REMINDER Joint ICTP/SISSA SP Seminar @ICTP Stasi Rm: A. ROSSO 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.