Gravitational waves, artificial intelligence and moonshine at the ITS Science Colloquium
Starting next week, there will be an intense sequence of general audience talks at the ITS Science Colloquium, by Rainer Weiss, Ranit Aharonov and Miranda Cheng, on subjects of interest across disciplines.
We will start on 28 February with 2017 Nobel prize laureate Rainer Weiss, of the Massachussets Institute of Technology, co-founder of the LIGO project, who will tell us about the exploration of the Universe through gravitational waves. One week later, on 7 March, we will have Ranit Aharonov, of IBM Research, manager of external pageProject Debater,call_made an AI system that can engage humans in debates on complex topics. In her talk she will address the question "How persuasive can a computer be?" Finally, on 14 March, Miranda Cheng, of the University of Amsterdam, will tell us the story of the 17 mysterious formulae written by Ramanujan in a 1920 letter, that marked the beginning of a theory that has recent application to various research areas, including the moonshine theory in mathematics and black holes in theoretical physics. For more information please check the programme of the ITS Science Colloquium