SHORT TALKS

A. De Martino
  Universita' di Roma La Sapienza
    Statistical mechanics of Von Neumann's growth problem

L. Leuzzi
  Universita' di Roma La Sapienza
    Spin model for inverse freezing in amorphous materials

J. Lukic
  Universita' di Roma La Sapienza
    Plaquette disorder in Villain's fully frustrated model: 
    a very relevant perturbation

A. Maiorano
  Universita' di Roma La Sapienza and BIFI Zaragoza
    Ianus: an adaptive, biprogrammable FPGA computer

G. Mongillo
  Institute of Cognitive Science, Bron,
    Mean-field for non hamiltonian systems of coupled 
    dynamical elements - lessons from neural networks

T. Sasamoto,
  Tokyo Institute of Technology,
    Spatial correlations of 1D KPZ surface

G. Semerjian,
  Universita' di Roma La Sapienza
    Counting loops in random graphs and real-world networks

K. Takeda,
  Tokyo Institute of Technology,
    Conjecture for multicritical points in mutually-dual 
    spin glasses

F. Zamponi
  Universita' di Roma La Sapienza
    The ideal glass transition of hard spheres


ABSTRACTS

L. Leuzzi
  Spin model for inverse freezing in amorphous materials
    We analyze the Blume-Emery-Griffiths model with disordered
    magnetic interaction that displays the inverse freezing
    phenomenon. The behavior of this spin-1 model in crystal field is
    studied throughout the phase diagram and the transition and
    spinodal lines for the model are computed using the Full Replica
    Symmetry Breaking Ansatz that always yields a thermodynamically
    stable phase.  We compare the results both with the formulation of
    the same model in terms of Ising spins on lattice gas, where no
    reentrance takes place, and with the model with generalized spin
    variables recently introduced by Schupper and Shnerb
    [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 93} 037202 (2004)], for which the
    reentrance is enhanced as the ratio between the degeneracy of full
    to empty sites increases. The simplest version of all these
    models, known as the Ghatak-Sherrington model, turns out to hold
    all the general features characterizing an inverse transition to
    an amorphous phase, including the right thermodynamic behavior.