Damien Galant

Publications

• On the notion of ground state for nonlinear Schrödinger equations on metric graphs: Colette De Coster, Simone Dovetta, Damien Galant, Enrico Serra, 2023 (Preprint available on arXiv).
• A note on optimal degree-three spanners of the square lattice: Cédric Pilatte, Damien Galant, Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications, 2021 (Available on the publisher website).
• Geography of bilinearized Legendrian contact homology: Frédéric Bourgeois, Damien Galant, 2020 (Preprint available on arXiv).

Talks

• 2023:
  • Séminaire d’analyse appliquée A³ (LAMFA, UPJV), On the notion of ground state for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation on metric graphs, 16 January 2023, (slides).
• 2022:
  • Séminaire de Mathématiques de Valenciennes (CERAMATHS/DMATHS, UPHF), On the notion of ground state for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation on metric graphs, 15 December 2022, (slides).
  • COMPLEX Doctoral School (UMONS), Nonlinear Schrödinger equation on metric graphs, 15 November 2022, (slides).
  • 18e Journées Montoises d’Informatique Théorique (Czech Technical University in Prague), Optimal bounds for geometric dilation and computer-assisted proofs, 7 September 2022, (slides).
• 2021:
  • DEMAV Seminar (UPHF), Blow-up phenomena for a Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation, 25 November 2021, (slides).
  • Séminaire d'Algèbre et Logique (UMONS), Interactions entre l'apprentissage statistique et la théorie des modèles (part 2, in French), 5 February 2021, (slides).
• 2020:
  • Séminaire d'Algèbre et Logique (UMONS), Interactions entre l'apprentissage statistique et la théorie des modèles (part 1, in French), 18 December 2020, (slides).
• 2019:
  • Symplectix Seminar (Institut Henri Poincaré), Effective computation of the bilinearized Legendrian contact homology, 8 November 2019, (lecture notes).
  • "Séminaire sandwiches" (UMONS), Dilation of regular polygons - Algorithmic aspects (in French), 24 October 2019, (slides).
  • Young Mathematicians Symposium of the Greater Region (ULiège), The Minimum Dilation Triangulation Problem, 24 September 2019, (slides).

Teaching

Administrative tasks

Attended events

• 2022: Regular participation to the DMATHS Seminar (at CERAMATHS, UPHF). Participation to the conference Nonlinear Elliptic PDE in Hauts-de-France (3rd edition).
• 2021: Regular participation to the DEMAV (ex-LAMAV) seminar at UPHF. Participation to the conference PDE, Analysis and Applications — Conference in honor of the 60th birthday of Serge Nicaise.
• 2019: After my third year of bachelor, I participated to the "On the crossroads of topolgy, geometry and algebra" summer school organized at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
• 2018: After my second year of bachelor, I was selected to the Mathematical Summer in Paris organized at ENS Ulm in Paris. The participants followed several lectures and problem sessions with leading mathematicians. I really enjoyed the lectures on combinatorics by Timothy Gowers.
• 2017: After my first year of bachelor, I was selected to participate in the Modern Mathematics Summer School organized at Jacobs University in Bremen where I met a lot of passionate students and professors. I had the great pleasure to meet John Horton Conway at this occasion, this encounter was very inspiring to me.

Olympiads and contests

• Mathematics, as a contestant:
  • I participated in the Belgian Mathematical Olympiad, I was qualified to the final every year and won the first prize in 2012 (MINI category), 2014 (MIDI category) and 2016 (MAXI category).
  • I participated in the Belgian Mathematical Olympiad training camps organized in Wépion in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
  • I also participated in the French Mathematical Olympiad training camps in Montpellier in 2014 and Valbonne in 2015.
  • I was selected to the Belgian team for the Benelux Mathematical Olympiad in Soest (Netherlands) in 2016 where I ended first and received a gold medal.
  • I was selected to the Belgian team for the International Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong in 2016 where I received a bronze medal.
  • In 2016, I was selected in the French team for the Romanian Masters in Mathematics 2016 (since Belgium does not participate in this contest, I took part in the French trainings).
• Mathematics, as a trainer:
  • Since 2018, I am a trainer for the Belgian Mathematical Olympiad training camps organized in Wépion. I give a lecture on the scalar product, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, convexity and the Jensen inequality.
• Informatics, as a contestant:
  • I participated in the Belgian Informatics Olympiad since I was in third grade in secondary school, I was qualified to the final every year and won the first prize in 2016.
  • I was a member of the beCP Belgian training pools for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). I participated in the IOI at Taipei (Taiwan) in 2014, at Almaty (Kazakhstan) in 2015 and at Kazan (Russia) in 2016. I won bronze medals in 2015 and 2016.
• Informatics, as a trainer:
  • Since 2017, I am a trainer for beCP. I gave several lectures and problem sessions to contestants training for IOI.
  • I was a "deputy leader" of a team of 4 Belgian contestants for the European Junior Olympiad in Informatics which took place in Sofia (Bulgaria) in 2017.
  • In 2020 I was a "deputy leader" of a team of 4 Belgian contestants for IOI 2020 that I helped to organize at UMONS due to the sanitary conditions.
• Informatics, team contests:
  • During my first year of bachelor at UMONS, I launched the group CPUMONS to participate in college-level programming contests.
  • I participated with my team CPUMONS in the Benelux Programming Contest. We scored 3/51 in 2016, 5/40 in 2017, 3/44 in 2018 and 2/78 in 2020. I was not able to participate in 2019 since I was in Orsay.
  • We also participated in the Northwestern Europe Regional Contest, a step of the ACM-ICPC contest. We ended 12/114 in 2016, 55/118 in 2017, 32/118 in 2018.
  • The CPUMONS organization is very active and involved in many activities surrounding programming at UMONS.