Prof. Matthieu Wyart awarded the Physik-Preis Dresden 2024
From left to right: Prof. Frank Jülicher, Director of the MPI-PKS, prizewinner Prof. Matthieu Wyart, Dean of the Faculty of Physics, Proff Gesche Pospiech. © Crispin Iven Mokry
Prof. Matthieu Wyart, Full Professor at the Institute of Physics (IPHYS), has received the Physik-Preis Dresden 2024, awarded jointly by the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems and the Technical University in Dresden.
The Physik-Preis Dresden was founded in 2015 by the Dresden physicist Prof. Peter Fulde, the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPI-PKS). The prize winners are selected by a joint commission of the TU Dresden and the MPI-PKS. In addition to the central criterion of scientific excellence, it is particularly important for the decision that the work of the award winners is of special significance for the collaboration between the two Dresden-concept partners MPI-PKS and TU Dresden and that their connection be further strengthened in the long term.
This year, the prize was awarded to Prof. Matthieu Wyart for his pioneering contributions to various problems of complex systems, in particular the theory of financial markets, the physics of disordered and glassy systems as well as the theory of neural networks and machine learning. The prize was handed over on June 18th 2024 on the occasion of a TU Dresden Physics Colloquium.