Popularization of Mathematics

Most of the activities mentioned below were carried out in French.

• Talks:
  1. "Star Graph Academy : découvrez les équations différentielles sur les réseaux !", 6èmes Rencontres mathématiques Valenciennoises, Valenciennes (France), 20 March 2025 (slides).
  2. "Modélisation de quelques systèmes biologiques", presentation of mathematical biology models to high school students from Lycée Kastler in Denain (France), 7 April 2022.
  3. "Modélisation de quelques systèmes biologiques", presentation of mathematical biology models to high school students from Lycée Professionnel François Mansart in Marly (France), 27 April 2022.
• Supervision of students:

  1. In June 2022, 2023 and 2024, I supervised high school students (aged around 15/16) participating to the camp ”Faire des maths autrement” (“Doing math differently”), see here for more details (in French).

     I was one of the people responsible for the research workshops in which students work in groups (of 2–5, usually) on some small research projects and present their results in front of their relatives and teachers at the end of the week.

  2. In the academic year 2021–2022, I proposed a research subject to high school students (aged around 14/15) as part of the MATh.en.JEANS programme. I created the subject and did some follow-up during the year.
• Miscellaneous:
  1. Here is a short video (in French) of myself presenting the content of my thesis and the work of a PhD student in mathematics. This was part of a promotion of doctoral studies organized by INSA Hauts-de-France.
  2. Here is an article about mathematics and olympiads, Daily Science, 9 August 2017.

Olympiads and contests

• Mathematics, as a contestant:
  • I participated in the Belgian Mathematical Olympiad, I was qualified to the final every year and won the first prize in 2012 (MINI category), 2014 (MIDI category) and 2016 (MAXI category).
  • I participated in the Belgian Olympiad training camps for the International Mathematical Olympiad organized in Wépion in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
  • I also participated in the French Mathematical Olympiad training camps in Montpellier in 2014 and Valbonne in 2015.
  • I was selected to the Belgian team for the Benelux Mathematical Olympiad in Soest (Netherlands) in 2016 where I ended first and received a gold medal.
  • I was selected to the Belgian team for the International Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong in 2016 where I received a bronze medal.
  • In 2016, I was selected in the French team for the Romanian Masters in Mathematics 2016 (since Belgium does not participate in this contest, I was a member of the French team).
• Mathematics, as a trainer:
  • From 2018 to 2024, I was a trainer for the Belgian training camps for the International Olympiad organized in Wépion. I gave a lecture on the scalar product, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, convexity and the Jensen inequality. I also gave problem sessions, mostly revolving around inequalities.
• Informatics, as a contestant:
  • I participated in the Belgian Informatics Olympiad since I was in third grade in secondary school, I was qualified to the final every year and won the first prize in 2016.
  • I was a member of the beCP Belgian training pools for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). I participated in the IOI at Taipei (Taiwan) in 2014, at Almaty (Kazakhstan) in 2015 and at Kazan (Russia) in 2016. I won bronze medals in 2015 and 2016.
• Informatics, as a trainer:
  • From 2017 to 2025, I was a trainer for beCP. I gave several lectures and problem sessions to contestants training for IOI.
  • I was a "deputy leader" of a team of 4 Belgian contestants for the European Junior Olympiad in Informatics which took place in Sofia (Bulgaria) in 2017.
  • In 2020 I was a "deputy leader" of a team of 4 Belgian contestants for IOI 2020 that I helped to organize at UMONS due to the sanitary conditions.
  • From 2022 to 2025, I was a board member of the Belgian Olympiad in Informatics.
• Informatics, team contests:
  • During my first year of bachelor at UMONS, I launched the group CPUMONS to participate in college-level programming contests.
  • I participated with my team CPUMONS in the Benelux Programming Contest. We scored 3/51 in 2016, 5/40 in 2017, 3/44 in 2018 and 2/78 in 2020. I was not able to participate in 2019 since I was in Orsay.
  • We also participated in the Northwestern Europe Regional Contest, a step of the ACM-ICPC contest. We ended 12/114 in 2016, 55/118 in 2017, 32/118 in 2018.
  • The CPUMONS organization is very active and involved in many activities surrounding programming at UMONS.