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An international conference in honour of David Sherrington31 August – 1 September, 2007
Oxford
Viewing the Worldthrough Spin Glasses
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I know David for ____ years.
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Is He Sixty Five?
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Is He retiring?
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David’s Research Interest
“wide-ranging and applied principally to condensed matter physics and its spin-offs in the broadest sense”
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“The creation of the field of complex systems as an archetypical exact science … Today, people not even talk about complexity but also can calculate quantitatively various quantities.”
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“opened a well-paved highway leading to such exotic areas as multi-valley structures, retrieval of memories from neural networks, combinatorial optimization as applied to the design of microchips, and modeling of competition in markets.”
Sherrington-Kirkpatrick 1975
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M – M – M – M
Royal Society Bakerian Lecture 2001: “Magnets, microchips, memories and markets: statistical physics of complex systems”
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•Rebuilt the theoretical condensed matter physics group at Imperial College
•Led the Oxford Theoretical Physics group•Editorships
Further Contributions
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International Collaborations
Principal/national coordinator of several European networks of researchers from many countries.
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The Person
• “He always allowed his students and postdocs to explore their own ideas.”
• “He was always available for discussions.”• “It was difficult to get him angry.”• “He was concerned of the career paths of his
students and postdocs.”• “He likes traveling.”
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Organizing Committee
Ton CoolenJohn Cardy Juan Garrahan
Hidetoshi Nishimori Nicolas Sourlas Michael Wong
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Enjoy the Conference!