Ciarlet Patrick  ENSTA Paris Institut Polytechnique de Paris 828, boulevard des Marechaux  91762 Palaiseau Cedex Office 2.2.27 Tel (33) 1 81 87 20 92  Fax (33) 1 81 87 21 30  email patrick.ciarlet@ensta-paris.fr

Professor in the Applied Math Dept of the National Institute of Advanced Technologies
Member of the Joint Research Unit CNRS-ENSTA-INRIA UMR 7231 POEMS.

PhD proposal — no offer currently —

Extended CV

A brief curriculum
I got my PhD in 1992 in applied mathematics, and defended my 'Habilitation a Diriger les Recherches' in 1998 in mathematics. In both cases, I graduated from the Paris VI University.
Between Oct. 1990 and Sep. 1993, I studied parallel preconditioning within the Parallel Computing Project at the Limeil-Valenton Centre of the French Nuclear Agency (CEA). Starting in Oct. 1993, I spent one year as a post-doctoral fellow at UCLA, where I studied graph partitioning. Then, I spent three additional years at the Limeil-Valenton Centre: I worked on mesh partitioning and the parallelization of codes, and on the discretization of Maxwell's equations.
Since Sep. 1997, I have been working in the Applied Math Dept of ENSTA. 

Associate Professor, Ecole Polytechnique, 1999-2000.
Guest Professor (Graduate Studies), University of Houston, USA, Mar. 2002.
Guest Professor (Graduate Studies), Universite de Strasbourg, Oct. 2002.
Associate Professor, Ecole Polytechnique, 2005-2007.
Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, Jan.-Jul. 2010.
Guest Professor (Graduate Studies), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Mar. 2011.
Deputy Head of the Master's degree Analysis, Modelling, Simulation, Universite de Paris-Saclay, Sep. 2014-Aug. 2019.

Coordinator of the Mathematics in Computational Science and Engineering Prgm of the Mathematics Hadamard Labex (LMH), Apr. 2018-present.
Coordinator at Institut Polytechnique de Paris of the Mathematics and Applications Master's Program, Sep. 2019-present.

Research topics
Electromagnetics, numerical analysis of PDEs.

Propagation of fields at the interface between metals or meta-materials and classical dielectric media. In physics, these models allow one to take into account the onset and propagation of surface plasmons. With the help of the T-coercivity theory, one can solve those models mathematically and numerically when they are well-posed. One can also build configurations for which the problem is ill-posed. Current research focuses on the redefinition of the model in this case and on the design of adequate numerical methods. Computation of electromagnetic fields with edge FE, continuous Galerkin FE, discontinuous Galerkin, and domain decomposition methods. External collaborations: domain decomposition methods  and a posteriori estimation to solve the neutron diffusion equation in realistic configurations (Coll. CEA/Saclay); discretization of Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations (Coll. CEA/Saclay); new discretization methods for elliptic problems (Coll. Univ. Zurich); interface models in electromagnetics (Coll. Univ. de la Republica, Uruguay).

Book "Mathematical Foundations of Computational Electromagnetism" published in 2018, Springer, Coll. Applied Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 198 (ISBN 978-3-319-70841-6).

Former/Current Students
Mario Gervais (PhD student: Oct. 2022 - continuing) (co-advisor Francois Madiot)
Farah Chaaban (Master & PhD student: Apr. 2022 - continuing) (co-advisor Mahran Rihani)
Mayssa Mroueh (Master student : Apr. 2022 - Sep. 2022) (advisor Erell Jamelot)
David Lassounon (Master student : Apr. 2021 - Sep. 2021) (advisor Mahran Rihani)
Etienne Peillon (Master & PhD student: Mar. 2020 - continuing) (co-advisor Maryna Kachnovska)
Laura Bagur (Master student : Mar. 2020 - Aug. 2020) (advisor Stephanie Chaillat-Loseille)
Damien Chicaud (PhD student: Oct. 2018 - Dec. 2021) (co-advisor Axel Modave)
Minh Hieu Do (Postdoc fellow: Jul. 2018 - Jun. 2020) (joint supervision with Francois Madiot)
Felix Kpadonou (Postdoc fellow: Oct. 2017 - Aug. 2019) (joint supervision with Stephanie Chaillat-Loseille)
Helena Shourick (Master student : Mar. 2017 - Sep. 2017)
Khawla Gannoun (Master student : Apr. 2017 - Sep. 2017) (advisor Stephanie Chaillat-Loseille)
Remi Feuillet (PhD student: Oct. 2016 - Dec. 2019) (co-advisors Frederic Alauzet & Adrien Loseille)
Vasileios Vrettakos (Master student: Apr. 2016 - Dec. 2016)
Aurore Texier (Master student: Mar. 2016 - Jul. 2016) (advisor Stephanie Chaillat-Loseille)
Kirill Brodt (Master student: Jun. 2015 - Nov. 2015)
Leandre Giret (PhD student: Oct. 2014 - Jun. 2018) (co-advisor Erell Jamelot)
Luca Desiderio (PhD student: Oct. 2013 - Jan. 2017) (co-advisor Stephanie Chaillat-Loseille)
Marc Bakry (PhD student: Oct. 2013 - Oct. 2016 ) (co-advisor Sebastien Pernet)
Christian Stohrer (Postdoc fellow:Oct. 2013 - Oct. 2015) (joint supervision with Sonia Fliss)
Felix Kpadonou (Master student: Apr. 2013 - Sep. 2013) (advisor Erell Jamelot)
Camille Carvalho (Master & PhD student: Apr. 2012 - Dec. 2015) (advisor Anne-Sophie Bonnet Ben Dhia)
Lucas Chesnel (Master & PhD student: Apr. 2009 - Oct. 2012) (co-advisor Anne-Sophie Bonnet Ben Dhia)
Thu Huyen Dao (Master student: Apr. 2009 - Sep. 2009)
Grace Hechme (Postdoc fellow: Jan. 2006 - Sep. 2007)
Carlo Maria Zwolf (Master & PhD student: Apr. 2004 - Dec. 2007) (co-advisor Anne-Sophie Bonnet Ben Dhia)
Mathieu Buard (Master student: Apr. 2004 - Dec. 2004)
Samir Kaddouri (PhD student: Oct. 2003 - March 2007)
Beate Jung (Postdoc fellow: Jul. 2003 - Dec. 2003)
Erell Jamelot (PhD student: Oct. 2002 - Nov. 2005)
Fabrice Roy (PhD student: Oct. 2000 - July 2004) (co-advisor Jerome Perez)
Emmanuelle Garcia (PhD student: Dec. 1998 - June 2002) (co-advisor Franck Assous)
Simon Labrunie (Postdoc fellow: Jan. 1998 - Sep. 1999) (joint supervision with Franck Assous)