Admission
Requirements : first year master's, with a major in mathematics, computer science or logic – or equivalent
Application file : Registration will open on May 1st, 2020.
Requirements : first year master's, with a major in mathematics, computer science or logic – or equivalent
Application file : Registration will open on May 1st, 2020.
The LMFI naturally leads to pursuing a PhD, either in mathematical logic or in (fundamental) computer science.http://pubmaster.math.univ-paris-diderot.fr/admin/root:annee:m2-lmfi/preview
One term of core classes, one term of advanced classes and a research internship.
LMFI consists of:
Classes may be taught in English, if so requested by the students.
The Master's internship can take place, subject to approval by the Master's directors, either:
contact: Tomás Ibarlucía
LMFI is in partnership with Logic Groups at several European universities (Turin, Münster, Pisa, Freiburg, Florence...). With the Erasmus+ exchange programme, students and teachers from partner universities can participate in some of the LMFI activities, and students and teachers from LMFI can participate in some of the activities of partner universities. The list of all universities which have a partnership with Université Paris Diderot is available here.
Erasmus+ incoming: If you are a Master's student at one of the partner universities, you can apply for a study abroad period at LMFI (1st term, 2nd term or both). The application procedure and deadlines depend on your university (ask a logic teacher or the person responsible for international exchanges at your home university).
Erasmus+ outgoing: If you are an M1 student at Paris Diderot or an LMFI student, you can apply for a study abroad period at one of the partner universities (4 to 10 months). For more details (application procedure and deadlines, the best partner destinations to study logic, etc.), ask Tomás Ibarlucía.
Incoming: If you are a Master's student at any foreign university and you wish to do a research internship (Master's thesis) in mathematical logic or theoretical computer science at Université Paris Diderot, then you should contact Boban Velickovic and Antonio Bucciarelli.
Outgoing: If you are an LMFI student and you wish to write your Master's thesis (stage) under the supervision of a researcher at some foreign university (or under the joint supervision of a researcher in Paris and a foreign researcher), then you should contact Tomás Ibarlucía](mailto:ibarlucia@math.univ-paris-diderot.fr).
The first term schedule can be found here.
To obtain the LMFI degree, a 2nd year Master's degree, students must obtain 60 ECTS distributed as follows:
Ouverture classes can be chosen form the LMFI ouverture classes, or, subject to approval by the Master's directors, among the classes of others 2nd years Master's, for example in the Fundamental Mathematics master's or the MPRI (Master Parisien de recherche en informatique).
0 ECTS, semestre 1
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Program requirements | sans |
Teacher | Patrick Simonetta et Pierre Letouzey |
Weekly hours | 18 h CM |
4 ECTS, semestre 1
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Program requirements | examen |
Teacher | Tomas Ibarlucia |
Weekly hours | 2 h CM , 2 h TD |
4 ECTS, semestre 1
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Program requirements | examen |
Teacher | Alessandro Vignati |
Weekly hours | 2 h CM , 2 h TD |
4 ECTS, semestre 1
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Program requirements | examen |
Teacher | Thierry Joly |
Weekly hours | 2.0 h CM , 2.0 h TD |
8 ECTS, semestre 1
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Program requirements | examen |
Teacher | Arnaud Durand |
Weekly hours | 4 h CM , 2 h TD |
4 ECTS, semestre 1
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Program requirements | Examen |
Teacher | Francois Metayer |
Weekly hours | 2 h CM |
The course presents the fundamental concepts of category theory, accompanied by numerous examples. The main goal is to pave the way towards the modern applications of category theory in logic, theoretical computer science and homotopy theory.
8 ECTS, semestre 1
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Program requirements | projet |
Teacher | Pierre Letouzey |
Weekly hours | 2 h CM , 2 h TP |
One half of this module will consist of course work, the other half will consist of practical work on a machine. The course will finish with a project to be carried out in Coq. The first part of this course is a prerequisite for the Homotopy Type Theory course.
8 ECTS, semestre 2
Requirements | Besides the notions and results of the first semester course, a general mathematical background (at Bachelor's level) will be useful to understand some examples and applications. |
Program requirements | CC+examen |
Teacher | Sylvy Anscombe |
Weekly hours | 4.0 h CM |
This course is a natural continuation of the first semester Model Theory course. It will seek to understand and classify the models of a given 1st order theory through the types that can be realized or omitted.
8 ECTS, semestre 2
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Program requirements | CC+examen |
Teacher | Tomas Ibarlucia |
Weekly hours | 4.0 h CM |
Dans ce cours nous étudierons la théorie des modèles des structures métriques, telles que les espaces de Hilbert et de Banach, les algèbres de probabilité, les systèmes ergodiques ou les algèbres d'opérateurs. Celle-ci est basée sur le formalisme de la logique continue, une généralisation naturelle (à valeurs réelles) de la logique du première ordre classique. Nous étudierons également en détail un fragment distingué de la logique continue, appelé logique affine, et ses connexions toutes récentes avec la théorie de Choquet en analyse fonctionnelle.
