Pierre Collet (physicist)

Pierre Collet (born 1948) is a French mathematical physicist, specializing in statistical mechanics, stochastic processes, and chaos theory.

In 1978, Collet received a doctorate under Jean-Pierre Eckmann at the University of Geneva, with a thesis entitled Étude du modèle hiérarchique par le groupe de renormalisation.

[1] Collet is currently Director of Research of the CNRS at the École polytechnique.

[2] Collet is known for mathematically exact investigations of several model systems in statistical mechanics and chaos theory.

[3] He is not to be confused with the University of Strasbourg's Pierre Collet, who specializes in artificial evolution and complex systems.