Inaugural Elizabeth Gardner Lecture - Emergent collective behaviour and complexity
Inaugural Elizabeth Gardner Lecture - Emergent collective behaviour and complexity
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 28th November 2023
- Speaker: Professor Giorgio Parisi (University of Rome)
- Location: Zoom - see email.
Event details
I will discuss the general problem of studying the emergent collective behavior of an assembly of a large number of agents in the framework of statistical mechanics showing a few examples. I will discuss how complexity emerges in that framework.
I will present my viewpoints on complexity stressing the importance of multiple equilibria; I will then recall the genesis of the concept of multiple equilibria in natural sciences.
Finally, I will describe my contribution to the development of this concept in the framework of statistical mechanics and I will briefly mention the cornucopia of applications of these ideas both in physics and in other disciplines.
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