Speaker: Gergő Orbán (Wigner RCP)
Title: Discovering physics in the Nobel prize for physics
Date: Tuesday 26 2024. november 14:00
Place: KFKI Campus, Bldg 1, Conference room
Abstract:
Discovering physics in the Nobel prize for physics
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.
