Dátum

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. 
 

Zoom link: https://wigner-hu.zoom.us/j/83350005582?pwd=OEk6YofHzLVaBnNjUAxcOzORbLjkuH.1