Mark your calendars for The Ohio State University’s premiere panel discussion on the Nobel Prizes. Panelists consist of faculty experts from across the university and will discuss the 2024 awards in Chemistry, Physics, Literature and Peace. The panel will bring insights into the awards by creating a conversation both about the accomplishments behind these prizes and what they have meant for society today and in the future.
The panel consists of Mark Foster, professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry - Deliang Wang, Ohio State distinguished scholar and a leader in neural networks – Hayana Kim , assistant professor of Korean literature and performance – Mitch Lerner, professor of history and director of the East Asian Studies Center.
Moderated by David Staley, a prolific scholar and host of the “Voices of Excellence in Arts and Sciences.”
This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.
The following Prizes will be discussed:
Physics - They trained artificial neural networks using physics
This year’s two Nobel Laureates in Physics have used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation of 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 autonomously find properties in data, and so perform tasks such as identifying specific elements in pictures.
Chemistry - They cracked the code for proteins’ amazing structures
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about proteins, life’s ingenious chemical tools. David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures. These discoveries hold enormous potential.
“for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.
Peace Prize - Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo
This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.
Additional information about the prizes can be found on The Nobel Prize website.