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Albert Rose
Next Friday, January 28, the Rey Juan Carlos University will appoint honorary doctors to the Nobel Prize in Physics, Giorgio Parisi; and Professor Itamar Procaccia. Coinciding with the party in honor of Saint Thomas Aquinas, the investiture ceremony will take place at 12:00 next Friday in the auditorium of the Rectorate building, located on the Móstoles Campus.
Giorgio Parisi was born in Rome in 1948 and is a Nobel laureate in physics. The academician was awarded this important prize last October "for the discovery of the interaction between disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from the atomic to the planetary scale".
Parisi, also known in Italy for his presence in social and political spheres, discovered, together with the Argentinian Miguel Ángel Virasoro and the French Marc Mezarzd, the ultrametric organization of the low-temperature states of spin glass in infinite dimensions.
Israeli physicist Itamar Procaccia will also be awarded an honorary doctorate for his contributions in the areas of statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics, soft matter and turbulence. Procaccia, born in Tel Aviv in 1949, studied Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a member of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics, the Leopoldina and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
Along with Peter Grassberger, Itamar Procaccia introduced the correlation dimension as a measure of the fractal dimension in 1983, often called the Grassberger-Procaccia algorithm.
The 'laudatio' of the new 'honoris causa' doctors will be given by Professor Steffano Boccaletti, member of the Department of Applied Mathematics, Science and Engineering of Materials and Electronic Technology of the Rey Juan Carlos University.
The Academic Ceremony will be chaired by the rector of the URJC, Javier Ramos, and will be attended by local authorities from the municipalities where the University is located and surrounding areas, deputies from the Madrid Assembly and diplomatic personnel from various countries, as well as representatives of Madrid's civil society. The investiture can be followed live on the URJC TV channel at this link from the 12: 00.
A master class by the new 'honoris causa'
In addition, next Monday, January 31 at 10:00 a master class will be held by professors Parisi and Procaccia. This act can be followed virtually through the following link of the URJC TV channel.