Physics Program Presents
Order in Chaos and the Fate of the World: The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
Friday, October 8, 2021
Hegeman 107
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Paul Cadden-Zimansky & Hal Haggard, Associate Professors of Physics at Bard College
This year's Nobel Prize in physics, awarded to Giorgio Parisi, Syukuro Manabe, and Klaus Hasselmann, was bestowed for finding order in what appear to be hopelessly complex systems. This general audience talk will explain how the laureates started from simple physical principles, braved a thicket of noise and intricate interactions, and emerged from the other side with new tools that deepen our understanding of systems ranging from the material to the biological, from machine learning to meteorology. Along the way they found answers to some scholarly questions and some with global climate implications.Pizza to be served after the talk!
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Hegeman 107