Gerhard Ertl Lecture & Award

Gerhard Ertl Lecture & Award

The Ertl Lecture Award was established in 2008 by the three Berlin universities (Humboldt University, Technical University and Free University) and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and is awarded once a year. It commemorates former FHI Director Gerhard Ertl's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he received in 2007. The prize honours outstanding personalities and researchers in the field of catalysis where Ertl carried out exceptional research for many decades. The prize, sponsored by BASF, includes a one-week research stay at the participating Berlin institutions and a keynote lecture. The winner is typically announced in Spring, the lecture takes place around the December 10th, the anniversary of Ertl's Nobel Prize reception.

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Advancing fundamental science with Machine Learning at DeepMind

Deep learning has had a transformative impact in computer science and is recently being applied to the natural sciences. In this talk, I will give an overview of recently published work on applying Machine Learning techniques to fundamental science problems at DeepMind. I will cover: super-human Quantum Dot tuning, advances in quantum Monte Carlo with neural network ansatz, transfer learning for predicting experimental material properties, and finally, touch upon recent advances in protein structure prediction. These case studies will hopefully allow me to exemplify the three kinds of impact that we can expect in future years: automating the experimental research pipeline, exploiting the representation power of neural network as function forms and finally extracting knowledge from data. [more]
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