Peter Sollich

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Peter Sollich

King's College London

Oct 2004 - present Professor of Statistical Mechanics in the Department of Mathematics.
Sep 2002 - Sep 2004 Reader in the Department of Mathematics.
Nov 1999 - Aug 2002

Disordered Systems and
Neural Networks Group,
Department of Mathematics,
King's College London
Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics.

Working on disorder effects in soft condensed matter (rheology, polydispersity), spin glass theory (links to quantum coding), general models of out-of-equilibrium dynamics (kinetically constrained spin chains, effective temperatures), and theory of learning processes and algorithms (Gaussian processes, Support Vector Machines). See also my research interests page.
Oct 1998 - Oct 1999

Disordered Systems and
Neural Networks Group,
Department of Mathematics,
King's College London
Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow.

Working on disorder effects in soft condensed matter (rheology, polydispersity), general models of slow dynamics (kinetically constrained spin chains), and theory of learning processes (Gaussian processes, online learning).
Nov 1995 - Sep 1998

Condensed Matter Group,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Edinburgh
Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow.

Working on disorder effects, metastability and glassy dynamics (non-equilibrium statistical mechanics) in soft condensed matter.
Oct 1992 - Sep 1995

Theory Group,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Edinburgh
Ph.D. on `Asking intelligent questions - The statistical mechanics of query learning'.

Working on statistical mechanics of disordered systems applied to neural network learning.
Oct 1991 - Nov 1992

Theory of Condensed Matter,
Department of Physics,
Cambridge University
M.Phil. on `Fluctuations and Rigid Unit Modes in Framework Structures'.

Working on statistical mechanics of fluctuation effects in phase transitions
Apr 1989 - Sep 1991

Universitaet Heidelberg,
Germany
Studying undergraduate physics, maths and chemistry.


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