Akshat Pandey
(Oxford, UK)
Christopher Laumann
(Boston, US)
Tibor Rakovszky
(Budapest, HU)
Old and New Questions in the Theory of Spin Glasses
International Workshop
23 - 27 March 2026
The workshop aims to bring together a number of different communities under the common umbrella of spin glass theory. Topics include long-standing questions in the theory of finite-dimensional and mean-field spin glasses, and connections to a range of modern applications such as error correction, machine learning, ecology/evolution, kinetically constrained systems, etc.
Topics include
- Scenarios for finite-dimensional spin glasses
- New results on mean-field spin glasses
- Quantum glassiness and many-body localization
- Hilbert space fragmentation and kinetically constrained models
- Statics/dynamics in high-dimensional random landscapes
- Connections between glassiness and algorithmic hardness
- Neural networks
- Ecology and evolution
- Classical and quantum error correcting codes
- Experiments on glassy systems in the solid state
Confirmed invited speakers
• Gabriel Aeppli
• Chris Baldwin (US)
• Anthony Chen (US)
• Daniel Fisher (US)
• David Gamarnik (US)
• Sarang Gopalakrishnan (US)
• Dmitry Krotov (US)
• Jong Yeon Lee (US)
• Izabella Lovas (CH
• Andrew Lucas (US)
• Aditya Mahadevan (US)
• Nikola Maksimovic (US)
• Michael Moore (UK)
• Sanjay Moudgalya (DE)
• Markus Müller (CH)
• Adam Nahum (FR)
• Benedikt Placke (UK)
• Nicholas Read (US)
• Federico Ricci-Tersenghi (IT)
• Valentina Ros (FR)
• Antonello Scardicchio (IT)
• Daniel Stein (US)
• Nikole Ticea (US)
• Pierfrancesco Urbani (FR)
• Martin Weigel (DE)
• David Yllanes (ES)
• Alexander Zlokapa (US)
