About

The POEMS laboratory

POEMS (french acronym for "Wave Propagation: Mathematical Study and Simulation") is a research unit created in January 2005, which is part of CNRS, Inria and ENSTA. The laboratory is at the same time a Mixed Research Unit (UMR 7231) of CNRS associated with CNRS Engineering, an Inria project team of the Inria Saclay Center, and a team of the Applied Mathematics Unit of ENSTA.

The laboratory is located at ENSTA, on the campus of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, in Palaiseau (France).

The scientific activities of the laboratory aim at the development of mathematical and numerical studies related to wave propagation in all fields of mechanics and physics, whether electromagnetic, acoustic, elastic or gravitational waves. The work carried out includes the modeling of complex problems, the mathematical analysis of the models obtained (generally governed by partial differential equations), the development of approximation methods and the creation of computational codes.

• Director: Sonia Fliss
• Deputy director: Stéphanie Chaillat

• Corinne Chen
  ENSTA and CNRS assistant
  email: corinne.chen [at] ensta.fr
  phone: +33 (0) 18 187 2101
• Marie Enée
  Inria assistant
  email: marie.enee [at] inria.fr
  phone: +33 (0) 18 187 2101