ICTP-SISSA Statistical Physics Seminars

Academic year 2008/2009
Date: Speaker: From: Topic:
2.2.2010 Spyros Sotiriadis SISSA Quantum quenches in interacting theories
26.01.2010 Luca Salasnich Dipartimento di Fisica and CNISM, Universita' di Padova The amazing unitary Fermi gas
15.12.2009 Fabio Benatti University of Trieste Algorithmic complexity and quantum dynamics
01.12.2009 Susanna Still University of Hawaii Interactive Learning
26.11.2009 Alessio Recati University of Trento Unbalanced strongly interacting Fermi gas
24.11.2009 Alessio Recati University of Trento Bogoliubov Theory of acoustic Hawking radiation in Bose-Einstein Condensates
17.11.2009 Marton Kormos SISSA Lieb-Liniger Bose gas as the non-relativistic limit of the sinh-Gordon model
11.11.2009 Gregory Schehr Laboratoire de Physique Theorique d'Orsay From vicious walkers to random matrix theory: a path-integral approach
10.11.2009 Florent Krzakala ESPCI, Paris "The energy landscape of glassy systems" or 'Long time dynamics in mean field glassy models'
13.10.2009 Daniele De Martino SISSA Statistical mechanics of congestion
23.09.2009 Boris A. Malomed Tel Aviv University, Israel Fundamental nonlinear equations in physics, and their fundamental solutions
23.06.2009 Fabio Franchini The Abdus Salam ICTP Horizon in Random Matrix Theory, Hawking Radiation and Flow of Cold Atoms
23.06.2009 Serena Fagnocchi SISSA ACOUSTIC BLACK HOLES AND THE CORRELATIONS OF HAWKING RADIATION
16.06.2009 Fabio Caccioli S.I.S.S.A. Dynamical processes on scale-free networks: a mean field approach
9.06.2009 Elena Canovi S.I.S.S.A. Adiabatic dynamics in a spin-1 chain with uniaxial single-spin anisotropy
26.05.2009 Marton Kormos S.I.S.S.A. Defect flows in conformal minimal models
25.05.2009 Eshel BEN-JACOB Tel Aviv University Learning from Bacteria about Information Processing
19.05.2009 Davide Rossini S.I.S.S.A. Effective thermal dynamics following a quantum quench in a spin chain
12.05.2009 Silvia Chiacchiera Universidade de Coimbra Collective modes of trapped Fermi gases with in-medium interaction
28.04.2009 Serena Bradde S.I.S.S.A. Statistical Mechanics of sub-graph identification problems
21.04.2009 Kartik Anand The Abdus Salam ICTP (Trieste) Generating Functional Analysis of an Interacting Geometric Brownian Motion for Stock Market Dynamics
7.04.2009 Michele Burrello S.I.S.S.A. Fibonacci Anyons and Topological Quantum Computation
31.3.2009 Satya Majumdar Orsay, Paris Extreme Eigenvalues of Random Matrices
24.03.2009 Alan Bray University of Manchester Backward Fokker-Planck Methods for First-Passage Problems
19.3.2009 Peter Kruger University of Nottingham The two-dimensional Bose gas: experiments with ultracold atoms
17.03.2009 Matteo Marsili The Abdus Salam ICTP (Trieste) Typical properties of Asset Pricing Theory in complex markets
10.3.2009 Domenico Giuliano Universita' di Cosenza Phase diagram of a Y-shaped Josephson junction network
3.3.2009 Alberto Sicilia Universite´ Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris VI, LPTHE Coarsening in 2d: exact results, simulations and experiments.
24.2.2009 Stefano Bianchini S.I.S.S.A. Lanford Theorem and the validity of Boltzmann equation
17.2.2009 Marcus Kollar Universität Augsburg Relaxation dynamics of isolated many-body systems
10.02.2009 Antonello Scardicchio The Abdus Salam ICTP - Trieste How to find a difficult problem for a quantum computer
3.2.2009 Mattia Jona-Lasinio LENS Three body physics with ultracold atoms: the Efimov effect and P-wave Feshbach resonances for spin polarized fermions
27.1.2009 Luca Dall'Asta The Abdus Salam ICTP Effective surface tension and coarsening in models driven by interfacial noise
20.1.2009 Gabor Takacs Eötvös University, Budapest Form factors in finite volume and finite temperature correlators
13.1.2009 Sergio Caracciolo Università degli Studi di Milano Algebraic properties of Grassmann and Clifford subalgebras related to spanning hyperforests
16.12.2008 Nathan Andrei Rutgers University Quantum Impurities out-of-Equilibrium
9.12.2008 Pierpaolo Vivo The Abdus Salam ICTP (Trieste) Phase transitions in the quantum conductance problem
2.12.2008 Reimer Kuehn King's College, London Spectra of Sparse Random Matrices and Localization on Random Graphs
24.11.2008 Xin Wan Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang Braid construction for low-leakage topological quantum computation
18.11.2008 Remi Monasson Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS, Paris Inference of effective interactions between retinal neurons
17.06.2008 Imre Kondor Budapest The instability of Coherent Risk Measures
12.06.2008 Michael Berry (IX) Bristol University Making light of mathematics (a nontechnical talk, suitable for nonscientists)
11.06.2008 Michael Berry (VIII) Bristol University Three recent results on asymptotics of oscillations
10.06.2008 Michael Berry (VII) Bristol University Quantum mechanics, chaos, and the music of the primes
5.06.2008 Michael Berry (VI) Bristol University Boundary-varying boundary conditions: the Dirichlet singularity
4.06.2008 Michael Berry (V) Bristol University Two by two
