Hadamard Doctoral School of Mathematics

The operation of the doctoral training offered by the EDMH stems from several statutory texts:

    Various ministerial decrees, including the Decree of May 25, 2016 relating to doctoral training, Decree No. 2018-372 of May 18, 2018 relating to césures, Decree of August 29, 2016 relating to complementary doctoral missions and the Decree of August 29, 2016 setting the amount of remuneration of the contractual doctoral student and the Decree of April 19, 2019 relating to registration fees." The Order of October 11, 2021, setting the amount of remuneration for contractual doctoral students modifies the Order of August 29, 2016.
    The thesis charter of the University of Paris-Saclay, the Polytechnic Institute of Paris or the University of Paris Science et Lettres
    Internal rules of the EDMH

Awards

Prizes and Distinctions

• 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

Prize-winners

• 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

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Practical arrangements 1srt year

For any question about registration and re-registration, please contact the registration institution's administrative representative.

The detailed registration procedure for EDMH PhD students in the ADUM software is as follows:

1. Create a personal space in ADUM of Paris-Saclay University, if not already done when you applied


2. Create or update your profile: Enter or update the files containing your complete CV (PDF) and photo (jpg). The obligatory fields are those marked with a red star. For everything relating to your PhD proposal, however, simply put: ‘see PDF file for the PhD proposal’. Many fields (including parents' socio-economic category, type of degree enabling you to do a PhD, funding source, etc.) will used for obligatory ministerial data-collection campaigns. For this reason, please fill them in carefully.

You must also enter your:

• surname, first name, sex, date and place of birth, nationality
• if a foreign national: how long your residence permit is valid for
• phone number, email address, home and work address (remember to update them)
• PhD year
• photo (jpg) and CV (PDF) if you accidentally forgot earlier
• EDMH cluster (see drop-down menu. This is essential for management per doctoral school):

1. APT-ENSAE-HEC-INRA-TELECOM: AgroPariTech, ENSAE, HEC, INRA, Telecom Paris and Telecom SudParis
2. CEA-CS-ENSTA: CEA, CentraleSupélec, ENSTA
3. IHES-UPSUD: IHES and University of Paris-Sud
4. UEVE-UVSQ: University of Evry-Val d'Essonne, University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin
5. École Polytechnique, ENS Ulm and ENS Paris Saclay are obvious clusters
6. INRIA's own GAMMA3 and M3DISIM teams are attached to the CEA-CS-ENSTA and École Polytechnique clusters respectively

• Funding, type of work contract, employer, funding source, full- or part-time
• Research unit and research team (see the 'list of laboratories' menu)
• Supervisor and co-supervisor (if one of them is not in the 'list of officials', check to see if they are attached to another doctoral school. Otherwise, write to the EDMH administrative assistant edmh@fondation-hadamard.fr so that she can create a file for them in ADUM).
• Fields not to be filled in: everything already in the PDF file to be attached, even if it means resending it.

3. PDF documents to be attached for pedagogical or adminitrative reasons (merge all these documents into a single PDF):

4. Finalize the registration in ADUM

5. Each registration is then approved in ADUM by the director or relevant deputy director

6. After approval, and except for PhD students registered at Paris-Saclay University where the procedure for signing registration documents is dematerialized, the PhD student prints off the required documents

• Authorization of registration
• PhD student's charter
• Individual agreement training

These 3 documents have to be signed by the PhD student, his PhD supervisor, host laboratory director, and corresponding deputy director. It's possible to posted or emailed if the deputy director is not on site. He may has to go through the registration institution's EDMH administrative contact to obtain the latter two signatures.

A dematerialized signature procedure is in progress and will be implemented in the first half of 2020 for Paris-Saclay University. It is already effective for the University Paris Sciences et Lettres.

7. The PhD student goes to the registrar's office at his registration institution – in accordance with this office's procedures for making appointments and processing applications – with all the documents required for their administrative registration.

Practical arrangements 2nd and 3rd year

For any question concerning the registration and re-registration, please contact the EDMH administrative contact of the registration institution.

Here is the detailed registration process to the EDMH for the PhD students through the ADUM software:

1. Update your CV and your personal informations (do not fill in the fields concerning the PhD progress, the informations are to be given in a PDF file) Declare your monitoring committee ("Comité de Suivi"), and do not forget your referent (see the webpage Monitoring).

2. PDF documents to be attached for pedagogical or adminitrative reasons (merge all these documents into a single PDF). The downloading process in ADUM may vary with the institution in charge of the PhD registration. For instance, for a re-registration at PSL (through the ENS Ulm), the educational documents required by the EDMH have to be concatenated with the insurance certificate.

​4. Finalize the registration in ADUM

5. Each registration is then approved in ADUM by the director or relevant deputy director, who checks the progress report (one or two pages) written by PhD students and validated by their PhD supervisors, as well as the training courses (discipline-related and complementary) validated by PhD students. Although the training course requirements are for the entire duration of a PhD, it is not sensible to concentrate all of them into the final year.  The third re-registration will only be validated if half of the training course requirements have been completed or scheduled. 

