My recent talks

 

Statistical mechanics of random optimization & inference problems: from phase transitions to algorithmic behavior

Workshop on ‘Science of Data Science’

ICTP, Trieste. October 3, 2019


Memories from the ergodic phase: the awkward dynamics of spherical mixed p-spin models

Simons Collaboration seminar

Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. April 11, 2019


Unexpected behavior in out-of-equilibrium dynamics of mean field spin glasses

Conference on ‘Rough Landscapes: From Physics to Algorithms’

KITP, Santa Barbara, CA. January 7–11, 2019


Belief Propagation and Monte Carlo based algorithms to solve inference problems on sparse random graphs

Workshop on ‘Applications of Partition Functions’
CIB-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. November 12–16, 2018

Workshop on ‘Physics, Inference and Learning (PIL2018)’
Bejing, China. November 1–3, 2018

Workshop on ‘Statistical Physics and Machine Learning back together’.

Cargese, France. August 20–31, 2018


On the complex behavior of disordered models in a field

Statistical Physics seminar

SISSA , Trieste. March 13, 2018


Community Detection via Semidefinite Programming

Workshop on Statistical physics, Learning, Inference and Networks

Les Houches, France. February 26 – March 3, 2017

Critical properties of the disordered XY model on random graphs
Workshop on Renormalization Group Theory of Disordered Systems
ENS, Paris. July 25–27, 2016


Phase Transitions in Semidefinite Relaxations (a fast & robust algorithm for community detection)

Workshop on Statistical Physics of Disordered Systems and Its Applications (SPDSA2017).

Akiu Resort Hotel Sakan, Sendai, Japan. February 8–9, 2017

Workshop on Phase transitions in discrete structures
Goethe University, Frankfurt. July 25–29, 2016

Workshop on Random Instances and Phase Transitions
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley, USA. May 4, 2016

A video of the talk is available here

ANC seminar, Informatics Forum, Edinburgh. February 2, 2016

International Meeting on High-Dimensional Data Driven Science
Mielparque, Kyoto. December 14–17, 2015


Improved mean-field approximations for inferring marginals and model parameters

Workshop on New Frontiers in Non-equilibrium Physics
YITP, Kyoto. July 21–24, 2015


Spin glasses in a field

113th Statistical Mechanics Conference, in honor of E. Brezin, G. Jona-Lasinio and G. Parisi
Rutgers University. May 10–12, 2015


Steps to go beyond the Bethe approximation in disordered models: large deviations of critical correlations and loop corrections
Workshop on Critical Phenomena in Random and Complex Systems

Villa Orlandi, Anacapri. September 9–12, 2014


A modified kinetic inverse Ising method for the inference of synaptic spatial structure and characteristic times
Workshop on Modelling and inference for dynamics in complex and disordered systems

NORDITA, Stockholm. June 11–13, 2014


The analysis of BP guided decimation algorithm
EPSRC Symposium on Statistical Mechanics: Phase transitions in discrete structures and computational problems

University of Warwick. May 5–9, 2014


A brief introduction to the inverse Ising problem and some algorithms to solve it
Golosino seminar

ESPCI, Paris. March 18, 2014


Mean-field method with correlations determined by linear response
99th SIF National Conference

SISSA, Trieste. September 25, 2013


Making maximum entropy and linear response estimates consistent
Workshop on ‘Statistical Physics of Disordered Systems and Its Applications’ (SPDSA2013)

Akiu Resort Hotel Sakan, Sendai, Japan. March 20–21, 2013


Phase transitions and computational complexity: a physicist point of view
Workshop on ‘Limits of Theorem Proving’

IASI–CNR, Rome (Italy). September 25–27, 2012


Some recent results on the inverse Ising problem
Workshop on ‘Common Concepts in Machine Learning and Statistical Physics’

ICTP, Trieste (Italy). August 29–31, 2012


Adding loops to mean field approximation for disordered models
Séminaire du LPTMS

Université Paris Sud (France). April 3, 2012


Computer e complessità
Caffè Scienza (café scientifique)

Assaggi science bookshop, Rome (Italy). March 13, 2012


Complex stochastic dynamics in spin glasses and optimization problems
7th Vienna Central European Seminar on ‘Complex Stochastic Dynamics’

Vienna (Austria). November 26–28, 2010


Analytic description of an optimization algorithm: Beliefs Inspired Decimation
Workshop on ‘Statistical physics of complexity, optimization and systems biology’

Les Houches (France). March 7–12, 2010


A glassy phase in the random field Ising model?
Workshop on ‘Techniques and Challenges from Statistical Physics’

Centre de Recerca Matematica, UAB, Barcelona (Spain). October 14–16, 2009

(talk given on the blackboard, the pdf contains only the figures shown)


Replica Cluster Variational Method
‘Physics of Algorithms 2009’ Conference

Santa Fe, NM (USA). August 31 – September 4, 2009


Optimization problems statistical mechanics
ISC, CNR, Rome (Italy). April 16, 2009

Mathematics Department, Third University of Rome (Italy). March 17, 2009

Physics Department, Florence University (Italy). February 11, 2009