The Departments of Physics, Physiological Sciences, and Chemistry and Polymer Science cordially invite you to our annual public lecture on the science behind this year's Nobel Prizes.

This is a hybrid event with online and in-person attendance in Lecture Hall 0067, Merensky Building for Physics, Stellenbosch University.

Please join us for light refreshments after the lecture, courtesy of the National Centre for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS).

Click here to register for in-person or online attendance: - https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/67f558bf-3693-4144-beae-c78cf1359de7@a6fa3b03-0a3c-4258-8433-a120dffcd348

Speakers

Prof Kristian Müller-Nedebock, Department of Physics

On the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.

Prof Johan Burger, Department of Genetics

On the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”.

Prof. Hugh Patterton, Director of the Centre for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

On the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to David Baker  “for computational protein design” and  Demis Hassabis  and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction”.​