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Critical and Disordered Systems at ICTP-SAIFR


Work on active walks and landscape topology published in PRL

Mar 18, 2026

Level sets of spin glass Hamiltonians

Our research studying the topology of level sets of complex landscapes using the properties of active random walkers was published in PRL.

Work on CSPs published in JSTAT

Mar 1, 2026

Spheres wedged and inscribed in CSPs constrain topology of solutions

Our research studying the geometry and topology of solution sets in continuous constraint satisfaction problems like the perceptron was published in JSTAT.

Newly published and preprinted work

May 26, 2025

Research from the group on the topology of manifolds resulting from satisfying random constraints was recently published in SciPost Physics.

A draft manuscript describing the relationship between persistent random walks and the topology of microcanonical configuration space was also recently uploaded to the arXiv.

Joining ICTP-SAIFR in 2025

Oct 15, 2024

Jaron Kent-Dobias will be joining the faculty at ICTP-SAIFR in early 2025 as a Simons/FAPESP Young Investigator, and will be seeking masters and PhD students. Please send expressions of interest to jaron@ictp-saifr.org.