Thermodynamics and statistical physics provide a unified framework linking the macroscopic laws of energy, work, and entropy to the microscopic motions of particles. Thermodynamics, rooted in the laws ...

Statistical physics and message passing inference represent two interwoven strands of modern quantitative research. While statistical physics examines how macroscopic phenomena emerge from the ...

In the autumn of 1971, the small group of physicists then working at the Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo (IMP), in Mexico City, was expecting the visit of several distinguished scientists from abroad, ...

Taken from the September 2021 issue of Physics World where it first appeared under the headline "Physics for biological breakthroughs". It might not sound like an obvious place for a physicist to work ...

Abstract: We consider the problem of signal estimation (denoising) from a statistical mechanical perspective, using a relationship between the minimum mean square ...

A fundamental tenet of science is that the properties of a material are intimately linked to the nature of the constituent components. Although there are powerful methods to predict such properties ...

Protein evolution plays a key role in many biological processes that are essential for life – but what does it have to do with physics? Schematic overview of procedure used to generate simulated ...

Lenka Zdeborova receives funding from ERC and labex PALM. In the term big data, the adjective big stands not only for the fact that a large hard disk is needed to store the data, but also for the fact ...

The maelstrom surrounding the nomination and subsequent confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court was to be expected, when one justice's vote could change the country's moral compass for ...

One of the curious features of the laws of physics is that many of them seem to be the result of the bulk behavior of many much smaller components. The atoms and molecules in a gas, for example, move ...

Mexico has a long-standing research tradition in Statistical Physics and related topics. Research in Statistical Mechanics and Thermal Physics in the country dates back to the early 1960s. Development ...