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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; color: rgb(59, 59, 59);" class="ContentPasted0">Applications are invited – with deadline Dec 11 – for a postdoc in limbo at SISSA (Trieste, Italy). The project is based on our research (Ryom and Treves,
Phys Rev X Life, 2023, and unpublished) and on extensive data on language parameters collected by Longobardi and collaborators (Ceolin et al, Phil Trans Roy Soc B, 2021) which suggest that language diversity may reflect the disordered freezing dynamics that
in a spin glass leads to a multiplicity of ground states. In a simplified model, vectors of binary syntactic parameters interact via strong asymmetric logical implications and weak partly symmetric influences, which can produce critical slowing down through
a novel mechanism of percolated freezing. Candidates should be keen to develop new m</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">athematical and computational approaches</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; color: rgb(59, 59, 59);" class="ContentPasted0">,
as sketched in </span><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03152" id="OWA7136ed97-091d-e2d0-8bd1-9997a71776b8" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT">https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03152</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; color: rgb(59, 59, 59);" class="ContentPasted0">
or otherwise, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">and enjoy learning about issues and narratives in scientific communities other than their own. Applications should be submitted online:
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; color: black;"><a href="https://pica.cineca.it/sissa/ar-fe-neur-82-2023" target="_blank" id="OWA2f059e97-e331-9a56-044b-094d738e0b83" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">https://pica.cineca.it/sissa/ar-fe-neur-82-2023</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">
where further info is available, as well as on </span><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://people.sissa.it/~ale/limbo.html" id="OWAa483e913-e484-ca47-bb99-d8ebe63971a0" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT">https://people.sissa.it/~ale/limbo.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">
and by email to Alessandro Treves </span><span style="color: black;"><a href="mailto:ale@sissa.it" id="OWA2e43738e-d17f-2fed-bbc5-5bb158627569" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:IT">ale@sissa.it</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; color: rgb(59, 59, 59);"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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