Section: Contracts and Grants with Industry

IFP

J. Ch. Gilbert is a consultant for the Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP). A new PhD thesis has started in October on derivative free optimization using high degree polynomial models (student E. Echagüe, direction J. Ch. Gilbert, with the supervision by F. Delbos, see [20] ) and a study of a nonsmooth method globalized by trust regions in nonlinear optimization is under investigation with a post-doctoral student (N. Metla, direction J. Ch. Gilbert, supervision by F. Delbos and D. Sinoquet, see [21] ).