Giorgio Parisi

Giorgio Parisi was born in Rome 4/8/1948. 

He graduated from Rome University in 1970, the supervisor being Nicola Cabibbo. He has worked as researcher at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati from 1971 to 1981. In this period he has been in leave of absence from Frascati at the Columbia University, New York (1973-1974), at the Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (1976-1977) and at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (1977-1978).
He became full professor at Rome University in 1981, from 1981 he was to 1992 full professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Roma II, Tor Vergata and he is now professor of Quantum Theories at the University of Rome I, La Sapienza.
He received the Feltrinelli prize for physics from the Academia dei Lincei in 1986, the Boltzmann medal in 1992, the Italgas prize in 1993, the Dirac medal and prize in 1999, the Italian Prime Minister prize in 2002, the Enrico Fermi Prize in 2003, the Dannie Heineman Prize in 2005, the Nonino Prize in 2005, the Galileo prize in 2006.
He is fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei, of the French Academy of Sciences, of the Accademia dei XL and of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.. He received the laurea honoris causa in Philosophy from Urbin University.
He is (or he has been) member of the editorial board of various and of various scientific committees, in particular member of the scientific committee of the INFM, of the French National Research Panel and head of the Italian delegation at the IUPAP.
He is actually director of the CNR-INFM research and development center SMC (Statistical Mechanics and Complexity) in Rome.

Research Activity

Giorgio Parisi has written about 500 scientific publications on reviews and about 50 contributions to congresses or schools. His main activity has been in the field of elementary particles, theory of phase transitions and statistical mechanics, mathematical physics and string theory, disordered systems (spin glasses and complex systems), neural networks theoretical immunology, computers and very large-scale simulations of QCD (the APE project), non-equilibrium statistical physics.
Giorgio Parisi has also written three books: Statistical Field Theory, (Addison Wesley, New York, 1988), Spin glass theory and beyond (Word Scientific, Singapore, 1988), in collaboration with M. Mezard and M.A. Virasoro and Field Theory, Disorder and Simulations (Word Scientific, Singapore, 1992).

Selected Publications

•1975 G. Parisi, Quark imprisonment and vacuum repulsion. Phys. Rev. D11: 970.
•1976 G. Altarelli and G. Parisi, Asymptotic freedom in parton language. Nucl. Phys. B126: 298.
•1978 E. Brezin, C. Itzykson, G. Parisi, JB. Zuber, Planar diagrams, Comm. Math. Phys. 59, 35.
•1979 G. Parisi and N. Sourlas, Random magnetic fields, supersymmetry, and negative dimensions. Phys. Rev. Letters 43: 774.
•1981 F. Fucito, E. Marinari, G. Parisi, and C. Rebbi, A proposal for Monte Carlo simulations of Fermionic systems. Nucl. Phys. B180 [FS2]: 369.
•1982 R. Benzi, G. Parisi, A. Sutera, A. Vulpiani, Stochastic resonance in climatic change, Tellus,  24, 10.
•1984 R. Benzi, G. Paladin, G. Parisi, and A. Vulpiani, Multifractal Sets in Physics. J. Phys. A17: 3521.
•1986 M. Kardar, G. Parisi, and Y.C. Zhang, Dynamic scaling of growing interfaces. Phys. Rev. Lett. 56: 889-892
•1987 M Mezard, G Parisi, MA Virasoro Spin Glass Theory and Beyond, World Scientific, Singapore.
•1988 The Ape Collaboration, P. Bacilieri et al. New results for the glueballs and the string tension Phys. Lett. 205B, 535.
•1993 C. Battista et al. The APE-100 computer. I. The architecture, Inter. J. of High Speed Computing, 5, 637.
•1994 E. Marinari, G. Parisi, and F. Ritort, Replica field theory for deterministic models. II. A non-random spin glass with glassy behaviour. J. Physics A 27: 7647.
•1997 G. Parisi, Off-equilibrium fluctuation-dissipation relation in fragile glasses. Phys. Rev. Lett. 79: 3660
•1998 Franz , M. Mezard, G. Parisi, and L. Peliti, Measuring equilibrium properties in aging systems. Phys. Rev. Lett. 81: 1758.
•1999 Mezard and G. Parisi, Thermodynamics of glasses: a first principles computation.Phys. Rev. Lett. 82: 747.
•2001 T.S. Grigera, V. Martin-Mayor, G. Parisi, P. Verrocchio, Vibrational spectrum of topologically disordered systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 085502.
•2002 T. S. Grigera, A. Cavagna, I. Giardina and G.  Parisi, Geometric approach to the dynamic glass transition, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88,  055502.
•2002 M. Mezard, G. Parisi, R Zecchina, Analytic and algorithmic solution of random satisfiability problems, Science 297, 812.
•2003 TS Grigera, V Martin-Mayor, G Parisi, P Verrocchio Phonon interpretation of the Boson peak in supercooled liquids, Nature 422, 289.
•2004 M. Mézard, G. Parisi The Bethe lattice spin glass revisited The European Physical Journal B, 20, 1434.
•2004 A. Montanari, G. Parisi and F. Ricci-Terssenghi  Instability of one-step replica-symmetry-broken phase in satisfiability problems J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 37 2073.
•2006 G. Parisi Spin Glasses and  fragile glasses: statics, dynamics and complexity PNAS 103  7948.