Third year PhD students' Day - Tuesday, March 31, 2026 - A709

Tuesday, March 31 at 9:00am we will meet in room A709 for the Third year PhD students' day. It will be followed by a buffet at Espace 7. Here is the program of the morning.

PROGRAM OF THE MORNING 

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9h - 9h15            Bridging Stochastic Optimal Control and Machine Learning
                            in the context of Life Insurance
                            Kim Anh Pham

9h15 - 9h30        Polynomial stabilization of a cascade coupled system
                            Lucas Davron

9h30  - 9h45       Near-optimal distributed controls for high-dimensional
                            stochastic systems - Beyond the Mean Field Setting 
                            Elise Devey

9h45 - 10h          Peierls instability and Kekulé distortion in graphene 
                            Thaddeus Roussigné

10h - 10h15        Entropic Optimal Transport Problem with Convex
                            Functional Cost
                            Xiaozheng Wang

10h15 - 10h45    Coffee Break

10h45 - 11h15    Intervention BU

11h15 - 11h30     Benign landscape of the Burer-Monteiro Factorization
                            of semidefinite-programs and applications 
                            Faniriana Rakoto Endor

11h30 - 11h45     Blow-up profile for Parabolic equations Related
                            to Geometry
                            Senhao Duan

11h45 - 12h        Efficient Gaussian processes to forecast food security
                            Emma Kopp

12h - 12h15        Learning Counterfactual Densities via Marginal
                            Contrastive Discrimination
                            Aminata Ndiaye

12h15 - 12h30    Explicit Construction of Superhedging portfolios
                            under Proportional Transaction Costs
                            Amal Omrani  

12h30 - 14h        Lunch