8 ECTS, semestre 2
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Program requirements | examen |
Teacher | Boban Velickovic |
Weekly hours | 4 h CM |
On 8 August 1900, at the Second International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, David Hilbert set out a list of 23 mathematical problems which, in his opinion, should serve as a guide for future research in the new century. The first problem in this list, Cantor's continuum hypothesis, was solved in two stages: by Gödel (1938) who constructed an internal model of the generalized continuum hypothesis, and by Paul Cohen (1963), who invented a model construction for the negation of Cantor's hypothesis. This course will mainly cover the two model constructions of set theory introduced by Gödel and Cohen.
8 ECTS, semestre 2
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Program requirements | CC+examen |
Teacher | Boban Velikovic |
Weekly hours | 4.0 h CM |
Large cardinal axioms postulate the existence of cardinals with a given degree of transcendence over smaller cardinals and provide a superstructure for the analysis of strong mathematical statements. The investigation of these axioms is indeed a mainstream of modern set theory. For instance, they play a crucial role in the study of definable sets of reals and their regularity properties such as Lebesgue measurability. Although formulated at various stages in the development of set theory and with different motivation, these hypotheses were found to form a linear hierarchy reaching up to the inconsistency. All known set-theoretic propositions can be gauged in this hierarchy in terms of their consistency strength, and the emerging structure of implications provides a remarkably rich, detailed and coherent picture of the strongest propositions of mathematics as embedded in set theory.
8 ECTS, semestre 2
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Program requirements | examen |
Teacher | Guillaume Geoffroy et Hugo Herbelin |
Weekly hours | 4.0 h CM |
8 ECTS, semestre 2
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Program requirements | CC+examen |
Teacher | Claudia Faggian et Gabriele Vanoni |
Weekly hours | 4.0 h CM , 0.0 h TD |
The Curry-Howard correspondence highlights deep links between proofs and programs. Linear logic has profoundly renewed this connection between the formal semantics of programming languages on one hand and proof theory on the other, by bringing attention to the dynamics of programs (how the computation is performed) and on the use of resources. An outcome of this attention to resources are quantitative approaches to calculi, to types and to the semantics. Quantitative systems are able to provide information such as the cost of computation, and are crucial to express paradigms of computation which are intrinsically quantitative, such as probabilistic, differential or quantum computation.
8 ECTS, semestre 2
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Program requirements | CC+examen |
Teacher | Hervé Fournier et Guillaume Malod |
Weekly hours | 4.0 h CM |
Nous aborderons différents thèmes de complexité. En complexité booléenne, nous parlerons en particulier de complexité de comptage et de complexité de communication. Nous étudierons aussi la complexité algébrique, sur laquelle s'appuient certains efforts récents pour résoudre le problème P vs. NP. En plus d'une présentation générale, nous explorerons des régimes calculatoires restreints, notamment les calculs non-commutatifs, et présenteront certaines bornes inférieures et les techniques de rang qui permettent de les obtenir.
4 ECTS, semestre 2
Requirements | First semester computability and incompleteness; the second semester course on model theory can be a plus. |
Program requirements | CC |
Teacher | Sylvain Schmitz |
Weekly hours | 2.0 h CM |
The course is dedicated to the model-checking problem over finite structures, with a particular focus on algorithmic meta-theorems, the main highlight of the course being Courcelle's Theorem.
A number of topics are touched upon through this lens, including some basics in complexity theory, circuit complexity, parameterised complexity, monadic second-order logic, tree languages, logical transductions, structural graph theory, etc.
4 ECTS, semestre 2
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Program requirements | CC+examen |
Teacher | Brice Halimi |
Weekly hours | 2 h CM |
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Candidates must have a 1st year master's degree (M1), or an equivalent degree, with a major in mathematics, computer science or logic.
In order to make the application process easier for international students, the University of Paris Diderot follows the Campus France procedure. Foreign students should find all relevant information on the Campus France website. Foreign students from countries involved in the "Étude en France" procedure should register on that platform before March 2019.
Students must apply on the university website from Mai the 1st to July 15.
There are possibilities of scholarships for prospective M1 or M2 students, and particularly for foreigners:
The LMFI naturally leads to pursuing a PhD, either in mathematical logic or in (fundamental) computer science. Phd's in computer science can also be pursued in a compagny or a public research institute (INRIA, CEA, ONERA, etc.). In recent years, more than half of the students that obtained the LMFI Master's degree have continued with a PhD thesis.
The main career prospects after a PhD thesis are in research in a broad sense: