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Overview
Giorgio Parisi is an Italian theoretical physicist, 2021 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics for work on complex systems. Emeritus professor at Sapienza University of Rome.
AI-Assisted Research (July 2026)
Collaborated with Francesco Zamponi and claude (Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.7) to prove jamming transition identity a+b=1 — resolving a decade-old conjecture in statistical mechanics (2026-07-01-parisi-claude-jamming-arxiv).
Workflow:
- Asked Claude to reproduce numerical results from 2014 work
- Requested analytical proof of observed identity
- Claude supplied core proof strategy; humans corrected errors over multiple rounds
- Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (JSTAT)
Parisi identified the jamming problem as ideal test case when generative AI models emerged. Full 40-prompt transcript archived on Zenodo.