
Marco Baity-Jesi
Email: mb4399-at-columbia-dot-eduResearch Interests
- Dynamics and transport in supercooled liquids
- Deep machine learning
- Rugged Landscapes
- Spin glasses
- Jamming
Previous Positions and Education
- Postdoc, CEA Saclay, France, 2016-17 (Advisor: Giulio Biroli)
- Ph.D., Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Sapienza University of Rome [cum laude], Spain, 2015 (Advisors: Victor Martin-Mayor and Giorgio Parisi)
- M.Sc. in Physics [cum laude], Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy, 2011 (Advisors: Federico Ricci-Tersenghi and Victor Martin-Mayor)
- B.Sc. in Physics [cum laude], Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy, 2008 (Advisor: Federico Ricci-Tersenghi)
Honors
- Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado (2017), awarded by Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Springer Theses Prize (2016), awarded by Nature Springer
- FPU fellowship (2012), awarded by Spanish Ministry of Education
- Borsa di Studio per la Tesi all'estero (2010), awarded by Sapienza
- Erasmus Scholarship (2008), awarded by European Union
Publications
- Maximum-energy records in glassy energy landscapes. , arXiv:1904.08024. ,
- Precursors of the Spin Glass Transition in Three Dimensions. , arXiv:1901.05581. ,
- The jamming transition as a paradigm to understand the loss landscape of deep neural networks. , arXiv:1809.09349. ,
- Activated Dynamics: an intermediate model between REM and p-spin. Phys. Rev. E 98 1, 012133 (2018) , arXiv:1805.04581. ,
- Mpemba Effect in Spin Glasses: a Persistent Memory Effect. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA , arXiv:1804.07569. ,
- Aging Rate of Spin Glasses from Simulations Matches Experiments. Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 267203 (2018) , arXiv:1803.02264. ,
- Comparing Dynamics: Deep Neural Networks versus Glassy Systems. Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning, Stockholm, Sweden, PMLR 80, 2018, arXiv:1803.06969. ,
- Activated Aging Dynamics and Effective Trap Model Description in the Random Energy Model. J. Stat. Mech. (2018) 013301, arXiv:1708.03268. ,
- Matching Microscopic and Macroscopic Responses in Glasses. Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 157202 (2017), arXiv:1704.07777. ,
- A statics-dynamics equivalence through the fluctuation–dissipation ratio provides a window into the spin-glass phase from nonequilibrium measurements. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 114 (2017), 1838-1843, arXiv:1610.01418. ,
- Emergent SO(3) Symmetry of the Frictionless Shear Jamming Transition. J. Stat. Phys., (2017) 167: 735 [Special Issue in Memory of Leo Kadanoff ], arXiv:1609.00280. ,
- Soft Modes, Localization and Two-Level Systems in Spin Glasses. Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 267205 (2015), arXiv:1506.04927. ,
- Dynamics and Correlations among Soft Excitations in Marginally Stable Glasses. Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 267205 (2015), arXiv:1501.03017. ,
- Inherent Structures in m-component Spin Glasses . Phys. Rev. B 91, 134203 (2015), arXiv:1410.2163. ,
- The three dimensional Ising spin glass in an external magnetic field: the role of the silent majority. J. Stat. Mech. (2014) P05014, arXiv: arXiv:1403.2622 [Article chosen as journal highlight by JSTAT]. ,
- Dynamical Transition in the D=3 Edwards-Anderson spin glass in an external magnetic field. Phys. Rev. E, 89, 032140 (2014), arXiv:1307.4998. ,
- Phase Transition in 3d Heisenberg Spin Glasses with Strong Anisotropies, through a Multi-GPU Parallelization. Phys. Rev. B, 89, 014202 (2014), arXiv:1309.1599. ,
- Janus II: a new generation application-driven computer for spin-system simulations. Computer Physics Communications 185, 2, 550-559 (2014), arXiv:1310.1032. ,
- Critical parameters of the three-dimensional Ising spin glass . Phys. Rev. B 88, 224416 (2013), arXiv:1310.2910. ,
- The Janus project: boosting spin-glass simulations using FPGAs. IFAC Proceedings Volumes 46, 28 227-232 (2013). ,
- Spin Glass Simulations on the Janus Architecture: A Desperate Quest for Strong Scaling. LNCS 7640 (2013) 528-537; Parallel Processing Workshops, Euro-Par 2012 Rhodes Island, Greece, 27-31 August 2012 . ,
- Janus 2: an FPGA-based supercomputer for spin glass simulations. Proceedings of the Future HPC Systems: the Challenges of Power Constrained Performance, p. 2:1-2:11, New York, NY, USA:ACM (2012). ,
- Reconfigurable computing for Monte Carlo simulations: results and prospects of the Janus project. The European Physical Journal - Special Topics, Volume 210, Number 1 (2012), 33-51, arXiv:1204.4134. ,
- An FPGA-Based Supercomputer for Statistical Physics: The Weird Case of Janus. Pages: 481-506 from High-Performance Computing Using FPGAs, Vanderbauwhede, Wim; Benkrid, Khaled (Eds.) 2013, Springer . ,
- Spin Glasses: Criticality and Energy Landscapes . Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2016 . ,