The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded jointly to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.
Discovering physics in the 2024 Nobel prize for physics
Date: Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 14:00
Location:
KFKI Campus, HUN-REN Wigner RCP Building 1, 2nd floor, Conference Room 1121 Budapest, Konkoly-Thege Miklós Str. 29-33.,
WIGNER Seminar
Speaker: Orbán Gergő
HUN-REN Wigner RCP RMI
Title: Discovering physics in the 2024 Nobel prize for physics
Abstract: For many, it came as a surprise that the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to a pair of researchers who were not known to physics but were instead champions of other, albeit interdisciplinary, fields: computational neuroscience and machine learning. In this talk I will attempt to merge my expertise in these two fields and my background in physics to highlight the critical contributions the awardees made through the application of the tool set of statistical physics. I intend to explain how the humble Ising model penetrated to research in memory, driving neuroscience experiments in rodents, and how it is reimagined to form the basis of a major field in machine learning, unsupervised learning.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 was divided, one half awarded to David Baker “for computational protein design”, the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction”.