics
• General mathematics and aggregations
• Mathematical logic and foundations of computer science
• Random modelling, finance and data science
• Mathematics and computer science for Data Science
• Mathematics, computer science and applications to cryptology
• Engineering, mathematics, and biostatistics
• Mathematics, modelling, and machine learning

The research themes of the laboratories cover the whole spectrum of mathematics and fundamental computing. The laboratories are part of a research network in mathematics that includes the main Parisian institutions and constitute a highly recognised and attractive environment at the international level.

Laboratories

• IMJ-PRG – Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche (UMR 7586)
• IRIF – the Research Institute on the Foundations of Computer Science (UMR 8243)
• LJLL – Laboratoire Jacques Louis-Lions (UMR 7598)
• LPSM – Laboratoire de Probabilités, Statistique et Modélisation (LPSM, UMR 8001)
• MAP5 – Mathématiques Appliquées à Paris 5 (UMR 8145)

Doctoral schools

• Doctoral Schools of Sciences Mathématiques de Paris Centre (DS 386)
• Prof. Arnaud DURAND Director of the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences Professor at  Université Paris Cité

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PhD Program

Please consult the Institut Polytechnique de Paris website for more information about the programs

Program Overview

École Polytechnique offers a five-year program designed for outstanding students of all nationalities. The Program involves a combination of an MSc (2 years) and a PhD (3 years).

Starting from the first year of the program, students work closely with academic tutors who will oversee their progress and help customize their training with regards to their own interests and goals. Affiliation to École polytechnique is required during most of the program.

Institut Polytechnique de Paris is a newly created institution, which unites five established and prestigious graduate engineering schools: Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris, Télécom Paris and Télécom SudParis, who share the ambition to create a world-class institution of higher education. 

The graduate programs offer a wide range of courses in Mathematics, Computer Science, Chemistry, Economics, Energy, Mechanics, Innovative Industry and their applications in Data Science, Finance, Biological Sciences, Physics and many other related fields. English is the language of instruction for the majority of our courses.  The campus of Institut Polytechnique de Paris is located in Palaiseau, in the heart of one of the world’s top 10 Industry and Innovation Clusters.   Please consult the Institut Polytechnique de Paris website for more information about the programs.

Registration is open! Click here to apply to IP Paris Programs

Program Structure

The first two years of the Program are based on a custom selection of taught modules and lab experience, giving students the tools required to continue with a challenging three-year long-term research project, leading ultimately to a PhD degree.

While the Program is rather demanding, students have the flexibility to define their own goals and research interests within their chosen discipline during the first two years.

Students may also have the possibility to start the PhD Program in the second year of the MSc (4-year PhD program). In either case, progression to PhD study requires successful completion of the MSc.

Years 1 and 2 (MSc)

• At the end of the fall term students are required to submit a mid-year progress report and, with their tutor, define a research project and choose a lab and a team.
• A progress meeting and discussion of the study plan are held at the end of each year. Students may leave the PhD Program after Years 1 or 2 for personal or academic reasons; in this latter case, they may complete the Master's Program.
• Students are expected to complete an intensive research internship at the end of Years 1 and 2 of the Program.  

Years 3 to 5 (PhD)

• During this period, at least one year must be spent teaching, participating in a scientific outreach program or consulting for industry.
• There are annual progress reports at the end of Years 3 and 4, plus a provisional timeline for Year 5 drawn up at the end of Year 4.
• Students complete a written dissertation demonstrating the results of original research that meet the requirements for a PhD.
• Students must also successfully complete an oral defense of their PhD research.  

Areas of Research

Students involved in the PhD Program benefit from the attention and expertise of renowned experts in the following areas of research:

- Biology and Interfaces

- Molecular Chemistry - Chemistry of Materials

Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship

- History of Science and Technology - Business and Corporate History - Political Science - Ethics and Philosophy - Literature and Science - Cultures and Globalization

- Fluid and Solid Mechanics - Environmental and Geophysical Science - Bio-mechanics

- Physics of the Two Infinities - High-energy Physics - Optics, Lasers, and Plasmas - Nanoscience, Nanotechnology, Information, and Communications - Condensed Matter - Materials - Energy

- Algebra and Number Theory - Analysis and Partial Differential Equations - Geometry and Dynamical Systems

Laboratories

The Research Center comprises 23 laboratories:

• BIOC - Biochemistry Laboratory
• CMAP - Applied Mathematics Center
• CMLS - Laurent Schwartz Mathematics Center
• CPHT - Theoretical Physics Center
• IPVF - The Institut Photovoltaïque d’Île-de-France
• LSO - Organic Synthesis Laboratory
• LADHYX - Hydrodynamics
• LCM - Molecular Chemistry Laboratory
• LIX - Computer Science Laboratory
• LLR - Leprince-Ringuet Laboratory for Particle Physics and Astrophysics
• LMD - Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory
• LMS - Solids Mechanics Laboratory
• LOA - Applied Optics Laboratory
• LOB - Optics and Bioscience
• LPP - Plasma Physics Laboratory
• LSI - Irradiated Solids
• LULI - Intense Lasers Laboratory
• PICM - Physics of Interfaces
• PMC - Condensed Matter Physics
• EXCESS Laboratory (ENSAE-X Center in Economics, Statistics and Sociology)
• I³ - CRG Center for Management Studies
• LinX - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de l'X

Costs and Funding

• Annual registration fees: €256 (rate applicable in 2017-18)
• Annual compulsory social security fees: €217 (rate applicable in 2017-18)

An annual scholarship of € 8,000 minimum, funded by the “ École Polytechnique Foundation ”, may be granted to the best applicants.

• Successful applicants will obtain a three-year PhD scholarship with a minimum monthly gross salary of €1,750 (rate applicable in 2017-18).
• Annual registration fees: €391 (rate applicable in 2017-18)

Entry Requirements

Academic ability: Applicants are chosen according to the excellence of their academic qualifications ( Licence , bachelor's or equivalent qualification) in a relevant discipline.

During the first two years of the program, students hold the status of master's student. They then obtain PhD candidate status upon successful completion of their master's degree with distinction. Students wishing to continue in the PhD program must submit a formal application after completion of the Master's Program.

Application Process

Applications for the 2019 intake are now closed. Applications for the Fall 2020 intake will open in January 2020.  

• Applicants should demonstrate their strong interest in research in a written personal statement.
• Two letters of recommendation from renowned academics supporting the application (motivation and suitability for research) are required.
• The application includes an interview to evaluate students’ academic abilities, research interests and motivation.
• Final admission into the Program is dependent on the fulfillment of the university's admission rules for an MSc.
• Shortlisted applicants are assigned a tutor who helps define a provisional five-year study plan. (This may be done via videoconference, however face-to-face meetings are preferred.)

• UFR Droit Economie Management
• UFR Médecine
• UFR Pharmacie
• UFR Sciences
• UFR Sciences du Sport
• AgroParisTech
• CentraleSupélec
• ENS Paris-Saclay
• Institut d'Optique
• Polytech Université Paris-Saclay
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Hadamard Doctoral School of Mathematics

Edmh supports azat miftakhov.

The Ecole doctorale mathématique Hadamard protests agains the inprisonment of Azat Miftakhov since February 2019, and his recent sentence to 6 years in prison. 

Azat Miftakhov , a graduate student in mathematics at the Moscow State University, was arrested in February 2019 and detained since then; on 18 January 2021 he was sentenced to 6 years in a penal colony, under unfounded charges. The Memorial human rights organization considers that his condemnation is due to his political opinions.

Together with an international committee of mathematicians and several national mathematical societies (American Mathematical Society, Société Mathématique de France, Unione Matematica Italiana,  Brazilian Mathematical Society) EDMH expresses its deep concern for Azat Miftakhov's situation, and urges the court to immediately release him and abandon the charges against him. In this context, the EDMH awards Azat Miftakhov the title of Student of Honor of EDMH. Once he is released, EDMH is ready to welcome him to complete the preparation of his PhD.

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L'école doctorale 

The purpose of the Hadamard Doctoral School of Mathematics (EDMH) is to consolidate all doctoral training in mathematics within the area covered by the University of Paris-Saclay, the Institut Polytechnique of Paris and the Paris Sciences & Lettres University. This training ranges from pure mathematics to the most applied mathematics, including mathematics at interfaces (especially with economics, IT, mechanical engineering, physics, engineering, and the life sciences).

With slightly over 300 PhD students and 300 accredited PhD supervisors, the EDMH is extremely open to international recruitment.

The EDMH is heavily supported by the Fondation Mathématique Jacques Hadamard (FMJH) for PhD grants, administrative staff, and funding. The FMJH had an essential role in establishing the EDMH and makes an essential contribution to its development.

• 10 institutions belonging to the University of Paris-Saclay: AgroParisTech, CEA, CentraleSupelec, ENS Paris-Saclay, IHES, INRA, INRIA, Université d'Evry-Val-d'Essonne, Université Paris-Sud (Faculté des Sciences d'Orsay), Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin
• 5 institutions belonging to the Institut Polytechnique of Paris: Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA ParisTech, ENSAE ParisTech, Telecom ParisTech, Telecom SudParis
• 1 institution belonging to the University of paris Sciences & Lettres: École Normale Supérieure
• 21 host laboratories
• 3 INRIA's own research teams

Degree areas and keywords

• Pure Mathematics: algebra, analysis, geometry, logic, probability, statistics.
• Applied Mathematics: applied algebra, applied analysis, numerical analysis, scientific computing, applied geometry, mathematical engineering, financial mathematics, modeling, optimization, applied probability, applied statistics.
• Mathematics at Interfaces: mathematics-economics, mathematics-IT, mathematics-mechanical engineering, mathematics-physics, mathematics-engineering science, mathematics-life sciences...

