The Jürgen Ehlers Prize is awarded every three years, on the occasion of the international conference organized by the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation, for an outstanding PhD thesis in mathematical or numerical relativity.
This year, the award was given to Paul Ramond "for an extremely well written and innovative thesis on the first law of mechanics of binary systems of compact objects in general relativity. The thesis is a tour de force that provides a powerful and mathematically elegant extension of the first law by including quadrupole interactions, thus providing high order information on the behavior of relativistic binaries."
The thesis of Paul Ramond, former PhD student of the Laboratoire Univers et Théories of Paris Observatory, had previously been distinguished by the scientific publisher Springer to benefit from an edition in book format in the collection "Springer Theses". It was already a recognition of the scientific excellence of the work and its impact in the concerned research field.
The Ehlers Prize was created in 2008 by the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation in memory of Professor Jürgen Ehlers (1929-2008), an eminent relativist and former president of the Society. Professor Ehlers made major contributions to the foundations of general relativity, to many of its mathematical aspects, and to cosmology. He was the founding director of the Albert Einstein Institute of the Max Planck Society of Germany and was awarded the Max Planck Medal, the highest honor given by the German Physical Society.
- Paul Ramond’s thesis: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03511814
International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation: http://www.isgrg.org/index.php