Mathematics of decision making and statistics

Game theory, optimization, stochastic models, equilibrium, spatial scales...

The MADS (Mathématiques de la Décision et Statistique) group is one of the 9 groups of the research laboratory TSE-R (UMR 5314).

Its goal is to promote and develop research activities in mathematics applied to economics.

Topics covered include operations research, financial mathematics, statistics, econometrics, game theory, optimization, probability, calculus of variations, partial differential equations (PDEs), and mathematical models in economics, finance, and social sciences.

Activities of the group

  • seminars
  • lectures
  • workshops with PhD students
  • advanced courses

Have a look at an example of a research project (in french)

List of faculty and PhD Students

Margot Ferré

TSE-IMT-ENAC PhD Student

Supervisors: Sébastien Gadat, Thierry Klein & Agnès Lagnoux

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Jean-Pierre Florens

TSE Research Faculty

Professor Emeritus, TSE

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Sébastien Gadat

TSE Research Faculty

Professor of Mathematics, TSE

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Eric Gautier

TSE Research Faculty

Professor, TSE

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Fabien Gensbittel

TSE Research Faculty

Assistant Professor, TSE

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Mélissa Gonzalez Garcia

TSE-Dauphine PhD Student

Supervisors: Guillaume Vigeral & Bruno Ziliotto

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Christine Grün

TSE Research Faculty

Assistant Professor, TSE

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Jairo F. Gudino

TSE PhD Student

Supervisor: César Hidalgo

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Colette Laffont

TSE Affiliated Faculty

Lecturer, TSE

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Jean-Bernard Lasserre

TSE Associate Faculty

Senior researcher, CNRS

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Thibault Laurent

Post-Docs, Engineers and Assistants

Statistician Engineer, CNRS

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Claire Lebrun

TSE-University of Liverpool PhD Student

Supervisors: Abdelaati Daouia, Abderrahim Taamouti and Mohamed Doukali

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List of WP, articles of the group

Coherent Ratios for Compositional Data Analysis with Zeros

Olivier Faugeras

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1744,
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A Note on the Folding Test of Unimodality: limitation and improved alternative

Colombe Becquart, Aurore Archimbaud, Anne M. Ruiz, and Zaineb Smida

arXiv, vol. 2605.13326,
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Stationary subspace analysis for spatial data

Perttu Saarela, Klaus Nordhausen, Jaakko Pere, and Anne M. Ruiz

arXiv, vol. 2605.19861,
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Convergence rate of Euler-Maruyama scheme for McKean-Vlasov SDEs with density-dependent drift

Anh-Dung Le, and Stéphane Villeneuve

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1768,
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Locally sharp goodness-of-fit testing in sup norm for high-dimensional counts

Julien Chhor

Bernoulli, vol. 32, n° 2,
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Robust Frontier and Efficiency Analysis with frontiles

Abdelaati Daouia, and Thibault Laurent

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1731,
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Gradient Extremals, Talwegs, Valleys, and Directional Alignment for Generic Gradient Descent

Pascal Bégout, Jérôme Bolte, Thomas Mariotti, and Francisco José Silva - Àlvarez

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1735,
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Stigmergic influence of simple bots on human cooperation in digital environments

Thomas Bassanetti, Adrien Blanchet, Stéphane Cezera, Maxime Delacroix, Ramon Escobedo, Clément Sire, and Guy Théraulaz

EPJ Data Science, vol. 15, n° 49, , pp. 1-43
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Stochastic Burgers Equation Driven by a Hermite Sheet with Additive Noise: Existence, Uniqueness, and Regularity

Atef Lechiheb

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1734,
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Canonical Rough Path over Tempered Fractional Brownian Motion: Existence, Construction, and Applications

Atef Lechiheb

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1740,
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The software complexity of nations

Sandor Juhász, Johannes Wachs, Jermain Kaminski, and César Hidalgo

Research Policy, vol. 55, n° 3 (105422),
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Controlled Swarm Gradient Dynamics

Louison Aubert

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1725,
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List of seminars

Past

On the notion of mean on a metric space. The case of Wasserstein space.

  • Seminar

  • MAD-Stat. Seminar

  • Date 18 June 2026

  • Place Auditorium 5

  • Speaker or organiser Jérôme Bertrand

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Past

Definition and Learning of Constrained Policies

  • Seminar

  • MAD-Stat. Seminar

  • Date 11 June 2026

  • Place Auditorium 5

  • Speaker or organiser Antoine Chambaz

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Past

On the SAGA Algorithm with Decreasing Step

  • Seminar

  • MAD-Stat. Seminar

  • Date 28 May 2026

  • Place Auditorium 5

  • Speaker or organiser Thiery-Emeric Gbaguidi

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Past

How weak are weak factors? Uniform inference for signal strength in signal plus noise models

  • Seminar

  • MAD-Stat. Seminar

  • Date 22 May 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Vadim Gorin

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Past

Restoration Responsibility in a Dynamic Game of Deforestation, Production, and Pollution Accumulation

  • Seminar

  • MAD-Stat. Seminar

  • Date 21 May 2026

  • Place Auditorium 5

  • Speaker or organiser Fouad El Ouardighi

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Past

A non-asymptotic analysis of the single component PLS regression

  • Seminar

  • MAD-Stat. Seminar

  • Date 7 May 2026

  • Place Auditorium 6

  • Speaker or organiser Clément Marteau

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Past

A Characterization of Optimal Queueing Regimes

  • Seminar

  • MAD-Stat. Seminar

  • Date 16 April 2026

  • Place Auditorium 6

  • Speaker or organiser Eran Shmaya

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Separation of non-ergodic uniform convergence rates for regularized learning in games

  • Seminar

  • MAD-Stat. Seminar

  • Date 9 April 2026

  • Place Auditorium 5

  • Speaker or organiser Julien Grand-Clément

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Past

Stopping on the last success with unknown odds

  • Seminar

  • MAD-Stat. Seminar

  • Date 2 April 2026

  • Place Auditorium 3

  • Speaker or organiser Davy Paindaveine

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Measuring Motivational Patterns: A Formal Approach of Conservation of Resources Theory

  • Seminar

  • MAD-Stat. Seminar

  • Date 26 March 2026

  • Place Auditorium 3

  • Speaker or organiser Jean-Pierre Neveu

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Past

Statistique et Elections

  • Seminar

  • MAD-Stat. Seminar

  • Date 19 March 2026

  • Place Auditorium 3

  • Speaker or organiser Jean Baptiste Aubin

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A study of the long-run behavior of stochastic gradient descent via large deviations

  • Seminar

  • MAD-Stat. Seminar

  • Date 12 March 2026

  • Place Auditorium 3

  • Speaker or organiser Franck Iutzeler

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Contact

Stéphane Villeneuve

Group leader

Anne M. Ruiz

Group secretary

See also

Conferences and workshops

Past

Doctoral Workshop on Decision Mathematics and Statistics

  • Workshop

  • Date 4 June 2026

  • Place Auditorium 5

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Past

Doctoral Workshop on Decision Mathematics and Statistics

  • Workshop

  • Date 19 June 2025

  • Place Auditorium 5

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Spring Workshop on Optimization and Machine Learning

  • Workshop

  • Date 1 April 2025

  • Place Auditorium 6

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