Hadamard Doctoral School of Mathematics

• Universities of Paris Chancellery Prize
• Chinese Government Prize
• My PhD in 180 Seconds
• Math-Entreprise AMIES PhD Prize
• Blaise Pascal Mathematics Laboratory PhD Prize
• Signal, Image and Vision PhD Prize
• Marie-Jeanne Laurent-Duhamel Prize
• GAMNI-SMAI PhD Prize
• Jacques NEVEU PhD Prize

• 2022

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

• 2021

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 

• 2020

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)

• 2019

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.

• 2018

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
 

• 2017

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

• 2016

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

• 2015

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

• 2014

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

• 2013

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

• 2012

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

Training courses on catalog

• 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
• SMAI days
• 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

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.

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:

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

• 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.