Marc Mézard
Marc Mézard (born August 29, 1957 in Aurillac ) is a French theoretical physicist who deals with statistical mechanics of disordered systems and especially spin glasses . Since April 19, 2012 he has been the director of the École normal supérieure of Paris (ENS).
career
From 1976 Mézard studied physics at the ENS, graduating in 1978 with the Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA) and in 1980 with the Agrégation . Also in 1980 he received his doctorate with his thesis (Thèse de 3 ème cycle) on "including observables with inelastic neutrino scattering". From 1981 he conducted research at the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). In 1984 the second part of the French doctorate (Thèse d'État) on the molecular field theory of spin glasses followed. In 1990 he became Research Director of the CNRS at the Laboratory for Statistical Physics of the ENS. From 2001 he was at the Laboratory for Theoretical Physics and Statistical Mechanics (LPTMS) of the University of Paris-South , of which he became director. Since 1987 he has also been a professor (Chargé de cours) at the École polytechnique . In 2012 he became the 29th director of the ENS. He is also editor-in-chief of the Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment .
Mézard was visiting professor at La Sapienza University in Rome (1984–1986), at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) at the University of California, Berkeley .
In addition to disordered systems and spin glasses, he deals with neural networks (whose theory is partly related to that of spin glasses), the physics of glasses, combinatorial optimization , information theory , the theory of biopolymers and economic physics .
Awards
Marc Mézard received the CNRS bronze and silver medals (1985 and 1990), the Prix Ampère (1996) and the Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize (2009). For 2016 he was awarded the Lars Onsager Prize .
Fonts
- with Andrea Montanari Information, Physics, and Computation , Oxford University Press 2009
- with Giorgio Parisi , Miguel Virasoro Spin Glass Theory and Beyond , World Scientific 1987
Individual evidence
- ↑ The third physicist in this position after Georges Bruhat in the 1940s and Étienne Guyon (1990–2000).
- ↑ Le Monde, April 10, 2012, Mezard becomes Director ENS
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| SURNAME | Mezard, Marc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aurillac |