{"id":85,"date":"2023-09-27T15:13:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T13:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2025-10-20T23:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:54:48","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/home\/","title":{"rendered":"Home page of J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Bouttier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/en\/home\/#welcome\">Welcome<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--2\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/en\/home\/#publications\">Publications<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--3\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/en\/home\/#talks\">Talks<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--4\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/en\/home\/#students\">PhD students<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--5\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/en\/home\/#postdocs\">Postdocs<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--6\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/en\/home\/#coauthors\">Coauthors<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--7\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/en\/home\/#grants\">Grants<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"welcome\">Welcome<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Since April 2025, I am the director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihp.fr\/en\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/jorf\/id\/JORFTEXT000051533967\">Institut Henri Poincar\u00e9<\/a>. <em>To reach me in this function, please use my email address in the form <code>firstname.lastname@ihp.fr<\/code> (without accents), and note that I receive many messages so there is no guarantee of reply.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since September 2023, I am a professor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorbonne-universite.fr\/en\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sorbonne-universite.fr\/en\">Sorbonne University<\/a>, attached to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imj-prg.fr\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.imj-prg.fr\/\">Institut de Math\u00e9matiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche<\/a>, where I am the head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imj-prg.fr\/co\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.imj-prg.fr\/co\/\">Combinatorics and Optimization team<\/a>. Before that, I have been a permanent researcher at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipht.fr\/en\/home-public\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ipht.fr\/en\/\">Institut de Physique Th\u00e9orique<\/a>, CEA Paris-Saclay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are my <a href=\"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"8\">contact details<\/a> at IMJ-PRG, information about my <a href=\"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/enseignement\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"57\">teaching<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/evenements\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"88\">some scientific events<\/a> I am or have been involved in. Here is also an <a href=\"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2025\/10\/CV_Bouttier_en.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"404\">academic CV<\/a> (as of October 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My research interests lie at the interface between combinatorics, mathematical physics, and probability theory. Some keywords : random maps, two-dimensional quantum gravity, integrability, determinantal and pfaffian processes, dimer models, loop gases&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"publications\">Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My <strong>publications<\/strong> are available online on <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/a\/bouttier_j_1.html\">my arXiv page<\/a>. See also the list compiled by <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.fr\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=91PCQEoAAAAJ&amp;view_op=list_works&amp;sortby=pubdate\">Google Scholar<\/a>. My habilitation thesis, defended in 2019, is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.normalesup.org\/~bouttier\/ipht_pisp_files\/HDR_1214.pdf\">here<\/a> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/tel.archives-ouvertes.fr\/tel-02417269\">TEL<\/a> (it is written mostly in English). My doctoral thesis, defended in 2005, is also on <a href=\"http:\/\/tel.archives-ouvertes.fr\/tel-00010651\/en\/\">TEL<\/a> (it is written in French).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"talks\">Talks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can get an idea of my work by looking at the files from some of my <strong>talks<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.normalesup.org\/~bouttier\/ipht_pisp_files\/2019-12-02-soutenanceHDR.pdf\">My habilitation defence<\/a> (in French) provides an overview going from 2005 to 2019. Here are some general talks on my main subject, random maps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a talk about the history of the field: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.normalesup.org\/~bouttier\/ipht_pisp_files\/2017-07-11-Tutte100.pdf\"><em>Enumeration of planar maps: from the quadratic method to quantum gravity<\/em><\/a> (Tutte Centenary Conference, Cambridge, 2017 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.normalesup.org\/~bouttier\/ipht_pisp_files\/2017-07-11-Tutte100.txt\">abstract<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a