Research Fellow @phybiofunc, @HFSP. Statistical physics, machine learning, theoretical neuroscience.

Joined November 2022
Francesca Mignacco retweeted
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded the 2025 EPS SNPD Early Career Prize. I’m deeply honored and very grateful for this recognition. Thank you to my mentors and collaborators for their constant support. Congratulations to all the awardees!
🏆The EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division is happy to announce the winners of the EPS SNPD Prizes 2025: Prof. Alessandro Vespignani, Prof. Thomas Witten, Dr. Francesco Mori and Dr. Vittoria Sposini are awarded this year. Congratulations! eps.org/eps-snpd-prizes-2025…
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Looking forward to this amazing conference! Especially excited to co-chair the biocomputation session with @VFascianelli
📢📢Announcing this year's conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience & AI (Split, Croatia, 27-30th May): neuromonster.org Abstract submissions and early bird registration are open. The first 100 tickets can get an extra 20% off using discount code SUPEREARLYNM25. Keynote Speakers: Prof Jay McClelland (@StanfordHAI & @GoogleDeepMind) Prof Wolfgang Maass (@UniGraz) Prof Christine Constantinople (@nyuniversity ) Prof Jakob Foerster (@UniofOxford & @AIatMeta) Dr Ida Momennejad (@Microsoft) and more to come! Session Chairs: Dr @VFascianelli (@Columbia) Dr @framigna (@nyuniversity & @Princeton) @YasmineAyman20 (@Harvard) Dr @jcrwhittington (@UniofOxford & @Stanford) Prof @billdthompson (@UCBerkeley) Dr @eckstein_maria (@GoogleDeepMind) @Michael_Lepori (@BrownUniversity) Prof @sucholutsky (@nyuniversity) Location: The conference will be held at Croatia’s National Theatre in Split, 10 minutes walk from the ancient harbour. Reserve your spot now! neuromonster.org
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Francesca Mignacco retweeted
The long-awaited collection of lecture notes from the Summer School on Statistical Physics & Machine Learning, Les Houches 2022, is now published in JStatMech iopscience.iop.org/collectio… . I am particularly proud of the works the school inspired; see section 3 of the editorial.
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Thrilled to share our new preprint on optimal replay protocols for continual learning using stat phys + control theory! Very excited about this direction 🚀
Starting too many projects and forgetting the ones you still need to wrap up? Don’t worry, neural networks do that too! In our new preprint (arxiv.org/abs/2409.18061), @stefsmlab, @framigna, and I study catastrophic forgetting in high-dimensional continual learning.
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What an amazing crowd of young researchers at the Analytical Connectionism Summer School hackathon! The past two weeks have been so much fun. 🙌 @s_y_chung @stefsmlab @SaxeLab #ACSS2024
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Big thanks to the wonderful lineup of speakers: @CPehlevan, Linda Smith, @blake__bordelon , John Cohen, Declan Campbell, @kchonyc , @aa_fenton , @EeroSimoncelli , @EngelTatiana , @adelegoldberg1 , and @chklovskii ! 🙏
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Looking forward to the summer school on Analytical Connectionism @FlatironInst @nyuniversity on Aug 12-23 Only one week left to apply! events.simonsfoundation.org/…
Excited to announce this summer school on analytical approaches (eg statistical physics and probability theory) for understanding deep learning models and higher-level cognition in NYC! Analytical Connectionism Summer School (Aug 12-23, '24) Speakers: Jonathan Cohen @CPehlevan Linda Smith @kchonyc André Fenton @adelegoldberg1 @EeroSimoncelli @EngelTatiana @chklovskii @FlatironCCN @FlatironInst @NYUDataScience @NYU_CNS @GatsbyUCL
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Francesca Mignacco retweeted
Excited to announce this summer school on analytical approaches (eg statistical physics and probability theory) for understanding deep learning models and higher-level cognition in NYC! Analytical Connectionism Summer School (Aug 12-23, '24) Speakers: Jonathan Cohen @CPehlevan Linda Smith @kchonyc André Fenton @adelegoldberg1 @EeroSimoncelli @EngelTatiana @chklovskii @FlatironCCN @FlatironInst @NYUDataScience @NYU_CNS @GatsbyUCL
📣 Join us in Analytical Connectionism our summer school on the foundations of higher-level cognition. Join experts from neuroscience, psychology & ML for lectures, tutorials, and a hackathon! Aug 12-23, 2024 in NYC @FlatironInst @nyuniversity [events.simonsfoundation.org/…] 🐭🤖
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Francesca Mignacco retweeted
Join us at another great event!