The initial scientific contacts for future PhD students and future PhD supervisors are the representatives of the following institutions :

• AgroParisTech :   Pierre Barbillon
• Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) :   Jérémie Bouttier
• CentraleSupelec :   Erick Herbin
• Ecole normale supérieure (ENS Ulm) : Cyril Houdayer
• Ecole normale supérieure de Paris Saclay (ENS Paris Saclay) :   Agnès Desolneux
• Ecole nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique (ENSAE) :   Victor-Emmanuel Brunel
• École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées (ENSTA) et équipe INRIA-Saclay propre GAMMA:   Eliane Becache
• École polytechnique (X) et équipe INRIA-Saclay propre M3DISIM  : Olivier Le Maître
• Institut des hautes études scientifiques (IHES) :   Emmanuel Ullmo
• Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA) et équipe INRIA-Saclay propre MUSCA :   Sophie Schbath
• Telecom SudParis :   Wojciech Pieczynski
• Telecom Paris :   François Roueff Université d'Evry-Val d'Essone (UEVE) :   Pierre-Gilles Lemarie
• Faculté des Sciences d'Orsay, Université Paris-Saclay : Frédéric Bourgeois
• Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) et équipe INRIA-Saclay propre MATHEXP: Ana-Maria Castravet

Thre EDMH'board establishes the EDMH's scientific and teaching policy. It meets three times par academic year and is made up as follows:

Director of the EDMH:  Stéphane Nonnenmacher

Deputy Directors: representing its institutions and research teams/units :

• Cyril Houdayer (ENS Ulm)
• Agnès Desolneux  (ENS Paris Saclay)
• Olivier Le Maître (Ecole Polytechnique, équipe M3DISIM INRIA Saclay)
• Eliane Becache  (CEA, CentraleSupélec, ENSTA, équipe GAMMA INRIA Saclay)
• Frédéric Bourgeois (APT-INRAe-IHES, Orsay, équipe MUSCA INRIA Saclay
• François Roueff  (Telecom Paris, Telecom SudParis) 
• Ana-Maria Castravet (UEVE, UVSQ, équipe MATHEXP INRIA Saclay)
• Victor-Emmanuel Brunel  (ENSAE, Chargé de mission pour l'IA)

Two representatives of the engineering, administrative, technical, maintenance, and service staff: Clotilde D'Epenoux, EDMH (FMJH) administrative assistant, and Loïc Gouarin (ICNRS research engineer, LMO Joint Research Unit 8628 CNRS, University of Paris-Sud)

A representative of the Paris ‐ Saclay Master's in mathematics: Pascal Massart

Four elected PhD-student representatives :

• Antoine Van Biesbroeck (2A, CMAP), ordinary member - Shadé Alao Afolabi (2A, IPANEMA + CMAP), informal substitut
• Philippe Anjolras (1A, LMO), ordinary member - Adrien Cancès (2A, LMO), informal substitut
• Arnaud Barral (2A, CeBo), ordinary member - Mathis Fitoussi (2A, LaMME), informal substitut
• Jules Flin (1A, SAMOVAR), ordinary member - Hadrien Notarantonio (3A, MathExp), informal substitut

One internal expert and four external experts in relevant scientific fields or industrial and socio-economic sectors:

• Sandrine Charousset (EDF) Optimization representative
• Frédérique Laurent-Nègre ("Laboratoire EM2C, CentraleSupélec") scientific computing representative
• Georges Gonthier (INRIA Saclay) IT representative
• Céline Grandmont (INRIA Paris) life sciences representative
• Huyên Pham (Université Paris Diderot) financial mathematics representative
• Centre Borelli , UMR 9010 CNRS-ENS PS
• Centre de mathématiques appliquées de Polytechnique  (CMAP), UMR 7641 CNRS-EP
• Centre de mathématiques Laurent Schwartz  (CMLS), UMR 7640 CNRS-EP
• Centre de recherche en économie et statistique  (CREST), UMR 9194 CNRS-ENSAE
• Département de mathématiques et applications  (DMA), UMR 8553 CNRS-PSL
• Fédération de Mathématiques ,  FR 3487 CNRS-CentraleSupelec
• Génération Automatique de Maillage & Méthodes Avancées  (GAMMA), équipe propre INRIA
• Institut de physique théorique de Saclay  (IPhT), URA 2306 CNRS-CEA
• Laboratoire Alexander Grothendieck  (LAG), UMR 9009 CNRS-IHES
• Laboratoire de mathématiques d'Orsay  (LMO), UMR 8628 CNRS-UPSay
• Laboratoire de mathématiques de Versailles  (LMV), UMR 8100 CNRS-UEVE
• Laboratoire de mathématiques et modélisation d’Évry  (LaMME), UMR 8071 CNRS-INRA
• Laboratoire en Informatique Haute Performance pour le Calcul et la Simulation (LIPHC), CEA
• Laboratoire traitement et communication de l'information  (LTCI), UR propre TelecomParis
• MATHEXP Experimental Mathematics (MATHEXP) - équipe propre INRIA
• Mathematical and Mechanical Modeling with Data Interaction in SImulations for Medicine  (M3DISIM), équipe propre INRIA
• Mathématiques et informatique appliquées  (MIA), UMR 518 INRAE
• Mathématiques et informatique appliquées du génome à l'environnement  (MaIAGE), UR 1404 INRAE
• Multiscale Populations Dynamics for Physiological Systems  (MUSCA), équipe INRIA-INRAE-CNRS
• Services répartis, Architectures, Modélisation, Validation, Administration des Réseaux , (SAMOVAR), UMR 5157 CNRS
• Unité de mathématiques appliquées  (UMA), UMR ENSTA-CNRS-INRIA
• AgroParisTech 
• CentraleSupelec
• Ecole polytechnique 
• Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives  (CEA)
• Ecole normale supérieure  (ENS Ulm)
• Ecole normale supérieure de Paris Saclay  (ENS Paris Saclay)
• École nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique  (ENSAE)
• École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées  (ENSTA)
• Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique  (INRIA-Saclay)
• Institut des hautes études scientifiques  (IHES)
• Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (INRAe)
• Telecom SudParis
• Télécom Paris
• Université d'Evry-Val d'Essonne  (UEVE)
• Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines  (UVSQ)

EDMH administrative contact :   Clotilde D'Epenoux

EDMH administrative correspondents:

• AgroParisTech, IHES, INRAe, Orsay, MATHEXP :  Séverine Simon
• ENS Paris-Saclay, UEVE, UVSQ: Sonia Chadrakulam
• CentraleSupelec :  Suzanne Thuron
• Ecole normale supérieure (ENS Ulm):  Zaina Elmir

IP Paris (registration)

• Ecole Polytechnique, INRIA (équipes GAMMA et M3DISIM):  Audrey Lemarechal
• Télécom Paris, ENSAE, ENSTA: Julia Lopez
• Télécom SudParis 1A et 4A : Sandra Gchweinder
• Télécom SudParis 2A et 3A : Isabelle Lenormand

IP Paris (defense )

• Ecole Polytechnique, ENSAE, ENSTA, INRIA (GAMMA, M3DISIM): Emmanuel Fullenwarth
• Télécom Paris: Julia Lopez
• Télécom SudParis: Sandra Gchweinder

PhD-Student Representatives

The participation of the doctoral students themselves in the functionaing of the EDMH is important in order to bring to the attention of the EDMH managment any wish concerning organization of the doctoral follow-up, the concerns about their material conditions (offices, funding...), etc.

Lists of PhD-sutdents and PhD

Liste des doctorants actuels

 Liste des docteurs ayant soutenu entre 2015 et 2021 - (pdf 223.3 Ko)

Links to PhD-student associations

• Confédération des jeunes chercheurs
• Agir pour les doctorants et les jeunes docteurs
• Association Bernard Gregory

EDMH board minutes

• 2015.pdf - pdf 6208139 ko
• 2016.pdf - pdf 24862319 ko
• 2017.pdf - pdf 1991846 ko
• 2018.pdf - pdf 2948513 ko
• 2019.pdf - pdf 1734924 ko
• 2020.pdf - pdf 3167613 ko
• 2021.pdf - pdf 1373325 ko
• 2022.pdf - pdf 942079 ko
• Conseils_2023.pdf - pdf 222021 ko
• Conseils_2024.pdf - pdf 508741 ko

Qualification process for Full Professorship

To apply for a full professorship in France in spring of year n, you must be on a qualifying list drawn up by the French National Council of Universities. Applications for qualification must be made in autumn of year n-1 at the latest.

Details of the procedure are available on the  Galaxie  website. Calendar note: in 2019, applications for qualification could be received from 5 September to 24 October. Applicants from French higher education institutes had to have defended their  HDR  by 17 December and sent their application to the CNU (French National Council of Universities) referees (external examiners) by 17 December, at 16PM (hour of Paris).

Specific information about CNU sections 25 (pure mathematics) and 26 (applied mathematics), as well as advice and regulations, are available on the  Opération postes  website.

Evaluation of EDMH

EDMH is certified ISO9001 by the office VERITAS

Evaluation reports

The operation of the doctoral training offered by the EDMH stems from several statutory texts:

•  Various ministerial decrees, including the Decree of May 25, 2016 relating to doctoral training, Decree No. 2018-372 of May 18, 2018 relating to césures, Decree of August 29, 2016 relating to complementary doctoral missions and the Decree of August 29, 2016 setting the amount of remuneration of the contractual doctoral student and the Decree of April 19, 2019 relating to registration fees." The Order of October 11, 2021, setting the amount of remuneration for contractual doctoral students modifies the Order of August 29, 2016 .
• The thesis charter of the University of Paris-Saclay , the Polytechnic Institute of Paris or the University of Paris Science et Lettres
• Internal rules of the EDMH
• Universities of Paris Chancellery Prize
• Chinese Government Prize
• My PhD in 180 Seconds
• Math-Entreprise AMIES PhD Prize
• Blaise Pascal Mathematics Laboratory PhD Priz e
• Signal, Image and Vision PhD Prize
• Marie-Jeanne Laurent-Duhamel Prize
• GAMNI-SMAI PhD Prize
• Jacques NEVEU PhD Prize

Kamelia DAUDEL (dir. F. ROUEFF et R. DOUC, LTCI) : Prix de thèse de l'Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Timothée BENARD (dir. Y. BENOIST, LMO) : Prix de thèse du laboratoire Blaise Pascal

Sam PEROCHON (dir. L. OUDRE et G. SAPIRO, Centre Borelli) : Prix de l'innovation dans les pratiques pédagogiques

Margaux BREGERE (dir. G. STOLTZ et P. GAILLARD, LMO) : Prix de l'association Think SmartGrids

Tina NIKOUKHAH (dir. R. Grompone von Gioi, J.-M. Morel et M. Colom, Centre Borelli) : Prix Jeunes Talents France L’Oréal-UNESCO Pour les Femmes et la Science Alice CONTAT (dir. N. Curien, LMO) : Prix Jeunes Talents France L’Oréal-UNESCO Pour les Femmes et la Science

Flore SENTENAC (dir. V. Perchet, CREST) : Prix Jeunes Talents France L’Oréal-UNESCO Pour les Femmes et la Science

Armand RIERA (dir. J.-F. Le Gall, LMO) : Prix de thèse Jacques Neveu* Jean FEYDY  (dir. A. Trouvé, Centre Borelli) : Prix solennel de la chancellerie de Paris (toutes catégories Sciences)

Etienne LASSALE, Olympio HACQUARD & Vadim LEBOVICI ont remporté un des trois défis de l'édition 2021 du Challenge mathématiques et entreprises organisé par l'AMIES

Boris MUZELLEC , (dir.M. Cuturi, CREST) Prix "Best Thesis Award de l'IPParis"

Jouad MOURTADA , (dir. Gaiffas & Scornet, CMAP), Prix "Best Thesis Award Runner-Up

Emile PAROLIN (dir. P. Joly, UMA), Prix "Best Thesis Award Runner-Up

Augustin TOURON (dir. Elisabeth Gassiat LMO) : Prix Marie-Jeanne Laurent-Duhamel 

Jean FEYDY  (dir. A. Trouvé, Centre Borelli) : Prix de thèse 2020 de l'Association française pour la reconnaissance et l'interprétation des formes.

