Marie Farge

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.

Marie Farge in 2003

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. 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 turbulenceCS1 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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