Previous seminars 

2023 - 2024

• December 13, Youjin Deng, Finite-size scaling of the high-dimensional Ising model 

• November 22: Jemery O'Byrne, Irreversibility and active matter: a geometric insight

• November 8, Boris Svistunov, Transverse Quantum Fluids: New Paradigm of Quasi-one-dimensional Superfluidity

• October 18, Mehran Kardar, Competition at the front of expanding populations

• October 4, Thomas Scaffidi, Solvable models for 2+1D quantum critical points: Loop soups of 1+1D conformal field theories

• September 20, Koji Hukushima, How to avoid first order phase transition in quantum annealing 

2022 - 2023

• June 21, Camille Scalliet, The role of disorder in the emergence of complex dynamics

• May 17, Werner Krauth, Non-reversible (i.e. non-equlibrium) Markov chains and their approach ... to equilibrium

• May 24, Achille Mauri, Statistical mechanics of elastic membranes in classical and quantum regimes

• June 1,  Antoine Tilloy, Tensor network approach to quantum field theory

• 17 April, Shlomo Havlin, Interdependent Networks: Novel Physical Phase Transitions

• 4 April, Alexandre Solon, Collective motion and its fragility

• 1 and 8 February, Grzegorz Szamel, Two lectures on active matter

• 18 January, Maria Ruiz, Modeling and predicting the overlap of B-cell receptor repertoires in healthy and SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals

• 18 January, Manuel Diaz, Non-equilibrium theory of resistive switching in strongly correlated materials

• 14 December, Annette Zippelius, Active droplets

• 30 November, Michele Fava, What can we learn by measuring nonlinear response functions?

• 10 November, Nick Bultinck, Hawking radiation on the lattice as universal (Floquet) quench dynamics

• 12 October, Alexandros Alexakis, Phase transitions in Turbulence

• 28 September, Damien Vandembroucq, Glassy Disorder and Amorphous Plasticity

• 21 September, Hajime Yoshino, Statistical Mechanics of a Deep Neural Network 

• 14 September, Walter Kob, Revealing the structural order of disordered systems 

2021-2022

• 6 July, Olga Goulko, The grasshopper problem

• 29 June, Snir Gazit, Unconventional criticality and Fermi-surface reconstruction without symmetry breaking in a simple lattice model of gauge and matter fields

• 22 June, Camille Aron, Transition to chaos in open quantum systems, non-Hermitian random matrices, and quantum impurity models 

• 25 May, Aditi Mitra, Floquet chains and the stability of their edge modes

• 19 May, Yifei He, Bootstrap approach to quantum field theories: from scattering amplitudes to random geometry

• 12 May, Olesia Dmytruk, Probing and controlling topological phases of matter with light

• 11 May, Davide Giorlami, A tale of two bounds: quantum limits to distribution and manipulation of quantum information

• 20 April, Serge Florens, Quantum field theory on a superconducting chip

• 13 April, Maciej Koch-Janusz, Relevant operators and symmetries through the lens of lossy compression theory

• 6 April, Ludwig Hruza, The Quantum Simple Symmetric Exclusion Process

• 6 April, Stephane d’Ascoli, Tackling symbolic regression with Transformers

• 30 March, Tarek Anous, What statistical mechanics can teach us about geometry?

• 23 March, Agoritsas Elisabeth, Role of structural disorder in dense particle systems: from amorphous materials to active matter

• 16 March, Thorsten Emig, Exercise Physiology from a Physics Perspective

• 2 March, Nirvana Caballero, From bulk descriptions to emergent interfaces

• 23 February, Alexandre Krajenbrink, Classical integrability and the large deviations of the KPZ equation

• 9 February, Jean-Pierre Nadal, The geometry of internal representations in artificial neural networks: hints from computational neuroscience

• 19 January, Frédéric Chevy, Exploring quantum many-body physics with ultracold atoms

• 5 January, Aurélien Grabsch, Generalised Density Profiles in Single-File Systems

• 15 December, Giambattista Giacomin, The effect of disorder on pinning models: old and new results 

• 8 December, Varda Faghir Hagh, Energetic Rigidity: a unifying theory of mechanical stability

• 1 December, Silvia Pappalardi, Quantum bounds and fluctuation-dissipation theorem

• 24 November, Nicolò Defenu, Quantum criticality and out-of-equilibrium scaling in long-range systems and beyond

• 10 November, Giuseppe Policastro, A semi-holographic model of non-Fermi liquids

• 27 October, Karyn Le Hur, Geometry, Light Response and Quantum Transport in Topological States

• 20 October, James Sethna, Sloppy models, differential geometry, and why science works

• 13 October, Laurens Vanderstraeten, Scaling hypothesis for projected entangled-pair states