Eddie AAMARI   (dir. Frédéric Chazal, Datashape, et Pascal Massart, LMO) : Prix Marie-Jeanne Laurent-Duhamel

Anabel DEL VAL (dir. Pietro Congedo, CMAP) : Prix "Amelia Earhart Fellowship for Women in Aerospace-applied Sciences-Engineering"

Florian FEPPON (dir. Grégoire Allaire, CMAP et Charles Dapogny, LJK Grenoble) : Prix de thèse GAMNI-SMAI et Prix de thèse européen ECCOMAS

Maxime GRANGEREAU (dir Emmanuel Gobet et Stéphane Gaubert, CMAP) : Prix Siebel Scholars 2020.

Thibault LEFEUVRE (dir. Colin Guilllarmou, LMO) : Prix de thèse de la Chancellerie des Universités de Paris

Pierre CORDESSE (dir. Marc Massot, CMAP,  thèse co-financée par le CNES et l’ONERA ): Prix de thèse 2020 de la 3AF (Association Aéronautique et Astronautique de France)

Geneviève ROBIN (dir Julie Josse et Eric Moulines, CMAP) : Prix L’Oréal-UNESCO Pour les Femmes et la Science (Jeunes Talents France 2019)

Fabio NADDEI (dir. Frédéric Coquel, CMAP) : Prix des doctorants ONERA.

Rémi FEUILLET (dir. Frédéric Alauzet, Adrien Loseille (GAMMA) et Patrick Ciarlet (UMA)) : Best Student Paper Award, 28th International Meshing Roundtable

Camilla FIORINI  (dir. Christophe Chalons, LMV et Régis Duvigneau, INRIA Sophia) : Prix de thèse GAMNI-SMAI

Mathilde BOISSIER  (dir Grégoire Allaire, CMAP et Christophe Tournier, ENS Paris-Saclay) : Prix ISSMO/Springer 2019.

The Tien MAI (dir. Pierre Alquier, CREST) : Young researcher Aaward, The International Society for NonParametric Society

Geneviève ROBIN (dir Julie Josse et Eric Moulines, CMAP) : Best Student Paper Award, Jerusalem Joint Statistical Event (EMR-IBS), Frontier Science Foundation Hellas (December 2018)

Margaret BILU (dir. Antoine Chambert Loir, LMO), Prix Thiessé de Rosemont/Demassieux de la Chancellerie des Universités de Paris

Thibault LEFEUVRE (dir. Colin Guillarmou, LMO), Prix du poster du Colloque pluridisciplinaire"Echo de sciences : à l'écoute des ondes sonores" de la Faculté des Sciences d'Orsay 2018.

Paul BASTIDE (dir. Stéphane Robin, MIA, and Mahendra Mariadasou, MaIAGE) : Prix Marie-Jeanne Laurent-Duhamel

Milolaj FRACZYK  (dir. Emmanuel Breuillard, LMO) : Prix de thèse du laboratoire de mathématiques Blaise Pascal  

Aran RAOUFI (dir. Hugo Duminil-Copin, LAG) : Prix de thèse Jacques Neveu de la SMAI

Pierre BELLEC (dir. Alexandre TSYBAKOV, CREST) : Prix de thèse du laboratoire de mathématiques Blaise Pascal

Djordjo MILOVIC (cotutelle internationale Etienne Fouvry (LMO, Univ. Paris-Sud, LMO) et Peter Stevenhagen (Leiden University)) : Prix Stieljes de la Royal Dutch Mathematical Society (en collaboration avec la fondation Compositio Mathematicae)

Clément LEVRARD (dir. Pascal Massart, LMO, et Gérard Biau, Sorbonne Université) : Prix Marie-Jeanne Laurent-Duhamel

Tony Yue YU (dir. Maxim Kontsevich, IHES, et Antoine Chambert-Loir, LMO) : Prix de thèse du laboratoire de mathématiques Blaise Pascal

Pierre GAILLARD  (dir. Gille Stoltz, GREHEC) : Prix de thèse Math-Entreprise AMIES

Matthieu AUSSAL (dir. François Alouges, CMAP) : Prix de thèse Math-Entreprise AMIES

Marc LEBRUN (dir. Jean-Michel MOREL, CMLA et Frédéric CAO, DxO Labs) : Accessit prix de thèse 2015 Signal, Image et Vision

Shen LIN (dir. Jean-François Le Gall, LMO) : Prix de thèse du gouvernement chinois et Prix de thèse Perrissin-Pirasset/Schneider de la Chancellerie des Universités de Paris

Silvain RIDEAU (dir. Elisabeth Bouscaren, LMO) : Prix de thèse Thiesset de Rosemont/Demassieux de la Chancellerie des Universités de Paris

Valérie ROBERT (dir. thèse Gilles Celeux) : Lauréate des Talents de l’Outre-Mer

Thierry DUMONT (dir. Elisabeth Gassiat, LMO) : Prix de thèse Math-Entreprise AMIES

Laure DUMAZ (dir. B. Toth et W Werner, LMO) : Prix de thèse Thiesse de Rosemont/Demassieux de la Chancellerie des Universites de Paris

Igor KORTCHEMSKI (dir. J.-F. Le Gall) : Prix de thèse Perrissin–Pirasset/Schneider de la Chancellerie des Universités de Paris

Pierre SIMON (dir. Elisabeth Bouscaren, LMO) : Prix Perissin-Pirasset/Schneider de la Chancellerie des Universités de Paris

A thesis project presents 4 faces: a doctoral student, one or more PhD supervisor, a research topic, and a scholarship for 3 years. The first step for a student is to find a PhD supervisor and a research topic, in a field that interests him/her.

• A student wishing to undertake a PhD at EDMH should contact a potential supervisor (a professor or researcher with the “Habilitation à diriger les recherches”) whose research topics interest him/her. The supervisor may have already submitted a PhD subject on the ADUM portal , or he/she may construct a PhD project together with the student.
• Here are a few ways to find a supervisor. For foreign students, it is recommended to complete their master's degree (M2) at Université Paris-Saclay or Institut Polytechnique de Paris, which allows them to easily meet potential supervisors. Master scholarships are offered, for example, by the Fondation Mathématique Jacques Hadamard (FMJH), the international program of Université Paris-Saclay , or by the Fondation de l'École Polytechnique .
• A candidate can read the list of potential supervisors at EDMH , or the lists of members of local host laboratories , often classified by thematic teams. In case he/she is already a student at Université Paris-Saclay or Institut Polytechnique de Paris, he can contact a professor there (M2 supervisor, M2 teacher, tutor, etc.), or the local scientific representative of EDMH .
• Thesis supervisors have the possibility to propose a thesis topic on the ADUM portal, preferably at least one month before the application deadline. The proposed topics will then be posted on a dedicated website . It is possible to target the proposed topic towards a specific candidate (See below the section "For supervisors").
• A student interested in a proposed topic must contact the supervisor before applying online (he/she must obtain a letter of support from the supervisor for his/her application file). For each PhD topic, the supervisor can support at most one candidate.  
• The submission of the PhD topic on ADUM by the supervisor is mandatory in order to apply for a scholarship from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris or its component institutions.

An application without the support of the PhD advisor will not be considered by the committee of EDMH.

The recruitment of doctoral students by the EDMH is split into two main procedures: the competitive mode , which concerns the students applying for doctoral contracts directly managed by the EDMH; they should follow a specific calendar (see below). The noncompetitive mode , which concerns candidates who have already obtained, or hope to obtain, external funding, for which the EDMH does not intervene; these applications can be made throughout the year.

The financing section below provides examples of possible scholarships.

For these two modes, the construction of the PhD subject, and the submission of the application, can be done in two ways:

• Application on a proposed subject : the future PhD supervisor proposes a project, which is visible by the students on a dedicated EDMH website; if a project interests a student, he/she must contact the supervisor, to make sure that the subject is still available, and discuss with the supervisor. Once an agreement has been reached, the candidate should apply on the ADUM application portal , by clicking on "Application on a proposed subject" and selecting the corresponding subject. All applications to scholarships managed by the IP-Paris must be made through this procedure.
• Spontaneous application : the doctoral student directly contacts a supervisor, to discuss a possible PhD project. The detailed project is then elaborated together. The candidate can then apply on the ADUM application portal by clicking on "Unsolicited application".  The project should be contained in his/her application file.
• PhD trough  Validation of Acquired Experience (VAE) French universities offer the possibility of obtaining a PhD through the VAE, when the research work has been accomplished outside of an academic institution. See the website dedicated to the VAE at UPSaclay or that of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris for any information concerning a VAE thesis. An application to start a PhD through the VAE procedure will only be considered if it is sponsored by a senior researcher member of EDMH, who will then act as the VAE referent in case the application has been accepted.

It concerns all doctoral projects whose funding is not a doctoral contract awarded by EDMH. The candidate should contact the EDMH local scientific representative of his/her institution, and submit his/her application file on the ADUM application server .  The EDMH representative will examine the application. If it is judged eligible, he/she will conduct an interview of approximately 15-20 minutes with the candidate (possibly by videoconference), and will transmit an opinion to the EDMH steering committee, which will pronounce the acceptance notice.

Noncompetitive applications may be submitted throughout the year.

Note: the EDMH only gives an opinion, based on the scientific evaluation of the project. The full PhD registration will only be completed after obtaining the requested funding, obtaining the master's degree, the agreement of the defense security officer in the case of "sensitive" research topics, obtaining a visa if necessary.

This recruitment concerns candidates to PhD scholarships, whose management has been entrusted to the EDMH by the funding organizations: universities (Université Paris-Saclay, Institut Polytechnique de Paris or their component institutions), Labex Mathématiques Hadamard, grants from foreign governments requiring the opinion of EDMH (e.g. grants from the Chinese Scientific Council awarded to UPSaclay or IP-Paris institutions).

• The supervisors of the IP-Paris must first submit their proposed PhD topics on ADUM. The candidates can consult the proposed subjects and contact the supervisors.
• The supervisors of UPSaclay can submit their subject on ADUM, in order to find a candidate. Applications for UDOPIA and ADI funding from UPSaclay (for joint PhDs with foreign universities) must also proceed through a preliminary upload of PhD subjects on ADUM.

After agreeing on a subject with his/her future supervisor, the doctoral candidate must submit his/her application file on the ADUM application portal before the deadline of the corresponding competition. The doctoral student will also have to communicate his or her file to the EDMH representative of the future host laboratory, who will send an opinion to the selection committee. The application file must include a letter of support from the future supervisor.

The selection committee of EDMH provide a ranking of the applicans for the various types of scholarships. These lists must then be validated by the funding organizations.

These selection committee is composed of the director and deputy directors of EDMH, with the following invitees:

- a representative of Master of Mathematics and Applications of UPSaclay and IP-Paris,

- representatives of the thematic programs of the Labex Mathématiques Hadamard (for PhD topics at the interface with other sciences)

- possible representatives of the host laboratories.

 Notice: PhD scholarships are conditioned to obtaining the Master's degree, possibly the agreement of the Defense Security Officer (for sensitive PhD topics), and to the granting of a visa for non-European students.

