Dear Friends and Colleagues,

we are very happy to invite you to the CECAM MARVEL “Classics in molecular and materials modelling” :

SIMULATION METHODS FOR SPIN GLASSES WITH APPLICATIONS IN OPTIMIZATION

that will be held on line on Thursday November 3, 15:00–17:30 CET. 

Our speakers are Giorgio Parisi, Università di Roma La Sapienza, and Marc Mezard, Università Bocconi Milano.  

In the CECAM MARVEL Classics, methods that have become fundamental tools in computational physics and chemistry are presented by their originators. Lectures are followed by an interview: we ask our guests to recall the period, problems, people and circumstances that accompanied the creation of milestone methods and algorithms that we now routinely use. 

This time, the second part of the session will be moderated by L. Berthier, Université de Montpellier.

Join us to share this exciting opportunity to learn first-hand from our pioneers and get to know better the genesis of work that is now recorded in books! 

Program

15:00   –   Introduction

15:05   –   3d simulations of spin glasses on dedicated architectures (G. Parisi)

15:45   –   Spin glasses concepts and algorithms in hard constraint satisfaction problems (M. Mezard)

16:25   –   Break

16:35   –   Interview & recollections (moderator L. Berthier)

17:30   –   End

The CECAM MARVEL Classics are a fully online series, you can join us through Zoom at: 

https://epfl.zoom.us/j/68318773072

More information and previous CECAM MARVEL lectures can be found at

https://www.cecam.org/lectures

https://www.materialscloud.org/learn/sections/Btmngu/marvel-events

Best wishes from the CECAM and MARVEL teams in Lausanne