A series of monthly lectures, The Jacques Morgenstern Colloquium exhibits the most active, most promising research in the field of Information and Communication Science and Technology (ICST).
The lectures cover current research, new applications, as well as industrial and social challenges. The invited speakers are established senior experts of international stature in computer science, mathematics, and other fields where ICST plays a crucial role.
The colloquium is addressed to all researchers, engineers and students who want to better understand the future of IST. It is intended to create awareness and interest and to promote interdisciplinary discussions and collaborations.
The colloquium is named after Jacques Morgenstern, a professor of mathematics at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis and one of the pioneers in algebraic complexity and computer algebra. He headed a joint team of CNRS, Inria and the University of Nice until he died tragically in 1994.
The colloquium is part of the training at Ecole Doctorale STIC. Free entrance.
The lectures cover current research, new applications, as well as industrial and social challenges. The invited speakers are established senior experts of international stature in computer science, mathematics, and other fields where ICST plays a crucial role.
The colloquium is addressed to all researchers, engineers and students who want to better understand the future of IST. It is intended to create awareness and interest and to promote interdisciplinary discussions and collaborations.
The colloquium is named after Jacques Morgenstern, a professor of mathematics at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis and one of the pioneers in algebraic complexity and computer algebra. He headed a joint team of CNRS, Inria and the University of Nice until he died tragically in 1994.
The colloquium is part of the training at Ecole Doctorale STIC. Free entrance.
Our recent speakers
Formally Verified (Post-Quantum) Cryptography, by Gilles Barthe (MPI-SP)
January 8th, 2026 The NIST Post-Quantum Standardization program (2016-ongoing) aims to standardize a new generation of cryptographic algorithms resistant against quantum attackers.The talk will report and reflect on our long-term efforts to develop formally verified implementations of ML-KEM and ML-DSA, that were selected for standardization by NIST in 2022 and finally standardized in 2024. Bio:…
Quantum feedback engineering, bosonic codes and quantum error correction, by Pierre Rouchon (Mines Paris – PSL)
October 16th, 2025 Quantum error correction relies on a feedback loop. This feedback generally corresponds to a classical controller. Quantum error correction can also exploit the dissipation associated with the phenomenon of decoherence. Called autonomous correction by physicists, it then uses feedback where the controller is a dissipative quantum auxiliary system. This talk focuses on…
Storing Digital Data on Synthetic DNA: State of the Art and Open Challenges, by Marc Antonini (CNRS)
June 19th, 2025 The amount of digital data generated worldwide is continuously growing at an unprecedented rate: 90% of all existing data has been created in the last two years alone. This explosive growth leads to an exponential increase in the consumption of scarce resources and energy, with no absolute guarantee of the long-term integrity…
Angela Dai – 3D in a Large-Data World
March 18th, 2025 Recent advances in machine learning have shown remarkable progress in the 2D and video domain, fueled by very large-scale data and compute. 3D, however, which is critical for applications spanning content creation, mixed reality, and robotics, remains constrained by significantly more limited data representing higher-dimensional information. In this talk, we first address…
Philippe Jacquet – The performance paradoxes of wireless networks due to physical constraints
December 12th, 2024 Wireless networks are the most interesting embodiment of telecommunication technologies. Wireless networks are those most influenced by the physics of space and time. The medium of information transport is the electromagnetic field, which interacts strongly with the environment and can undergo rapid variations, given the mobility of users and the variability of…
Rodolphe Sepulchre – Spiking Control Systems
October 3rd, 2024 Spikes and rhythms organize control and communication in the animal world, in contrast to the bits and clocks of digital technology. As continuous-time signals that can be counted, spikes have a mixed nature. This talk will review ongoing efforts to develop a control theory of spiking systems. The central thesis is that…
Jean Claude Bajard – Des systèmes de numération pour le calcul modulaire
16 mai 2024 Le calcul modulaire est utilisé dans de nombreuses applications des mathématiques, telles que la cryptographie. La réduction modulaire dans un contexte très général est coûteuse, car elle nécessite principalement une division. Dans la pratique, cependant, le modulo est souvent fi xe, par exemple lorsqu’on calcule sur un corps fi ni, et il est donc…
Simone Göttlich – A multi-scale model hierarchy for material flow problems
April 18th, 2024 – 11:00 am The material flow problems under consideration are inspired by real experiments and allow for a multi-scale model hierarchy description. Starting from a detailed microscopic model based on individual trajectories, a corresponding macroscopic model is derived, leading to conservation laws with non-local interaction term. Both modeling approaches are fitted against…