All PhD applications at the EDMH must be made using the ADUM application portal (the candidate must first create an account on the application portal)

Two application methods are possible:

• PhD subject pre-deposited by the supervisor , validated by the laboratories and by EDMH, and posted online on the dedicated website . The candidate will then be able to apply to the PhD project directly on the web site. The candidate also has the possibility to search for a PhD project from the ADUM application page , by clicking on "Apply on a proposed subject". Notice: the laboratories of University Paris-Saclay are grouped in the tab "Université Paris-Saclay GS Mathematiques".
• The supervisor has the possibility to target his/her PhD subject towards a specific candidate, by entering the candidate's e-mail address. This candidate will then find the project in his ADUM application interface. Attention: the candidate’s email address indicated by the supervisor must be identical to the one used by the candidate in his ADUM page.  This student will be the only one who can apply for this project. Attention: all PhD subjects at IP-Paris must be submitted on ADUM by the supervisors.  
• Project submitted by the candidate him/herself : the candidate must open the ADUM application interface and click on "Unsolicited application". The thesis project will have been discussed with the supervisor beforehand.  

When applying online, a certain amount of information must be entered. In the "Type of funding" section, indicate the funding you have already obtained, if any, or the list of all the fundings you plan to apply for. In the "Funding Status" section, select "acquired" or "in progress". If the name of your future supervisor does not appear in the drop-down list, please write to the EDMH administrative director to have it added in ADUM.

The main document to attach (in the "motivation and justification" section) is a single pdf file, including

• Cover page of the pdf file: indicate your name, the title of the PhD project, and the list of all the fundings to which you are applying.
• Description of the doctoral project: title of the project in French and in English, summary of the project (15 lines) in French and in English, type of funding requested (100% or co-financing), research unit(s) hosting the project, PhD supervisor(s), Doctoral School of affiliation (presumably EDMH), and Institution of registration; then 5 pages maximum, describing the context, research perspectives and work plan.
• Candidate's CV; includes last name, first name, nationality, date of birth, address, email address, telephone number, and descriptions and names of supervisors of master's thesis or research internships.
• Master's grades (M1 and M2) available (send the latest M2 grades as soon as possible).
• Letter of motivation, summarizing the candidate’s academic background, and the reasons that led him/her to commit to this PhD project.
• Letters of recommendation: the prospective supervisor(s) will provide a detailed and motivated letter of support to the candidate, which he/she will include in his/her file.  A briefly motivated opinion of the laboratory director can be provided in the form of a letter to be inserted in the application file, or only by clicking on ADUM after the submission of the file.
• The applicant has the possibility, in his application module, to designate 2 referees, by clicking on "Submission of letters of recommendation by my referees" and by indicating the email addresses of these referees. These referees will then receive an invitation from the EDMH to write a letter of support and to post it on a dedicated site. Their letters will then be readable by the EDMH, but not by the applicant.

Topics at the interface with other sciences:

• if you are applying for a Labex Mathematique Hadamard (LMH) grant and your project is in line with one of the 4 thematic axes of the LMH, please add, in the description of the PhD project, the LMH interdisciplinary theme for which you are applying, and a paragraph underlining the interdisciplinary aspect of the project; ask your PhD supervisor to underline the interdisciplinary aspect of the project in his or her letter of recommendation

For an international joint PhD, indicate in the description of the doctoral project the calendar of stays in each institution.

- There is no need to fill in the ADUM sections "Letter of motivation" and "Additional information", as their content is included in the pdf file above. For any question or problem, please contact the administrative manager of the EDMH .

Criteria for the selection of candidates

The evaluation criteria for applications, whether in competitive or non-competitive mode, are as follows

• quality of the candidate's academic background (Master degree results or equivalent diplomas, research skills based on internships or research theses, recommendations from supervisors)
• quality of the proposed subject (e.g. originality, feasibility), suitability of the supervisor to the subject
• suitability of the candidate's training to the proposed PhD subject
• quality of the presentation during the audition (competitive process) or the interview (noncompetitive process); in particular, the candidate's understanding of the PhD project will be evaluated
• Adequacy of the proposed funding (for the "noncompetitive" mode)
• During the interviews, whether in competitive or noncompetitive mode, students will have to briefly introduce themselves (in order to justify their ability to address the PhD subject), briefly present the PhD subject, its originality and the scientific approach to be used, as well as the funding they are applying for, and briefly explain their professional project after their graduation.

Deadline for applying to scholarships 2024

For most of the scholarships managed by the EDMH, the deadline for the submission of applications is Thursday, April 22, 2024 at 23:59 (Paris time). The details of the scholarships are given below. Most applications are made through the ADUM application portal .

• Call for UPSaclay and FMJH funding:

- early April: recommended date for submitting thesis topics on ADUM (optional) - April 22 midnight: deadline for applications on ADUM , with advice from thesis directors - week of May 6: EDMH eligibility jury - week of May 20: auditions and EDMH jury

Some calls for applications will occur earlier. We list them below:

• CDSN ENS Paris-Saclay (includes "Programme ENS P-S pour l'UPSaclay" scholarships)

Call for application - December 1 - March 1: submission of application files on the dedicated ENS website - March-April: CDSN candidates auditioned by EDMH - week of May 27: CDSN award committee

• IPParis early call (IPP / AMX / X / ENSTA / TelecomP / TelecompSP / Hi!Paris / E4Climate scholarships):

- January 15, 2024: recommended date for DTs to submit thesis topics on ADUM (compulsory) - February 15: deadline for applications on ADUM , with advice from thesis directors - March 6-15: EDMH hearings - March 21: arbitration committee

• UPSaclay ADI grants (partial funding of cotutelle theses)

Call for application - January 15 to February 23: compulsory submission of subjects on ADUM by DTs. Indicate "ADI" funding - February 28 - March 31: student applications on ADUM. At the same time, cotutelle applications are prepared on the dedicated website - April 4: Deadline for DTs to submit cotutelle applications - April 8: Meeting with DTs - before May 15: EDMH hearings of candidates - June 12: ADI commission

• CoFund MathPhDInFrance

Call for application

These theses are co-directed by an EDMH supervisor and a supervisor from a provincial institution. The thesis will be co-financed by the EU (2/3), and the remaining third by the FMJH, or by the partner university in the provinces. - December 19 - February 14: Applications from students (who have spent at most 1 year in France in the last 3 years). -> March 8: list of 72 candidates selected in 1st round. - March 8 - April 28: Successful candidates must find a pair of co-supervisors, put together a thesis proposal, and obtain letters from DTs, lab directors and EDs. - May 15-17: auditions of candidates + projects. - May 21: selection jury

• CoFund DeMythify.AI (AI theses at UPSay)

The aim is to fund theses on the theme of AI and the quantification of uncertainties, at UPSaclay only Thesis topics had to be submitted on ADUM by October 24 - Nov-Dec: collection of student applications, on ADUM . Each candidate chooses a maximum of 3 topics Candidates must have spent less than 12 months in France during the last 3 years - Jan-Feb: a jury pre-selects 45 candidates, who will be put in contact with the TDs of the subjects they have selected - April: selection of candidate+subject pairs The EU will finance 1/2 scholarships

• IPParis final call (same scholarships as early call):

- March 15: recommended date for submission of thesis topics on ADUM (compulsory) - April 15 midnight: deadline for applications on ADUM , with advice from thesis directors - May 6: EDMH eligibility jury. Information to eligible students - week of May 20: auditions and selection panel - May 30: IPP arbitration committee

A non-exhaustive list of funding sources is given below. For most of these cases, the ranking is not performed by the EDMH, but by the funding organization. As this list changes regularly, candidates and PhD supervisors are invited to keep an eye on the application deadlines for these funds.

When submitting a PhD subject on ADUM, a supervisor must indicate the possible funding in the relevan box (if the funding type does not appear in the drop-down menu, indicate "Other funding").

• "white” scholarships provided by universities or engineering schools. At UPSaclay, these scholarships are called “ Programme doctoral - GS Math ”.
• scholarships aimed at certain types of projects: UDOPIA program in artificial intelligence at UPSaclay, ANR-IA program and Hi!Paris grants at IP-Paris; ADI program at UPSaclay for international joint PhDs.
• scholarships funded by the Ile-de-France Region (the DIM MathInnov, which provided doctoral funding until 2021, has not been renewed in 2022; the Paris Region PhD2 program has not been renewed either).
• scholarships funded by a specific research project : Agence National de la Recherche, European Research Council , Marie Curie training networks, ...
•   CIFRE scholarships , for a PhD prepared part-time in a private company. Please note that the application procedure at the ANRT requires considerable time.
• other industrial grants, for example associated with industrial chairs.
• grants from national research organizations: CEA, DGA, INSERM, INRAe, INRIA (CORDI-S grants), CIRAD, IRD, IRSTEA, ADEME, CNRS, ONERA, IFPEN
•  “PhD Tracks”: joint Master + PhD grants, offered by the Institut Polytechnique de Paris , or the Fondation Mathématique Jacques Hadamard.
•  Scholarships reserved to students graduating in certain « grandes écoles »: Allocations spécifiques polytechniciens (AMX), Contrats doctoraux spécifiques normaliens (ENS PSL (Ulm), ENS Lyon, ENS Paris-Saclay , ENS Rennes)
•  scholarships funded by foundations : Gaspard Monge international PhD grants from the Ecole Polytechnique; Futur & Rupture doctoral grants from the Institut Mines-Télécom, Fondation Télécom and Institut Carnot; doctoral grants from the Capital Fund Management foundation.
•  Doctoral grants from the Fondation Mathématiques Jacques Hadamard (FMJH) , or other Labexes such as the Labex Ecodec.
• MathPhdinFrance program . The FMJH is a partner in the MathPhDInFrance program, co-financed by the European "Marie Sklodowska-Curie Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programme". This program offers doctoral grants for co-tutored theses between a laboratory in the Paris region and one in another. Two calls for applications are planned for 2023 and 2024, for theses starting the following year.
• foreign scholarships, including those of the CSC (China Scholarship Council), which has signed agreements with the Université Paris-Saclay and the Institut Polytechnique de Paris to fund a certain number of doctoral scholarships. These scholarships are reserved for Chinese students.  

Number of allocations awarded in previous years, by source (only a portion of the sources are shown here):

Registration and re-registration procedures

Are carried out on the adum platform,, see practical details.

The list of EDMH registration institutions (more precisely, institutions administering PhD registrations and defenses in the name of the University of Paris-Saclay or of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris or of the University of Paris Sciences et Lettres ) is as follows:

- CentraleSupélec - Ecole polytechnique - Ecole normale supérieure (ENS Ulm) - Ecole normale supérieure de Paris Saclay (ENS Paris Saclay) - Paris Graduate School of Economics, Statistics and Finance   (ENSAE) - National Institute of Advanced Technology of Brittany (ENSTA) - Telecom SudParis - Telecom Paris - University of Évry-Val d'Essonne - University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

The following are the registration institutions for the EDMH’s other institutions:

- AgroParisTech - French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy Commission (CEA) - Ecole normale supérieure (ENS Ulm)* - Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies - Institut National de la recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (INRAe)

* Concerning ENS Ulm, in accordance with the co-accreditation agreement between PSL and Paris-Saclay, student registration is effected:

• in the institution paying the PhD student if it is authorized to award PhDs, or else in the registration institution by agreement, when the PhD student's funding is a non-earmarked ministerial five-year contract, or an IDEX PhD contract other than for a labex
•  in the institution paying the supervisor if it is authorized to award PhDs, or else in the registration institution by agreement, when the above scenario is not the case and when the PhD supervisor is a lecturer/researcher paid by an institution in the Paris Science et Lettres (PSL) and University of Paris-Saclay COMUE (association of universities and higher education institutions
• in the ENS Ulm for all other cases, except for exemptions approved by the PSL and University of Paris-Saclay.

