Seminar by Curtis Grant

Probability seminar series 

Curtis Grant
Northwestern University

Room: M3 3127

Metastability in Heavy Tailed Spin Glass Dynamics

Metastability is a phenomenon widely believed to hold for Markov chains associated with spin glass models. Roughly, for a complex energy landscape, one should have a decomposition into wells, and the corresponding dynamics tracking which well the original Markov chain is in should be asymptotically Markovian. We will provide an overview of known results for spin glass dynamics, and then explain recent results with Reza Gheissari on metastability for heavy-tailed spin glasses.