The Statistical Physics Cornucopia
6 - 8 September 2017, Théâtre de la Reine Blanche, Paris
Although turning 60 is not a big deal anymore, we still want to honor our friend, mentor and collaborator Marc Mézard who will hit that mark in August 2017.
This conference is to celebrate Marc's exceptional scientific
career. The program will reflect the depth and broad range of Marc’s scientific contributions, many of them at the boundary between different fields. Two round tables, on scientific education, the other on interdisciplinary science, will also take place.
Participation is free of charge, but registration is
obligatory by July 31st, 2017, on the following
registration page .
Organisers
- G. Biroli
- J.-P. Bouchaud
- R. Monasson
- L. Zdeborová
- Speakers
- A. Aspect
- E. Brézin
- E. Bouchaud
- A. Coja-Oghlan
- L. Cugliandolo
- B. Derrida
- P. Diaconis
- D. Fisher
- D. Gross
- W. Krauth
- F. Krzakala
- S. Majumdar
- A. Montanari
- T. Mora
- G. Parisi
- O. Rivoire
- C. Toninelli
- R. Urbanke
- A. Walczak
- J. Yedidia
- F. Zamponi
- R. Zecchina
- Tuesday 5th September, 2017, 18:00, ENS (The entrance hall of 24 Rue Lhomond): Welcome party
- (all the following program at Théâtre de la Reine Blanche)
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- Wednesday 6th September, 2017
- Morning
- 9:00 – 9:45 E. Brézin: Critical wetting, and old but still controversial subject
- 9:45 – 10:30 F. Zamponi: An overview of mean-field theory for structural glasses
- 11:00 – 11:45 B. Derrida: Renormalization and disorder : a simple toy model
- 11:45 – 12:30 W. Krauth: Matching, Marching and Mixing: Algorithms and applications
- Afternoon
- 2:00 – 2:45 A. Montanari: The algorithmic lens
- 2:45 – 3 :30 T. Mora: Susceptibility and sensitivity of a neural population code
- 3:30 – 4:15 O. Rivoire: Large deviations from physics to biology
- 4:45 – 5:30 A. Aspect: Anderson localisation in ultra-cold atoms: an example of a quantum simulation
- 5:30 – 7:00 Round Table on "The role and future of interdisciplinarity in sciences":
- Participants: M. Mézard, R. Urbanke, J. Yedidia, W. Bialek, R. Zecchina, J.-P. Nadal
- 7:30 “L’Auberge Rouge” (Jean Epstein, 1923) & Concert
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- Thursday 7th September, 2017
- Morning
- 9:00 – 9:45 E. Bouchaud: Fracture processes in amorphous materials
- 9:45 – 10:30 S. Majumdar: Top eigenvalue of a random matrix: Tracy-Widom distribution and the 3-rd order phase transition
- 11:15 – 12:00 A. Walczak: Diversity and prediction on immune systems
- Afternoon
- 2:00 – 2:45 F. Krzakala: Planted Spin Glasses
- 2:45 – 3:30 A. Coja-Oghlan: Belief Propagation on replica symmetric factor graph models
- 3:30 – 4:15 R. Urbanke: TBA
- 4:45 – 5:30 R. Zecchina: The out-of-equilibrium landscape of neural networks learning algorithms: from driven stochastic processes to quantum annealing algorithms
- 5:30 – 7:00 Round Table on "Scientific education and training of young scientists":
- Participants: M. Mézard, S. Balibar, G. Ben Arous, E. Brezin (chair), E. Bouchaud, Y. Lazlo
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- Friday 8th September, 2017
- Morning
- 9:00 – 9:45 D. Gross: Quenched Randomness: From the simplest spin glass to the simplest AdS/CFT duality.
- 9:45 – 10:30 P. Diaconis: From Equivalence of Ensembles to the Quantum de Finetti Theorem(s)
- 11:15 – 12:00 J. Yedidia: A Message-Passing Algorithm for General Optimization Problems
- Afternoon
- 14:00 – 14:45 L. Cugliandolo: Measuring effective temperatures in the Generalised Gibbs Ensemble
- 14:45 – 15:30 C. Toninelli: Bootstrap percolation and kinetically constrained spin models: universality results
- 15:30 – 16:15 G. Parisi: Random Matching theory and Beyond
- Closing Remarks