• 6 October, Valerio Sorichetti, Fluctuations control the assembly kinetics of semiflexible filaments

2020-2021

• 15 & 17 June, 2021: Thierry Mora, Lecture series: Introduction to immunology for physicists

• 19 May, 2021:: Francesco Zamponi,  Two-level systems in structural glasses

• 12 May, 2021: Gregory Schehr, Universal first-passage properties for a d-dimensional run-and-tumble particle

• 05 May, 2021: Marcos Mariño, Resurgence and non-perturbative physics: applications in condensed matter physics

• 24 March, 2021: Yifei He, Four-point cluster connectivities in critical Potts model

• 17 March, 2021: Marko Medenjak, Bounds on time translation symmetry breaking

• 10 March, 2021: Michael Knap, Constrained Quantum Dynamics

• 10 February, 2021: Alessandro Sanzeni, Dynamics of cortical circuits: underlying mechanisms and computational implications

• 20 January, 2021: Adam Nahum, Measurement phase transitions and statistical mechanics

• 9 December, 2020: Barbara Bravi, Modeling Immune Recognition with Restricted Boltzmann Machines

• 25 November, 2020: Marco Schiró, Unconventional Phase Transitions in Open Markovian Quantum Systems

• 18 November, 2020: Ada Altieri, Properties of equilibria and glassy phases in large interacting ecosystems

• 28 October, 2020: Paola Ruggiero, Quantum Generalised Hydrodynamics

• 07 October, 2020: Gérard Ben Arous, De Charybde en Scylla: Complexité topologique vs Entropie en grande dimension

• 30 September, 2020: Benoit Estienne, Bulk & Boundary Entanglement Entropy in the Quantum Hall Effect: Exact Results

2019-2020

• 10 June, 2020: Vincent Vargas, A probabilistic approach of ultraviolet renormalisation in the boundary Sine-Gordon model 

• 27 May, 2020:  Xiangyu Cao, Statistical physics of operator growth

• 13 May, 2020: Ricard Alert, Active Fluids: Topological Defects, Turbulence, and Phase Separation

• 29 April, 2020: Antoine Venaille, Some topological properties of geophysical and astrophysical waves 

• 8 April, 2020: Lorenzo Piroli, Scrambling in Nonlocal Random Quantum Circuits

• 25 March, 2020: Jacopo DE NARDIS, Universality classes of transport in quantum and classical chains: from diffusion to KPZ dynamics

• 26 February, 2020: Massimo VERGASSOLA, Learning to soar

• 5 February, 2020: Bruno BERTINI, Non-equilibrium dynamics in dual-unitary quantum circuits

• 30-31 January, 2020: Journées de Physique Statistique

• 22 January, 2020: Gabriel LEMARIÉ, Non-ergodic, glassy properties of Anderson localization

• 18 December, 2019: Kay WIESE, Sandpiles, loop-erased random walks, depinning of CDW, and the O(n) model at n=-2... How are they all related?

• 11 December, 2019: Luca TAGLIACOZZO, On the quest for universality in the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of quantum systems

• 4 December, 2019: Guy BUNIN, Random interactions and high-dimensionality in ecology

• 13 November, 2019: Tomer GOLDFRIEND, Quasi-integrable systems are slow to thermalize but they may be good scramblers

• 06 November, 2019: Omar FAWZI, Relative entropy accumulation

• 16 October, 2019: Valentina ROS, Statistical properties of energy barriers and activated dynamics in mean-field models of glasses

• 09 October, 2019: Alexander POVOLOTSKY, Statistics of Avalanche Currents in the Raise and Peel model

• 02 October, 2019: Zala LENARČIČ, Pumping (realistic) approximately integrable and many-body localized systems

2018-2019

• 26 June, 2019: Claudio CHAMON, Entanglement Spectrum Statistics as a Probe of Irreversibility and Universality in Quantum Circuits

• 12 June, 2019: Géraldine HAACK, Classical vs. quantum information in quantum thermal machines

• 29 May, 2019: Nikolay PROKOFIEV, Polaron mobility in the "beyond quasiparticles" regime

• 22 May, 2019: Fabio TONINELLI, Two-dimensional growth models in the Anisotropic KPZ class

• 15 May, 2019: Leo RADZIHOVSKY, Fracton topological order via quantum elasticity duality

• 10 April, 2019: Dmitry ABANIN, New non-equilibrium quantum states enabled by breakdown of thermalization

• 27 March, 2019: Manas KULKARNI, Connections between Classical Integrable Models, Log Gas, and Random Matrix Theory

• 20 March, 2019: Mike CATES, Scalar Active Matter: Phase Separation, Microphase Separation, and Entropy Production

