18.1.2024
Will AIs soon surpass their masters? The beginning of an answer can be found in this article in Le Monde Sciences on the rise of AI in mathematics, in which Vincent Jugé, a lecturer at the Gaspard-Monge Computer Science Laboratory at Gustave Eiffel University and seconded to the IRIF, is quoted.

15.1.2024
Congratulations to David Saulpic, who will be joining IRIF on 1 February, winner of the 2023 Gilles Kahn Dissertation Prize! He defended his thesis in 2018, entitled “Approximation Algorithms and Sketches for Clustering”.

9.1.2024
Congratulations to Pierre Fraigniaud, who won an Imre Simon Test-of-Time award 2024 for the paper "Collective Tree Exploration" with Leszek Gasieniec, Dariusz R. Kowalski, and Andrzej Pelc. It appeared in the proceedings of the 6th Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics (LATIN 2004). It will be delivered at the 16th edition of LATIN, in Puerto Varas, Chile, March 18-22, 2024.

2.1.2024
Following the adoption of the immigration law by the government, Claire Mathieu resigned from the Presidential Science Council, which was set up on 7 December 2023.

12.12.2023
The rerun of the talk of Simon Peyton Jones, first speaker of the 2023-2024 edition of the distinguished talks series is now available on the IRIF Youtube channel.

22.12.2023
Watch Pierre Letouzey's (researcher at the IRIF) talk, “Hofstadter's G function and beyond! A curious example combining calculations…” as part of the “Proofs and programmes” conference organised at the Institut Henri Poincaré.

7.12.2023
We are honoured to announce that Claire Mathieu, Director of Research (CNRS) is part of the Presidential Science Council announced on Thursday 7 December 2023. “This group of twelve high-level scientists is to provide advice to the executive to guide its research and innovation policy […]”.

22.12.2023
Frédéric Magniez,CNRS research director at IRIF and former professor at the Collège de France, was the technical president of the « The Blaise Pascal [re]Generative Quantum Challenge » jury. It was organised by Pasqal, in collaboration with Blaise Pascal Advisors, Michelin, GENCI, and Capgemini. In this interview, he explains the objectives of the challenge and the importance of fundamental research in all the solutions found: