CERMICS

What CERMICS does

CERMICS (Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Mathématiques et Calcul Scientifique) is the applied mathematics research center of École nationale des ponts et chaussées (ENPC), operating as a joint research unit with CNRS under reference UMR 9032. Based at the Cité Descartes campus in Marne-la-Vallée, France, the center conducts fundamental and applied research across three principal areas: Applied Probability (numerical methods in probability, probabilistic interpretation of PDEs, optimal transport, probabilistic models in finance and risk management, statistical machine learning, molecular simulation), Modeling, Analysis and Simulation, and Optimization. The center's distinguishing methodological contribution is bridging deterministic and stochastic approaches to produce both theoretical results and numerical methods.

The center hosts permanent researchers alongside PhD students and postdocs, and maintains joint project-teams with Inria Paris (notably the MathRisk team) and University Gustave Eiffel. It is integrated into the Bézout CNRS Federation and the EDMH (École Doctorale de Mathématiques Hadamard) doctoral school, supporting PhD training and structured academic collaboration. Researchers engage with industrial partners across transport, energy, finance, engineering, and pharmaceutical sectors, and with academic scientists in biology, chemistry, physics, and material sciences.

CERMICS operates as a non-commercial academic institution with no revenue-generating products or services; its pricing_details field confirms no commercial offerings. Activities are funded through public research grants (e.g., ANR DySLoS 2026-2030, PEPR MathsVivES 2025-2030), institutional support from ENPC and CNRS, and collaborative arrangements with industry via chairs such as Financial Risks (Institut Louis Bachelier) and Futures of Quantitative Finance. Dissemination occurs through academic publications, seminars, colloquia, and YouTube research-presentation playlists, with recent recognition including the 2026 SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Best Paper Prize.

Name

CERMICS

Legal name

CERMICS – Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Mathématiques et Calcul Scientifique

Website

https://cermics.enpc.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

CERMICS is a French academic applied mathematics research center (joint unit UMR 9032 with CNRS and École nationale des ponts et chaussées) conducting research in probability, modeling/simulation, and optimization for academic and industrial partners.

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Product category

Academic Applied Mathematics Research

NAICS

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) (541715), Scientific Research and Development Services (5417), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

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Keywords

• Applied mathematics research
• Probabilistic modeling
• Numerical simulation
• Mathematical optimization
• Statistical machine learning

Headquarters

HQ city

Marne-la-Vallée (Cité Descartes - Champs-sur-Marne)

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

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Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

CERMICS is a non-commercial academic research center that conducts fundamental and applied research in applied mathematics across Applied Probability, Modeling/Analysis/Simulation, and Optimization. It delivers research outputs (publications, numerical methods, theoretical results) and graduate training (PhDs, habilitations), and engages in collaborative research contracts with industrial partners in transport, energy, finance, engineering, and pharmaceuticals.

Product overview

CERMICS is a research center in applied mathematics, not a commercial product company. It does not offer products or services in the traditional commercial sense. The center conducts research in three main areas: Applied Probability (numerical methods in probability, probabilistic interpretation of PDEs, optimal transport, probabilistic models in finance, risk management, and statistical machine learning), Modeling, Analysis and Simulation, and Optimization. The center's originality lies in building bridges between deterministic and stochastic approaches, producing both theoretical results and numerical methods with strong interactions with industrial partners.

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Products and services

• Applied Probability Research Program Fundamental and applied research in numerical methods for probability, probabilistic interpretations of partial differential equations, optimal transport, probabilistic models for finance and risk management, and statistical machine learning, delivered through publications and collaborative research contracts with industrial and academic partners.
• Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Research Program Research into deterministic and stochastic mathematical modeling, model-order reduction for high-dimensional problems, molecular dynamics simulations, and scientific computing, delivered via publications and collaborative projects with industry and academia.
• Optimization Research Program Research into combinatorial optimization, structured learning, stochastic optimization, control theory, and operations research, including applications to traffic flow stabilization, transportation supply chains, and new energy systems, delivered through publications and collaborative research.
• PhD and Habilitation Thesis Supervision Doctoral and habilitation training in applied mathematics through the EDMH doctoral school, providing graduate researchers with supervision, seminars, and a thesis pipeline contributing to academia and industry.

Quantifiable outcome

• Regular publications in top-tier mathematics and probability journals
• +1 more outcomes

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Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCERMICS is a joint research unit (UMR 9032) with CNRS, one of the world's leading research institutions. This formal partnership establishes the center as an official French national research laboratory.
• Inria PariscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCERMICS hosts joint project-teams with Inria (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology), particularly the MathRisk project-team.
• Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées (ENPC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCERMICS is the research center in applied mathematics of Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées, hosting permanent researchers and PhD students from the institution.
• University Gustave EiffelcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCERMICS hosts joint project-teams with University Gustave Eiffel, contributing to collaborative research projects.
• Bézout CNRS FederationmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCERMICS is part of the Bézout CNRS Federation, a network of mathematics laboratories in the Paris-Est area.
• EDMH Doctoral SchoolmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCERMICS is part of the EDMH (École Doctorale de Mathématiques Hadamard) doctoral school, participating in PhD training programs.
• INRIA MathRisk project-teamcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Applied Probability team members collaborate with the MathRisk project-team, which is common to Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, INRIA and UGE.
• Financial Risks chairmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMain collaboration with the Financial Risks chair under Institut Louis Bachelier, focused on quantitative finance research.
• Futures of Quantitative Finance chairmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMain collaboration with the Futures of Quantitative Finance chair, supporting research in mathematical finance.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique): France's largest public-research organization and CERMICS's co-tutoring institution; comparable as the umbrella governance and funding structure, but far broader than CERMICS's applied-math focus.
• École nationale des ponts et chaussées (ENPC): CERMICS's parent institution — a French grande école d'ingénieurs with a much broader engineering, environment, and economics portfolio; comparable as the institutional context in which CERMICS operates, but not a research-peer in the narrow sense.

Direct peers

• LJLL (Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions), Sorbonne Université: Paris-based applied math lab with strong activity in numerical analysis, PDEs, and probability, including industrial collaborations; directly comparable to CERMICS in research scope and public-laboratory structure.
• Institut Camille Jordan (ICJ), Université Lyon 1: Major French CNRS math research unit covering probability, control theory, optimization, and scientific computing — direct overlap with CERMICS's three research axes and a similar mixed-pure/applied profile.
• LPSM (Laboratoire de Probabilités, Statistique et Modélisation): Sorbonne/CNRS joint unit focused on probability, statistics, and modeling — overlapping directly with CERMICS's Applied Probability and Modeling, Analysis and Simulation axes, and operating under the same French public-research governance model.
• Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse (IMT): Federated CNRS math research unit in Toulouse covering probability, statistics, optimization, and scientific computing — overlapping research axes with CERMICS and operating under the same French public-research model.
• CMAP (Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées), École polytechnique: Applied mathematics center at a peer French grande école with closely aligned research in PDEs, numerical methods, probability, and optimization, and a similar industrial-collaboration model via the École polytechnique ecosystem.
• LMO (Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay), Université Paris-Saclay: Large CNRS/Paris-Saclay math lab with significant activity in probability, statistics, and PDE analysis; comparable to CERMICS in research axes and French institutional positioning, though with a broader pure-math footprint.
• INRIA Paris: Hosts joint project-teams with CERMICS (e.g., MathRisk) and conducts applied mathematics research in probability, modeling, and optimization across the Paris region, making it the closest direct peer in both research scope and institutional structure.

Others

• EDF R&D Quantitative Finance / Risk Lab: Industrial research unit applying probability, stochastic methods, and optimization to energy-market risk; not a research-peer but an example of the type of industrial partner whose demand underpins CERMICS's applied-probability and finance-chair activity.

Market position

Strengths4 records

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Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

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Profiles2 records

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