Overview

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 POEMS (Wave Propagation, Mathematical Studies, Simulation). POEMS, formerly the WAVES team until 2005, is a UMR (7231) affiliated to INSIS, a joint Inria project team.

Until 2012, the UMA was physically separated into two parts, with POEMS located at the Inria centre in Rocquencourt and OC on the ENSTA campus in Paris. This situation, which was difficult for the cohesion of the laboratory, was improved in 2012 with the move from ENSTA to Palaiseau and the bringing together of the two teams in shared premises.

Fields of activity

Optimisation, Control, Numerical Analysis, Modelling, Engineering, Inverse Problems, Stochastic Analysis, Stochastic Programming, Operations Research, Partial Differential Equations, Wave Propagation.