Groupe des Ecoles des Mines - Applied Mathematics Centre (CMA)

The CMA is composed of some 30 researchers, six of whom come from INRIA , under the terms of a joint École des Mines -INRIA project at Sophia-Antipolis . A CNRS researcher has just been seconded to the Centre. Research activities at the Centre range from computer science to systems theory.

 In computer science, the Centre at Sophia-Antipolis focuses its attention on real-time distributed systems and studies the specifications, programming and verification of these systems, whereas the CMA in Paris deals with evolved systems, languages for circuit synthesis and the classification of Internet data.
 In systems theory, the Centre works on the control aspects of dynamic systems and on the modelling of viscous fluid flows.

The activities of the two units are combined in reactive computer science which focuses in particular on programming control arrangements for systems and their software and hardware aspects.

3 research groups

 Systems and Control Group
The overall theme of activity of the Group is modelling, identification and monitoring of dynamic systems, that is to say, ensembles of ordinary differential equations (finite dimension) or partial differential equations (infinite dimension).

 Sophia-Antipolis Computer Science Group
The programming and development of distributed or real-time applications are much more difficult than those related to traditional sequential applications on account of the complexity of interactions. The applications are often of a critical nature and errors must absolutely be avoided'a

 Paris Computer Science Group
The Centres site in Paris finalized the design, last year, of a description language for the Jazz synchronous hardware. A complete compiler was devised and will be used for teaching circuit design at the École Normale Supérieure and ISIA .

Director: Nadia MAÏZI-MENARD

 Research academics: 13
 Technical and administrative staff : 2
 Other scientists : 2
 Doctoral students: 21
 Other students and trainees: 8