Les Mathématiques: un enjeu pour
le futur
Marc Rosso
Université Paris Diderot
Fédération de Recherche de
Mathématiques de Paris centre
Rencontres ESRI, Séoul, 17.10.2016
Mathematics in France
• Universities, Grandes Ecoles (ENS, Ecole
Polytechnique, …), IHES, Collège de France,…
• CNRS: Joint Research Units (UMR), with universities
(sometimes several) and grandes écoles
• INRIA: projects/team
• Foundations: FSMP, FMJH (each involves several
institutions, and has programs with benefits for all
partners)
• ANR, Labex, Idex
French mathematical school
• From fundamental mathematics to applied
mathematics, with more and more interactions with
others sciences: physics, computer science, biology,
medicine,… and industry.
• Many Fields medalists, from all domains
• Special care to growing young talents
Networks and mobility
• Mathematicians from different institutions collaborate
closely, usually in thematic networks (GDR) involving teams
from different places: joint research conferences, summer
schools,…
• Mobility is required: no local hiring when you get your first
academic position (never in the lab where you got your
PhD), or when you want to be promoted (Maître de
Conférences to Professeur: you have to move to another
university)
• This helps strongly the renewal of ideas, research
directions,…
Collaboration France-South Korea
• Many individual connections, on a wide range of
domains:
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Algebraic geometry
Dynamical systems
Partial differential equations
Representation theory
International conferences
• 1st Korean-French conference in maths August
24-28, 2015, at IBS center for geometry and
physics
- Speakers from many different institutions (KAIST,
SNU, IBS center, Postech, KIAS, Inha, Chung-AngParis, Lyon, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Avignon)
- Wide range of topics: PDE’s, dynamical systems,
algebraic geometry, …
International Conferences II
• 2nd French-Korean conference in maths,
Bordeaux, July 4-12, 2016
- summer school: 4 courses
- Research talks; two main directions:
-- Algebraic geometry and number theory
-- Partial differential equations and applications
Future
• This is now time to structure the relations, and give some
ressources to work together.
• Create an « International Associated Laboratory » (L.I.A) a
“laboratory without walls”, which involves several research
teams or laboratories (some in France and some in Korea).
(This is a CNRS structure). The relationship between the
two partners is formalized through a contract signed by the
heads of each organization. Teams or laboratories
associated through an LIA retain their separate autonomy,
status, Director and location. The LIA activities are
coordinated by two co-principal investigators and by a
scientific steering committee.