Carolin König from the Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry will talk about the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which is being awarded to three researchers. All three have studied proteins, the chemical tools of life. David Baker has succeeded in developing entirely new types of proteins. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have created an AI model to predict the complex structures of proteins. In doing so, they solved a 50-year-old problem.
Thomas Wick from the Institute for Applied Mathematics will talk about the work of this year's two Nobel Prize winners in Physics. They used physical tools to develop methods that form the basis for today's powerful machine learning. John Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data. Geoffrey Hinton invented a method that can independently find properties in data and thus perform tasks such as identifying certain elements in images.
After the lectures, participants will have the opportunity to ask the speakers their questions.
The Hannover regional group of the Young German Physical Society (jDPG) organises the Nobel Prize Talk.
The Nobel Prizes will be presented to the winners in Stockholm on 8 December 2024 and can be followed online via live stream from 9:00 to 10:20 (Physics) and from 10:50 to 12:40 (Chemistry). Further details and videos of the award-winning research are available on the Nobel Prize Committee website.
The Nobel Prize Talk will take place on Saturday, 7 December 2024, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in room E214 (Large Physics Hall, barrier-free) in the main building of Leibniz Universität Hannover (Welfengarten 1).
Admission is free. Registration is not necessary.
