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This book comprises a unique collection of insights into Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi's groundbreaking work across physics, ranging from high-energy physics and spin glasses to turbulence and collective animal behaviour. Originating from a series of seminars at the Sapienza University of Rome, each chapter focuses on one of Parisi's seminal contributions, penned by leading experts who highlight the depth and interdisciplinary impact of his ideas. The volume revisits widely disseminated achievements like the Altarelli-Parisi equations and replica symmetry breaking, and presents lesser-known work, revealing hidden connections between seemingly distant domains. Enhanced by lively discussions and a personal retrospective from Parisi himself, this book is both a tribute to a visionary scientist and an invitation to discover the unifying threads woven throughout modern physics. Showcasing how one thinker's creativity can reshape entire landscapes of knowledge, it is invaluable for experienced researchers and motivated graduate students in the field of theoretical physics.
Contents
List of contributors; Preface; 1. Asymptotic freedom in Parton language: the birth of perturbative QCD Stefano Forte; 2. Planar diagrams ... and their offsprings E'douard Bre'zin; 3. Re-thinking the standard model at asymptotically large Euclidean momenta Luciano Maiani; 4. Random magnetic fields, supersymmetry, and negative dimen-sions Slava Rychkov; 5. Infinite number of order parameters for spin-glasses Marc Me'zard; 6. Perturbation theory without gauge fixing and at fixed dimen-sion: two seminal contributions Andrea Pelissetto; 7. The golden ratio: from quenched spectroscopy on a 63 x 12 Lat-tice to unquenched radiative decays on a 963 x 192 lattice Guido Martinelli; 8. Noise and climate dynamics Roberto Benzi, Angelo Vulpiani; 9. Anomalous scaling in fully developed turbulence Angelo Vulpiani and Roberto Benzi; 10. Dynamic scaling of growing interfaces Pierre Le Doussal; 11. Glueball masses and string tension in lattice QCD Maria Paola Lombardo; 12. Simulated tempering and other fantastic beasts Enzo Marinari; 13. From spin glass theory to optimization in high dimensions and modern artificial neural networks Riccardo Zecchina and Gianmarco Perrupato; 14. Interaction ruling animal collective behavior depends on topo-logical rather than metric distance: evidence from a field study Michele Ballerini, Nicola Cabibbo, Raphael Candelier, Andrea Cavagna, Evaristo Cisbani, Irene Giardina, Vivien Lecomte, Alberto Orlandi, Giorgio Parisi, Andrea Procaccini, Massimiliano Viale and Vladimir Zdravkovic; 15. Putting order into disorder: an application to the chronology of my first works Giorgio Parisi.
