Marc Mézard
Marc Mézard | |
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Director of the École normale supérieure | |
Assumed office 19 April 2012 | |
Preceded by | Monique Canto-Sperber |
Personal details | |
Born | Aurillac, France | 29 August 1957
Education | Lycée Louis-le-Grand |
Alma mater | École normale supérieure |
Marc Mézard (born 29 August 1957) is a French physicist and academic administrator. He is the director of the École normale supérieure (ENS). He is the co-author of two books.
Early life
Marc Mézard was born on August 29, 1957.[1] He graduated from the École normale supérieure in 1976 and earned the agrégation in Physics.[2] He earned a PhD in Physics from University Paris 6 in 1980[3].[4]
Career
Mézard joined the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) as a researcher in 1981.[2][4] He was a professor of Physics at the École Polytechnique.[1] In 2001, he joined the Center for Theoretical Physics and Statistical Models at the University of Paris-Sud, and he serves as its director.[2] Since 2012, he has also served as the director of his alma mater, the ENS.[2]
Mézard is the author of 170 academic articles and the co-author of two books.[2] He won the Prize Ampère in 1996,[1] the Humboldt Prize in 2009,[5] and the Lars Onsager Prize in 2016.[4]
Works
- Mézard, Marc; Parisi, Giorgio; Virasoro, Miguel Angel (1987). Spin Glass Theory and Beyond. Singapore: World Scientific. ISBN 9789971501150. OCLC 14929802.
- Mézard, Marc; Montanari, Andre (2009). Information, Physics, and Computation. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198570837. OCLC 234430714.
References
- ^ a b c "BIOGRAPHIE DE MARC MÉZARD". letudiant.fr. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
- ^ a b c d e "Qui sommes-nous? Marc Mézard, Vice-Président de l'Institut". Institut de l'École Normale Supérieure. École Normale Supérieure. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
- ^ http://www.sudoc.abes.fr//DB=2.1/SET=2/TTL=1/CLK?IKT=1016&TRM=TEST+DE+QCD+ET+OBSERVABLES+INCLUSIVES+DANS+LA+DIFFUSION+INELASTIQUE+DE+NEUTRINOS
- ^ a b c "2016 Lars Onsager Prize Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
- ^ "Lauréats français du prix Humboldt 2009". CNRS. January 29, 2010. Retrieved October 29, 2016.