Eric CANCES, researcher at CERMICS (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech laboratory, housing the INRIA and UPEMLV teams) received the Blaise Pascal Prize GAMNI-SMAI 2009 (applied mathematics and numerical calculus in engineering sciences).
CNRS Medal
Guillaume OVARLEZ, NAVIER Research Unit (Rheophysics team, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech/LCPC), received the Bronze Medal, section 9 “Structural and materials engineering - Solid state mechanics -Acoustics”.
Appointments
Claude LE BRIS, researcher at CERMICS (École des Ponts ParisTech) was one of the winners of the André Aisenstadt Chairs 2009-2010 at the Canadian Mathematical Research Centre (CRM).
Science Society prizes
Philippe COUSSOT, NAVIER Research Unit (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech/LCPC/UMR LMSGC), received the 2009 Maurice Couette Price, awarded by the French Rheology Group.
Roger FRANK, Professor at École des Ponts ParisTech and Research Director at the NAVIER research unit (Geotechnics team), received the George-Stephenson medal from the UK’s Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE).
Thesis prizes
Ecole des Ponts ParisTech 2008 Thesis Prize - Siavash GHABEZLOO, PhD researcher at the NAVIER research unit (Geotechnics Team) received the “Ecole des Ponts ParisTech Thesis Prize” for his thesis on “Therm-poro-mechanical behaviour of a petrochemicals cement”. Céline BONHOMME, PhD researcher at LEESU, received a special mention for her thesis on “Turbulence and waves in a stratified natural medium”.
Paris-East University 2009 Thesis Prize - Siavash GHABEZLOO (NAVIER RU, ED SIE) and Mathilde GRALEPOIS (LATTS, ED VTT) received their department’s 2009 Paris-East University Thesis prize.
Joanna BODGI, PhD researcher at the NAVIER Research Unit (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech/LCPC/MRU CNRS), received the René-Houpert Prize from the Civil Engineering Association, awarded to end of thesis research by PhD students.
Stéphanie CHAILLAT won the 2009 ECCOMAS (European Community on COmputational Methods in Applied Sciences) Thesis Prize awarded for the “best two theses presented in 2008 in the field of numerical methods in applied sciences and engineering”. The subject of her work was “Fast multipole method for integral boundary equations in 3-D elastodynamics. Application to the propagation of seismic waves” (thesis jointly supervised by Marc Bonnet (LMS) and J.-F. Semblat (LCPC).
