Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MathInGreaterParis (MathInGreaterParis Fellowship Programme)
Période du rapport: 2021-10-01 au 2023-09-30
Research in mathematical sciences plays a key role in competitivity and growth, and in facing new challenges as numerous future technologies and complex societal questions are relaying on advances in mathematics.
France has a long tradition of excellence in mathematics research and education, and Greater Paris Region represents the largest concentration of mathematicians in the world, with incredible successes. However, the Region still suffers from a relative dispersion. The Greater Paris’ mathematical community, namely FSMP (Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris covering all laboratories in Center/North of Paris), FMJH (Fondation Jacques Hadamardin Paris South) and Fédération Bézout (in Paris East), have decided to join forces in the present ambitious Cofund MathInGreaterParis Fellowship Programme. The 60-month project is split over 3 calls of 2-year fellowships, offering a total of 74 years of fellowships.
The MathInGreaterParis objective, as a single and unified portal to Greater Paris Region, is to attract the brightest Experienced Researchers in mathematical sciences. The training activities will focus on: 1) Research, transferable skills and career development, 2) International, interdisciplinary and intersectoral secondments in research and/or teaching, 3) Wider impact of research concentrating on competitivity and outreach. They will be helped in building their future, whether in the academia or towards new industrial challenges. They will be taught how to communicate with society and become truly “Math Ambassadors”, based on “learning by doing approach”. MathInGreaterParis fellows will emerge new ambitions, educate a mindset oriented towards more mobility and curiosity, a greater awareness of the mathematics’ impact in the new economy, a greater taste for risk, innovation and entrepreneurship. This will yield in regional, national and international socio-economic benefits and strengthened human resources.
France has a long tradition of excellence in mathematics research and education, and Greater Paris Region represents the largest concentration of mathematicians in the world, with incredible successes. However, the Region still suffers from a relative dispersion. The Greater Paris’ mathematical community, namely FSMP (Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris covering all laboratories in Center/North of Paris), FMJH (Fondation Jacques Hadamardin Paris South) and Fédération Bézout (in Paris East), have decided to join forces in the present ambitious Cofund MathInGreaterParis Fellowship Programme. The 60-month project is split over 3 calls of 2-year fellowships, offering a total of 74 years of fellowships.
The MathInGreaterParis objective, as a single and unified portal to Greater Paris Region, is to attract the brightest Experienced Researchers in mathematical sciences. The training activities will focus on: 1) Research, transferable skills and career development, 2) International, interdisciplinary and intersectoral secondments in research and/or teaching, 3) Wider impact of research concentrating on competitivity and outreach. They will be helped in building their future, whether in the academia or towards new industrial challenges. They will be taught how to communicate with society and become truly “Math Ambassadors”, based on “learning by doing approach”. MathInGreaterParis fellows will emerge new ambitions, educate a mindset oriented towards more mobility and curiosity, a greater awareness of the mathematics’ impact in the new economy, a greater taste for risk, innovation and entrepreneurship. This will yield in regional, national and international socio-economic benefits and strengthened human resources.
In the first period of the programme (October 1st, 2021 - September 30th, 2023) the work has been mainly devoted to communication, dissemination, evaluation, and selection activities to complete at the best the recruitment of the 26 Postdoctoral fellows’ students through two calls.The programme’s web page was created, and regularly updated: https://www.mathingp.fr/. In this first period special attention was devoted to selection procedure, recruitments and working conditions.
The main objective of this period has been to complete the recruitment process for the 26 Postdoctoral fellows through two calls. We summarize below the main steps of the work carried in line with the two milestones of the project. Details on the procedure will be given in Technical Report while the lists of applicants, laureates, experts, etc… and form’s templates can be found in the reports submitted in the continuous reporting for each work package.
The main objective of this period has been to complete the recruitment process for the 26 Postdoctoral fellows through two calls. We summarize below the main steps of the work carried in line with the two milestones of the project. Details on the procedure will be given in Technical Report while the lists of applicants, laureates, experts, etc… and form’s templates can be found in the reports submitted in the continuous reporting for each work package.
The scientific training received by the fellows combined with the high level of recruitment targeted will make them outstanding mathematicians, which is necessary to ensure their future careers. If in certain situations this may be sufficient to obtain a job, we are convinced that it is not satisfactory, and the stated ambition of this programme is to go well beyond the training of excellent mathematicians. Indeed, we have the ambition to impact far beyond the academic sector by reaching out to society and the industrial sector and that is why we have put the emphasis on training in non-research oriented transferable skills and instituted a mandatory mobility period of at least two months.
We actually have the ambition that our model of training citizen mathematicians, in relation to society and non-academic, will profoundly change the way non-academics, economic and political decision-makers, and society view mathematicians and that in the medium term our approach will become the norm.
We think today, two years into the programme, that the work done until now is in line with these expected impacts: the level of candidates recruited has been very high, and they responded enthusiastically to our fist propositions of meetings and soft skills activities. To achieve our ambitions, it will be essential in the second period to help fellows in the set- up of their 3-i secondments, to organize more soft skills training days. We plan also to create a specific web page to share ideas and resources.
We actually have the ambition that our model of training citizen mathematicians, in relation to society and non-academic, will profoundly change the way non-academics, economic and political decision-makers, and society view mathematicians and that in the medium term our approach will become the norm.
We think today, two years into the programme, that the work done until now is in line with these expected impacts: the level of candidates recruited has been very high, and they responded enthusiastically to our fist propositions of meetings and soft skills activities. To achieve our ambitions, it will be essential in the second period to help fellows in the set- up of their 3-i secondments, to organize more soft skills training days. We plan also to create a specific web page to share ideas and resources.