The detailed registration procedure for EDMH PhD students in the ADUM software is as follows:

1. Create a personal space in ADUM of Paris-Saclay University, if not already done when you applied 2. Create or update your profile : Enter or update the files containing your complete CV (PDF) and photo (jpg). The obligatory fields are those marked with a red star. For everything relating to your PhD proposal, however, simply put: ‘see PDF file for the PhD proposal’. Many fields (including parents' socio-economic category, type of degree enabling you to do a PhD, funding source, etc.) will used for obligatory ministerial data-collection campaigns. For this reason, please fill them in carefully.

You must also enter your:

• surname, first name, sex, date and place of birth, nationality
• if a foreign national: how long your residence permit is valid for
• phone number, email address, home and work address (remember to update them)
• photo (jpg) and CV (PDF) if you accidentally forgot earlier
• EDMH cluster (see drop-down menu. This is essential for management per doctoral school):
• APT-ENSAE-HEC-INRA-TELECOM: AgroPariTech, ENSAE, HEC, INRA, Telecom Paris and Telecom SudParis
• CEA-CS-ENSTA: CEA, CentraleSupélec, ENSTA
• IHES-UPSUD: IHES and University of Paris-Sud
• UEVE-UVSQ: University of Evry-Val d'Essonne, University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin
• École Polytechnique, ENS Ulm and ENS Paris Saclay are obvious clusters
• INRIA's own GAMMA3 and M3DISIM teams are attached to the CEA-CS-ENSTA and École Polytechnique clusters respectively
• Funding, type of work contract, employer, funding source, full- or part-time
• Research unit and research team (see the 'list of laboratories' menu)
• Supervisor and co-supervisor (if one of them is not in the 'list of officials', check to see if they are attached to another doctoral school. Otherwise, write to the EDMH administrative assistant [email protected] so that she can create a file for them in ADUM).
• Fields not to be filled in: everything already in the PDF file to be attached, even if it means resending it.

3. PDF documents to be attached for pedagogical or adminitrative reasons (merge all these documents into a single PDF):

4. Finalize the registration in ADUM

5. Each registration is then approved in ADUM by the director or relevant deputy director

6. After approval, and except for PhD students registered at Paris-Saclay University where the procedure for signing registration documents is dematerialized, the PhD student prints off the required documents

• Authorization of registration
• PhD student's charter
• Individual agreement training

These 3 documents have to be signed by the PhD student, his PhD supervisor, host laboratory director, and corresponding deputy director. It's possible to posted or emailed if the deputy director is not on site. He may has to go through the registration institution's EDMH administrative contact to obtain the latter two signatures.

7. The PhD student goes to the registrar's office at his registration institution – in accordance with this office's procedures for making appointments and processing applications – with all the documents required for their administrative registration.

For any question about registration and re-registration, please contact the registration institution's administrative representative .

Here is the detailed registration process to the EDMH for the PhD students through the ADUM software:

1. Update your CV and your personal informations (do not fill in the fields concerning the PhD progress, the informations are to be given in a PDF file) Declare your monitoring committee ("Comité de Suivi"), and do not forget your referent (see the webpage Monitoring).

2. PDF documents to be attached for pedagogical or adminitrative reasons  (merge all these documents into a single PDF).

​ 3. Finalize the registration in ADUM

4. Each registration is then approved in ADUM by the director or relevant deputy director,  who checks the progress report (one or two pages) written by PhD students and validated by their PhD supervisors, as well as the training courses (discipline-related and complementary) validated by PhD students. Although the training course requirements are for the entire duration of a PhD, it is not sensible to concentrate all of them into the final year.  The third re-registration will only be validated if half of the training course requirements have been completed or scheduled.

5. After approval, the PhD student prints off the required documents

These 2 documents have to be signed by the PhD student, his PhD supervisor, host laboratory director, and corresponding deputy director. It's possible to posted or emailed if the deputy director is not on site. He may has to go through the registration institution's EDMH administrative contact to obtain the latter two signatures.

6. The PhD student goes to the registrar's office at his registration institution – in accordance with this office's procedures for making appointments and processing applications – with all the documents required for their administrative registration.

The detailed re-registration procedure for EDMH PhD students in the ADUM software is as follows:

1. Update your CV + profile (do not fill in the fields for how your PhD is progressing and the courses you have taken since these must be attached as a PDF file)​

2. PDF documents to be attached for pedagogical or adminitrative reasons  (merge all these documents into a single PDF):

4. Each re-registration is approved in ADUM by the relevant deputy director, who checks the progress report (1-2 pages) written by PhD students and approved by their PhD supervisors, as well as the training courses (discipline-related and complementary) validated by PhD students. Although the course requirements are given for the entire duration of a PhD, it is not sensible to do all of them in the final year. In the absence of a pedagogical reason, your re-registration will not be approved if you have not completed enough courses.

Doctoral training

This section describes the doctoral training and follow-up operations for doctoral students other than those provided by the thesis directors or the research supervisors' teams.

During your 3 years of thesis at EDMH, you must validate:

• 12 points of disciplinary training (60 hours): participation in conferences, schools, M2 courses on the research topic...
• 12 points of transversal training (60 hours): any type of training not directly related to the research project (professional development, forums for companies, mentoring, doctoral student seminars, etc.), including the 3 mandatory training courses below.

Training courses on catalog

• The number of hours/points of training
• The category of the training
• The type of skills involved in the training, among the 6 "skill blocks" proposed. These skills, completed as they are acquired, will be grouped together in the "skills portfolio" of each doctoral student. This portfolio will report on the skills acquired during the thesis (optional but recommended)
• Training objectives (optional but recommended)

Counting of points

• Research ethics and scientific integrity
• Open science issues (data management, intellectual property rights, ethics of scientific publication...)
• Sustainable development
• Sexual and gender-based violence (from January 2024)
• Specialized M2 course
• Summer schools
• Doctoral school courses, IHES, Collège de France
• Mini-courses of visiting professors
• SMF CIRM weeks
• Participation in specialized trimesters and semesters
• X-UPS mathematics days
• Statistics days
• Cross-disciplinary training offered by the University of Paris-Saclay or by the Polytechnic Institute of Paris or by the University of Paris Sciences et Lettres.
• Language courses
• History of science courses
• Participation in interdisciplinary conferences
• Math and Business Study Week" (SEME) of the AMIES
• Participation in the "Forum Emploi Maths" and the PhDTalent Fair
• Participation to the "Journées Franciliennes des Doctorants en Sciences Mathématiques" (French days for PhD students in Mathematics)
• Training in popularization and dissemination of scientific culture through practice (seminar, MathsenJeans, ParisMaths, Olympiads...)
• Teaching (monitoring, vacations)

Program of the  "Parcours MathTech 2023-2024", led by Iwips :

• November 10, 2023: teamwork workshops
• December 11-15, 2023: corporate challenge week - Hackathon EDF / Groupe Atlantic
• January 16, 2024: Pitch workshop
•  January 25, 2024: MathTech Day
• March 12: Communication workshop

Register for workshops from your ADUM account

• information,
• orientation,
• advice for training (disciplinary or complementary),
• follow-up of the training plan/portfolio of the candidate,
• support and incentives.

Each doctoral student will be monitored throughout his or her thesis by an “Comité de Suivi Individuel” (CSI).

Composition of the CSI : each CSI must include at least one "specialist" in the doctoral student's research field (from outside the supervising team) and one "non-specialist" from outside the research field. The composition of the CSI can be proposed by the doctoral student or by the doctoral school. EDMH recommends that at least one member of the CSI should be an ED official (deputy director or establishment representative). The composition of the CSI must be entered on ADUM in the 1st year. One CSI member must be declared as the referent; by default, this will be an EDMH representative.

CSI report : interviews with the CSI are confidential and give rise to a report which is sent to the doctoral student and thesis supervisor. Each year, the CSI report containing a favorable opinion is required for re-registration. This report must be included in the re-registration file.

In addition to the follow-up interviews detailed below, doctoral students can contact EDMH representatives (deputy director of the cluster, establishment representative, director) at any time, should they have any questions or problems.

Specific follow-up actions are detailed below, and include an annual meeting with the CSI. These meetings take place in the absence of the thesis director. The CSI may also ask the thesis supervisor for information on thesis progress.

Before their re-registration in 2nd year, between June and October, all doctoral students will have an interview (20-30 minutes) with their CSI. During this interview, the doctoral student will present the progress of his or her research since the start of the thesis, and the prospects for the following year. In advance of the interview, they will provide their CSI with a written activity report, as well as a list of training courses attended. During the interview, he/she can also mention any problems that may have arisen. The CSI will assess the doctoral student's situation after 1 year of thesis and can advise him/her on the progress of his/her thesis.

Towards the end of the 2nd year of their thesis (May-June), doctoral students are invited to present their work to their laboratory or research team during a presentation session. In addition to disseminating doctoral students' work internally, this presentation will enable them to check on the progress of their thesis work, and to give advice on the quality of their presentation. These sessions are followed by an interview with the CSI. During this interview, the progress of the thesis, the prospects for the end of the thesis, and even for the post-thesis period, will be discussed, as well as the list of training courses taken. A report will also be drawn up.

Between January and April of their third year, the CSI will meet with doctoral students to discuss thesis completion procedures (including content and writing), current applications and career prospects. In the event of a request for an extension beyond December 31, the CSI must give a favorable opinion before the doctoral student can re-enroll in 4th year. A similar interview will then take place during the 4th year.

Annual opening conference day

We recommend three months between starting the procedure (date when the final version of the PhD thesis is available) and the defense date. This includes the time required (which cannot be shortened) by registration institutions between the arrival of PhD assessment reports and the defense date, the time needed for EDMH decisions, and the usual minimum 2-month period given to referees (external examiners) to read, check, and assess the thesis and write their report. NB: the time required for the various stages of this process may vary according to the registration institution and must be strictly complied with.

After discussing the matter with their institution's EDMH representative, it may be worth PhD supervisors contacting the referees (external examiners) and members for the PhD examining committee before the official appointments and deadlines to schedule a defense date. It is especially difficult to change the dates and composition of PhD examining committees near the defense deadline (the first half of December) for CNU (French National Universities Council)-qualification procedures (which can be consulted on the French Ministry for Higher Education and Research's Galaxie website or the Opération postes website).

For members of PhD examining committees, please use the wording: ‘Subject to favorable assessment by the referees (external examiners) and agreement of the executive committees of the Hadamard Doctoral School of Mathematics and registration institution’.

