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.

Automatic topography of multidimensional probability densities

A Seminar of the NOMAD Laboratory

• Online Seminar of the NOMAD Laboratory
• Date: Feb 4, 2021
• Time: 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Alessandro Laio
• International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste
• Location: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88500983651?pwd=M01ZRGJiVzFKRkhYRmN5ZkJqeUxKQT09
• Room: Meeting ID: 885 0098 3651 I Password: NOMAD
• Host: NOMAD Laboratory

Unsupervised methods in data analysis aim at obtaining a synthetic description of high-dimensional data landscapes, revealing their structure and their salient features. We will describe an approach for charting complex and heterogeneous data spaces, providing a topography of the high-dimensional probability density from which the data are harvested. [more]