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Matthieu Wyart

Matthieu Wyart (born 1978 in Paris, France) is a French physicist. He is a professor of physics at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and the head of the Physics of Complex Systems Laboratory.[1][2]

Professor
Matthieu Wyart
Matthieu Wyart in 2021
Born1978 (age 45–46)
Paris, France
CitizenshipFrance
EducationPhysics, mathematics, economics
Alma materÉcole Polytechnique
École normale supérieure
Saclay Nuclear Research Centre
Awards2024 Physik-Preis Dresden
2015 Simons Investigator Award
2011 Sloan Fellowship
Scientific career
FieldsSoft condensed-matter
Glass transition
Granular matter
Deep learning
Biophysics
Neuroscience
Econophysics
InstitutionsEPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
ThesisOn the rigidity of amorphous solids. Price fluctuations, Conventions and Microstructure of Financial Markets
Doctoral advisorJean-Philippe Bouchaud
Websitewww.epfl.ch/labs/pcsl/

Career

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Wyart studied physics, mathematics and economics at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and obtained a degree with honors in physics in 2001. In 2002, he received a diploma in Advanced Studies in theoretical physics with highest honors from the École normale supérieure in Paris. He then joined Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and Marc Mézard at the Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé (SPEC) at Saclay Nuclear Research Centre (CEA Saclay) in Paris as a doctoral student.[3] In 2006, he gained a PhD in theoretical physics and finance for a thesis on electronic markets titled On the rigidity of amorphous solids. Price fluctuations, Conventions and Microstructure of Financial Markets.[4]

In 2005, he became an analyst in the research department of Capital Fund Management.[5] Between 2005 and 2008 he was George Carrier Fellow at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.[6] He then joined Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Campus as a research specialist.[7] Starting in 2009, he was a visiting research specialist at the Lewis-Sigler Institute at Princeton University.[8] He then joined New York University first as Assistant Professor in 2010 and was promoted to an associate professor position in 2014.[2][9]

Since July 2015, he has been Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics in the School of Basic Sciences at EPFL.[1][2] He became full professor in 2024. He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2021.[10]

Research

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Wyart’s research encompassed field such as the architecture of allosteric materials,[11] the theory of deep learning,[12] the elasticity and mechanical stability in disordered solids,[13] the granular and suspension flows,[13] the glass and rigidity transitions,[14] the marginal stability at random close packing and other glasses,[15] and the yielding transition and elasto-plasticity.[16]

In particular, some of his recent research is focused on the classification of the elementary excitations controlling the linear and the plastic response in amorphous materials.[17] He has discovered that some of these excitations are marginally stable in the solid phase.[18] This marginality fixes key aspects of structures, and suggest that the density of excitations presents a pseudo-gap. These concepts are important to understand low-temperature properties of glasses,[19] the rheology of dense granular and suspension flows,[20] the elasticity close to the jamming transition,[21] the production transition in foams or metallic glass,[17] and more broadly glassy systems with enough long-range interactions.[22]

Distinctions

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Wyart is the recipient of the Physik-Preis Dresden 2024, the 2015 Simons Investigator Award by the Simons Foundation,[23] Chaire Joliot (visiting professor) by the Ecole de Physique et Chimie in Paris in 2013,[24] the 2011 Sloan Fellowship,[9] and the 2005 G. Carrier Fellowship.[24]

Family

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Wyart is the son of Françoise Brochard-Wyart and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes.[25] He is married to Ksenia Tatarchenko and has two children.[26]

