Workshop on Techniques and Challenges from Statistical Physics

As part of the semester-long programme on Probabilistic Techniques in Computer Science, this workshop has the objective to bring together researchers in computer science and physics, prevalently working in Europe, in order to exchange problems and ideas related to probability that can benefit from a two-way interaction and hopefully lead to fruitful collaborations.

The schedule of the workshop will provide ample time for independent discussions which will be stimulated by a small number of talks and poster sessions. The main topics we would like to emphasize are two. The first is the application of techniques from statistical physics to problems that occur in computer science and its related technological fields. These include constraint satisfaction problems, estimation of characteristic properties of random systems, as well as error-correcting codes, quantum satisfiability, and bioinformatics. The second topic is the use of computation and probability in statistical physics, and their rigorous guarantees, such as in the analysis of Markov chain and message-passing algorithms, the structure of energy landscapes and the characterization of long-range correlations.

• Elitza Maneva, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• Matteo Palassini, Universitat de Barcelona

Erik Aurell, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

Amin Coja-Oghlan, University of Edinburgh

Hervé Daudé, Université de Provence, Marseille

Martin Dyer, University of Leeds

Gabriel Istrate, e-Austria Research Institute, Timisoara

Yoshiyuki Kabashima, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Lefteris Kirousis, University of Patras

Roman Kotecky, Charles University, Prague

Florent Krzakala, CNRS, ESPCI Paristech

Gabor Lugosi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Fabio Martinelli, Università di Roma Tre

Alexander Mozeika, Aston University

Federico Ricci-Tersenghi, Università degli studi di Roma “la Sapienza”
Antonello Scardicchio, Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste

Guilhem Semerjian, École Normale Supérieure, Paris

Lenka Zdeborova, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Riccardo Zecchina, Politecnico di Torino

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