PhD thesis
Hybridization of interval methods and evolutionary algorithms for solving difficult optimization problems (Hybridation d’algorithmes évolutionnaires et de méthodes d’intervalles pour l’optimisation de problèmes difficiles)
Awards
- 2015: Léopold Escande prize, awarded by the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse
- 2015: Paul Sabatier prize in mathematics/computer science, awarded by the Académie des Sciences, Inscriptions et Belles Lettres de Toulouse
Fields of interest
- Global optimization
- Nonlinear programming: SQP/IPM methods, filter methods
- Enclosure methods: interval analysis, affine arithmetic
- Interval constraint programming
- Evolutionary algorithms, differential evolution
- Multidisciplinary design optimization: coupled derivatives, coupled adjoint
Software
- Next-generation C++ solver Uno for nonlinearly constrained nonconvex optimization
- OCaml solver Charibde dedicated to reliable global optimization
My math genealogy
- Charlie Vanaret
- Nicolas Durand
- Joseph Noailles
- Jacques-Louis Lions
- Laurent Schwartz
- Georges Valiron
- Emile Borel
- Gaston Darboux
- Michel Chasles
- Siméon Denis Poisson
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange
- Leonhard Euler
- Johann Bernoulli
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
Charlie Vanaret 