Selected works

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Strategic topics with a focus on the next performance period". www.admin.ch. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  2. ^ a b c "Prof. Matthieu Wyart". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  3. ^ Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe; Gefen, Yuval; Potters, Marc; Wyart, Matthieu (April 2004). "Fluctuations and response in financial markets: the subtle nature of 'random' price changes". Quantitative Finance. 4 (2): 176–190. arXiv:cond-mat/0307332. doi:10.1080/14697680400000022. ISSN 1469-7688. S2CID 219718300.
  4. ^ Wyart, Matthieu (2005-11-24). On the rigidity of amorphous solids. Price fluctuations, Conventions and Microstructure of Financial Markets (phdthesis thesis). Ecole Polytechnique X.
  5. ^ Wyart, Matthieu; Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe; Kockelkoren, Julien; Potters, Marc; Vettorazzo, Michele (February 2008). "Relation between bid–ask spread, impact and volatility in order-driven markets". Quantitative Finance. 8 (1): 41–57. doi:10.1080/14697680701344515. ISSN 1469-7688. S2CID 7940187.
  6. ^ "Physics/ Materials Department Colloquium: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 --Architecture and Co-Evolution of Allosteric Materials | Department of Physics - UC Santa Barbara". www.physics.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  7. ^ Fang-Yen, C.; Wyart, M.; Xie, J.; Kawai, R.; Kodger, T.; Chen, S.; Wen, Q.; Samuel, A. D. T. (2010-11-23). "Biomechanical analysis of gait adaptation in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107 (47): 20323–20328. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10720323F. doi:10.1073/pnas.1003016107. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 2996704. PMID 21048086.
  8. ^ Wyart, Matthieu; Botstein, David; Wingreen, Ned S. (2010-11-04). Ohler, Uwe (ed.). "Evaluating Gene Expression Dynamics Using Pairwise RNA FISH Data". PLOS Computational Biology. 6 (11): e1000979. Bibcode:2010PLSCB...6E0979W. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000979. ISSN 1553-7358. PMC 2973809. PMID 21079668.
  9. ^ a b "Three NYU Faculty Win Sloan Foundation Fellowships". NYU. 2011-02-11.
  10. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
  11. ^ Ravasio, Riccardo; Flatt, Solange Marie; Yan, Le; Zamuner, Stefano; Brito, Carolina; Wyart, Matthieu (2019-11-19). "Mechanics of Allostery: Contrasting the Induced Fit and Population Shift Scenarios". Biophysical Journal. 117 (10): 1954–1962. arXiv:1906.05043. Bibcode:2019BpJ...117.1954R. doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2019.10.002. ISSN 0006-3495. PMC 7031744. PMID 31653447.
  12. ^ Baity-Jesi, Marco; Sagun, Levent; Geiger, Mario; Spigler, Stefano; Ben Arous, Gérard; Cammarota, Chiara; LeCun, Yann; Wyart, Matthieu; Biroli, Giulio (2019-12-20). "Comparing dynamics: deep neural networks versus glassy systems". Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. 2019 (12): 124013. arXiv:1803.06969. Bibcode:2019JSMTE..12.4013B. doi:10.1088/1742-5468/ab3281. ISSN 1742-5468. S2CID 3975092.
  13. ^ a b DeGiuli, E.; Düring, G.; Lerner, E.; Wyart, M. (2015-06-09). "Unified theory of inertial granular flows and non-Brownian suspensions". Physical Review E. 91 (6): 062206. arXiv:1410.3535. Bibcode:2015PhRvE..91f2206D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.91.062206. PMID 26172704. S2CID 3547576.
  14. ^ Yan, Le; Wyart, Matthieu (2014-11-21). "Evolution of Covalent Networks under Cooling: Contrasting the Rigidity Window and Jamming Scenarios". Physical Review Letters. 113 (21): 215504. arXiv:1406.2748. Bibcode:2014PhRvL.113u5504Y. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.215504. PMID 25479505. S2CID 35811546.
  15. ^ Müller, Markus; Wyart, Matthieu (March 2015). "Marginal Stability in Structural, Spin, and Electron Glasses". Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics. 6 (1): 177–200. arXiv:1406.7669. Bibcode:2015ARCMP...6..177M. doi:10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031214-014614. ISSN 1947-5454. S2CID 119251236.
  16. ^ Lin, Jie; Lerner, Edan; Rosso, Alberto; Wyart, Matthieu (2014-10-07). "Scaling description of the yielding transition in soft amorphous solids at zero temperature". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111 (40): 14382–14387. arXiv:1403.6735. Bibcode:2014PNAS..11114382L. doi:10.1073/pnas.1406391111. PMC 4210034. PMID 25246567.
  17. ^ a b Ji, Wencheng; de Geus, Tom W. J.; Agoritsas, Elisabeth; Wyart, Matthieu (2022). "Mean-field description for the architecture of low-energy excitations in glasses". Physical Review E. 105 (4): 044601. arXiv:2106.13153. Bibcode:2022PhRvE.105d4601J. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.105.044601. PMID 35590661. S2CID 247964928.
  18. ^ Popović, Marko; de Geus, Tom W. J.; Ji, Wencheng; Wyart, Matthieu (2021). "Thermally activated flow in models of amorphous solids". Physical Review E. 104 (2): 025010. arXiv:2009.04963. Bibcode:2021PhRvE.104b5010P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.104.025010. PMID 34525527. S2CID 221586284.
  19. ^ Lerner, Edan; Düring, Gustavo; Wyart, Matthieu (2013-08-07). "Low-energy non-linear excitations in sphere packings". Soft Matter. 9 (34): 8252–8263. arXiv:1302.3990. Bibcode:2013SMat....9.8252L. doi:10.1039/C3SM50515D. ISSN 1744-6848. S2CID 95900654.
  20. ^ Gueudré, Thomas; Lin, Jie; Rosso, Alberto; Wyart, Matthieu (2017-05-24). "Scaling description of non-local rheology". Soft Matter. 13 (20): 3794–3801. arXiv:1607.07290. Bibcode:2017SMat...13.3794G. doi:10.1039/C7SM00434F. ISSN 1744-6848. PMID 28492682. S2CID 28165820.
  21. ^ Popović, Marko; de Geus, Tom W. J.; Wyart, Matthieu (2018-10-11). "Elastoplastic description of sudden failure in athermal amorphous materials during quasistatic loading". Physical Review E. 98 (4): 040901. arXiv:1803.11504. Bibcode:2018PhRvE..98d0901P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.98.040901. S2CID 125584602.
  22. ^ Ji, Wencheng; de Geus, Tom W. J.; Popović, Marko; Agoritsas, Elisabeth; Wyart, Matthieu (2020-12-04). "Thermal origin of quasilocalized excitations in glasses". Physical Review E. 102 (6): 062110. arXiv:1912.10537. Bibcode:2020PhRvE.102f2110J. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.102.062110. PMID 33466080. S2CID 209444846.
  23. ^ "Simons Investigators". Simons Foundation. 2018-07-10. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  24. ^ a b "Curriculum Vitae Matthieu Wyart" (PDF). EPFL.
  25. ^ Joanny, Jean-François; Pincus, Philip A. (2007). "Pierre-Gilles De Gennes". Physics Today. 60 (8): 71. Bibcode:2007PhT....60h..71J. doi:10.1063/1.2774111. ISSN 0031-9228.
  26. ^ Tatarchenko, Ksenia (2013). ""A HOUSE WITH THE WINDOW TO THE WEST": THE AKADEMGORODOK COMPUTER CENTER (1958-1993)". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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