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About the Unit
The UMPA (Unit of Pure and Applied Mathematics) is the Mathematics department of the École normale supérieure de Lyon, as well as a research laboratory of CNRS and INRIA.
The department currently has about 60 members, including faculties, postdocs, and visitors, working on major fields of pure and applied mathematics: Geometry, Groups, and Dynamical Systems; Partial Differential Equations and Modeling; Probability; Number Theory. Read more
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Nov 29, 2019 Jeudi 5 décembre 2019 à 14h en Amphi A, Titre : "Grandes déviations et convergence du spectre de (...)
- Nov 18, 2019 UMPA hires a Post-doctorant in mathematics for 2020-2021
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Nov 13, 2019 Toutes nos félicitations à Laure Saint-Raymond Lauréate du prix Bôcher 2020
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- Research areas
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Geometry, Groups, and DynamicsThe concept of geometry evolved in the past two centuries, since the discovery of non-Euclidean and Riemannian geometries. Such geometries underwent a revolution with the work of Gromov and Thurston. Several members of the UMPA (...) Read more
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Number TheoryThe research subjects of the members of the Number Theory group are in the domain of arithmetic geometry, going from number theory to algebraic geometry. Read more
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PDE and ModellingThis team studies PDE from the theoretical and numerical viewpoints, for applications to Physics and Life Sciences (within the endowed INRIA team Numed). Read more
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Probability theoryThe Probability Group investigates various topics such as: free probability, random graphs, random matrices, random media, stochastic partial differential equations. Read more