Critical Phenomena in Random
and Complex Systems

Programme

                                                     


             
Monday, September 8th
             
             
18:00 Registration
             
18:30 Welcome cocktail Location: Villa Orlandi's Terrace, Anacapri
             
             
Tuesday, September 9th

Chairs: A Billoire and A Crisanti
             
             
9:30 JP Garrahan (Nottingham) Dynamical large deviations and glass transitions [abstract, slides]
             
10:20 JJ Ruiz Lorenzo (Badajoz) The case for a three dimensional spin glass phase in presence of a magnetic field [abstract, slides]
             
11:10 Coffee break
             
11:40 F Guerra (Rome) Functional order parameters in disordered systems: the Legendre structure [abstract, slides]
             
12:30 Lunch break
             
15:00 Invited Talks with Posters
             
16:00 E Corwin (Oregon) Jamming shapes up: geometry and energy landscape near the jamming transition [abstract, slides]
             
16:50 S Franz (Paris-Sud) Glassy Critical Points and the Random Field Ising Model [abstract, slides]
             
17:40 Coffee break
             
18:10 L Leuzzi (Rome) Spin-glass photonics: a statistical mechanical theory for lasing in random media [abstract, slides]
             
19:00 R Orbach (Texas) Spin Glass Dynamics at the Mesoscale [abstract, slides]
             
             
Wednesday, September 10th

Chair: A Coniglio
             
             
9:30 P Young (Santa Cruz) Spin glasses in a magnetic field [abstract, slides]
             
10:20 G Szamel (Colorado State) Long-range correlations in glasses and glassy fluids, and their connection
to glasses' elasticity
[abstract, slides]
             
11:10 Coffee break
             
11:40 V Martin Mayor (Madrid) Quantum versus Thermal annealing, the role of Temperature Chaos [abstract, slides]
             
12:30 Lunch
             
Free afternoon
             
20:30 Social dinner Location: Ristorante Da Gelsomina, Anacapri
             
             
Thursday, September 11th

Chairs: A De Martino and M Nicodemi
             
             
9:30 B Altshuler (Columbia) Many-body localization, ergodicity and multi-fractality [abstract, slides]
             
10:20 P Nordblad (Uppsala) Critical phenomena in spin glasses and other magnetic glasses [abstract, slides]
             
11:10 Coffee break
             
11:40 T Rizzo (Rome) Qualitative Features of the Glass Crossover [abstract, slides]
             
12:30 Lunch break
             
15:00 Invited Talks with Posters
             
16:00 F Ricci Tersenghi (Rome) Steps to go beyond the Bethe approximation in disordered models:
large deviations of critical correlations and loop corrections
[abstract, slides]
             
16:50 F Ladieu (Saclay) New experimental results for nonlinear responses of structural glasses [abstract, slides]
             
17:40 Coffee break
             
18:10 P Charbonneau (Duke) High-dimensional surprises near the glass and the jamming transitions [abstract, slides]
             
             
Friday, September 12th

Chairs: M Moore and N Sourlas
             
             
9:30 A Liu (Penn) Surfaces and defects in disordered solids [abstract, slides]
             
10:20 S Nagel (Chicago) Relevance of jamming to understanding the mechanical properties of solids [abstract, slides]
             
11:10 Coffee break
             
11:40 G Parisi (Rome) Exact theory of dense amorphous hard spheres in high dimension [abstract, slides]
             
12:30 Lunch break
             
16:00 L Berthier (Montpellier) Thermodynamic fluctuations in supercooled liquids [abstract, slides]
             
16:50 E Vincent (Saclay) Superspin glass state in interacting magnetic nanoparticles [abstract, slides]
             
17:40 Coffee break
             
18:10 H Yoshino (Osaka) Twisting and breaking glasses: a replica approach [abstract, slides]
             
             
Saturday, September 13th

Informal discussions and follow-up