Marc Mézard
Director of the École normale supérieure
In office
19 April 2012 – 15 March 2022
Preceded byMonique Canto-Sperber
Succeeded byFrédéric Woms
Personal details
Born (1957-08-29) 29 August 1957
Aurillac, France
EducationLycée Louis-le-Grand
Alma materÉcole normale supérieure
Known forEuclidean random matrix
Cavity method
Random energy model
AwardsAmpère Prize (1996)
Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize (2009)
Lars Onsager Prize (2016)
Racah Lecture (2017)
Three Physicists Prize (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.[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 of 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 to 2022, he had also served as the director of his alma mater, the ENS.[2] In 2022 he joined the Department of the Computing Sciences at the Bocconi University in Milan.[5]

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,[6] 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, Andrea (2009). Information, Physics, and Computation. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198570837. OCLC 234430714. 1st 15 chapters of 2008 draft version, available at www.stat.ucla.edu

References

  1. 1 2 3 "BIOGRAPHIE DE MARC MÉZARD". letudiant.fr. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Qui sommes-nous? Marc Mézard, Vice-Président de l'Institut". Institut de l'École Normale Supérieure. École Normale Supérieure. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  3. ↑ Mézard, Marc (1980). Test de QCD et Observables Inclusives dans la Diffusion Inelastique de Neutrinos (Thesis). Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
  4. 1 2 3 "2016 Lars Onsager Prize Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Sei nuovi docenti allargano gli orizzonti della Bocconi". knowledge.unibocconi.it (in Italian).
  6. ↑ "Lauréats français du prix Humboldt 2009". CNRS. January 29, 2010. Retrieved October 29, 2016.


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