Event time:
Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 10:00am
Location:
KT 801
Speaker:
Yuxin Zhou
Speaker affiliation:
University of Chicago
Event description:
Abstract: Spin glasses are disordered magnetic systems that display remarkably complex collective behavior. Understanding these systems has challenged both physicists and mathematicians for decades. In the late 1970s, Giorgio Parisi proposed a revolutionary solution to the Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model. At the heart of his theory is the Parisi measure, an object that reveals the hidden organization of disorder. In this talk, I will survey what is now rigorously known about the Parisi measure and highlight the major open problems in the field.