W poniedziałek 26 maja 2025 r. o godz 11.00 w sali 0.06 odbędzie się Konwersatorium im. Jerzego Pniewskiego i Leopolda Infelda Wydziału Fizyki UW. Wykład zatytułowany:
"The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024" wygłosi dr hab. Artur Kalinowski, prof. UW Wydział Fizyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski
W październiku 2024 roku nagrodę Nobla w dziedzinie fizyki przyznano Johnowi Hopfieldowi oraz Geoffreyowi Hintonowi za "za fundamentalne odkrycia i wynalazki, które umożliwiają uczenie maszynowe za pomocą sztucznych sieci neuronowych”. Wybór wzbudził kontrowersje i pytania o wkład uczenia maszynowego do rozwoju fizyki. Tej właśnie kwestii poświęcone będzie najbliższe Konwersatorium.
Abstrakt wystąpienia znajduje się poniżej niniejszej wiadomości.
Wykład odbędzie się w języku angielskim.
Przed Konwersatorium, od godz. 10.30, zapraszamy na nieformalne dyskusje przy kawie i ciastkach w holu przed salą 0.06.
Kolejne, ostatnie w tym semestrze Konwersatorium odbędzie się 9 czerwca 2025.
Zapraszamy i pozdrawiamy,
Barbara Badełek, Jan Chwedeńczuk, Jan Kalinowski, Jan Suffczyński
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The Jerzy Pniewski and Leopold Infeld Colloquium of the Faculty of Physics will be held in room 0.06 on Monday, May 26, at 11:00 AM.
The lecture entitled: "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024" will be delivered by dr hab. Artur Kalinowski, prof. UW
Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
In October 2024, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton “for their fundamental discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning using artificial neural networks.” The selection raised controversy and questions about the contribution of machine learning to the development of physics. This issue will be the subject of the upcoming Colloquium.
The abstract of the Colloquium can be found below this news item.
The lecture will be held in English.
Before the Colloquium, from 10.30 AM, please join us for informal discussions over coffee and cakes in the lobby outside room 0.06.
The next and last Colloquium this semester will be held on June 9, 2025 - we invite you to these events.
With best regards,
Barbara Badełek, Jan Chwedeńczuk, Jan Kalinowski, Jan Suffczyński
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Speaker:
dr hab. Artur Kalinowski, prof. UW Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
Title: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024
Abstract:
Machine learning (ML) is one of the fastest growing disciplines on the border between science and industry. The number of ML related articles on arXiv follows closely the Moore's law [1] A large part of the progress (we are aware of) happens in private corporations, outside academia - ask yourself who invented ChatGPT[2], Gemini, the product recommendation system of a huge selling company with a name starting on A, etc. It seems that the Nobel Committee has acknowledged the importance of machine learning, and awarded the 2024 Prize in Physics “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks” [3], and the Prize in Chemistry for "Computational Protein Design and Protein Structure Prediction" - a machine learning based model predicting protein shapes[4]. In my lecture, I will present the connection between machine learning and physics, and give a random overview of the application of ML methods in physics.
[1] M. Krenn, L. Buffoni, B. Coutinho, et al, arXiv:2210.00881 [cs.AI]
[2] A Radford, K. Narasimhan, et al, (no formal citation exists for this
breakthrougharticle) https://cdn.openai.com/research-covers/language-unsupervised/langu age_understanding_paper.pdf
[3] Nobel Prize Outreach 2025. Wed. 14 May
2025, https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/advanced-information
[4] Nobel Prize Outreach 2025. Wed. 14 May2025, https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/advanced-information
"The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024", 26 maja 2025 r. o godz 11.00 sala 0.06,Konwersatorium im. Jerzego Pniewskiego i Leopolda Infelda Wydziału Fizyki UW
