We are honored to announce the exceptional arrival of Hugo Duminil-Copin, the winner of the 2022 Fields Medal (equivalent to the Nobel Prize in mathematics), at ECE on its Paris – Eiffel campus. This unique conference will provide an invaluable opportunity for students, teachers, and the scientific community to discover the extraordinary work of this outstanding mathematician.
From coffee to mathematics: establishing connections and discovering unexpected links.
The game of HEX is based on deep mathematical foundations despite its simple rules.
What could this game possibly have in common with coffee? And how does this connection, once identified, lead us to consider ferromagnetism and even the melting of ice caps?
What is a phase transition? Why use mathematics to understand a physical phenomenon?
You will discover during this presentation, through the example of porosity phenomena, the theory of percolation.
This branch of mathematics, born sixty years ago, is now a vast and rich field of study that holds many surprises for mathematicians who explore it.
Join Hugo Duminil-Copin, professor of mathematics at the University of Geneva and at IHES, and Fields Medal 2022 for an exploration of how mathematical thinking can help us establish truly surprising connections.
Are you interested in this conference?
Date and Time: Thursday, February 1, 2024, starting at 5:30 PM.
Location: Amphitheaters EM009-010, Eiffel Campus 1 – 10, rue Sextius Michel, 75015 Paris
Conference broadcast live on the campuses of Bordeaux and Lyon
Free registration subject to availability