6. After approval, the PhD student prints off the required documents

• Authorization of registration
• Individual agreement training

These 2 documents have to be signed by the PhD student, his PhD supervisor, host laboratory director, and corresponding deputy director. It's possible to posted or emailed if the deputy director is not on site. He may has to go through the registration institution's EDMH administrative contact to obtain the latter two signatures.

A dematerialized signature procedure is in progress and will be implemented in the first half of 2020 for Paris-Saclay University. It is already effective for the University Paris Sciences et Lettres.

7. The PhD student goes to the registrar's office at his registration institution– in accordance with this office's procedures for making appointments and processing applications – with all the documents required for their administrative registration.

Practical arrangements 4rth year and beyond

For all questions about re-registration, please contact the EDMH administrative representative at your registration institution

The detailed re-registration procedure for EDMH PhD students in the ADUM software is as follows:

1. Update your CV + profile (do not fill in the fields for how your PhD is progressing and the courses you have taken since these must be attached as a PDF file)​

2. PDF documents to be attached for pedagogical or adminitrative reasons (merge all these documents into a single PDF):

​4. Finalize the registration in ADUM

5. Each re-registration is approved in ADUM by the relevant deputy director, who checks the progress report (1-2 pages) written by PhD students and approved by their PhD supervisors, as well as the training courses (discipline-related and complementary) validated by PhD students. Although the course requirements are given for the entire duration of a PhD, it is not sensible to do all of them in the final year. In the absence of a pedagogical reason, your re-registration will not be approved if you have not completed enough courses.

6. After approval, the PhD student prints off the required documents

• Authorization of registration
• Individual agreement training

These 2 documents have to be signed by the PhD student, his PhD supervisor, host laboratory director, and corresponding deputy director. It's possible to posted or emailed if the deputy director is not on site. He may has to go through the registration institution's EDMH administrative contact to obtain the latter two signatures.

A dematerialized signature procedure is in progress and will be implemented in the first half of 2020 for Paris-Saclay University. It is already effective for the University Paris Sciences et Lettres.

7. The PhD student goes to the registrar's office at his registration institution– in accordance with this office's procedures for making appointments and processing applications – with all the documents required for their administrative registration.

Doctoral training

Annual opening conference day

Trainings

_{During your 3 years of thesis at EDMH, you must validate:}

• 12 points of disciplinary training (60 hours): participation in conferences, schools, M2 courses on the research topic...
• 12 points of transversal training (60 hours): any type of training not directly related to the research project (professional development, forums for companies, mentoring, doctoral student seminars, etc.), including the 3 mandatory training courses below.

 

 

Attestation de présence - ( 104.33 KB)

 

Monitoring

• information,
• orientation,
• advice for training (disciplinary or complementary),
• follow-up of the training plan/portfolio of the candidate,
• support and incentives.

Each doctoral student will be monitored throughout his or her thesis by an “Comité de Suivi Individuel” (CSI).

The EDMH’s PhD Defense Procedure

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

Layout of the cover page of the thesis

The templates for the cover page and back cover of the thesis can be found hereafter (see instructions in the latex PDF source file to modify and adapt them to your specific case, especially for PhD theses under formal international cotutelle agreements): 

• Layout of the cover page of the thesis of université Paris-Saclay
• pdf latex file for Institut Polytechnique of Paris
• pdf file for Institut Polytechnique of Paris
• For thesis defended at Paris Sciences et Lettres University, please adapt the model available on this link 

Appointment of Referees (External Examiners)

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.

Appointment of PhD Examining Committees

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.

The EDMH is particularly concerned about the future of its PhD students. The training offered and the various follow-up operations have the main purpose of preparing their professional integration, whatever the opportunities they envisage.At the end of a thesis at the EDMH, career prospects, in France or abroad, lead doctors to insert themselves

    In academia: Lecturer, teacher-researcher abroad
    In the secondary teacher: in preparatory class, PRAG...
    Within companies: Jobs in the private sector, R & D sectors from large groups to startups, see Enterprises
    In major public research organizations (CNRS, CEA, INRIA, DGA ...) and large state bodies

PhD students undertake by signing the thesis charter to provide the EDMH, via the ADUM software, their becoming during the 5 years following their defense.

For information, here is the table of the becoming, in March 2019, of the doctoral students who supported a thesis to the EDMH in 2016, 2017 and 2018

Post-doc & ATER

Entreprises

The EDMH participates in several operations designed to promote careers in the private sector of mathematics teachers.

• Forum Emploi Math:  organized by the Agence pour les mathématiques en interaction avec l'entreprise et la société (AMIES), at the "Cité Universitaire" (December 2016) or at the Cité des Sciences in Villette (December 13, 2017, December 13, 2018) , October 15, 2019). A great opportunity to meet a large number of start-ups, companies, large and small groups, and participate in roundtables. Come with his resume and a pitch presentation.
   
• Journée des carrières mathématiques: organized by DIM RdM IdF then DIM MathInnov, with funding from the Ile-de-France Region, in partnership with Adoc Talent Management (for example March 22, 2018, April 18-19, 2019):

* Conference on the job market for PhDs in Ile-de-France, in France and abroad, by Adoc Talent Management,
* workshop in subgroup on documentation of skills and expertise using a portofolio,
* academic and industrial round tables.

