The Nobel Prizes for Physics, Chemistry and Medicine are awarded every year in October. Curious who will receive this honor in 2024? Come and join the annual Nobel Lectures organized by TNW and Studium Generale. Scientists and journalists explain what these prizes are all about and who the winners are. Check this years’ line-up on www.utwente.nl/sg or follow us on social media. In former editions we had Govert Schilling, Gorben Pijlman, Armagan Kocer and Kerensa Broersen (just to mention a few).
This year we have the following line-up:
Prof dr ir Wilfred van der Wiel (UT) will explain the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024, which was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks. Hopfield created a structure that can store and reconstruct information. Hinton invented a method that can independently discover properties in data and which has become important for the large neural networks now in use. Read more.
Dr Halima Mouhib (VU) will explain the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024, which was awarded with one half to David Baker for computational protein design and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for protein structure prediction. Together they cracked the code for proteins’ amazing structures. Read more.
We hope to announce the speaker of the Medicine Prize soon!
Moderator: prof dr ir Gertjan Koster (TNW). In cooperation with Arago, Alembic and Ockham.
Buffet at 17:30-18:30 in Vrijhof Foyer. Students: FREE/non-students: €12,50. Please register via a.heukels@utwente.nl. Lectures: free admittance & no registration required.
Room: Vrijhof/Amphi
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