The citation notes that Giorgio “has been one of the most creative and influential theoretical physicists in recent decades. His work has a large impact on diverse branches of physical sciences, spanning the areas of particle physics, critical phenomena, disordered systems as well as optimization theory and mathematical physics”. We are honored to have Giorgio as a member of our collaboration.
We congratulate Ada Altieri who will soon start a new faculty job.
Ada Altieri will become an Associate Professor at MSC (University Paris VII) in December 2020. Congratulations!!
We congratulation Ada Altieri for receiving the L’Oréal-UNESCO Young Talent fellowship for Women in Science programme 2020.
Congratulations Ada!
We congratulate Beatriz Seoane and Valentina Ros who recently started new faculty jobs.
Beatriz Seoane just started a new tenure track position Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) to lead a project on intrinsically disordered proteins, and Valentina Ros just started a new job as permanent researcher at CNRS, Paris. Congratulations!!
Depletion of Two-Level Systems in Ultrastable Computer-Generated Glasses
In a work published in Physical Review Letters (2020), D. Khomenko, C. Scalliet, L. Berthier, D. R. Reichman and F. Zamponi show that the density of two-level systems in a glass depends on its stability, i.e. its degree of annealing. In particular, they evidenced a strong depletion of two-level systems in ultrastable glasses prepared with SWAP, a state-of-the-art algorithm.
The work was notably featured in Physics Magazine and Quanta Magazine.
The Simons Collaboration on Cracking the Glass Problem is organizing a webinar series on disordered systems, the glass transition, and related topics.
The Simons Collaboration on Cracking the Glass Problem is organizing a webinar series on disordered systems, the glass transition, and related topics. All researchers broadly interested in statistical physics are invited to attend. Information about the program and instructions on how to connect are available at:
Review on the Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics
This month, work by the collaboration has been reviewed in the Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics. Haim Diamant describes the controversial experimental and numerical observations on hyperuniformity (or lack thereof) in the assembly of jammed particles.
Beg Rohu Summer School 2019
The Beg Rohu Summer School 2019 edition on “Glasses, Jamming, and Slow Dynamics” featured lectures by collaboration members Ludovic Berthier, Andrea Liu, Gilles Tarjus and Francesco Zamponi. All the lectures have been video recorded and are available on this YouTube playlist
We congratulate Marco Baity-Jesi and Eric DeGiuli who will soon start new faculty jobs
Marco Baity-Jesi will soon start a new job as Group Leader at ETH Eawag, Zurich, Switzerland, and Eric DeGiuli will soon start a new job as Assistant Professor in Complexity Physics at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Congratulations!!
We congratulate Ada Altieri who received two prizes for her 2017 Ph.D. thesis that provides new insights into jammed and glassy states of matter in mean-field theory: the “Minerva” prize from the University “Sapienza” of Rome, and the “Springer thesis” prize.
Her thesis will be published by Springer.