4.06.2008 Srikanth Sastry Bangalore Growing length scales, configurational entropy and dynamics in glass forming liquids
29.05.2008 Michael Berry (IV) Bristol University Optical vorticulture
26.05.2008 Giuseppe Gonnella Universita' di Bari Fluctuation relations in non-equilibrium Ising models
20.5.2008 Michael Berry (I) Bristol University Tsunami asymptotics
13.5.2008 Fabian Essler Oxford University Finite-temperature lineshapes in gapped quantum spin chains
7.5.2008 Kareljan Schoutens University of Amsterdam Superfrustration of lattice fermions
29.4.2008 Ginestra Bianconi ICTP Statistical mechanics of flux distribution in metabolic networks
15.4.2008 Jean-Marie Maillard LPTMC, CNRS and Univ. P et M Curie, Paris VI From holonomy of the non-critical Ising model form factors to n-fold integrals and the theory of elliptic curves, moduli spaces, ... and beyond
14.4.2008 Sergej Flach Max Planck Institute, Dresden Periodic orbits, localization in normal mode space, and the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem
8.4.2008 Siegfried Dietrich Max-Planck-Institut fuer Metallforschung, Stuttgart and Institut fuer Theoretische und Angewandte Physik, Universitaet Stuttgart Critical Casimir Forces
11.3.2008 Andrea Cavagna Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza" Starling flocks: an empirical study of the interaction ruling collective animal behaviour
6.3.2008 Hidetoshi Nishimori Tokyo Institute of Technology Griffiths singularities in finite-dimensional spin glasses
4.3.2008 Patrick Dorey University of Durham Ordinary differential equations, minimal models and the McNugget problem
26.2.2008 Augusto Smerzi CNR BEC-INFM, Trento Entanglement, Nonlinear dynamics and Heisenberg limit with Bose-Einstein condensates
19.2.2008 Paul Fendley University of Virginia Topological quantum computation from non-abelian anyons
12.2.2008 Sumedha ISI, Torino Agglomeration of DNA-looping proteins
5.2.2008 Filippo Colomo INFN, Florence Arctic Curves for the Domain Wall Six-Vertex Model
29.1.2008 Andrea Cappelli INFN, Florence Matrix models in the quantum Hall effect
22.1.2008 Istvan Nandori Institute of Nuclear Physics, Debrecen Field theoretical approach to layered superconductors
16.1.2008 ACC Coolen King's College London Spin models on random graphs with controlled topologies beyond degree constraints
15.1.2008 Gregory Falkovich Weizmann Institute of Science Broken and emerging symmetries of turbulence
18.12.2007 Pasquale Calabrese Universita' di Pisa Quantum quenches: A new way of looking at extended systems
11.12.2007 Attilio Stella Universita' di Padova How scaling and market efficiency determine the irreversible evolution of an index
4.12.2007 Nando Gliozzi Universita' di Torino The Stefan Boltzmann law in a small box and the high-temperature gluon gas
27.11.2007 Luca Dall'Asta ICTP Dynamic Exploration of the Internet: modelisation and biases
20.11.2007 Areejit Samal University of Delhi System level dynamics and robustness of the genetic network regulating E.coli metabolism
20.11.2007 Denis Basko SISSA Many-body localization
13.11.2007 Jose' Latorre University of Barcelona Classical and quantum simulation of quantum systems
26.6.2007 Changrim Ahn Ewha Womans University, Seul Finite-size effects of the supersymmetric Sine-Gordon model with Dirichlet boundary conditions
12.6.2007 K.R. Sreenivasan ICTP Quantized turbulence
5.6.2007 Roberto Floreanini INFN Trieste Entanglement generation by a noisy environment
22.5.2007 Pasquale Sodano Universita' di Perugia Boundary field theory approach to Josephson devices
15.5.2007 Giovanni Gallavotti Universita' di Roma La Sapienza Thermostats, entropy and chaotic hypothesis
8.5.2007 Alessandro Laio SISSA Folding of small proteins in explicit solvent by the combined use of metadynamics and replica exchange
24.4.2007 Alessandro De Martino Düsseldorf Nonlinear magnetotransport in chiral interacting nanotubes
3.4.2007 Tanniemola B. Liverpool University of Leeds Hydrodynamics and Rheology of Active Filament Solutions
27.3.2007 Emilio Kropff SISSA Grid cells, memory and spatial navigation
20.3.2007 Matteo Marsili ICTP Statistical mechanics and financial markets
14.3.2007 Silvio Franz ICTP Modeling the Evolution of the Influenza Virus
6.3.2007 Giuseppe Mussardo SISSA Off-critical statistical models in two dimensions
27.2.2007 Fabio Franchini ICTP Ellipses of Constant Entropy in the XY Spin Chain
22.2.2007 Alessandro Michelangeli SISSA Bose-Einstein Condensation in the Mathematical-Physics view: an introductory outlook
6.2.2007 Cristian Micheletti SISSA Common functional dynamics in the protease enzymatic superfamily: a perspective from coarse-grained models
30.1.2007 Javier Rodríguez Laguna SISSA Quantum Spin-Glasses: from Phase Transitions to Optimization
23.1.2007 Luca De Sanctis ICTP Introduction to the mathematical physics of mean field spin glasses
16.1.2007 Tobias Galla ICTP Statistical mechanics of random replicators and matrix games

Links to other seminars:
SISSA H.E. sector Journal Club
ICTP High Energy Physics Seminars
SISSA H.E. sector Wednesday Seminar
ICTP Phenomenology Journal Club Seminars

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