Orsay — The best place to do mathematics
Laboratoire de Mathématiques d’Orsay (LMO) and Campus Vallée
Here are a few pictures captured during my stay as PhD student at the magnificent Laboratoire de Mathématiques d’Orsay (LMO). Located right alongside the Yvette river, the laboratory is surrounded by beautiful vegetation, quiet walking paths, and forests that offer the perfect escape to disconnect and think.
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The current building was inaugurated around 2018 as the continuation of the Department of Mathematics at the former Université Paris-Sud (one of Europe’s strongest research hubs in mathematics at the time) and it is now part of Université Paris-Saclay.
The building has a moder architectural design, which makes it closer in similarities with the institutes up on the Plateau than to the old buildings of the campus Vallée. Nevertheless, its modernity is in perfect equilibrium with the surrounding areas. The LMO is endowed with an outstanding research library specialized entirely in mathematics (Bibliothèque Jacques Hadamard), an Amphithéâtre named in honor of the Fields Medalist and former professor at Orsay, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, and a central courtyard connecting all the class rooms and offices, bright spaces housing the master’s programs and different research teams.