- Series
- Stochastics Seminar
- Time
- Thursday, November 2, 2017 - 3:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Wei-Kuo Chen – University of Minnesota – wkchen@umn.edu – http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~wkchen
- Organizer
- Michael Damron
The Sherrington-Kirkpatirck (SK) model is
a mean-field spin glass introduced by theoretical physicists in order
to explain the strange behavior of certain alloys, such as CuMn. Despite
of its seemingly simple formulation, it was conjectured to possess a
number of profound properties. This talk will be focused on the energy
landscapes of the SK model and the mixed p-spin model with both Ising
and spherical configuration spaces. We will present Parisi formule for
their maximal energies followed by descriptions of the energy landscapes
near the maximum energy. Based on joint works with A. Auffinger, M. Handschy, G. Lerman, and A. Sen.