Mathematics has been practiced since antiquity, but its themes and fields of application have exploded over the last hundred years. Computer science was born as one of these new applications, then developed into its own disciplinary field.
The Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences numériques of the Collège de France aims to reflect this diversity : from pure mathematics to applied mathematics and fundamental computer science ; from algebra to analysis, geometry and combinatorics ; from statistical learning to formal software verification.
The institute includes permanent chairs, an international chair and an annual chair, as listed below.
- Partial Differential Equations and Applications Chair (Pierre-Louis Lions), in conjunction with Ceremade (CNRS and Université Paris-Dauphine), Institut Louis Bachelier, and the Finance and Sustainable Development Chair (EDF, Calyon, École Polytechnique and Paris-Dauphine).
- Data Science Chair (Stéphane Mallat), in conjunction with the ENS Data Science Center.
- Software Science Chair (Xavier Leroy), in association with the Cambium project-team, a joint venture between Inria and Collège de France.
- Combinatorics Chair (Timothy Gowers).
- International Chair in Automorphic Forms (Bảo Châu Ngô, 2020-2025).
- Annual Chair in Computer Sciences, in partnership with Inria (since 2009)
In addition to its research work, the institute also contributes to the animation of research communities in mathematics and computer science through annual lectures.
Every year, the Peccot lecture gives two promising young mathematicians the opportunity to present their work.
The annual Computer Sciences chair welcomes a different specialist each year to introduce the Collège de France public to a new facet of computer science and its interactions with other sciences.
