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Elizabeth Gardner Lectures

Elizabeth Gardner was a brilliant scientist, an alumna and a member of staff of the University of Edinburgh at the time of her passing. Her work on optimal storage capacity laid the foundations of the theory of neural networks. She also discovered the Gardner transition from one-step to full replica symmetry breaking within the scheme for which Giorgio Parisi was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2021.

Elizabeth Gardner

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Anna Lisa VARRI

EDI Coordinator

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Anna Lisa VARRI
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anna.varri@ed.ac.uk

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Decoding emergent patterns in large microbial communities through the prism of disordered systems—Ada ALTIERI

Natural ecosystems display an extraordinary diversity of species, a phenomenon that has recently attracted the interest not only of ecologists but also of theoretical physicists. In this talk, I will introduce a Generalised Lotka–Volterra model of ecological communities that accounts for random interactions among species and finite noise. Remarkably ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Elizabeth Gardner Lecture - Elizabeth's contributions to the theory of disordered systems and neural networks—Bernard DERRIDA

After her PhD in High Energy Physics at the University of Oxford, Elizabeth Gardner spent two years as a postdoc in the theoretical group at Saclay with the support of a Royal Society Fellowship. It was there where she started to work on the theory of disordered systems and she ...
Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics

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Inaugural Elizabeth Gardner Lecture - Emergent collective behaviour and complexity—Giorgio PARISI

Giorgio Parisi (Nobel Prize in Physics 2021) will give the Inaugural Elizabeth Gardner Lecture and will describe one of the underlying mechanisms in the complex cooperative behaviour observed in many natural systems, such as neural networks, biological evolution, glassy materials and protein folding. "I will discuss the general problem of ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB