Tuesday March 19, 9.00-18.30, Amphi. Darboux

Satistical physics of disordered systems:
spin glasses, neural networks and other applications
- a day in honor of Gérard Toulouse

Program:

Morning session, chairman: Marc Gabay (Orsay)

9.00-10.00: Marc Mézard (LPTMS, Orsay) :
From belief propagation to knowledge popagation

10.00-11.00: Rémi Monasson (LPTENS) :
Statistical Physics and Combinatorial Optimization: An analysis of the dynamics of search induced by branch and bound algorithms

Coffee break

11.30-12.30: Daniel Amit (Roma and Jerusalem)
Multiple-item working memory in experiment and in recurrent networks

Lunch break

14.00-15.00: Bernard Derrida (LPSENS)
Genetic diversity: a replica approach?

15.00-16.00: Michel Talagrand (Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University)
Rigourous results for the p-spin interaction model

Coffee break

16.30-17.30: Miguel Virasoro (ICTP, Trieste)

17.30-18.30: Gérard Toulouse :
Frontiers and complexity
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