previous version of this talk (in French, but with pictures): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.normalesup.org\/~bouttier\/ipht_pisp_files\/2013-04-03-forum-theorie-CEA.pdf\"><em>Cartes al\u00e9atoires et gravit\u00e9 quantique<\/em><\/a> (Forum de la Th\u00e9orie au CEA, Saclay, 2013 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.normalesup.org\/~bouttier\/ipht_pisp_files\/2013-04-03-forum-theorie-CEA.txt\">r\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a talk more focused on my work (still in French with pictures): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.normalesup.org\/~bouttier\/ipht_pisp_files\/2014-01-31-journees-phystat.pdf\"><em>Quelques aspects des cartes al\u00e9atoires<\/em><\/a> (Journ\u00e9es de Physique Statistique 2014, Paris)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a general seminar intended for a math-oriented audience, given in several places: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.normalesup.org\/~bouttier\/ipht_pisp_files\/2014-01-20-dma-infor.pdf\"><em>Distances in random maps and discrete integrability<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, talks on more specific subjects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.normalesup.org\/~bouttier\/ipht_pisp_files\/2014-09-24-Urbana.pdf\"><em>Steep tilings and sequences of interlaced partitions<\/em><\/a>, Integrability and Representation Theory seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 25 September 2014 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.normalesup.org\/~bouttier\/ipht_pisp_files\/2014-09-24-Urbana.txt\">abstract<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.normalesup.org\/~bouttier\/ipht_pisp_files\/2013-03-22-QG-in-Paris-Orsay.pdf\"><em>The nested loop approach to the O(n) model on random maps<\/em><\/a>, Quantum Gravity in Paris, Orsay, 22 March 2013 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.normalesup.org\/~bouttier\/ipht_pisp_files\/2013-03-22-QG-in-Paris-Orsay.txt\">abstract<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.normalesup.org\/~bouttier\/ipht_pisp_files\/2010-12-16-eindhoven.pdf\"><em>Planar maps and continued fractions<\/em><\/a>, ESF Conference on Combinatorics and Analysis in Spatial Probability, Eindhoven, 16 December 2010 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.normalesup.org\/~bouttier\/ipht_pisp_files\/2010-12-16-eindhoven.txt\">abstract<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.esf.org\/index.php?id=7175\">conference webpage<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.normalesup.org\/~bouttier\/ipht_pisp_files\/2008-05-28-ESI.pdf\"><em>Statistics of geodesics in large quadrangulations<\/em><\/a>, Workshop on Combinatorics and Statistical Physics, Vienne, 26 May 2008 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.normalesup.org\/~bouttier\/ipht_pisp_files\/2008-05-28-ESI.txt\">abstract<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mat.univie.ac.at\/~kratt\/esi\/\">conference webpage<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.normalesup.org\/~bouttier\/ipht_pisp_files\/2004-11-25-labri.pdf\"><em>Des cartes planaires eul\u00e9riennes aux arbres \u00e9tiquet\u00e9s : les mobiles<\/em><\/a>, Groupe de travail Arbres et Chemins, Bordeaux, 25 November 2004 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.normalesup.org\/~bouttier\/ipht_pisp_files\/2004-11-25-labri.txt\">abstract<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/bonichon\/G3A\/\">conference webpage<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"students\">PhD students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theses.fr\/fr\/2016USPCC270\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/theses.fr\/fr\/2016USPCC270\">Fran\u00e7ois Nunzi<\/a> (thesis defended in 2016, codirection S. Corteel)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theses.hal.science\/tel-01774839\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/theses.hal.science\/tel-01774839\">Linxiao Chen<\/a> (thesis defended in 2018, codirection N. Curien)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/tcd.ie\/harrietwalsh\/home\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/tcd.ie\/harrietwalsh\/home\">Harriet Walsh<\/a> (thesis defended in 2022, codirection G. Chapuy)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hugo Manet (thesis started in 2023, codirection G. Chapuy and E. Guitter)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thomas Lejeune (thesis started in 2024, codirection B. Eynard)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maena Quemener (thesis started in 2025, codirection S. Corteel and S. Tarricone)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"postdocs\">Postdocs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/danbetea\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/danbetea\">Dan Betea<\/a> (2015-2016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lorelei.math.uni-potsdam.de\/professuren\/wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie\/personen\/peter-nejjar\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/lorelei.math.uni-potsdam.de\/professuren\/wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie\/personen\/peter-nejjar\">Peter Nejjar<\/a> (2015-2016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Joonas Turunen (2020-2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/starricone.netlify.app\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/starricone.netlify.app\/\">Sofia Tarricone<\/a> (2022-2024)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"coauthors\">Coauthors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I