Onsager professor 2010

The Onsager professor of 2010, Elisabeth Bouchaud, is French. She works for the Energy Commission CEA at Saclay, and is the deputy director of the Cluster Triangle de la Physique. Her research is mostly in experiments, and is at the frontier of statistical physics, mechanics and materials science.

She has been a visiting scientist at the University of Cambridge (UK), a visiting professor at Louisiana State University (USA), and Millikan Professor at Caltech (USA). She received the Jean Rist Prize from the French Materials Science and Metallurgy Society in 1996, the Lecturer Award from the Federation of European Materials Societies in 1997, the Louis Ancel Prize for Condensed Matter Physics from the French Physical Society in 2005, and the Ordre National du Mérite in 2008. She has given over 90 invited talks at conferences or research institutions.

Elisabeth Bouchaud has visited NTNU on a number of occasions, and this time her stay will extend from April through September 2010. A warm welcome to Elisabeth Bouchaud from us all at The Department of Physics, NTNU.

Onsagerprofessor 2010: Elisabeth Bouchaud

Prize ceremony and Lecture

May 11th. at 14:15 -15:00

Onsagerprofessor prize ceremony and lecture will take place
Tuesday May 11th, at 14:15 -15:00 in Auditorium R5 (Realfagbygget)

Elisabeth Bouchaud will give a lecture entitled: "Fracture motives". The Onsager medal will be awarded to Bouchaud before the lecture