Nobel Laureate Finds Key Insights About Complex Systems in Bird Flight | Giorgio Parisi (#359)

How does a Nobel Prize winner create ideas and bring them to life?
What can starlings teach us about physics? And what is a spin
glass? Here today, to take us on a fascinating journey from bird
flocks to condensed matter physics is none other than Nobel Prize
laureate Giorgio Parisi. Giorgio is an Italian theoretical
physicist and author of many wonderful works, such as In a Flight
of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems, which we will discuss
in detail in this episode. Giorgio is an incredibly inspiring mind
who has contributed so much to our understanding of nature and
complex systems, and it was an honor to interview him! Tune
in.  Key Takeaways:  Intro (00:00) Judging a book by its
cover: In a Flight of Starlings (00:38) Nicola Cabibbo as an
advisor (07:10) Why do starlings form murmurations? (12:12)
Giorgio’s work on spin glasses (22:04) How Giorgio lost the Nobel
Prize (29:38) Can scientists work in isolation? (35:10) How ideas
are born (38:28) Room-temperature superconductivity (43:08)
Increasing scientific funding in the European governments (45:18)
Science communication (48:59) Outro (54:15) — Additional
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