The names of referees (external examiners) and PhD examining committee members are entered into the ADUM software by PhD students and approved in ADUM by the relevant deputy director. The route for obtaining signatures depends on each institution; please contact the relevant EDMH administrative contact. After the forms have been signed, the EDMH will send them to the relevant departments at the registration institution's doctoral schools.

Following ministerial recommendations on the use of French, PhD theses must contain a sufficiently long section (at least 10-20 pages) written in French. For example:

•     a summary chapter or
•     an introduction to the PhD, as well as placing the research in context and presenting its scope.

Electronic deposit of PhD theses, requests to print copies for examining committees, managing PhD defense applications

PhD students must contact their registration institution's administrative contact for practical details (including deadlines) about the following:

•     electronic deposit of PhD theses via the ADUM software (interfaced with the STAR software), in accordance with procedures implemented by the University of Paris-Saclay's doctoral school. There are two steps: 1) before the defense, which is a condition for authorizing the defense; 2) after the defense, which is a condition for PhD degree certificates to be issued by France's national printing works (imprimerie nationale). Do not delay, unless the examining committee asks for major modifications.
•     making appointments with the registration institution's library or archive department for the first legal deposit of your PhD thesis.
•     requests (and number authorized) to print copies of your PhD thesis for the examining committee
•     collecting your defense application, which is given to the examining committee on the day of your PhD defense
•     returning your completed defense application to the relevant departments at your registration institution
•     printing copies of your PhD thesis after your defense
•     collecting your degree certificate

List of forthcoming PhD Defenses

The templates for the cover page and back cover of the thesis can be found on the website :

• Université Paris-Saclay
• Institut Polytechnique de Paris
• Université Paris Sciences et Lettres

Most of these rules are enacted by the the article 18 of the Decree dated 25 May 2016 on doctoral training

After discussing the matter with the EDMH scientific representative at the PhD student's host laboratory, the PhD supervisor (or the PhD student with the agreement of their supervisor) will suggest between two and four names for referees (external examiners) to the relevant deputy director. These suggestions are made by email and require prior agreement from two of them. The appointments are made by the EDMH’s executive committee, after any necessary checks and consultations have been carried out.

The minimum and usual number of appointed reporters will be two, with the possibility of adding a third if necessary (industrial, multidisciplinary thesis, etc.). External examiners must hold an HDR or equivalent. Unless the disciplinary field or the content of the work does not allow it, they must be external to the EDMH and to the defending institution (Université de Paris-Saclay, Institut Polytechnique de Paris or Université Paris Sciences et Lettres), and external to the doctoral project. Unless it proves exceptionally difficult to find a competent examiner from outside the EDMH's partner institutions to assess the PhD thesis, the EDMH's prefers examining committees to contain an internal referee (examiner) as well as the two official examiners. They will not have co-published either with the PhD or with the supervising team during the 5 years preceding the defense. An external examiner may be a researcher or emeritus.

After the deputy director has given its agreement, PhD students must enter the examiners' names and addresses into ADUM. PhD students or their supervisors send the thesis to the examiners, indicating the address and expected date of return for their report. An official letter from the registration institution will be sent to the examiners (you must enter their names and addresses into ADUM as soon as possible after receiving the EDMH's agreement), but we recommend you to suggest that they do not wait for this letter before starting their assessment. Unless their report has not yet arrived, it is advisable to contact the examiners one week before the registration institution's deadline for receiving reports.

For theses at University Paris Saclay, the external examiners receive the information allowing them to submit their report on the ADUM platform. Reports must be signed and can be sent by email (postal mail is not required)

For each of the defense institutions, here is the deadline for returning the reports before the defense date, the useful links and the contact address to which the signed reports should be officially sent by e-mail. An electronic copy of the reports must also be sent by the examiners to the relevant deputy director of the EDMH.

After discussing the matter with the EDMH scientific representative at the PhD student's host laboratory, PhD supervisors (or PhD students with the agreement of their supervisors) will email or use the ADUM software to send suggestions for an examining committee to the relevant deputy director. The appointments are made by the EDMH’s executive committee, after any necessary checks and consultations have been carried out.

The deadlines for filling in the forms appointing examining committee members and authorizing PhD defenses are the same as for returning reports (see previous sub-section). Nevertheless, you are advised to fill them in well in advance – using the following wording when contacting prospective examining committee members: ‘Subject to required authorization from the EDMH’ – to ascertain whether they are available and agree to be part of the examining committee.

Rules for the composition of EDMH PhD examining committees:

• PhD examining committees comprise between 4 and 8 members, except in specific cases subject to agreement from the EDMH’s executive committee (industrial, cotutelle, interdisciplinary theses, etc.), for which the upper limit is 6 members.
• Except in special circumstances, the committee must contain at least one member from the registration and defense institution apart from the PhD supervisor.
• It is highly recommended (but not required) for at least one of the external examiners to be a member of the examining committee.

The President of the jury is co-opted from among the members of the jury. He must be a professor or equivalent in activity

At least half of its members must be from outside the EDMH, the institution awarding the degree (Université Paris-Saclay or Institut Polytechnique de Paris or Université Paris Sciences et Lettres) and the doctoral project.

At least half of its members must be professors or equivalent.

It is strongly recommended that the jury include at least 1 woman.

Some members of the jury may be professors or emeritus researchers, in which case they do not fall within the 50% quota of professors or equivalent.

The EDMH is particularly concerned about the future of its PhD students. The training offered and the various follow-up operations have the main purpose of preparing their professional integration, whatever the opportunities they envisage.At the end of a thesis at the EDMH, career prospects, in France or abroad, lead doctors to insert themselves

• In academia: Lecturer, teacher-researcher abroad
• In the secondary teacher: in preparatory class, PRAG...
• Within companies: Jobs in the private sector, R & D sectors from large groups to startups, see Enterprises
• In major public research organizations (CNRS, CEA, INRIA, DGA ...) and large state bodies

PhD students undertake by signing the thesis charter to provide the EDMH, via the ADUM software, their becoming during the 5 years following their defense.

Temporary Lecturer and Research Assistant ( ATER ) and Post-Doc Applications

NB: if you want to do a post-doc in the academic year following your PhD (whether starting in October if you defend your PhD by September, or starting in January or February if you defend it in December), you sometimes have to apply well in advance. This is often the case for the USA (typically apply by November of the third year of your PhD) and for several foundations, including the FMSP and FMJH.

The following websites list post-doc offers:

• French website: Opération postes (the Opération postes website also lists posts for assistants holding the 'agrégation', temporary lecturer and research assistant [ ATER ] posts, etc.)
• FMJH: international post-doc program and Hadamard Teaching Assistants
• IHES: Simons Fundation grants   
• American website: MathJobs (watch out for USA deadlines since they are often around November of the previous year)
• English website: jobs.ac.uk (see the 'Academic Jobs' section)

Applications for temporary lecturer and research assistant ( ATER ) posts are usually made in May, but this depends on each university. Enquire from January onwards.

The EDMH participates in several operations designed to promote careers in the private sector of mathematics teachers.

• Forum Emploi Math :  organized by the  Agence pour les mathématiques en interaction avec l'entreprise et la société  (AMIES), at the "Cité Universitaire" (December 2016) or at the Cité des Sciences in Villette (December 13, 2017, December 13, 2018) , October 15, 2019). A great opportunity to meet a large number of start-ups, companies, large and small groups, and participate in roundtables. Come with his resume and a pitch presentation.  
• Journée des carrières mathématiques : organized by DIM RdM IdF then DIM MathInnov, with funding from the Ile-de-France Region, in partnership with Adoc Talent Management (for example March 22, 2018, April 18-19, 2019):

* Conference on the job market for PhDs in Ile-de-France, in France and abroad, by Adoc Talent Management, * workshop in subgroup on documentation of skills and expertise using a portofolio, * academic and industrial round tables.

• PhD talent Career Fair : PhDTalent PhD Employment Forum (18 October 2019, 16 October 2020).

For job offers in companies and start-ups, it is particularly recommended to consult:

• the website of  Agence pour les mathématiques en interaction avec l'entreprise et la société (AMIES) of Jobs
• the website of  APEC

PhD students who also hold the 'agrégation' and who want a teaching post in a lycée (high school), must take part in the Académie de Versailles mouvement intra-academique (annual application procedure for teaching posts within a given school district) (or of the school district for your teaching post/teaching assistantship). If applying for a first appointment, they must also take part in the mouvement inter-academique (annual application procedure for teaching posts between school districts). PhD students can also apply for another deferral to carry out an ATER , post-doc, etc.

The procedure starts in November of the third year of a PhD:

• See information on the Official Journal of the French State Education System , website, especially the special issue explaining the procedure to follow (which may change from year to year) published at that time.
• Obtain your NUMEN. If you do not have a NUMEN, you must ring the Rectorat de Versailles on 01 30 83 44 44.
• Log in to the SIAM website and follow the procedure. In principle, your login name is the first letter of your first name followed by your family name, all written as one word and in lower case letters. If you have namesakes, add a number (1, 2, 3, etc.). The password is your NUMEN. Given the low number of initial points, some school districts will be hard to obtain.

The application procedure for posts in preparatory classes in Grandes Écoles ( CPGE ) is not via SIAM (even though you have to undertake this procedure if you do not obtain a CPGE post immediately and even though information about posts may be available via SIAM). You should instead write to the DGRH/B2 and contact the schools inspectorate in November: consult the official journal. It may be worth consulting teaching union information about this matter.

The second phase of the application procedure for 'agrégation' holders in is March-April. You must take part in the mouvement intra-academique . You must apply for a TZR (substitute teacher) post if you want a temporary assignment (e.g. to do an ATER or post-doc; the exact terms and conditions for temporary assignments depend on the job). To avoid being struck off the French state education system, you must follow the temporary assignments procedure and contact your education authority before leaving to do an ATER job or post-doc. The temporary assignment procedure can take a long time and you should not wait for confirmation that you have obtained it. It may also be worth consulting teaching union information about this matter.

• See also the Université Paris-Scaly recruitment page

To be eligible to apply in the spring of year n for a position as Maître de conférence in France, you must be on a Qualification List drawn up by the Conseil National des Universités (CNU). Applications for qualification must be submitted no later than autumn of year n-1.

The procedure is detailed on the Galaxie website and in the document below:

The 5-month timetable (from September to January) comprises two phases:

2023 calendar:

• a period for declaring candidacies, from Thursday, September 21 2023 - 10 a.m. to Friday, November 10, 2023 - 4 p.m. (Paris time) ;
• a period for submitting mandatory and additional documents making up the file:

          - from Thursday, September 21 to Friday, December 15, 2023 (4pm Paris time) for candidates who have already graduated, or who will have defended their thesis or HDR no later than November 23, 2023;           - from Thursday September 21, 2023 to Friday January 19, 2024 (4 pm, Paris time) for candidates who will be defending their thesis or HDR between November 24, 2023 and January 12, 2024.

Please note: for recently defended theses, the attestation of successful completion of the doctorate is required as one of the requested documents. This attestation is not obtained immediately after the defense; it requires a second submission of the thesis on ADUM, which can take several days. It is therefore advisable not to wait until the last day of the second phase to defend your thesis, and to find out how long it will take to obtain the required documents.

