Meeting with Bachelor students from Ecole Polytechnique at IHES

On November 28, IHES welcomed 80 students from Ecole Polytechnique’s Bachelor program. These students, gathered by AX, the Ecole Polytechnique Alumni Association, and l’ORE, the Bachelor program student organization, came to the Institute to meet the mathematicians of IHES community.

Konstantinos Alexopoulos, Bachelor program alumnus, now a PhD student at ETHZ, Leila Bassou, X2016, PhD student at École polytechnique, Antonin de Courcel, X2019, PhD student at IHES, Orso Forghieri, X2018, PhD student at École polytechnique, Adrien Hardy, mathematician, quantitative researcher at Qube R&T, Selmen Jnifen, X2019, Pascal Massart, mathematician, Director of the Fondation Mathématique Jacques Hadamard and Jing-Rebecca Li, applied mathematician at INRIA, shared their experiences and revealed their career paths, while illustrating the diversity of opportunities available to students wishing to pursue their studies in the field of mathematics.

Inspired by the challenges raised by the speakers, some Bachelor students left IHES with the ambition to pursue a career in mathematics research.