Giorgio Parisi, co-ordinator of the project the INFM (Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia) node in Rome, is a full professor of physics and head of the INFM center research and development SMC (Statistical Mechanics and Complexity). He received the Boltzmann medal and the Dirac medal and he is fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei, the French Academy of Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences of the US. He has published 3 books, 400 journal articles in different fields of theoretical physics. His main activity has been in the field of elementary particles, theory of phase transitions and statistical mechanics, mathematical physics and string theory, disordered systems (spin glasses and complex systems), neural networks theoretical immunology, computers and very large scale simulations of QCD (the APE project), non-equilibrium statistical physics and combinatorial optimization.
T. S. Grigera, V. Martin-Mayor, G. Parisi, P. Verrocchio, Phonons in supercooled liquids: a possible explanation for the Boson Peak Nature 422, 289 (2003).
A. Cavagna , I. Giardina, T. Grigera, G. Parisi Geometric Approach to the Dynamic Phase Transition Physical Review Letters 88, 055502 (2002)
L. Leuzzi, G. Parisi The K-sat problem in a simple limit Journal of Statistical Physics 103, 679 (2001)
B. Coluzzi, G. Parisi, P. Verrocchio L-J Binary Mixture: a Thermodynamical Approach to Glass Transition Journal of Chemical Physics 112, 2933 (2000)
Nicola Cabibbo teaches theoretical physics at the University of Rome, La Sapienza. He is fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei and of the National Academy of Sciences of the US. He is best known for his work on elementary particle physics, and in particular for his discovery of the quark mixing phenomena. He has been the inspirator of APE project, i.e. a massive parallel SIMD computer that is now at the forth generation. His field of expertise includes computer simulations, computer design and hardware implementation, and the treatment of digital images.
N. Cabibbo, E. C. Swallow, R. Winston Semileptonic hyperon decays Annu Rev Nucl Part S 53, 39 (2003)
R. Ammendola, F. Bodin, P. Boucaud et al. Status of the apeNEXT project Nucl Phys B-Proc Sup 119, 1038 (2003)
M. Cabibbo Concluding remarks Int J Mod Phys A 17, 3500 (2002)
F. Bodin, P. Boucaud, N. Cabibbo et al. APE computers - past, present and future Comput Phys Commun 147, 402 (2002)
N. Cabibbo, Y. Iwasaki, K. Schilling High performance computing in lattice QCD Parallel Comput 25, 1197 (1999)
F. Aglietti, A. Bartoloni, C. Battista et al. The teraflop supercomputer APEmille: architecture, software and project status report Comput Phys Commun 110, 216 (1998)
