09:00 – 10:20 Session I — Chair: Leticia Cugliandolo
Mustansir Barma (30 min) — Vignettes in the Art of Randomness
Deepak Dhar (20 min, online) — Some recollections of Satya
Spenta Wadia (10 min, online) — A few words for Satya
Kedar Damle (20 min) — An unusual percolation transition and its possible consequences
10:20 – 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 – 12:20 Session II — Chair: Emmanuel Trizac
David Dean (30 min) — Exploring Coulomb gases with Satya
Pierre Le Doussal (20 min) — Heterogeneous random growth with redistribution: a mean field theory
Denis Bernard (20 min) — Structured Random Matrices and Free Probability (in noisy quantum matter)
Sidney Redner (20 min) — Can A Diffusing Lamb Survive?
12:20 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:40 Session III — Chair: Frederic van Wijland
Baruch Meerson (20 min) — Fractional Brownian motion with negative Hurst exponent
Robert Ziff (20 min) — Capture of walkers by a sphere and random processes
14:40 – 16:00 Students, Postdocs and Scientific Descendants of Satya – Part I
Chair: Abhishek Dhar
Opening remarks by Abhishek Dhar (15 min)
Sanjib Sabhapandit, Mathis Guéneau, Céline Nadal, Tridib Sadhu, Bertrand Lacroix-A-Chez-Toine, Ivan Burenev, Ricardo Marino, Giacomo Gradenigo, Francesco Mori
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 Session IV — Chair: Henri Orland
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud (30 min) — Two recent topics in Random Matrix Theory
Alain Comtet (20 min) — A journey with Satya and the Tracy-Widom distribution
Clément Sire (20 min) — Persistence, in more ways than one: How Satya ended up in France
Marc Mézard (20 min) — Generative Diffusion with long-range correlated scale-free data: Replicas, turbulence, shocks and foam structure
09:10 – 10:20 Session I — Chair: Giulio Biroli
Joachim Krug (30 min) — Navigating random landscapes
Alexander Hartmann (20 min) — The craft of large-deviation simulations for random systems
Shlomi Reuveni (20 min) — Pushy Random Walks
10:20 – 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 – 12:00 Session II — Chair: Julien Tailleur
Martin Evans (30 min) — Two recurring themes: real-space condensation and stochastic resetting
Sergio Ciliberto (20 min) — First passage time and synchronization: from theory to experiment
Eli Barkai (20 min) — Transitions in splitting probabilities of quantum walks
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:40 Session III — Chair: Jorge Kurchan
Gernot Akemann (20 min) — Various regimes of non-Hermiticity: Number variance and dissipative spectral form factor
Srikanth Sastry (20 min) — The Art of Randomness: Stochasticity of fatigue failure times in sheared glasses
14:40 – 16:05 Students, Postdocs and Scientific Descendants of Satya – Part II
Chair: Supriya Krishnamurthy
Opening remarks by Supriya Krishnamurthy (15 min) — Reminisciences
Shamik Gupta, Pierre Mergny, Urna Basu, Julien Randon-Furling, Kabir Ramola, Aurélien Grabsch, Giuseppe Del Vecchio x2, Manas Kulkarni, Anupam Kundu, Gabriele De Mauro
16:05 – 16:35 Coffee break
16:35 – 18:05 Session IV — Chair: Kirone Mallick
David Mukamel (30 min) — Transport and condensation of driven tracers in a narrow channel
Denis Boyer (20 min) — Unconventional properties of a class of random walks with memory
Yariv Kafri (20 min) — Flocking: Why continuous symmetries break more readily than discrete ones.
Pierpaolo Vivo (20 min) — Statistical physics of taxi rides and aggressive cows.