The first oral history interview I recorded for the History of RSB project was with this year’s Nobel Prize winner, John J. Hopfield. As a result, this prize feels more special than usual.
To find out more, note that a special GSNP seminar will discuss Hopfield’s contributions to (statistical) physics later this week:
“GSNP is pleased to partner with GDS in hosting a klogW virtual seminar on the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton ‘for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks’. Our panel of experts (Nicolas Brunel, Duke; Eun-Ah Kim, Cornell; Pankaj Mehta, BU; David Schwab, CUNY; Sara Solla, Northwestern; Yuhai Tu, IBM) will give introductions to the statistical physics underpinning these advances, and then discuss the frontiers and future implications of these developments for physics and data science. Date and Time Wed Oct 16 at 12-1:30PM Eastern Time, U.S. Registration link https://apsphysics.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYscOCtrTMsGNJlbGSRULRf3kp4wAp_1U9a“
