Outreach activities

Since September 2025, I have been in charge of the outreach activities of the LMBA at the University of Brest.

Introduction to math jobs

This immersion week offers tenth-grade students the opportunity to discover living mathematics at the crossroads of scientific research, today’s professions, and tomorrow’s challenges.

Through concrete and interactive approaches, students will explore the diversity of career paths related to mathematics and its many interactions with other disciplines, particularly biology.

Each morning will feature accessible yet scientifically rigorous lectures given by invited researchers.

The afternoons will be devoted to specific activities: mathematical workshops, problem-solving sessions, interviews with scientists, laboratory visits, video production, and presentations of the academic programs at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale.

For further details, please visit the event’s webpage.

Activities in High Schools

Together with several colleagues, we regularly work with middle and high schools in the Finistère region to promote mathematics through interactive workshops. These workshops aim to illustrate mathematical concepts or to show how mathematics can be used to solve concrete, real-world problems.

Some examples of questions explored during our activities include:

Why do airplanes fly over Greenland when traveling from Moscow to New York?
A question that leads to an introduction to non-Euclidean geometry.
How can several cities be connected while minimizing costs?
An opportunity to introduce the theory of minimal surfaces, illustrated using soap bubbles.
How is the game Dobble designed?
A playful way to explore projective geometry.

… and much more!

Introduction to non-Euclidean geometry

During an intervention at the Lycée de l'Elorn (Landerneau - 29, France), I gave an introductory presentation on non-Euclidean geometry. The support is available here.

The goal was to present some differences between Euclidean geometry as studied in middle and high schools and spherical or hyperbolic geometry.

Angels and devils

Escher (1942)

Gender parity

Organizer and speaker at the Women & Maths half-day, organized as part of the Rencontres Doctorales Lebesgue 2024 (PhD meeting), Angers, 22 April 2024.
Speaker at the event organized by the LMBA Parity Committee, Parcours de mathématiciennes (Academic Journeys of Women Mathematicians), Brest, 14 April 2023.

TFJM²

The Tournoi Français des Jeunes Mathématiciennes et Mathématiciens (French Tournament of Young Women and Men Mathematicians, TFJM²) is a competition for high-school students, organized by the Animath association in collaboration with higher-education and research institutions. I served as a jury member for the 2023 regional tournament held at the ENS in Rennes.

Fête de la science

The Fête de la science is a national event promoting exchanges between scientists and the general public.
Together with colleagues, I staffed the LMBA booth during the 2024 and 2025 editions in Brest.

Parabolograph

In 2019, I participated in rebuilding a Parabolograph, an instrument that allows continuous drawing of parabolas. This instrument is currently on display in the Cabinet de curiosités at the University of Brest.

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