Joint ICTP/SISSA SP Seminar @ICTP Stasi Rm: A. ROSSI Tuesday 21 March at 11:00

[Condensed Matter Section]

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar

Tuesday, 21 March at 11:00 a.m.

Luigi Stasi Seminar Room, first floor, ICTP Leonardo building

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Speaker:Alberto ROSSO (LPTMS, Orsay, France)


Title: Liouville Field Theory and Log-correlated Random Energy Models

Abstract:
I will discuss the exact mapping between the Liouville field theory, 
introduced in the
context of 2D quantum gravity, and a broad class of glassy models 
displaying a freezing
transition. Exact asymptotics of Liouville field theory correlation 
functions provide
predictions of new critical behaviours and in particular extend to 
arbitrary temperature
a recent work of Derrida and Mottishaw on the directed polymer on a 
Cayley tree.