1. Didier Sornette is Professor on the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and is a professor of the Swiss Finance Institute, Didier Sornette was previously a Professor of Geophysics at UCLA, Los Angeles California and a Research Professor at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.
Didier Sornette's group has contributed significantly to the theoretical development and study of the properties of the now standard Epidemic Type Aftershock Sequence model.
Didier Sornette's group is currently pushing the model to its limits by allowing space and time variations of its parameters.
Ouillon and Didier Sornette have developed a pure statistical physics model of earthquake interaction and triggering, aiming at giving more flesh to the purely empirical ETAS linear model.
Friedemann Freund at NASA Ames and GeoCosmo, Didier Sornette has launched the Global Earthquake Forecasting Project to advance the field of earthquake prediction.
The key idea proposed by Cauwels and Didier Sornette is that revenues and profits of a social-networking firm are inherently linked to its user basis through a direct channel that has no equivalent in other sectors; the growth of the number of users can be calibrated with standard logistic growth models and allows for reliable extrapolations of the size of the business at long time horizons.
Didier Sornette has contributed theoretical models, empirical tests of the detection and operational implementation of forecasts of financial bubbles.
Didier Sornette has developed the dragon king theory of extreme events.
Didier Sornette formulated the hypothesis that DK could be detected in advance by the observation of associated precursory signs.
Didier Sornette argues that the strong Swiss franc is the emergence of the aggregate qualities of Switzerland, its political systems, its infrastructure, its work organisation and ethics, its culture and much more.
Didier Sornette proposes to "mine" Swiss francs to stabilise the exchange against the euro to an economically and politically consensus and buy as much euros and dollars as is necessary for this.