Lorenzo Bertini
Sapienza University of Rome
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Erice, Sicily • May 8-12, 2026
Universality in Physics
Non-equilibrium Phenomena
Organizers: Victor Galitski (Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland) and Ivan Corwin (Columbia University)
View ParticipantsThe Workshop
Many very different physical systems, from electrons in solids and spins in quantum magnets to light in optical cavities and particles in noisy environments, display the same large-scale patterns of motion.
This workshop explores the idea that integrable many-body systems and strong conservation laws can govern universal behavior even when microscopic dynamics is chaotic. The program focuses on transport, fluctuations, hydrodynamics, scaling, and random-matrix phenomena across classical, quantum, and stochastic systems.
Participants
Alphabetical participant directory with institution, attendance window, and a direct link to each participant's professional webpage.
Jacqueline Bloch
CNRS / Universite Paris-Saclay, C2N
Web pageIvan Corwin
Columbia University
Web pageBenjamin Doyon
King's College London
Web pageYan Fyodorov
King's College London
Web pageVictor Galitski
Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland
Web pageDmitri Gangardt
University of Birmingham
Web pageSriram Ganeshan
City College of New York, CUNY
Web pageSarang Gopalakrishnan
Princeton University
Web pageEugene Kanzieper
Holon Institute of Technology
Web pageVladimir Kravtsov
Abdus Salam ICTP
Web pageYunxiang Liao
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Web pageSarah Holmes Miller
University of Maryland, ARLIS
Web pageMatthew Nicoletti
Stanford University
Web pageChiara Paletta
University of Ljubljana
Web pageSylvain Prolhac
Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, Universite de Toulouse
Web pageGregory Schehr
CNRS / Sorbonne Universite, LPTHE
Web pageTigran Sedrakyan
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Web pageBernardo Spagnolo
Universita degli Studi di Palermo
Web pageHayate Suda
Institute of Science Tokyo
Web pageKazumasa Takeuchi
The University of Tokyo
Web pageCoraline Tao
University of Rhode Island
Web pageAndrey Varlamov
CNR-SPIN / University of Rome Tor Vergata
Web pageEvgeny Verbitskiy
Leiden University
Web pageEmil Yuzbashyan
Rutgers University
Web pageConference Schedule
May 8
Arrival
Evening
Arrival to Erice and wine reception in the Marsala room.
May 9
Talks
8:00 - 8:50
Breakfast at the center
8:50 - 9:00
Introduction to the Center
9:00 - 9:40
Jacqueline Bloch (Paris-Saclay), "Universal scaling laws in the coherence of driven dissipative Bose Einstein condensates"
9:40 - 10:20
Kazumasa Takeuchi (University of Tokyo), "Topological edge states in bacterial collective motion"
10:20 - 10:40
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:20
Sylvain Prolhac (University of Toulouse), "KPZ fluctuations in finite volume for integrable spin chains"
11:20 - 12:00
Dmitri Gangardt (University of Birmingham), "Limit Shapes from Classical to Quantum"
12:00 - 1:20
Lunch
1:20 - 2:00
Yunxiang Liao (KTH Stockholm), "Field theory of monitored disordered fermions"
2:00 - 2:40
Yan Fyodorov (King's College London), "Parametric correlations in non-Hermitian quantum chaos: random matrix approach"
2:40 - 3:00
Coffee break
3:00 - 3:40
Sarang Gopalakrishnan (Princeton), "Long-lived local coherences from hydrodynamic large deviations"
3:40 - 4:20
Gregory Schehr (Sorbonne), "Poisson-Pauli crossover scaling and phase transition in Fermi-gas hole probabilities"
4:20 - 4:40
Coffee break
4:40 - 5:20
Hayate Suda (Tohoku University), "Fluctuations of the box-ball system"
5:20 - 6:00
Matthew Nicoletti (Stanford), "Fluctuations for the Toda lattice"
6:00 - 8:00
Dinner in Erice
8:00
Wine reception in the Marsala room
May 10
Talks and excursion
8:00 - 9:00
Breakfast at the center
9:00 - 9:40
Lorenzo Bertini (University of Rome), "Large deviations associated with the homogeneous Boltzmann equation"
9:40 - 10:20
Sriram Ganeshan (CUNY), "Weakly nonlinear dynamics of fractional quantum Hall edge: a hydro perspective"
10:20 - 10:40
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:20
Tigran Sedrakyan (University of Massachusetts Amherst), "Nonequilibrium from Equilibrium: Accessing Chiral and Current-Carrying Quantum Matter"
11:20 - 12:00
Coraline Tao (University of Rhode Island), "Universality in Molecular Electronic Structure via Random Matrix Theory"
12:00 - 2:30
Lunch
2:30
Tour of local islands from Porta Trapani
6:00 - 8:00
Free discussion on universality in physics, moderated by Corwin and Galitski
8:00
Wine reception in the Marsala room
May 11
Talks and closing
8:00 - 9:00
Breakfast at the center
9:00 - 9:40
Chiara Paletta (University of Ljubljana), "On the integrability structure of the deformed rule-54 reversible cellular automaton"
9:40 - 10:20
Vladimir Kravtsov (ICTP, Trieste), "Universality of the critical quantum states, optimal bases and compression of data"
10:20 - 10:40
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:20
Eugene Kanzieper (Holon Institute of Technology), "Local Level Spacings and the Inspection Paradox in Random Matrix Theory"
11:20 - 12:00
Sarah Holmes Miller (Applied Research Lab for Intelligence and Security), "A Combinatorial Route to Universality: Surreal Observables and Structural Corrections"
12:00 - 1:20
Lunch
1:20 - 2:00
Evgeny Verbitskiy (Groningen University), "Hidden Markov Models and Statistical Mechanics"
2:00 - 2:40
Andrey Varlamov (University of Rome), "Fluctuations in superconductors: From Rayleigh-Jeans waves to Abrikosov vortex clusters"
2:40 - 3:00
Coffee break
3:00 - 3:40
Emil Yuzbashyan (Rutgers), "Instability of Metals under Strong Electron-Phonon Interaction and the Prospect of Room-Temperature Superconductivity"
3:40 - 4:20
Benjamin Doyon (King's College London), "Generalized hydrodynamics"
4:20 - 5:00
Bernardo Spagnolo (University of Palermo), "Noise-Induced Phenomena in Classical and Quantum Systems"
5:00
Closing remarks, coffee, dinner, free time, and wine reception
May 12
Departure
All day
Departure