Information specific to CNU sections 25 (fundamental mathematics) and 26 (applied mathematics), as well as advice and regulations, is available on the "Opération postes" website. This is a fantastic site, the envy of other disciplines (except computer science, which is also concerned), for managing applications for lecturer positions, and we strongly recommend that you create a Mars file there (in addition to your own website).

Alumni networks

• at Université Paris-Saclay
• at Institut Polytechnique de Paris
• at Paris Sciences et Lettres

Internationalization programs

• At Université Paris-Saclay: internationalization mechanisms (Cotutelle, international co-direction, etc.)

• Institut Polytechnique de Paris: to be set up with the future thesis director

Welcoming foreign doctoral students

• Université Paris Saclay: useful information on welcoming international doctoral students
• Institut Polytechnique de Paris: useful information for international doctoral students

EDMH offers financial support for French language courses for non-French-speaking PhD students, or foreign language courses for PhD students preparing for international mobility. Please contact the EDMH administrative manager or one of the members of the EDMH management committee .

M. Stéphane Nonnemacher

Directeur EDMH Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de mathématiques d'Orsay (LMO)

Me d'Epenoux Clotilde

Responsable administrative EDMH Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de mathématiques d'Orsay (LMO)

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M2 Research in Mathematics

The goal of this Master program is to train students to research in Mathematics . It is closely linked to the two Masters of fundamental mathematiques of the Université de Paris and of Sorbonne Université . This allows a very complete and unique course offering. Many different choices of research thematics are possible. Specialized courses open directly to up-to-date research problematics. The internship in the end of the year aims to discover research in a domain of the student's choice.

This common website for the three universities contain all detailled practical informations.

Prérequis : M1 de mathématiques

Dossier : relevés. Inscription via le site dédié de l'Institut Galilée.

Thèse de mathématiques, au LAGA, IMJ-PRG ou un autre laboratoire en France ou à l'étranger, Recherche et développement en entreprise, agrégation

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L’année comporte une partie théorique de 24 semaines de cours de début septembre à mi-avril et une partie pratique qui consiste en un stage d'environ 4 mois dans un organisme de recherche jusqu'à fin juin ou la mi-juillet.

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Application procedure. Application is open from April 15th to June 30th, on the dedicated website of Institut Galilée . Responses (admittance, refusal, waiting list or request for further information) will be notified at the latest in the beginning of July.

Scholarships

Several excellence scholarships are available. These programs are listed on this webpage .

The courses of the theoretical part are divided into 4 periods of 6 weeks each: des basic courses (september-october), fundamental courses I (november-december), fundamental courses II (january-february) and specialized courses (mach-april). Each course consists in 24 hours of teaching. Fundamental courses and some of the basic courses are completed by 12 hours of tutorial classes. Students must also pass an opening teaching unit.

Some courses are given in English

During the second semestre, students must do an internship initiating to research under the supervision of a researcher, generally in the LAGA or the IMJ-PRG . This internship can also be supervised by a membre of another university in France, if this is approved by the head of the master.

See the common website of the three Universities masters for more details on the courses.

Courses offer in 2019-20

• Each course is worth 9 ECTS. Students must obtain 4x9=36 courses ECTS, including at most 18 ECTS of basic courses and at least 9 ECTS in fundamental courses II or specialized courses.
• The internship, including a written report and a defense, is a compulsory 21 ECTS teach unit.
• The opening teaching unit, worth 3 ECTS, is also compulsory.
• The natural continuation after this master II program is a PhD in Mathematics, at the LAGA , the IMJ-PRG or in another French or foreign mathematics research laboratory.
• The graduate, which has been trained to excellence in mathematics, can also consider highly qualified jobs in research and developpment in the industry, or in the computer sciences or finance sectors .
• A possible continuation for students who do not wish to go into research in mathematics is to prepare the agrégation competitive examination (restricted to European Union citizens) to become a mathematical teacher.
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The subject of mathematics is often paired up with other subjects such as education, statistics, finance, and computer science. This pairing can give added value in the teaching, computer programming, and financial forecasting and planning fields.

France is currently among the 20 best performing countries in terms of the economy due to their excellent results-oriented higher education learning. Most of the courses at universities are offered in the French language. France has 60 public and 100 private universities.

Requirements for the PhD program often involve the student having already obtained a Master’s degree. Additionally, a thesis or dissertation primarily consisting of original academic research must be submitted. In some countries, this work may even need to be defended in front of a panel.

PhD fellowships in Mathematics in France - MathInParis programme

The international Doctoral Training in Mathematical Sciences in Paris -  MathInParis2020  -  offers 40 PhD fellowships  (20 in 2021 and 20 in 2022).

The main features of the program is to enhance the potential and future career perspective of young researchers by offering :

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MathInParis2020 is the extension of the doctoral training program  COFUND MathInParis  that began in 2018 and offered 40 PhD fellowships in 2018 and 2019.

This program will support only PhD projects with an advisor that belongs to the FSMP network.  More information can be found  here . 

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France offers a range of courses in both Fundamental and Applied mathematics and yes, It is possible to study in English! Come, discover and #ChooseFrance as your destination for higher education.

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France has long placed a lot of emphasis on investment in basic Sciences Research. This is evident from a large number of publicly funded research organizations in France, CNRS, INRIA etc. besides well funded doctoral schools within universities.

For international students, this translates to high-quality education at a very reasonable price. In most basic science courses in state universities, including Mathematics, the entire tuition fees are almost never borne by the student. Students are instead required to pay government-mandated registration fees for their courses which are very nominal (2770 EUR for Bachelors and 3770 EUR for masters in most cases)

A French government agency dedicated to Indian students

Campus France, the national agency for the promotion of Higher Education in France, has an extensive directory with lists of all mathematics courses available in English and French in France. Click here to find your next bachelor or master course and here for a PhD degree.

Campus France is present across 12 cities across India. Through their nearest Campus France office, students are able to find up to date information on courses, their admissions procedure and associated scholarships. Admissions advice can be sought for every level of studies, from bachelors to PhD and even short term summer programmes. Get in touch with your nearest office today!

In a webinar dedicated to Mathematics Education in France on 19th January 2020. Mr Aveek Mukherjee, VP of SaaS Business and Analytics for Spideo and Alumna of INP Grenoble shared his personal experience of studying in France and how it helped build his career "I chose INP Grenoble for my studies because of the quality of education foremost.....The effective cost of my education was even cheaper than in India."

Dr Stephéne Nonnenmacher, head of the Hadamard Doctoral School, itself named after the famous French Mathematician Jacques Hadamard, pointed out that "a third of our doctoral students are international students, coming from some 40 different countries, including India" showcasing the diversity of the student body at the tertiary level.

Dr Christophe Giraud, head of the Mathematics Masters Programme at Université Paris Saclay expressed his excitement for the new developments in the applied mathematics domain, of which France is at the forefront, especially in the fields of Deep Learning, Prediction and optimization problems. It truly is an exciting time to study Mathematics in France.

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Softening the sharp edges in mathematics.

For everyone whose relationship with mathematics is distant or broken, Jo Boaler , a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE), has ideas for repairing it. She particularly wants young people to feel comfortable with numbers from the start — to approach the subject with playfulness and curiosity, not anxiety or dread.

“Most people have only ever experienced what I call narrow mathematics — a set of procedures they need to follow, at speed,” Boaler says. “Mathematics should be flexible, conceptual, a place where we play with ideas and make connections. If we open it up and invite more creativity, more diverse thinking, we can completely transform the experience.”

“Mathematics should be flexible, conceptual, a place where we play with ideas and make connections," says Professor Jo Boaler. (Photo: Robert Houser Photography)

Boaler, the Nomellini and Olivier Professor of Education at the GSE, is the co-founder and faculty director of Youcubed , a Stanford research center that provides resources for math learning that has reached more than 230 million students in over 140 countries. In 2013 Boaler, a former high school math teacher, produced “How to Learn Math,” the first massive open online course (MOOC) on mathematics education. She leads workshops and leadership summits for teachers and administrators, and her online courses have been taken by over a million users. 

In her new book, Math-ish: Finding Creativity, Diversity, and Meaning in Mathematics , Boaler argues for a broad, inclusive approach to math education, offering strategies and activities for learners at any age. We spoke with her about why creativity is an important part of mathematics, the impact of representing numbers visually and physically, and how what she calls “ishing” a math problem can help students make better sense of the answer. 

What do you mean by “math-ish” thinking?

It’s a way of thinking about numbers in the real world, which are usually imprecise estimates. If someone asks how old you are, how warm it is outside, how long it takes to drive to the airport – these are generally answered with what I call “ish” numbers, and that’s very different from the way we use and learn numbers in school.

In the book I share an example of a multiple-choice question from a nationwide exam where students are asked to estimate the sum of two fractions: 12/13 + 7/8. They’re given four choices for the closest answer: 1, 2, 19, or 21. Each of the fractions in the question is very close to 1, so the answer would be 2 — but the most common answer 13-year-olds gave was 19. The second most common was 21. 

I’m not surprised, because when students learn fractions, they often don’t learn to think conceptually or to consider the relationship between the numerator or denominator. They learn rules about creating common denominators and adding or subtracting the numerators, without making sense of the fraction as a whole. But stepping back and judging whether a calculation is reasonable might be the most valuable mathematical skill a person can develop.

But don’t you also risk sending the message that mathematical precision isn’t important? 

I’m not saying precision isn’t important. What I’m suggesting is that we ask students to estimate before they calculate, so when they come up with a precise answer, they’ll have a real sense for whether it makes sense. This also helps students learn how to move between big-picture and focused thinking, which are two different but equally important modes of reasoning.

Some people ask me, “Isn’t ‘ishing’ just estimating?” It is, but when we ask students to estimate, they often groan, thinking it’s yet another mathematical method. But when we ask them to “ish” a number, they're more willing to offer their thinking.

Ishing helps students develop a sense for numbers and shapes. It can help soften the sharp edges in mathematics, making it easier for kids to jump in and engage. It can buffer students against the dangers of perfectionism, which we know can be a damaging mind-set. I think we all need a little more ish in our lives. 

You also argue that mathematics should be taught in more visual ways. What do you mean by that? 

For most people, mathematics is an almost entirely symbolic, numerical experience. Any visuals are usually sterile images in a textbook, showing bisecting angles, or circles divided into slices. But the way we function in life is by developing models of things in our minds. Take a stapler: Knowing what it looks like, what it feels and sounds like, how to interact with it, how it changes things — all of that contributes to our understanding of how it works. 

There’s an activity we do with middle-school students where we show them an image of a 4 x 4 x 4 cm cube made up of smaller 1 cm cubes, like a Rubik’s Cube. The larger cube is dipped into a can of blue paint, and we ask the students, if they could take apart the little cubes, how many sides would be painted blue? Sometimes we give the students sugar cubes and have them physically build a larger 4 x 4 x 4 cube. This is an activity that leads into algebraic thinking. 

