Quel rapport entre la forme d'un chou-fleur des côtes de Bretagne, des vaisseaux sanguins et les structures fractales ?
Quel rapport entre une maladie génétique et un fichier de musique mp3 ?
Quel rapport entre des dessins faits par Léonard de Vinci et les lois mathématiques gouvernant la forme des plantes ou la reproduction des lapins ?
Quel rapport entre la forme de la terre, le GPS de ma voiture et un vieux puits d'Egypte ?
Pourquoi les météorologues sont capables de prédire une hausse du niveau des océans dans 100 ans mais incapables de prévoir s'il va pleuvoir dans 15 jours ?
Quel rapport entre le cerveau humain et le cerveau d'un ordinateur ?
Nous répondrons à toutes ces questions via des mathématiques simples et élégantes, accessibles à tous.[-]

Planar maps are planar graphs embedded in the sphere viewed modulo continuous deformations. There are two families of bijections between planar maps and lattice paths that are applied to prove scaling limit results of planar maps to so-called Liouville quantum gravity surfaces: metric bijections and mating-of-trees bijections. We will present scaling limit results obtained in this way, including works with Bernardi and Sun and with Albenque and Sun.[-]

Recently several papers appears on ArXiv, on various topics apparently unrelated such as: spin system observable (T. Helmuth, A. Shapira), Fibonacci polynomials (A. Garsia, G. Ganzberger), fully commutative elements in Coxeter groups (E. Bagno, R. Biagioli, F. Jouhet, Y. Roichman), reciprocity theorem for bounded Dyck paths (J. Cigler, C. Krattenthaler), uniform random spanning tree in graphs (L. Fredes, J.-F. Marckert). In each of these papers the theory of heaps of pieces plays a central role. We propose a walk relating these topics, starting from the well-known loop erased random walk model (LERW), going around the classical bijection between lattice paths and heaps of cycles, and a second less known bijection due to T. Helmuth between lattice paths and heaps of oriented loops, in relation with the Ising model in physics, totally non-backtracking paths and zeta function in graphs. Dyck paths, these two bijections involve heaps of dimers and heaps of segments. A duality between these two kinds of heaps appears in some of the above papers, in relation with orthogonal polynomials and fully commutative elements. If time allows we will finish this excursion with the correspondence between heaps of segments, staircase polygons and q-Bessel functions.[-]

There is the same number of $n \times n$ alternating sign matrices (ASMs) as there is of descending plane partitions (DPPs) with parts no greater than $n$, but finding an explicit bijection is, despite many efforts, an open problem for about $40$ years now. So far, four pairs of statistics that have the same joint distribution have been identified. We introduce extensions of ASMs and of DPPs along with $n+3$ pairs of statistics that have the same joint distribution. The ASM-DPP equinumerosity is obtained as an easy consequence by considering the $(-1)$enumerations of these extended objects with respect to one pair of the $n+3$ pairs of statistics. One important tool of our proof is a multivariate generalization of the operator formula for the number of monotone triangles with prescribed bottom row that generalizes Schur functions. Joint work with Florian Aigner.[-]