About

History of the unit

The UMA was created in 1995 following the merger of two ENSTA and CNRS research groups: OC (Optimization and Control) and GHN (Naval Hydrodynamics Group), which became SMP then POEMS (French acronym for Wave Propagation, Mathematical Studies and Simulation). POEMS is a UMR (7231) affiliated to INSIS and a joint Inria project team. In 2023, Inria project team IDEFIX (Inversion of Differential Equations For Imaging and physiX) joined UMA.

Until 2012, the UMA was physically separated into two parts, with POEMS located ont the one hand at the Inria center in Rocquencourt and on the other hand at the ENSTA campus in Paris, with OC team. This situation, which was difficult for the cohesion of the unit, was improved in 2012 with the relocation of  ENSTA to Palaiseau and the bringing together of the two teams in shared premises.

• Direction UMA :
  • Frédéric Jean (Director)
  • Sonia Fliss (Deputy Director)
  • Laurent Bourgeois (Deputy Director for Education)
  • Axel Modave (Deputy Director for Research Support and Unit Affairs)
• Team IDEFIX : Houssem Haddar (Leader) and Lorenzo Audibert (Deputy Leader)
• Team OC : Sourour Elloumi (Leader)
• Team/Laboratory POEMS : Sonia Fliss (Director) and Stéphanie Chaillat (Deputy Director)

• Corinne Chen
  ENSTA and CNRS assistant
  email: corinne.chen [at] ensta.fr
  phone: +33 (0) 18 187 2101
• Marie Enée
  Inria assistant
  email: marie.enee [at] inria.fr
  phone: +33 (0) 18 187 2101