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Les permutations sont des objets assez simples que l’on étudie parfois dès le lycée, mais savez-vous qu’elles sont aussi centrales dans de nombreux domaines de recherche en mathématiques discrètes et en informatique ? Dans cet article, nous présentons plusieurs interprétations de l’ensemble des permutations liées à la théorie des ordres, à l’algèbre et à la géométrie. Cet article est basé en…
Article également publié sur Hypothèse On pourrait penser qu’un institut aussi prestigieux que le CNRS est à la pointe sur la question de l’égalité homme / femme. On pourrait espérer qu’il soit pionnier et leader, montrant l’exemple à la fois aux secteurs publics et privés. Malheureusement, ce n’est pas toujours le cas. Contrairement aux posts précédents, j’ai décidé d’écrire en français. En…
When I decided to have a baby, I knew I would face new challenges also in my professional life. I knew in particular that it would probably uncover some new feminist battles as I am aware that gender roles and bias are worsened by motherhood. Still, it felt to me that I would be quite safe. In the end, I am in a very privileged situation. I have a permanent position, a great co-parent, good…
Long before I had any plan of becoming a mother myself, it seemed clear to me that defending young parents, especially young mothers, was a feminist issue worth fighting for. From my own observations, I could see that academic life, despise its flexibility, was not always adapted to family life . I could see that mothers especially had to pay a hard career prize . Now that I am about to experience…
Two years ago, I attended my first ECCO : this wonderful combinatorics summer school organized every other year in Colombia. As you can read in this previous post , I liked it a lot. This year I was invited again to give the SageMath lectures and I accepted with great pleasure. Baranquilla was way hotter and very different from Medellin but something did not change: the great time I had both on a…
Whenever I organize a “Woman” event, I get some comments. Sometimes, it’s just curiosity, sometimes I am asked to justify it, to argue, to defend. Sometimes, I am let to nicely explain to someone that even though they disagree with me, I am going to do it anyway. Indeed, I am entitled to my own fight, I have gained enough experience, I am clever enough to decide by myself what is needed , what I…
I first discovered static websites about two years ago and now I have 6 repos on my machine which are static sites with almost as many hosting situations and development processes. Let me tell you how I got there. First, for readers who do not have a clear idea of what I mean by static website, here is a general idea of how websites work. Dynamic / static, some basics All website work basically…
Cet article présente de façon simplifiée un travail de recherche récent écrit en collaboration avec Grégory Châtel et Vincent Pilaud. Il a été publié dans la revue en ligne )i( interstices . Ordres partiels Tout le monde connaît l’ordre naturel des entiers : 1 est plus petit que 2 qui est plus petit que 3, etc. C’est ce qu’on appelle un ordre total . Les ordres partiels sont peut-être un peu moins…
A slighty modified version of this post was later published in the AMS Blog on Teaching and Learning mathematics Being one of the few women in the men’s world of mathematics and computer science has lead me to look around and spot our flaws when inclusivity is concerned. Let’s not fool ourselves, even though we think of us as being pure objective minds beyond bias, the maths world is not an…
My First blog post (a while ago) was about why I love my job . Now I’m going to describe the one thing that I hate that could lead me to quit it some day . I will be talking about the situation in France but I know there are some similarities with other countries. The one very annoying aspect of the French situation is that it used to be “not that bad” but we are running head first into very bad…