seminars
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Nov
2024
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
CMSP Lecture (Atomistic Simulation Seminar Series): Machine learning f...
Physical
ICTP's Salam Distinguished Lecture Series is an annual presentation of talks by renowned, active scientists. The aim is to showcase important research developments as well as provide a visionary forward view. The lecture series is supported by the Kuwait Programme at ICTP.
Past Salam Distinguished Lectures:
2024: Stéphane Mallat
- Lecture 1: Energy estimation and data generation by inverse renormalisation group
- Lecture 2: Log-Sobolev stability, wavelets and interaction energies across scales
- Lecture 3: Multiscale neural network models for generation by score diffusion
2023: Sandu Popescu
- Lecture 1: The Smallest Possible Thermal Machines and the Foundations of Thermodynamics
- Lecture 2: Quantum Non-locality and Beyond
- Lecture 3: Multiple-time States and the Flow of Time in Quantum Mechanics
2022: Alessandra Buonanno
- Lecture 1: What Gravitational Waves tell us About the Universe
- Lecture 2: The Making of High-Precision Gravitational Waves
- Lecture 3: Gravitational Waves as Probes of Gravity
2021: David Spergel
- Lecture 1: Our Simple Strange Universe
- Lecture 2: What the Universe's Baby Picture Reveals About Fundamental Physics
- Lecture 3: Determining the Universe's Initial Conditions
2020: Marc Mézard
- Lecture 1: Artificial Intelligence: success, limits, myths, & threats
- Lecture 2: The Spin Glass Cornucopia
- Lecture 3: Statistical Physics of Inference and Machine Learning
2019: Juan Maldacena
- Lecture 1: Quantum mechanics and the geometry of spacetime
- Lecture 2: Toy models for black holes
- Lecture 3: Toy models for black holes (part two)
2018: Alan Guth
- Lecture 1: Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?
- Lecture 2: Eternal Inflation and its Implications
- Lecture 3: Infinite Phase Space and the Two-Headed Arrow of Time
2017: Sir Michael Berry
- Lecture 1: Superoscillations: Unexpected fine detail and extreme values in mathematics and quantum and wave physics
- Lecture 2: Superoscillations: Unexpected fine detail and extreme values in mathematics and quantum and wave physics
- Lecture 3: Superoscillations: Unexpected fine detail and extreme values in mathematics and quantum and wave physics
2016: Sir Brian Hoskins
2015: Don Zagier
2014: Subir Sachdev
2013: William Bialek
2012: Nima Arkani-Hamed