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How do isolated many-particle quantum systems relax and ultimately give rise to the laws of Statistical Mechanics is a question that has exercised theoretical physicists since the early days of Quantum Theory. Much of our current understanding is based on … Continue reading →

On October 9 and 10 (Friday and Saturday) SISSA will host an informal meeting on “statistical field theory and related topics”, with the following (updated) program and list of talks. The meeting will be held in room 005 (ground floor) … Continue reading →

The first session of the PhD defenses for the academic year 2014/2015 will take place on Monday, October 12th 2015 in room 128 with the following schedule: 9:30-10:30, Andrea Coser: Aspects of Entanglement Negativity in One Dimensional Critical Systems 10:30-11:00, … Continue reading →

The list of eligible candidates for the PhD student positions for the 2015/2016 academic year is available.

Applications are invited for up to five doctoral positions with the SISSA Statistical Physics Group, starting in autumn 2015. See the official announcements page or the flyer for additional information.

The PhD thesis defense of Dr. Pietro Smacchia will take place on Friday, July 11th, 2014. Title: “Out of equilibrium many-body systems: adiabaticity, statistics of observables and dynamical phase transitions”. Room: Aula Cinema 1st floor SISSA Time: 11:00 a.m.

Friday, January 31th, there will be a Statistical Physics Journal Club at 11:00 in room 138. Valentina Ros will talk about the two references: Michael Aizenman, Simone Warzel, Resonant delocalization for random Schroedinger operators on tree graphs. J.Eur.Math.Soc. 15, 1167-1222 … Continue reading →

Friday, 15 November – 17:00 Room 138, SISSA (Santorio building) Silvia Chiacchiera (University of Coimbra): Collective modes of Fermi gases in realistic 3D and 2D traps Abstract: Usually theoretical calculations for the collective modes of trapped cold gases are performed … Continue reading →

The PhD defense for the academic year 2012/2013 will take place on Wednesday, October 30th 2013 in room 128 with the following schedule: 9:00-10:00, Matteo Marcuzzi: A study on non-equilibrium dynamics in classical and quantum systems 10:00-11:00, Jamir Marino: Thermalization … Continue reading →

Dear all, Tuesday, 16 March. At 14:00 in room 138 Alessio Squarcini will talk about the following papers: [1] A.-F. Bitbol, P. G. Dommersnes and J.-B. Fournier, “Fluctuations of the Casimir-like force between two membrane inclusions”, Physical Review E 81, … Continue reading →