19.3.2024
After being increased in September 2023, the budget allocated to the french Higher Education and Research is finally reduced by 904 million euros. The podcast “La Science, CQFD” by France Culture wondered how French research is faring and what direction it is taking. Claire Mathieu, research director at CNRS at IRIF, intervenes.

12.3.2024
Hugo Herbelin, research director at Inria in IRIF, is organizing the next french speaking Horizon Maths day on the topic: Mathematical Proof and Software Safety. It will take place on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Henri Poincaré Institute (5 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 5th), Hermite amphitheater. Free but mandatory registration:

5.2.2024
Join IRIF as Financial Management Manager! As part of an administrative team supervised by the Administrative Manager and consisting of 5 staff (including 3 managers under your responsibility), you will organise tasks relating to the preparation, implementation and monitoring of financial operations. Application deadline: Friday 23 February 2024. | Planned start date: 1 March 2024

1.2.2024
We are delighted to welcome David Saulpic, Research Fellow at the IRIF. His favourite subject? Algorithms, and more specifically clustering problems. You can meet him in his office 4029A.

31.1.2024
What kind of research policy? In an article for the french newspaper l'Humanité, Claire Mathieu explains the importance of research for France and the urgent need to make the field more attractive again, at the risk of driving away young researchers.

30.1.2024
How to design algorithms to analyze protocols in electronic voting ? How to define mathematically vote secrecy ? What is at stake ? Read the interview Véronique Cortier granted us before her distinguished talk on 7 February, 2024.

29.1.2024
One full professor (professeur des universités) and two associate professor (maître de conference) positions will open at IRIF. Fluency in French is mandatory for these positions. The application deadline is March the 6th 2024 (16h00 - Paris time)

24.1.2024
On 23 January, Loïc Peyrot, a doctoral student at the IRIF, was invited to speak on the subject of “Record polymorphism for set-theoretic types” at the IMDEA Software Institute.

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.