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This year, the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Computer Science will jointly hold a special public event on November 1 at 5:30 pm [1] to explain to the public the achievements of this year's Nobel Prize winners in physics in an easy and fun way.
[1] Nov 1 (Friday), Science Building (room 007)
5:30 - 6:00 pm Pizza Served
6:00 - 7:00 pm Welcome & Presentations
7:00 - 7:30 pm Q&A
As you may already know, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks” [2]. Machine learning has long been important for research, including the sorting and analysis of vast amounts of data. John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton used tools from physics to construct methods that helped lay the foundation for today’s powerful machine learning. In announcing the prize, the Nobel committee described Hopfield and Hinton’s work as not just helping advance research across different fields of physics — from material science to particle physics to astrophysics - but as something that was already changing daily life, with technology including facial recognition and language translation building off of the research.
[2] Press release: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/press-release/
Scientific background: https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/09/advanced-physicsprize2024.pdf
Popular Information: https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/10/popular-physicsprize2024.pdf
We hope this special event will be a great opportunity for you to learn more about this year's Nobel Prizes in Physics, and we would like to thank Drs. Feng, Madrid, Pol, Sheng, Tiomkin, and Zhang for kindly agreeing to present at this special event.
We hope to see many of you in Science Building (SC 007) on November 1st. Also, if you have friends or colleagues who may be interested in attending, please forward this invitation to them as well.
Yong (CS) and Sung-Won (PHAS)[NOTE Photos taken at the event: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ttuphas/albums/72177720321676794