Friday, 24 January
11 AM - 1 PM
Room 4102 (Science Center), Graduate Center CUNY
Join us for a special event at the Initiative for Theoretical Sciences!
On Friday, Janurary 24, we’re hosting a special event reflecting on the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton. The event will be in two parts. The first lecture will focus on the foundational work from the 1980s - Hopfield models, Boltzmann machines - and its context in a larger effort to build a physics of biological systems. The second lecture will trace the complex path from those ideas to the current revolution in AI - large language models, image generation, and more. This event is for students, faculty, and researchers in physics, but others from mathematics, computer science, etc… are encouraged to join.
10:30 - 11:00 AM
Coffee and Bagels
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Hopfield models, Boltzmann machines and the Physics of Biological Systems
W. Bialek
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The Current AI Revolution (1980s - now)
D. J. Schwab
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch