The jury, composed of independent personalities representing the French scientific and industrial world, chose to reward several innovative projects:
The 1
st prize in advanced computing is awarded to researcher
Jean-Christophe Hoarau, currently a post-doctoral fellow at ONERA (Office national d'études et de recherches aérospatiales) for his research on the atomization of liquid jets.
The 2
nd prize in advanced computing is awarded to
Ivan Duchemin from the Modelling and Exploration of Materials laboratory at IRIG.
His research concerns the description of matter by means of so-called "ab initio" calculations, i.e. based exclusively on the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics. It is indeed by going down to the level of the most elementary phenomena that we can finely simulate materials and characterize them, in order to propose more efficient solutions. Ivan's work is particularly interesting because he designs fundamentally more efficient algorithms, while implementing them on parallel machines, up to several tens of thousands of cores, in order to reproduce as faithfully as possible the real conditions of use of these materials.
The Atos - Joseph Fourier Prize aims to reward the work of researchers, academics and industrialists in two strategic areas: Advanced Computing (supercomputing, quantum computing, edge computing) and Artificial Intelligence, with a focus on decarbonization with the objective of participating in a positive acceleration of research and innovation.
The Atos - Joseph Fourier Prize is an annual competition for scientists from all over the world, who apply individually or in teams to their local Fourier competition.
By means of this competition, Atos supports innovation in the field of quantum science, simulation and computer analysis that will lead to tangible industrial applications in our lifetime. The prize honors the mathematician Joseph, whose work in the 18th century contributed greatly to the mathematical modeling of physical phenomena.