SP Seminar @ICTP Leonardo Building Tuesday 16 April 11 am - Silvio FRANZ

[CM Section]

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar

Tuesday 16 April at 11:00 a.m.
Luigi Stasi Seminar Room, First floor, Leonardo building

Silvio FRANZ
LPTMS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

The Paradigm of Jamming: From Low Temperature Glasses
to Machine Learning and More

Abstract:
The jamming transition in packings of hard particles is of fundamental
interest in the physics of granular materials and glasses. In recent years
the physics of jamming has gained momentum in several interdisciplinary
contexts, going from Machine Learning to Inference, Ecology and beyond.
I will introduce the Simplest Model of Jamming and show how jammed
points share peculiar critical properties, highly universal and deeply 
related
glass physics. After discussing the implications of the vicinity to 
jamming in
a glassy phase, I will consider the problem of Information Storage in 
Machine
Learning. Going from the single neuron to multilayer networks, the capacity
limit becomes a jamming point.