Charles Edouard Bréhier, winner of the French Academy of Sciences’ Blaise-Pascal prizeA prize created by the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI*) – Group which promotes the use of numerical analysis and numerical methods for engineering in the industry (GAMNI*)
The 28th of October 2025, under the cupola of the French Institute in Paris, the French Academy of Sciences awarded its annual prizes and medals during a solemn ceremony calling together the French scientific community. A mathematician of the University of Pau and the Adour Lands won the Blaise-Pascal prize for his innovative algorithm works.
Created in 1984 and financed by the SMAI and the GAMNI, the Blaise-Pascal prize of the French Academy of Sciences rewards scientific research in the fields of mathematics and numerical computations in engineering sciences. It must be a remarkable work, created in France, on the design and the analysis of deterministic and stochastic (random) numerical methods that are useful for the solving of partial differential equations. The winner must have defended his thesis less than 15 years ago. The prize’s total currently comes to 3,000 euros.
Charles-Edouard Bréhier is a university lecturer within the Laboratory of Mathematics and its Applications of Pau (LMAP*), a research unit mixing the University of Pau and the Adour Lands and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS*.) Together with his co workers, his work aims to create, analyse and test innovative algorithms to accurately stimulate these random systems. He also worked on rare events stimulation and is interested in the applications of stochastic models in physics.
The prize of the French Academy of Sciences
Thanks to the generosity of private patrons’, stake institutions, or companies, the Academy of Sciences grants every year almost 80 prizes including all scientific fields whether fundamental or applied.
Many excellence candidates are being considered for these awards. Their selection is made by a board submitted to a regulation excluding the possibility of conflict of interests. The board for the prizes of less than 7,500 euros, known as « thematic prizes of the Academy of Sciences, » such as the Blaise-Pascal prize, are composed of the relevant sections members. The « big prizes » with an amount of more than 15,000 euros, come under a specific board that unite members of several sections or from outside the Academy, if necessary.
Watch the Ceremony of the 28th of October 2025
Blaise-Pascal prize for Charles-Edouard Bréhier from 58:39 :
*SMAI : Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
*GAMNI: Thematic Group for the Advancement of Numerical Methods in Engineering
*LMAP: Laboratory of Mathematics and their Applications in Pau
*CNRS: National Center for Scientific Research
