Areas of Research/Interest: Soft condensed-matter, Glass transition, Granular matter, Biophysics, Neuroscience, Economics and Finance

Fellowships/Honors: 
Diploma received with Highest Honors Ecole Normale Superieur, 2002, attributed to a single student that year.
Award for Excellence in Ph.D Research, attributed by the Ecole Polytechnique to 10% of its Ph.D’s.
Inaugural Recipient of the George Carrier Fellowship, attributed by Harvard, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The G. Carrier Fellowship was started in 2005 to honor the memory of Prof. G. Carrier, who worked on Applied Mathematics broadly. The Fellowship is awarded to outstanding applicants interested in an opportunity for independent research that reflects the spirit of George Carrier’s approach.

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Selected Works:
On the dependence of the avalanche angle on the granular layer thickness MatthieuWyart, Europhysics Letters, 85, 24003, (2009)

Energy transport in Jammed sphere Packings Ning Xu, Vincenzo Vitelli, MatthieuWyart, Andrea Liu and Sidney Nagel, Physical Review Letters, 102, 038001, (2009)

Elasticity of Floppy and Stiff Random Networks Matthieu Wyart, Haiyi Liang, Alexandre Kabla and L. Mahadevan, Physical Review Letters, 101, 215501, (2008)

Relation between Bid-Ask Spread, Impact and Volatility in Double Auction Markets Matthieu Wyart, Jean- Philippe Bouchaud, Julien Kockelkoren, Marc Potters, Michele Vettorazzo, Quantitative finance, 8, 41-57, (2008)

Self-referential behaviour, overreaction and conventions in financial markets Matthieu Wyart, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Journal of Economical and Behavioral Organization, 63 1-24, (2007)

Heterogeneous Dynamics, Marginal Stability and Soft Modes in Hard Sphere Glasses Carolina Brito and MatthieuWyart, Journal of Statistical Mechanics, 08, 1742-5468 (2007)

Excess vibrational modes and the boson peak in model glasses Ning Xu, MatthieuWyart, Andrea J. Liu, Sidney R. Nagel, Phys. Rev. Lett, 98, 175502 (2007)

What makes a hard sphere glass rigid? Carolina Brito and Matthieu Wyart, Euro. Phys. Letters, 76, 149-155, (2006)

On the Rigidity of Amorphous solids Matthieu Wyart, Ann. Phys. Fr., Vol. 30, No 3, pp. 1-96, (2005)

Effects of compression on the vibrational modes of marginally jammed solids Matthieu Wyart, Leo Silbert, S.R. Nagel, TomWitten, Phys. Rev. E, 72, 051306 (2005)

Geometric origin of excess soft vibrational modes in amorphous solids MatthieuWyart, S.R. Nagel, TomWitten, Euro. Phys. Letters, 72, 486-492 (2005)

What do we learn about the shape of the dynamical susceptibility in glassy system? Cristina Toninelli, MatthieuWyart, Gulio Biroli, Ludovic Berthier, J-P Bouchaud, Phys. Rev. E 71, 041505 (2005)

Fluctuations and response in financial markets: the subtle nature of ‘random’ price changes Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Yuval Gefen, Marc Potters, and Matthieu Wyart Quantitative Finance 4 176-190 (2004)

Statistical models for company growth Matthieu Wyart, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud Physica A 326, Issues 1-2, Pages 241-255, (2003)