The scientific field was :“Statistical Physics of Disordered Systems”
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.
