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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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Aug 27, 2018 Toutes nos félicitations à Vincent Pilloni lauréat du prix Élie Cartan, un prix triennal destine (...)
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Jul 23, 2018 Toutes nos félicitations à Étienne Ghys qui vient d’être élu Secrétaire perpétuel de l’Ac (...)
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May 25, 2018 Remise du coup de coeur du prix D'Alembert pour l'exposition "les mathématiques du ciel" Féliciti (...)
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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