have the chance to count the following people as coauthors : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irif.fr\/~malbenque\/\">Marie Albenque<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/chikashi-arita.webnode.page\/\">Chikashi Arita<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/math.iisc.ac.in\/~arvind\/\">Arvind Ayyer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/rbardenet.github.io\/\">R\u00e9mi Bardenet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/danbetea\">Dan Betea<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathematik.hu-berlin.de\/de\/forschung\/forschungsgebiete\/mathematische-physik\/borot-mp-homepage\">Ga\u00ebtan Borot<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/perso.lpsm.paris\/~boutillier\/\">C\u00e9dric Boutillier<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitp.ucsb.edu\/bowick\">Mark Bowick<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/carrance.perso.math.cnrs.fr\/\">Ariane Carrance<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irif.fr\/~chapuy\/\">Guillaume Chapuy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irif.fr\/~corteel\/\">Sylvie Corteel<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/pascal.degiovanni\/Bienvenue.html\">Pascal Degiovanni<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipht.fr\/en\/Phocea\/Pisp\/visu.php?id=14\">Philippe Di Francesco<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=94pKY8wAAAAJ\">Bertrand Duplantier<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.fr\/citations?user=K32-z_AAAAAJ&amp;hl=fr&amp;oi=ao\">Alexandre Feller<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/igm.univ-mlv.fr\/~fusy\/\">\u00c9ric Fusy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipht.fr\/Pisp\/emmanuel.guitter\/index_fr.php\">Emmanuel Guitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/math.univ-lille1.fr\/~hardy\/\">Adrien Hardy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/monwhea-jeng-6127924?challengeId=AQH4KtB6NSTIXAAAAYrm_N5Ylf8sP5aRzwCsmOAFb-4yFpc0k6fzaisCsUSZYzBGhfy_VMLlAZp4mZBRft9Qh8WRJuZGJfTL4Q&amp;submissionId=8e86eae4-17bb-8917-dae4-e53cf61cd76f&amp;challengeSource=AgErDmUdNYpaIAAAAYrm_Rvo-049jkhvJeGKjRNYkx2vnVdCb4QqAlUPvNjYXGk&amp;challegeType=AgHCvHQSQuyIYgAAAYrm_RvqRr9sF3Jqhwv7zm85LGaohv-p8uXUrsk&amp;memberId=AgH_4em8ucTI7gAAAYrm_Rvtw6c_4dA_QUU6jVV7jr3LtgU&amp;recognizeDevice=AgEk-QH9a3a02wAAAYrm_Rvw9amjsbPaprAiQuuTrAFtmJA1AnmS\">Monwhea Jeng<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.santafe.edu\/people\/profile\/paul-krapivsky\">Paul Krapivsky<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.kth.se\/~linusson\/\">Svante Linusson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cea.fr\/drf\/Pages\/Actualites\/Vie-de-la-DRF\/2023\/kirone-malick-recoit-le-prix-langevin-2022.aspx\">Kirone Mallick<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irif.fr\/users\/manet\/index\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.irif.fr\/users\/manet\/index\">Hugo Manet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/gregory.miermont\/\">Gr\u00e9gory Miermont<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lorelei.math.uni-potsdam.de\/professuren\/wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie\/personen\/peter-nejjar\">Peter Nejjar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Francois-Nunzi\">Fran\u00e7ois Nunzi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.normalesup.org\/~ramassamy\/\">Sanjay Ramassamy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.univ-lille.fr\/adam-rancon\/\">Adam Ran\u00e7on<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/roussel.science\/\">Benjamin Roussel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lptms.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/gregory-schehr\/\">Gr\u00e9gory Schehr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.umb.edu\/~vuletic\/Site\/Homepage.html\">Mirjana Vuleti\u0107<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/tcd.ie\/harrietwalsh\/home\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/tcd.ie\/harrietwalsh\/home\">Harriet Walsh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=vib6owIAAAAJ\">Christoph Westbrook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"grants\">Current and past grants<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irif.fr\/~chapuy\/CartesEtPlus.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.irif.fr\/~chapuy\/CartesEtPlus.html\">ANR CartesEtPlus<\/a> (2024-2029), <a href=\"http:\/\/piicq.math.cnrs.fr\/\">IRN PIICQ<\/a> (2021-2025), <a href=\"https:\/\/dimers.science\/\">ANR Dimers<\/a> (2019-2025), <a href=\"https:\/\/anr-combine.math.cnrs.fr\/\">ANR COMBIN\u00c9<\/a> (2019-2025), <a href=\"https:\/\/fbf.berkeley.edu\/project\/cylindric-partitions\">FBF Cylindric partitions<\/a> (2020-2022), PEPS Carma (2016), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lpsm.paris\/pageperso\/anr-graal\/\">ANR GRAAL<\/a> (2014-2019), <a href=\"http:\/\/combinatoire-a-paris.math.cnrs.fr\/ProjetEmergences\">Combinatoire \u00e0 Paris<\/a> (2013-2017), <a href=\"http:\/\/cartaplus.math.cnrs.fr\/\">ANR Cartaplus<\/a> (2013-2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome Since April 2025, I am the director of the Institut Henri Poincar\u00e9. To reach me in this function, please use my email address in the form firstname.lastname@ihp.fr (without accents), and note that I receive many messages so there is no guarantee of reply. Since September 2023, I am a professor at Sorbonne University, attached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.imj-prg.fr\/jeremie-bouttier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}