São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Disordered Systems

April 28 –  May 9, 2025

ICTP-SAIFR, São Paulo, Brazil

ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP

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Disorder plays a central role in the theoretical description of a rich variety of systems spanning several disciplines — soft and hard condensed matter, biology, information science and engineering. Today, there is a surplus of enthusiastic and capable students with a diverse background who are eager to receive systematic training on powerful theoretical methods and exciting recent developments in the field. One of the goals of our school is to reach a broad audience that includes students interested in complexity or bio-inspired applications, as well as information science and quantum materials. Our school will establish a common forum where theories of general interest can be learned and discussed, catalyze the nucleation of new research lines in São Paulo and Brazil, and expose students to a full breadth of intellectual opportunity in the field of disordered systems.

As a São Paulo School of Advanced Science, funds are available for travel and local expenses of Master’s and PhD students from not only South America but also from other continents.

 

Organizers:

  • Carolina Brito (UFRGS, Brazil)
  • Danilo Liarte (ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP, Brazil)
  • André Vieira (USP, Brazil)

List of Participants: Updated on April 22, 2025.

 

Announcement:

Application deadline: February 21, 2025 (closed)

Minicourses

Lecturers

  • Jasna Brujic (New York University, USA): Bioinspired applications.
  • Mauro Copelli (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil): Neuroscience.
  • Letícia Cugliandolo (Sorbonne Université, France): Complexity / Mean-field theory.
  • Ezequiel Ferrero (CONICET-CNEA, Argentina): Driven Disordered Systems.
  • Eduardo Miranda (State University of Campinas, Brazil): Disordered strongly correlated systems.
  • Anton Souslov (University of Cambridge, UK): Disordered elastic materials.
  • Matthieu Wyart (Johns Hopkins University, USA & EPFL, Switzerland): Machine learning.

Abstracts and reading material here.

Invited Speakers

  • José Soares Andrade (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)
  • Jeferson Arenzon (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
  • Vivian França (São Paulo State University, Brazil)
  • Letícia Paiva (Federal University of São João del Rei, Brazil)
  • Luis A. Pugnaloni (Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina)

Abstracts and reading material here.

List of participants: Updated on April 22, 2025.

Registration

, Announcement:

Application deadline: February 21, 2025 (closed)

Program

You can download the PDF here.

The schedule might be changed.

 

Presentations

First week

 

  1. Amália Buchweitz Garcez, Data Analysis of Extreme Weather Events in Brazil
  2. Daniel Bernstein, Model Compression in Neural Networks: A Physics-Inspired Approach
  3. Venceslas Nguefoue Meli, Mobile oscillators in a mobile multi-layer network
  4. Dafne Prado Bandeira, Dynamics of Gradient Descent in High-dimensional Non-convex Canyon Landscapes
  5. Gustavo Cavichion Mangold, Effect of Space and Mobility in the Spatial Prisoner’s Dilemma with Reinforcement Learning
  6. Tommaso Papetti, Phase Behavior of EGDMA Microgels: Bridging Single-Particle Architecture and Collective Dynamics
  7. Alejandro Castro, Dyadic homophilic and anti-homophilic interactions model of opinion dynamics on randomized graphs: A belief propagation approximation solution
  8. Juliana Nadine Bourdieu, Strange non-chaotic attractor in a Nd:YVO4 laser with saturable absorber
  9. Jaderson Guilherme Polli, Neural models exhibit diverse dynamic under supra-physiological electrical stimulation
  10. Cristina Gavazzoni, Testing theories of the glass transition with the same liquid, but many kinetic rules
  11. Luis Carlos Fagundes Latoski, Opinion inertia and coarsening in the persistent voter model
  12. Dulce María Guerrero Tánori, Mozart effect: the functional network of brain activity during cognitive processes and acoustic stimuli
  13. Pedro Henrique Mendes, Restricted Boltzmann Machine Approaches Lattice Systems
  14. Vinícius Bayne Müller, Phase diagram of epidemic spreading in sparse directed networks
  15. Juan Dieg Vizcaino Soriano, Agent based model for traffic flow optimization
  16. João Vitor Vieira Flauzino, Quantification of disorder in numerical data
  17. Armand Delors Jiofack, Identity and Characterize complex network systems using recurrence plots
  18. Daniel Rosenblatt, Low-density dependence of the isotropic to polar/nematic order phase transition in aligning active Brownian particles
  19. Fidel Álvarez Murphy, Stability and Growth Dynamics in a Mechanical Model of Cellular Colonies
  20. Daniela Lioren Suarez, From Individual-Based Models to Mean-Field Equations: Non-Linear Cross-Diffusion in a Three-Species Predator-Prey System
  21. Leonardo Ferreira, Random matrix ensemble for the covariance of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes with heterogeneous temperatures
  22. Vinicius Menuci Muccillo, Random Walks and Lévy Flights in the Priosoner’s Dilemma
  23. Carles Tardío Pi, Modeling plasmid-mediated antibiotic resistance evolution of bacterial communities in stochastic environments
  24. Jorge Mario Escobar Agudelo, Correlated Disorder and Viscoelasticity of Soft Colloidal Gels
  25. Emanuel Fortes Teixeira, Segregation in binary mixture with differential contraction among active rings
  26. Gieberth Rodríguez López, Facilitation dynamic and avalanches at finite temperature in amorphous materials

 

Second week

 

