The Nobel Prize for Giorgio Parisi (2021): Aspects of his theory of spin glasses

05.11.2021 14:15 – 15:15

The Nobel committee wrote the prize motivation: "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales."
After a short introduction, I will focus on Parisi's work on so-called spin glasses. These are quite generic models of disordered systems. His ideas have given us a language in which to describe such systems. This language is at the origin of a rigorous mathematical description. In physics, his description goes well beyond the somewhat abstract spin glasses; if time permits, I will illustrate this with a model of mixtures of two types of particles.

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Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/63864297057

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Bâtiment: Ecole de Physique

Auditoire Stueckelberg

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