Marc Mézard
{{infobox officeholder
| name = Marc Mézard
| office = Director of the École normale supérieure
| term_start = 19 April 2012
| term_end = 15 March 2022
| predecessor = Monique Canto-Sperber
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|08|29|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Aurillac, France
| nationality = French
| education = Lycée Louis-le-Grand
| alma_mater = École normale supérieure
| succeeded = Frédéric Woms
| known_for = Euclidean random matrix
Cavity method
Random energy model
| awards = Ampère Prize {{small|(1996)}}
Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize {{small|(2009)}}
Lars Onsager Prize {{small|(2016)}}
Racah Lecture {{small|(2017)}}
Three Physicists Prize {{small|(2021)}}
}}
Marc Mézard (born 29 August 1957) is a French physicist and academic administrator. He was, from 2012 to 2022, the director of the École normale supérieure (ENS). He is the co-author of two books.
Early life
Marc Mézard was born on 29 August 1957.{{cite web|title=BIOGRAPHIE DE MARC MÉZARD|url=http://www.letudiant.fr/educpros/personnalites/mezard-marc-824.html|website=letudiant.fr|accessdate=October 29, 2016}} He graduated from the École normale supérieure in 1976 and earned the agrégation in Physics.{{cite web|title=Qui sommes-nous? Marc Mézard, Vice-Président de l'Institut|url=http://institutens.fr/marc-mezard/|website=Institut de l'École Normale Supérieure|publisher=École Normale Supérieure|accessdate=October 29, 2016}} He earned a PhD in Physics from University of Paris 6 in 1980.{{Cite thesis|url=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|title = Test de QCD et Observables Inclusives dans la Diffusion Inelastique de Neutrinos|year = 1980|publisher = Université Pierre et Marie Curie|last1 = Mézard|first1 = Marc}}{{cite web|title=2016 Lars Onsager Prize Recipient|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Mezard&first_nm=Marc&year=2016|website=American Physical Society|accessdate=October 29, 2016}}
Career
Mézard joined the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) as a researcher in 1981. He was a professor of Physics at the École Polytechnique. In 2001, he joined the Center for Theoretical Physics and Statistical Models at the University of Paris-Sud, and he serves as its director. Since 2012 to 2022, he had also served as the director of his alma mater, the ENS. In 2022 he joined the Department of the Computing Sciences at the Bocconi University in Milan.{{Cite web |orig-date=01 February 2022 |title=Sei nuovi docenti allargano gli orizzonti della Bocconi |url=https://www.knowledge.unibocconi.it/notizia.php?idArt=23791 |website=knowledge.unibocconi.it |date=February 2022 |language=it}}
Mézard is the author of 170 academic articles and the co-author of two books. He won the Prize Ampère in 1996, the Humboldt Prize in 2009,{{cite web|title=Lauréats français du prix Humboldt 2009|url=http://www.cnrs.fr/inp/spip.php?article284|website=CNRS|accessdate=October 29, 2016|date=January 29, 2010}} and the Lars Onsager Prize in 2016.
Works
- {{cite book|last1=Mézard|first1=Marc|last2=Parisi|first2=Giorgio|authorlink2=Giorgio Parisi|last3=Virasoro|first3=Miguel Angel|authorlink3=Miguel Ángel Virasoro (physicist)|title=Spin Glass Theory and Beyond|date=1987|publisher=World Scientific|location=Singapore|isbn=9789971501150|oclc=14929802}}
- {{cite book|last1=Mézard|first1=Marc|last2=Montanari|first2=Andrea|title=Information, Physics, and Computation|date=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford, U.K.|isbn=9780198570837|oclc=234430714|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jhCM7i0a6UUC}} [http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~ywu/research/documents/BOOKS/MontanariInformationPhysicsComputation.pdf 1st 15 chapters of 2008 draft version, available at www.stat.ucla.edu]
References
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External links
- [https://www.marcmezard.fr/ Personal homepage]
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