Speaker: 

Wei-Kuo Chen

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

In physics, the main objective in spin glasses is to understand
the strange magnetic properties of alloys.
Yet the models invented to explain the observed phenomena are of a rather
fundamental nature in mathematics. In this talk, we will focus on one of the most important mean field
models,
called the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model,
and discuss its disorder chaos problem. Using Guerra's replica
symmetric-breaking bound, we present a mathematically rigorous proof for this problem.