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Oct
24
2024

Complex Systems Seminar: Sara Solla: "On the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics"

CANCELLED

When: Thursday, October 24, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CT

Where: Technological Institute, F160, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Joan West   (847) 491-3645

Group: Physics and Astronomy Complex Systems Seminars

Category: Academic

Description:

This seminar is on the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks".  I will give introductions to the statistical physics underpinning these advances, and then discuss the frontiers and future implications of these developments for physics and data science.

Sara Solla, Associate Professor, Joint with Physiology, Northwestern University

Host: Michelle Driscoll

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