PGMO Invited courses

M2 Optimization is supported by the Gaspard Monge Program for optimization, operations research and their interactions with data sciences (PGMO). PGMO is a corporate sponsorship program operated by Fondation Mathématiques Jacques Hadamard, with the support of Électricité de France. We invite every year a prominent international researcher to give a course on a topic related to optimization, game theory or control.

The first 2025/26 PGMO course will be given by Bo’az Klartag (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel).

Former courses:

• 2023/24: Thorsten Theobald, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt: “Real Algebraic Geometry and Optimization”
• 2022/23: Gabriele Steidl, T.U. Berlin: “Splitting Algorithms and Generalized Normalizing Flows”
• 2021/22: François Delarue, Université Côte d’Azur, France: “Mean-field games”
• 2020/21: Sylvain Sorin, Sorbonne Universités, France: “Dynamics in games: algorithms and learning”
• 2019/2020 Thomas Pock, Graz University of Technology, Austria: “Vision, Optimization and Learning”
• 2018/2019 Claudia Sagastizabal, Unicamp, Brazil: “A VU-point of view of nonsmooth optimization”
• 2018/2019 Alexander Shapiro, Georgia Tech, USA: “Stochastic programming”