Marie Farge in 2003

Marie Farge (born 1953) is a French mathematician and physicist who works as a director of research at CNRS, the French National Centre for Scientific Research. She is known for her research on wavelets and turbulence in fluid mechanics.

Education and career

Farge earned a master's degree from Stanford University in 1977, and a third cycle doctorate in physics from Paris Diderot University in 1980. After postdoctoral studies on a Fulbright Fellowship at Harvard University, she continued her studies at Pierre and Marie Curie University, where she completed a state doctorate in 1987.[1]

She has been a researcher at CNRS since 1981. She has also held short-term positions at many other universities, including being Sofia Kovaleskaia Chair of Mathematics in 1994–95 at Kaiserslautern University.[2]

Recognition

Farge was the 1993 winner of the Poncelet Prize of the French Academy of Sciences.[3] She became a member of the Academia Europaea in 2005,[4] and a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2011.[2][5]

References

  1. ↑ Marie Farge at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. 1 2 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2016-07-01.
  3. ↑ Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences: La vie des sciences, Gauthier-Villars, 10 (5): 479, 1993, Le prix est décerné à Marie Farge ... pour sa contribution à l'application de la transformée par ondelettes à l'étude de la turbulence{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link).
  4. ↑ Member profile: Marie Farge, Academia Europaea, retrieved 2016-07-01.
  5. ↑ Women fellows Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine, APS, retrieved 2016-07-01.
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