SP Seminar 22.03 @SISSA: Kurchan

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JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR

Tuesday, 22 March at 11:00 a.m.

SISSA, room 128, first floor


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Speaker: Jorge Kurchan (LPS-Ecole Normale Superieure)

Title: Darwinian versus thermal optimization

Abstract: Darwinian optimization -- walkers that randomly diffuse and
reproduce proportionally to the quantity that has to be maximized --
may be mapped into ordinary thermal optimization (e.g. Monte Carlo)
when applied to complex landscapes. We may thus see the limitations of
the former clearly. More interestingly, we may apply what we know from
annealing schemes to accelerating the dynamics of an evolving
population.