Francesca Mignacco

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

[Francesco Mori @frnc_mori]

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!

[Francesca Mignacco @framigna]

Looking forward to this amazing conference! Especially excited to co-chair the biocomputation session with @VFascianelli

[Ruairidh Battleday @RMBattleday]

📢📢Announcing this year's conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience & AI (Split, Croatia, 27-30th May): https://t.co/OeuS8N7RBD

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!
https://t.co/OeuS8N7RBD

[Lenka Zdeborova @zdeborova]

The long-awaited collection of lecture notes from the Summer School on Statistical Physics & Machine Learning, Les Houches 2022, is now published in JStatMech https://t.co/V8tzeimEJB . I am particularly proud of the works the school inspired; see section 3 of the editorial.

[Francesca Mignacco @framigna]

Thrilled to share our new preprint on optimal replay protocols for continual learning using stat phys + control theory! Very excited about this direction 🚀

[Francesco Mori @frnc_mori]

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 (https://t.co/FhpxqxxVBw), @stefsmlab, @framigna, and I study catastrophic forgetting in high-dimensional continual learning.

[Francesca Mignacco @framigna]

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 ! 🙏

[Francesca Mignacco @framigna]

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

[Francesca Mignacco @framigna]

@gabriberton Ciao Berto! Grazie :) sono in Europa fino a fine giugno, poi torno a NY e sto su luglio e agosto, fammi sapere se ci passi

[Francesca Mignacco @framigna]

Looking forward to the summer school on Analytical Connectionism @FlatironInst @nyuniversity on Aug 12-23

Only one week left to apply!

https://t.co/FaQ2Nf9gSe

[SueYeon Chung @s_y_chung]

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

[SueYeon Chung @s_y_chung]

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

[Trevor GrandPre @myphysicsvoyage]

Join us at another great event!

[Francesca Mignacco @framigna]

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: https://t.co/IvUBl9Z2fa

[Stefano Sarao Mannelli @stefsmlab]

📣 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 [https://t.co/Lz3nT6kT59] 🐭🤖

[Giulio Biroli @GiulioBiroli]

The program of the 2024 Beg Rohu summer school is out! https://t.co/fe7MXEiJQV Fantastic lecturers
L. Canet, @KrauthWerner, @psollich, R. Speicher, M. Tarzia, and terrific seminars by R. Jack @SPappalardi
to learn the way of statistical physics

[William Bialek @wbialek]

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!

[William Bialek @wbialek]

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!

[Ilya Nemenman @INemenman]

If you are in the Chamonix/Les Houches area, attend this public lecture by @EmonetLab, https://t.co/Ox1cUcTXlu
If you are not in the area, consider spreading the word!

[TTIC @TTIC_Connect]

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: https://t.co/PrK5u3TCPt

[Lenka Zdeborova @zdeborova]

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 https://t.co/k0vWZDNuJD

[Francesca Mignacco @framigna]

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: https://t.co/Qs2iUPYP99

[ITS@CUNY @ITSCUNY1]

PhD students and postdoctoral fellows, we want to hear from you: Mar 24 (next Friday) application deadline for PHYSICS OF LIFE symposium this semester. https://t.co/WyThAEpH4t Thanks to @phybiofunc travel and lodging will be provided...did we mention April is nice in NYC?