The Philippe Meyer Institute at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris has established an International Prize for a young researcher : the “Philippe Meyer Prize”. It is attributed every two years and aims at rewarding exceptional contributions to the field of Physics.
The Prize consists of a financial award of 10,000 (ten thousand) euros in addition to an invitation to spend one month as a visitor at the Philippe Meyer Institute.
A specific scientific field is chosen for every Call and the selection is made by an international jury whose names are published in the Prize web page after the selection of the laureate. Nominations for the Prize are open to all members of the international scientific community. Self-appointed candidacies are not accepted. The candidates should have received their PhD thesis less than ten years before January 1st of the award year. For women candidates an extra year is added for every child in charge. Persons holding an appointment at Ecole Normale Supérieure are not eligible to receive the Prize.
The Philippe Meyer Institute at the Ecole Normale Supérieure gladly announces that the 2024 Philippe Meyer Prize is awarded to Prof. BEN GOOD (Stanford Univerity) for his major breakthroughs on the evolution of microbial communities and the interplay between evolution and ecology.
The International jury of the Prize was composed by :
– Professor Jean-François Joanny (Chair)
– Professor David Nelson
– Professor Ben Simons
– Professor Haim Sompolinski
The scientific field is:“Theoretical High Energy and Elementary Particle Physics”.
The International jury is composed by Luciano Maiani (Chair), Belen Gavela and Michael Peskin.
They decided to award the Prize to: Alexander ZHIBOEDOV
The citation reads:
“…..for outstanding contributions to our understanding of the operator structure of quantum field theories with conformal invariance. His foundational work has applications to the search for new non-perturbative quantum field theories and to the analysis of Quantum Chromodynamics at particle colliders.”
The award ceremony took place in Paris, room L367, on December 12, 2022. It was the occasion of a half-day symposium:
2.30 pm — 2.45 pm J. Iliopoulos: Welcome address, The Philippe Meyer Prize 2.45 pm — 3:00 pm L. Maiani: Presentation of the laureate 3.00 pm — 4.00 pm A. Zhiboedov: “The operator structure of conformally invariant
quantum field theories and the geometry of spacetime” 4.00 pm — 4.30 pm Coffee break 4.30 pm — 5.30 pm L. Maiani: “Exotic hadrons”
The scientific field was :“Statistical Physics of Out-of-Equilibrium Systems”
The International jury was composed by Prof. Herbert Spohn (chair), Prof. David Huse, Prof. Christopher Jarzynski and Prof. Andrea Liu
They decided to award the Prize to: Adam Nahum
The citation reads:
“ . . .for his ground-breaking contributions to the dynamics of non-integrable quantum many-body systems, in particular through the study of random quantum circuits.”
The award ceremony took place via teleconference in Paris in December 2020.
The scientific field was :”Quantum Field Theory, Strings and Gravity”
The International jury was composed by Prof. Michael Green (Chair), Prof. Ashoke Sen and Prof. Edward Witten.
They decided to award the Prize to :Aron Wall
The citation reads:
“Aron Wall is awarded the Philipe Meyer prize for multiple pathbreaking contributions at the interface of general relativity, thermodynamics andquantum field theory.”
The award ceremony took place in Paris in December 2018.
It has included a scientific talk by Aron Wall:
“How low can the energy density go?”
The International jury was composed by Prof. John Cardy ( Chair),Prof. William Bialek and Prof. Kurt Binder.
They awarded the Prize to:Lenka Zdeborova
The citation reads:
“ . . .for her achievements in extending the boundaries of statistical physics by developing a unified approach to questions about disordered systems, inference from noisy data, the structure of algorithmically hard problems, and the possibility of reconstructing high dimensional signals from low dimensional measurements (compressed sensing).”
The award ceremony took place in Paris in December 2 2016. It was the occasion of a half-day symposium:
2 pm: a presentation by the laureate 3 pm: John CARDY: Entanglement Hamiltonians 4.30 pm: Kurt BINDER: Simulations of interfacial phenomena in soft condensed matter and nanoscience.
The scientific field was:”The Theory of Elementary Particles and their Interactions.”
The International jury was composed by Prof. Sheldon Lee Glashow (chair), Prof. Luis Alvarez-Gaumé and Prof. Alvaro DeRujula.
The Prize was awarded to:Zohar Komargodski
The citation reads:
“Zohar Komargodski has made important contributions to the understanding of supersymmetric quantum field theories. He studied their non-perturbative properties, their phase structures and several general featuresof supersymmetry breaking. Some of the results obtained have applications in the description of beyond the Standard Model theories based on supersymmetry. He has also explored the interplay between scale and conformal invariance in diverse dimensions with applications to the description of critical systems in condensed matter physics.”
The award ceremony took place in Paris in December 2014 during a Conference for the 40th anniversary of the ENS Laboratory of Theoretical Physics.