  1. Gabriel Aller Tolentino Oliveira, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Of Localized Spins In Topological Insulator Candidates
  2. Matthaios Chouzouris, Fracture by Design in Topological Metamaterials
  3. Smitarani Mishra, Statistical entropy of quantum system
  4. Filippo Conforto, Optimised Assemble Pathways for Olympic Gels
  5. Rafael González Albaladejo, Sampling the Generalized Gibbs Ensemble via Constrained Stochastic Dynamics
  6. Anne Kétri Pasquinelli Fonseca, Properties of phase transitions from limited to unlimited diffusion in stochastic billiards
  7. Mariana Monteiro, Non-Markovian to Markovian decay in structured environments with correlated disorder
  8. Hudson Vinicios Tavares Mineiro, Scaling Laws and Applications in Urban Phenomena
  9. Luna Rhaine Nascimento Oliveira, Exploring the Rashba Effect in Arbitrarily Long Semiconductor Heterostructures
  10. Gustavo Diniz, The origin of some satellite peaks in x-ray photoemission spectra
  11. Benjamin Ignacio Pavez, Non-linear mechanics of thermalized random springs
  12. Patricia De Assis Almeida, Kondo effect in strained kagome lattices
  13. Daniel Zorrer, Multidimensional spectroscopy of strongly disordered spin chains
  14. Luiza Treichel Mossi, Tracking and Analysis of Confined Ciliated Microswimmers
  15. Miriam Jiménez Valdez, Time series approach to characterize the phase transition in the 1D Aubry-André model
  16. Youssef Aiache, Enhancing Non-equilibrium Quantum Thermometry
  17. Lambu Tatsa Carmel, Delayed swarmalator systems in a Fluidic Environment
  18. Riccardo Cipolloni, Transition paths sampling in Ising systems
  19. Rodolfo Silva Da Rocha, Exploring pion condensation in an isospin medium using the Functional Renormalization Group
  20. Jeferson Dias Da Silva, Spectral properties, localization transition and multifractal eigenvectors of the Laplacian on heterogeneous networks
  21. Gabriel Sant’Ana Da Silva, Experimental observation of Pauli limit violation in the Ni/Bi bilayer
  22. Sílvio Quintino Aguiar Filho, Average and typical entanglement for study metal-insulator transitions in disordered nanostructures
  23. Pedro Barbisan Widniczck, Entanglement entropy of long-range Kitaev chain
  24. Pedro Lucas Oliveira Silva, Probing the effects of structural disorder in the magnetic ground states of frustrated A2B2O7 magnets
  25. Maykon Araújo, The Hubbard Model on Anisotropic Triangular Lattice
  26. Rafael Sabainsk, Synthesis, structural and Magnetic properties of the pyrochlore Gd2Ru2O7 and fluorite Gd2Zr2O7
  27. Maurício Marques, Entropic Extensivity and Large Deviations in the Presence of Strong Correlations

 

Videos and Files

2025-04-28
  • 11:00 - Jasna Brujic (New York University, USA): Bioinspired applications - Class 1
  • 14:00 - Posters (Participants): Flash Talks - First Week
2025-04-29
  • 09:00 - Matthieu Wyart (Johns Hopkins University, USA & EPFL, Switzerland): Machine learning - Class 1
  • 11:00 - Mauro Copelli (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil): Neuroscience - Class 1
  • 14:00 - Jasna Brujic (New York University, USA): Bioinspired applications - Class 2
  • 16:00 - Letícia Paiva (Federal University of São João del Rei, Brazil): Emergent dynamical phases in termites
2025-04-30
  • 09:00 - Anton Souslov (University of Cambridge, UK): Disordered elastic materials - Class 1
  • 11:00 - Matthieu Wyart (Johns Hopkins University, USA & EPFL, Switzerland): Machine learning - Class 2
  • 13:06 - Leticia Cugliandolo (Sorbonne Université): Phases and topological defects in passive and active systems in two dimensions
  • 15:30 - Mauro Copelli (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil): Neuroscience - Class 2
2025-05-01
  • 09:00 - Matthieu Wyart (Johns Hopkins University, USA & EPFL, Switzerland): Machine learning - Class 3
  • 11:00 - Anton Souslov (University of Cambridge, UK): Disordered elastic materials - Class 2
  • 14:00 - Jasna Brujic (New York University, USA): Bioinspired applications - Class 3
2025-05-02
  • 09:00 - Mauro Copelli (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil): Neuroscience - Class 3
  • 11:00 - Anton Souslov (University of Cambridge, UK): Disordered elastic materials - Class 3
  • 14:00 - Letícia Cugliandolo (Sorbonne Université, France): Complexity / Mean-field theory. - Class 1
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BOARDING PASS: All participants, whose travel has been provided or will be reimbursed by ICTP-SAIFR, should bring the boarding pass  upon registration. The return boarding pass (PDF, if online check-in, scan or picture, if physical) should be sent to secretary@ictp-saifr.org by e-mail.

COVID-19: Brazilians and foreigners no longer have to present proof of vaccination before entering the country.

Visa information: Nationals from several countries in Latin America and Europe are exempt from tourist visa. Nationals from Australia, Canada and USA will be required to obtain a tourist e-visa for visits after April 10, 2025.

Accommodation: Participants, whose accommodation will be provided by the institute, will stay at Hotel Intercity the Universe Paulista. Hotel recommendations are available here.

Poster presentation: Participants who are presenting a poster MUST BRING A PRINTED BANNER . The banner size should be at most 1 m (width) x 1,5 m (length). We do not accept A4 or A3 paper.