This Friday: Microbial Collectives in Action--in coral reefs, in the human gut, and more. RSVP bit.ly/4cyAwTY @phybiofunc @GC_CUNY
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Very excited about the upcoming LLMs symposium this Thursday, April 25th, at @GC_CUNY ! Huge thanks to @wbialek @Kamesh_Kris Goeun Minshall and David Schwab Interested in attending? Register here: bit.ly/3PPOOG9
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Francesca Mignacco retweeted
📣 Join us in Analytical Connectionism our summer school on the foundations of higher-level cognition. Join experts from neuroscience, psychology & ML for lectures, tutorials, and a hackathon! Aug 12-23, 2024 in NYC @FlatironInst @nyuniversity [events.simonsfoundation.org/…] 🐭🤖
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Francesca Mignacco retweeted
The program of the 2024 Beg Rohu summer school is out! ipht.fr/begrohu Fantastic lecturers L. Canet, @KrauthWerner, @psollich, R. Speicher, M. Tarzia, and terrific seminars by R. Jack @SPappalardi to learn the way of statistical physics
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Francesca Mignacco retweeted
We started during the pandemic and continued … fantastic events with a wide range of speakers from different institutions, backgrounds, cultures. But it depends on getting a great pool of applicants!
We are now accepting speaker applications for Students and Postdocs Edition, our 5th biannual biophysics symposium sponsored with @phybiofunc @GC_CUNY. Application and details at itsatcuny.org/studentspostdo…. Deadline Oct 20. Please apply!
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Francesca Mignacco retweeted
We have been fortunate to have a fantastic community of Fellows, and are excited by the process of renewal. We provide a balance of independence and mentorship, and we have fun. Please apply!
Our annual search for new CPBF Postdoctoral Fellows is open! Applications are due Oct 15. Spread the word and apply now to join our vibrant, collaborative community pushing the boundaries of biological physics across systems and scales. More info here: biophysics.princeton.edu/opp…
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Francesca Mignacco retweeted
If you are in the Chamonix/Les Houches area, attend this public lecture by @EmonetLab, chamonix.com/evenements/even… If you are not in the area, consider spreading the word!
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Francesca Mignacco retweeted
Wednesday, May 24th at 10:30 am CT: TTIC's Young Researcher Seminar Series presents Francesca Mignacco of @PrincetonPhys with a talk titled "Statistical physics insights into the dynamics of learning algorithms." Join us in Room 530 or stream via Panopto: buff.ly/3BCsYy7
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Francesca Mignacco retweeted
Recordings of the talks from the workshop Physics for Neural Networks at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. Featuring myself, @Andrea__M @KrzakalaF @CedricGerbelot @sebastiangoldt @BorisHanin @CPehlevan and many others. See at kaltura.com/tiny/13zrg
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It was a pleasure to co-organize the “Physics for Neural Networks” @Princeton workshop together with @wbialek @BorisHanin & Giorgio Cipolloni. Big thanks to all the speakers for the great talks! The recordings are now available: kaltura.com/index.php/extwid…
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Francesca Mignacco retweeted
PhD students and postdoctoral fellows, we want to hear from you: Mar 24 (next Friday) application deadline for PHYSICS OF LIFE symposium this semester. itsatcuny.org/studentspostdo… Thanks to @phybiofunc travel and lodging will be provided...did we mention April is nice in NYC?
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