PhD AWARD 2026
The Gaspard Monge Program for Optimization, Operations Research and their Interactions with Data Science, with the participation and scientific patronage of ROADEF and SMAI (MODE group), is launching a call for applications for two thesis prizes (1000€ each).
- Criteria: PhD theses, defended in France in 2025, making significant contributions in the field of optimization and operations research. These contributions can be theoretical or applicative and can be related to mathematics or computer science.
- Awards ceremony and presentation of the winners' work at the next PGMODAYS conference (November 17&18, 2026)
Submissions should be uploaded to the easychair website: Information coming soon
Closing date of the call: Information coming soon
- Additional information :
Documents to be provided: thesis manuscript, abstract of the thesis in English, pre-defense and defense reports, CV with list of publications. Optionally, any letter of support can be added to the file, or sent to Magali Le Chaponnier <magali.lechaponnier@fondation-hadamard.fr> who will communicate it to the jury.
PGMO PhD Awards History
PhD Award 2025 Congratulations to 2 laureats : Armand Gissler - "Linear convergence of evolution strategies with covariance matrix adaptation" Maher Mallem - "Complexité Paramétrée et Nouveaux Schémas Enumeratifs Efficaces pour le RCPSP" The jury for the 2025 edition was …
PhD Award 2024 Tâm Lê - "Nonsmooth calculus and optimization for machine learning: first-order sampling and implicit differentiation" Tam Le a effectué son doctorat sous la direction de Jérôme Bolte et Edouard Pauwels à la Toulouse School of Economics. Son …
PhD AWARD 2023 Ngoc Hoang Mai - "Practical polynomial optimization through positivity certificates with and without denominators" Rémi Robin - "Control and Optimization of Physical Systems: Quantum Dynamics and Magnetic Confinement in Stellarators" The jury for the 2023 edition was …
PhD AWARD 2022 Adèle Pass-Lanneau Adèle Pass-Lanneau completed her PhD at Sorbonne University, under the supervision of Pascale Bendotti, Philippe Chrétienne and Pierre Fouilhoux. Her thesis work deals with the notion of decision anchoring in the field of robust combinatorial …
PhD AWARD 2021 The 2021 laureate of the PGMO Thesis Award are: Idriss MAZARI Shape optimization and spatial heterogeneity in reaction-diffusion equations Idriss Mazari a effectué son doctorat en mathématiques à Sorbonne université, sous la direction de Grégoire Nadin et …
PhD AWARD 2020 The 2020 laureate of the PGMO Thesis Award are: Tristan Garrec Tristan Garrec a effectué son doctorat en mathématiques à l’Université de Toulouse Capitole sous la direction de Jérôme Renault. Il est l'auteur d'une thèse élégante de …
PhD AWARD 2019 The 2019 laureate of the PGMO Thesis Award are: Charles Bertucci Contributions à la théorie des jeux à champ moyen" "The PGMO Prize 2019 is awarded to Charles BERTUCCI for his PhD thesis entitled "Contributions à la …
PhD AWARD 2018 The 2018 laureate of the PGMO Thesis Award are: Nicolas BONIFAS Geometric and Dual Approaches to Cumulative Scheduling " The work of Nicolas Bonifas falls in the scope of constraint-based scheduling. In this framework, the most frequently …
PhD AWARD 2017 The 2017 laureate of the PGMO Thesis Award are: Vincent Cohen-Addad From Practice to Theory : Approximation schemes for clustering and network design under the direction of Claire Mathieu "This thesis contains pathbreaking and practically very important …
PhD AWARD 2016 The 2016 laureate of the PGMO Thesis Award are: Pauline SARRABEZOLLES Pauline Sarrabezolles obtained her PhD thesis in Applied Mathematics at Université Paris-Est and ENPC ParisTech under the supervision of Frédéric Meunier. The title of the thesis …
PhD AWARD 2015 The 2015 laureate of the PGMO Thesis Award are: Benjamin MARTIN Benjamin Martin prepared his PhD thesis in Nantes in Computer Science after a Bachelor in Mathematics at the University of Nantes and a Master Degree in …
PhD AWARD 2014 The 2014 laureate of the PGMO Thesis Award are: Daniel HOEHENER Daniel HOEHENER prepared his PhD thesis at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) on "Conditions d’optimalité pour des problèmes de contrôle optimal avec contraintes d’états'' …
PhD AWARD 2013 The 2013 laureate of the PGMO Thesis Award are: Olivier FERCOQ Olivier Fercoq a fait sa thèse sous la direction de Stéphane Gaubert, Marianne Akian (X, CMAP +INRIA) et Mustapha Bouhtou (Orange Labs). Le sujet était: "Optimisation …