Some years back we were interviewing students a year after they’d done that activity in our summer camp and asked what had stayed with them. One student said, ‘I’m in geometry class now, and I still remember that  sugar cube, what it looked like and felt like.’ His class had been asked to estimate the volume of their shoes, and he said he’d imagined his shoes filled with 1 cm sugar cubes in order to solve that question. He had built a mental model of a cube.

When we learn about cubes, most of us don’t get to see and manipulate them. When we learn about square roots, we don’t take squares and look at their diagonals. We just manipulate numbers.

I wonder if people consider the physical representations more appropriate for younger kids.

That’s the thing — elementary school teachers are amazing at giving kids those experiences, but it dies out in middle school, and by high school it’s all symbolic. There’s a myth that there’s a hierarchy of sophistication where you start out with visual and physical representations and then build up to the symbolic. But so much of high-level mathematical work now is visual. Here in Silicon Valley, if you look at Tesla engineers, they're drawing, they're sketching, they're building models, and nobody says that's elementary mathematics.

Click to enlarge: A depiction of various ways to calculate 38 x 5, numerically and visually. (Image: Courtesy of Jo Boaler)

There’s an example in the book where you’ve asked students how they would calculate 38 x 5 in their heads, and they come up with several different ways of arriving at the same answer. The creativity is fascinating, but wouldn’t it be easier to teach students one standard method?

That narrow, rigid version of mathematics where there’s only one right approach is what most students experience, and it’s a big part of why people have such math trauma. It keeps them from realizing the full range and power of mathematics. When you only have students blindly memorizing math facts, they’re not developing number sense. They don’t learn how to use numbers flexibly in different situations. It also makes students who think differently believe there’s something wrong with them. 

When we open mathematics to acknowledge the different ways a concept or problem can be viewed, we also open the subject to many more students. Mathematical diversity, to me, is a concept that includes both the value of diversity in people and the diverse ways we can see and learn mathematics. When we bring those forms of diversity together, it’s powerful. If we want to value different ways of thinking and problem-solving in the world, we need to embrace mathematical diversity.

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Some French professionals from Muslim backgrounds are seeking a more promising future abroad in cities like Dubai

After being knocked back at some 50 interviews for consulting jobs in France despite his ample qualifications, Muslim business school graduate Adam packed his bags and moved to a new life in Dubai.

"I feel much better here than in France," the 32-year-old of North African descent told AFP.

"We're all equal. You can have a boss who's Indian, Arab or a French person," he said.

"My religion is more accepted."

Highly-qualified French citizens from Muslim backgrounds, often the children of immigrants, are leaving France in a quiet brain drain, seeking a new start abroad in cities like London, New York, Montreal or Dubai, according to a new study.

The authors of "France, you love it but you leave it", published last month, said it was difficult to estimate exactly how many.

But they found that 71 percent of more than 1,000 people who responded to their survey circulated online had left in part because of racism and discrimination.

Adam, who asked that his surname not be used, told AFP his new job in the United Arab Emirates has given him fresh perspective.

In France "you need to work twice as hard when you come from certain minorities", he said.

He said he was "extremely grateful" for his French education and missed his friends, family and the rich cultural life of the country where he grew up.

But he said he was glad to have quit its "Islamophobia" and "systemic racism" that meant he was stopped by police for no reason.

France has long been a country of immigration, including from its former colonies in North and West Africa.

But today the descendants of Muslim immigrants who came to France seeking a better future say they have been living in an increasingly hostile environment, especially after the Islamic State jihadist attacks in Paris in 2015 that killed 130 people.

They say France's particular form of secularism, which bans all religious symbols in public schools including headscarves and long robes, seems to disproportionately focus on the attire of Muslim women.

Another French Muslim, a 33-year-old tech employee of Moroccan descent, told AFP he and his pregnant wife were planning to emigrate to "a more peaceful society" in southeast Asia.

He said he would miss France's "sublime" cuisine and the queues outside the bakeries.

But "we're suffocating in France", said the business school graduate with a five-figure monthly salary.

He described wanting to leave "this ambient gloom", in which television news channels seem to target all Muslims as scapegoats.

The tech employee, who moved to Paris after growing up in its lower-income suburbs, said he has been living in the same block of flats for two years.

"But still they ask me what I'm doing inside my building," he said.

"It's so humiliating."

"This constant humiliation is even more frustrating as I contribute very honestly to this society as someone with a high income who pays a lot of taxes," he added.

A 1978 French law bans collecting data on a person's race, ethnicity or religion, which makes it difficult to have broad statistics on discrimination.

But a young person "perceived as black or Arab" is 20 times more likely to face an identity check than the rest of the population, France's rights ombudsman found in 2017.

The Observatory for Inequalities says that racism is on the decline in France, with 60 percent of French people declaring they are "not at all racist".

But still, it adds, a job candidate with a French name has a 50 percent better chance of being called by an employer than one with a North African one.

A third professional, a 30-year-old Franco-Algerian with two masters degrees from top schools, told AFP he was leaving in June for a job in Dubai because France had become "complicated".

The investment banker, the son of an Algerian cleaner who grew up within Paris, said he enjoyed his job, but he was starting to feel he had hit a "glass ceiling".

He also said he had felt French politics shift to the right in recent years.

"The atmosphere in France has really deteriorated," he said, alluding to some pundits equating all people of his background to extremists or troublemakers from housing estates.

"Muslims are clearly second-class citizens," he said.

Adam, the consultant, said more privileged French Muslims emigrating was just the "tiny visible part of the iceberg".

"When we see France today, we're broken," he said.

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Barron Trump, 18, Graduates High School with Parents in Attendance: Photos

The Associated Press caught a glimpse of the event on Friday, which saw Donald and Melania Trump sitting front row in the audience

Barron Trump has officially put high school in the rearview following an exclusive graduation ceremony on Friday, May 17.

Photographs captured by the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse on Friday morning show the 18-year-old receiving his diploma on stage, and reveal that his parents, Donald and Melania Trump , as well as his grandfather, Viktor Knavs , sat front row in the audience.

A spokesperson for Melania did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment about the celebration.

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Donald was previously excused from appearing in court for his Manhattan criminal trial on Friday so that he could watch his son walk in the ceremony. He is scheduled to headline a Minnesota GOP event on Friday evening, likely cutting the family's post-graduation plans short.

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Barron enrolled at the elite Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach, Fla., after his family left the White House in 2021. He has yet to publicly announce his next steps, though his father recently confirmed that he is weighing college options.

Ahead of the graduation, a social source told PEOPLE that Melania will continue to take an active role in Barron's life as he decides his next moves.

“Melania will keep her hand on Barron’s future just as much going forward as she has throughout his early and current school years,” the source said. “He is her world. She is proud of him, and she is the primary decision maker on Barron and his future."

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Under the guidance and supervision of the Graduate Advisor and the Coordinator for the Mathematics and Statistics Tutoring Center, the graduate assistant will actively assist in the support of EKU’s students while developing skills needed to be successful in their chosen field. The graduate assistant may perform a variety of duties such as assisting students in the tutoring center, assisting faculty in the mass lecture classrooms or running a lab for the mass lecture courses. The graduate assistant may also have the opportunity to work in the Statistical Consulting Center. In this role, the student will assist statistics faculty providing free statistical consulting services to fully affiliated faculty, staff, and students. For those have an interest in teaching there may be opportunities to gain experience teaching lower level courses. Other graduate assistants may assist with faculty research and/or assessment projects.

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Dean's award 2024 – civil engineering and mathematics graduate anna babchanik found a formula for success through community.

By Daniel Wilson

May 13, 2024

Solving equations and exploring dams may not sound like fun activities for some, but they bring Anna Babchanik a world of joy.

As early as grade school, she knew she wanted a career where she could utilize her love for mathematics.

“I was doing math problems for fun when I didn't even need to,” she said. “My homework was done, and I didn't need to study for exams. I was just solving problems in my spare time.”

Babchanik, who graduated cum laude from Sac State in December as a double-major with bachelor’s degrees in Civil Engineering and Mathematics, is this year’s Dean’s Award recipient from the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS). Deans’ Awards are given at Commencement to the top graduating student from each of Sac State’s seven academic colleges.

Born in Sacramento, Babchanik is one of nine children. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Ukraine in the late 1990s following the fall of the Soviet Union. The nine siblings – six of whom have Sac State degrees in STEM fields – were raised with emphasis on their Slavic heritage, including a heavy focus on language, family and faith.

“I think the way I grew up helped me build my independence and determination for my passions,” Babchanik said. “The way I was raised definitely influenced the way I see the world and the people in it, and the way I treat people with respect and kindness and empathy.”

Babchanik originally planned to pursue medicine, but quickly realized she most enjoyed the math aspects. After some heavy nudging from her brother, she switched majors from Biochemistry to Civil Engineering and added Mathematics as a second major.

While participating in the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure program at UC Davis, she fell in love with geotechnical engineering, a sub-field of Civil Engineering dealing with the behavior of earthly materials, such as soil. Her research focused on examining erosion and cracking of land that can lead to dam failures and structural issues.

“I think dams or embankments are the most interesting geotechnical structure,” she said. “They’re carefully designed and critical in providing flood control, hydroelectric power and irrigation for agricultural purposes, among other things.”

Babchanik has also served as an instructional assistant in undergraduate courses, sharpened her skills in the University of Southern California Viterbi Summer Undergraduate Research Experience, interned at the Department of Water Resources in the Division of Safety of Dams, contributed to publications and presented research at multiple events.

In addition to participating in several clubs and professional affiliations, she received several scholarships and awards and made the ECS Dean’s Honor List multiple times. At Sac State, she co-organized the Change Makers Series and served as president of the Math Club.

“A lot of my successes may have been because of my ambition and my determination to succeed and want to do better and be better, but I think a bigger part was the people that I was surrounded by. I’m very thankful to my mentors and advisors and supervisors.” -- Anna Babchanik

“Beyond her academic achievements, Anna has demonstrated a strong commitment to serving her community and inspiring future generations of civil engineers,” said Kevan Shafizadeh, ECS dean. “Through her volunteer work, mentorship and participation in outreach events, she has sought to share her experiences and encourages others to pursue their academic and professional aspirations in STEM.”

Cultural expectations initially caused her family to push back against Babchanik’s switch from medicine to engineering, but support from professors and fellow Civil Engineering students helped her persevere. Through her accomplishments, she earned the support of her family.

“I just came to realize the importance that community had for me, and having that support system,” she said. “My peers and professors were very encouraging and supportive in (that) no matter how rigorous something got, they were always there, and they also celebrated my achievements with me.”

Ultimately, her passion for helping others drives her success.

“As a woman in traditionally male-dominated fields, I see and understand the value of inclusivity, and I recognize barriers and challenges that underrepresented students are going through,” said Babchanik, who will begin a master’s program at Stanford University focusing on mechanics and computation. She wants to be the first in her family to earn a doctorate.

“A lot of my successes may have been because of my ambition and my determination to succeed and want to do better and be better, but I think a bigger part was the people that I was surrounded by. I’m very thankful to my mentors and advisors and supervisors.”

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