Local Organizing Committee

Nicolas Pelay (chair)

Nicolas Pelay is a research professor in Paris 7. After an engineering degree in mathematics and computer science and a PhD thesis in didactic of mathematics, he is a founding member and the president of the association "Plaisir Maths". He is a devout advocate of the diffusion of math.

Etienne Ghys

Étienne Ghys is a French mathematician. His research focuses mainly on geometry and dynamical systems. He also expresses much interest in the historical development of mathematical ideas, especially the contribution of Henri Poincaré. He co-authored the computer graphics mathematical movie Dimensions: A walk through mathematics. He is is currently a CNRS "directeur de recherche" at the École normale supérieure in Lyon. He is also a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Damien Lucas

Damien Lucas has long worked for an organization that creates scientific holidays, and himself led young people from 6 to 18 years as a leader and director of summer camp in France but also abroad.
He loves games and remains to this day still unbeatable in Othello.
He has taught mathematics workshops in primary schools and is a founding member of the association “Plaisir Maths”.

Christian Mercat

Christian Mercat is the director of the Institute for Research on Math Teaching (IREM) in Lyon. His field of expertise is discrete geometry, especially discrete Riemann surfaces, and its links to integrable models. He is a member of  S2HEP, IUFM and UCB Lyon 1.

Laura Pallez

Laura Pallez is a student in mathematics' teacher science in Lyon, she wants to continue in this field and become a researcher. She is mainly interested in mathematics and games, and wants to make every pupil discover the fun which is inside mathematics. She is an active member of the association "Plaisir Maths".

Michele Triestino

Michele Triestino is currently an emigrate Italian mathematician in the wonderful place which the ÉNS of Lyon is.
He is trying to mix together some probability, dynamics and geometry on the circle in order to work out a PhD thesis.
Usually, he attempts to reach mathematical summer schools by bike: this time it will be not so difficult!

Richard Griffon

Richard Griffon is a PhD student at Paris 7 University. His favorite mathematical activity is (to try) to decipher the mysterious blend of number theory and algebraic geometry encoded in an L-function.
Outside the lab, he loves reading, drawing and taking pictures: in particular, he made the poster for ISSMYS 2012. He is a thrilled member of “Plaisir Maths”.

Guillaume Aupy

Guillaume Aupy is a PhD student in theoretical computer science at the ENS of Lyon. His work focuses on various aspects of scheduling, with different constraints such as the energy consumption or the reliability. Outside the lab, he loves TV shows, mangas and camping.

Élodie Pozzi

Élodie Pozzi is a postdoctoral fellow at Inria Sophia-Antipolis. Her resarch focuses in functional analysis and approximation theory. She is involved in various activities related to the diffusion of mathematics and also in promoting the participation of women inmath studies.