• 13 March, 2019: Daniel FISHER, Spatiotemporal chaos in simple models of fine-scale ecological diversity

• 06 March, 2019: Philippe Di FRANCESCO, Tilings, Paths and Arctic Curves: the Tangent Method at Work

• 27 February, 2019: Massimiliano GUBINELLI, A PDE construction of the phi43 quantum field theory

• 06 February 2019:  Vincent HAKIM, Spatially organized oscillatory neuronal activity: from recording data to noisy interface equations and back

• 16 January 2019: Jesper JACOBSEN, Four-point functions in the Fortuin-Kasteleyn cluster model

• 05 December 2018: Paul BOURGADE, Random band matrices in the delocalized phase

• 07 November 2018: Aleksandra WALCZAK, Predicting immune repertoires

• 24 October 2018: Yann BRENIER, Des fluides à l'optimisation combinatoire via le transport optimal

• 03 October 2018: Freddy BOUCHET, Large deviation theory applied to climate dynamics and astronomy: two new frontiers of statistical mechanics

2017-2018

• 30 May 2018: Claire MATHIEU, Hierarchical Clustering: Objective Functions and Algorithms

• 02 May 2018: Guillaume BARRAQUAND, Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation and Macdonald processes in a half-space

• 11 April 2018: Yan FYODOROV, A spin glass model for reconstructing nonlinearly encrypted messages corrupted by noise

• 14 March 2018: Eric De GIULI, Natural language syntax as a problem of statistical physics

• 21 February 2018: Benjamin DOYON, Emergent hydrodynamic in integrable systems out of equilibrium

• 06 December 2017: Felix WERNER, Can one sum up all Feynman diagrams for strongly correlated fermions?

• 15 November 2017: David CARPENTIER, Elasticity of non-orientable ribbons via a Z2 gauge theory

• 08 November 2017: Jean-Noel FUCHS, Berry phase and metric tensor for Bloch electrons

• 18 October 2017: Marcel FILOCHE, Linear vs. non linear transport in the human lung

• 27 September 2017: Nicolas REGNAULT, Probing many-body localization with neural networks

2016-2017

• 24 May 2017: Jean-Francois JOANNY, Spontaneous flow in active matter

• 10 May 2017: Mikhail TIKHONOV, The statistical physics of ecology and evolution in high-diversity communities

• 03 May 2017: Andrea CAPPELLI, Field Theory Description of Topological States of Matter

• 26 April 2017: Thierry BODINEAU, Quelques résultats de grandes déviations pour des systèmes hors d'équilibre

• 29 March 2017: Henri ORLAND, Searching for Transition Paths

• 01 March 2017: Jacopo DE NARDIS, Inhomogeneous quantum quenches in spin chains: generalized hydrodynamics, Drude weights and universal fluctuations

• 25 January 2017: Benoit DOUÇOT, Informal introduction to topological band structures, with an emphasis on the bulk-edge correspondence

• 11 January 2017: Pierre LE DOUSSAL, Some open questions in 1D Kardar-Parisi-Zhang growth

• 07 December 2016: Jorge KURCHAN, Informal review of a) the quantum bound on chaos and b) its materialisation in spin-glassy models

• 23 November 2016: Remi MONASSON, autour de l'inference statistique

• 02 November 2016: Cris MOORE, Information-Theoretic Bounds and Phase Transitions in Community Detection and High-Dimensional Clustering

• 19 October 2016: Antti KUPIAINEN, A Probabilistic approach to the Liouville Field Theory

• 28 September 2016: Victor BAPST, Some recent research areas in deep learning

• 21 September 2016: Maurizio FAGOTTI, Quantum quenches: established results and beyond

2015-2016

• 25 May 2016: Giulio BIROLI, Many Body Localisation

• 11 May 2016: Guilhem SEMERJIAN, Random optimization problems, from mathematics to physics and back

• 06 April 2016: Grégory SCHEHR, Recent developments on the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation

• 23 March 2016: Bernard DERRIDA, Corrections de taille finie et méthode des répliques: un cas simple

• 09 March 2016: Antoine TILLOY, Continuous measurement and quantum trajectories

• 10 February 2016: Marc POTTERS, Eigenvector overlap and estimation of large noisy matrices

• 06 January 2016: Alberto ROSSO, Thermalization and many-body localization in driven spin systems

• 09 December 2015: Camille ARON, Periodically driven Ising model: mean-field solution and open questions

• 02 December 2015: Denis BERNARD, Autour du principe de Landauer

• 18 November 2015: Satya MAJUMDAR, Some open problems in random matrices or in random walks

The list of previous seminars (2009-2015) can be found here.