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.
Marc Mézard | |
|---|---|
| Director of the École normale supérieure | |
| In office 19 April 2012 – 15 March 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Monique Canto-Sperber |
| Succeeded by | Frédéric Woms |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 August 1957 Aurillac, France |
| Education | Lycée Louis-le-Grand |
| Alma mater | École normale supérieure |
| Known for | Euclidean random matrix Cavity method Random energy model |
| Awards | Ampère Prize (1996) Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize (2009) Lars Onsager Prize (2016) Racah Lecture (2017) Three Physicists Prize (2021) |
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