Two days with Giorgio Parisi in Paris


October 13-14, 2022

This workshop will celebrate Giorgio Parisi's 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Arrival: Wednesday, October 12 (suggested, since the workshop will start early on the 13)

Departure: Friday, October 14, in the late afternoon

Location: Salle Jaurès, ENS Paris, access via 24 Rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France

Lunches will be offered onsite. Registration is free but mandatory before September 15, 2022, please click here to register

INVITED SPEAKERS

  • Roberto Benzi (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)

  • Simona Cocco (CNRS, ENS Paris)

  • Luca Gammaitoni (Università di Perugia)

  • Alice Guionnet (ENS Lyon)

  • Mehran Kardar (MIT)

  • Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

  • Giorgio Parisi (Sapienza Università di Roma)

  • Valentina Ros (CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay)

  • Akira Ukawa (RIKEN)

  • Lenka Zdeborová (EPFL)

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM OF THE WORKSHOP


Thursday October 13th


9:30 - 9:45 Jean-Marc Berroir: Welcome address

9:45 - 10:00 Nicolas Sourlas: Celebrating Giorgio

10:00 - 11:00 Giorgio Parisi: Replica symmetry breaking and applications

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:30 Akira Ukawa: Progress of Lattice QCD - physics, algorithms, machines - and Giorgio Parisi

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 15:30 Roberto Benzi: A Perspective view of the Multifractal Theory of Turbulence

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 17:00 Lenka Zdeborova: Understanding machine learning with statistical physics


Friday October 14th


9:30 - 10:30 Luca Gammaitoni: Stochastic Resonance: a remarkable idea that prompted a change in our perception of noise and fluctuations

10:30 - 11:30 Alice Guionnet: About matrix models and planar diagrams

11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 - 13:00 Simona Cocco: Reconstructing landscapes of proteins and RNAs: from evolution to design

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 15:30 Michelangelo Mangano: QCD: the era of precision

15:30 - 16:30 Mehran Kardar: Competition for growth on a rough front

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 - 18:00 Valentina Ros: On the geometrical properties of high-dimensional non-convex landscapes


The workshop is organized by the Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS Paris

Scientific secretariat: Delphine Rolland