Didier Sornette

Didier Sornette
Born	June 25, 1957 (1957-06-25) (age 54)
Fields	Physics, geophysics, complex systems, economics, finance
Institutions	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Swiss Finance Institute, UCLA
Alma mater	Ecole Normale Supérieure, University of Nice
Known for	Prediction of crises and extreme events in complex systems, physics of complex systems and pattern formation in spatio-temporal structures
Notable awards	Science et Défence French National Award, 2000 Research McDonnell award, Risques-Les Echos prize 2002 for Predictability of catastrophic events

Didier Sornette is Professor on the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). He is also a professor of the Swiss Finance Institute, a professor associated with both the department of Physics and the department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich, an Adjunct Professor of Geophysics at IGPP and ESS at UCLA. He was previously jointly a Professor of Geophysics at UCLA, Los Angeles California and a Research Director on the theory and prediction of complex systems at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.

Books

• "Scale invariance and beyond" (with B. Dubrulle and F. Graner, eds.), EDP Sciences and Springer, Berlin, 1997, 286 pages.
• Why Stock Markets Crash (Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems) Princeton University Press, 2003. ISBN 0691-09630-9
• Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences, Chaos, Fractals, Self-organization and Disorder: Concepts and Tools, Second edition, Springer Series in Synergetics, Heidelberg, 2004. ISBN 3540-40754-5
• Extreme Financial Risks (From dependence to risk management) (with Y. Malevergne). Springer, Heidelberg, 2005.
• "Theory of Zipf's law and beyond" (with A. Saichev and Y. Malevergne), Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Volume 632, Springer (November 2009), ISBN 978-3-642-02945-5

External links

• Didier Sornette's homepage

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