• PhD talent Career Fair: PhDTalent PhD Employment Forum (18 October 2019, 16 October 2020).

Jobs

For job offers in companies and start-ups, it is particularly recommended to consult:

• the website of Agence pour les mathématiques en interaction avec l'entreprise et la société(AMIES) of Jobs
• the website of APEC

Teaching

PhD students who also hold the 'agrégation' and who want a teaching post in a lycée (high school), must take part in the Académie de Versailles mouvement intra-academique (annual application procedure for teaching posts within a given school district) (or of the school district for your teaching post/teaching assistantship). If applying for a first appointment, they must also take part in the mouvement inter-academique (annual application procedure for teaching posts between school districts). PhD students can also apply for another deferral to carry out an ATER, post-doc, etc.

The procedure starts in November of the third year of a PhD:

• See information on the Official Journal of the French State Education System, website, especially the special issue explaining the procedure to follow (which may change from year to year) published at that time.
• Obtain your NUMEN. If you do not have a NUMEN, you must ring the Rectorat de Versailles on 01 30 83 44 44.
• Log in to the SIAM website and follow the procedure. In principle, your login name is the first letter of your first name followed by your family name, all written as one word and in lower case letters. If you have namesakes, add a number (1, 2, 3, etc.). The password is your NUMEN. Given the low number of initial points, some school districts will be hard to obtain.

The application procedure for posts in preparatory classes in Grandes Écoles (CPGE) is not via SIAM (even though you have to undertake this procedure if you do not obtain a CPGE post immediately and even though information about posts may be available via SIAM). You should instead write to the DGRH/B2 and contact the schools inspectorate in November: consult the official journal. It may be worth consulting teaching union information about this matter.

The second phase of the application procedure for 'agrégation' holders in is March-April. You must take part in the mouvement intra-academique. You must apply for a TZR (substitute teacher) post if you want a temporary assignment (e.g. to do an ATER or post-doc; the exact terms and conditions for temporary assignments depend on the job). To avoid being struck off the French state education system, you must follow the temporary assignments procedure and contact your education authority before leaving to do an ATER job or post-doc. The temporary assignment procedure can take a long time and you should not wait for confirmation that you have obtained it. It may also be worth consulting teaching union information about this matter.

Assistant professorship qualification

To be eligible to apply in the spring of year n for a position as Maître de conférence in France, you must be on a Qualification List drawn up by the Conseil National des Universités (CNU). Applications for qualification must be submitted no later than autumn of year n-1.

The procedure is detailed on the Galaxie website and in the document below:

The 5-month timetable (from September to January) comprises two phases:

1. a period for declaring candidacies, from Thursday, September 21 2023 - 10 a.m. to Friday, November 10, 2023 - 4 p.m. (Paris time) ;
2. a period for submitting mandatory and additional documents making up the file:

          - from Thursday, September 21 to Friday, December 15, 2023 (4pm Paris time) for candidates who have already graduated, or who will have defended their thesis or HDR no later than November 23, 2023;

          - from Thursday September 21, 2023 to Friday January 19, 2024 (4 pm, Paris time) for candidates who will be defending their thesis or HDR between November 24, 2023 and January 12, 2024.

Please note: for recently defended theses, the attestation of successful completion of the doctorate is required as one of the requested documents. This attestation is not obtained immediately after the defense; it requires a second submission of the thesis on ADUM, which can take several days. It is therefore advisable not to wait until the last day of the second phase to defend your thesis, and to find out how long it will take to obtain the required documents.

Information specific to CNU sections 25 (fundamental mathematics) and 26 (applied mathematics), as well as advice and regulations, is available on the "Opération postes" website. This is a fantastic site, the envy of other disciplines (except computer science, which is also concerned), for managing applications for lecturer positions, and we strongly recommend that you create a Mars file there (in addition to your own website).

PhD International Co-Supervision

The application procedure for PhD international cotutelle agreements

The EDMH recommends applying for this supervision as soon as international cotutelle is envisaged.

The PhD supervisor must fill in an online form. If applicable, putting ‘See attached PDF file for PhD proposal’ or ‘Not applicable’ in the fields that do not have to be filled in immediately, available on point 3 of the doctoral college’s page for international cotutelle agreements.

Using this form, the international relations department of the Paris-Saclay doctoral college (including thesis of Institut Polytechnique of Paris or Paris Sciences et Lettres University) and the various institutions will draw up the agreement and send it to be signed by the various people concerned (including the PhD student, PhD supervisor(s), director(s) of the laboratory, EDMH, and institution.

Welcoming Foreign PhD Students

The LMH-EDMH Labex funds French courses for all non-French-speaking PhD students and foreign language courses for PhD students preparing for professional mobility. Please contact the EDMH administrative assistant or a member of the EDMH executive committee about this.

M. Stéphane Nonnemacher

Directeur EDMH
Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de mathématiques d'Orsay (LMO)

Me d'Epenoux Clotilde

Responsable administrative EDMH
Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de mathématiques d'Orsay (LMO)