Thierry Bodineau is awarded the Sophie Germain Prize – Fondation de l’Institut de France

Thierry Bodineau was awarded the 2022 Sophie Germain Prize by the French Academy of Sciences on October 18, during a ceremony held under the “cupola” of the Institut de France. The evening ended with the intervention of astrophysicist and member of the Academy Anne-Marie Lagrange on the “Exploration of exoplanets”.

A CNRS research director at IHES since last September, Thierry Bodineau specializes in probability theory and his work focuses on mathematical problems in statistical mechanics.

The Sophie Germain Prize of the Institut de France has been awarded every year by the French Academy of Sciences since 2003 to researchers who have carried out fundamental research in mathematics. Through this prize, the Academy of Sciences furthers its mission of encouraging the advancement of science.

This award underlines the importance of Thierry Bodineau’s contributions, whose research subjects touch different problems at the interface with physics. He has worked the coexistence of phases in the Ising model and its consequences on the dynamical relaxation. In collaboration with Bernard Derrida, he has also studied stochastic processes to characterize the flow in non-equilibrium systems. More recently, he has collaborated with Isabelle Gallagher, Laure Saint-Raymond and Sergio Simonella, to analyze the stochastic behavior of hard sphere dynamics in the kinetic limit.

The IHES is delighted by this recognition attributed to Thierry Bodineau and congratulates him warmly.