The Nobel Lectures 2024

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Welcome to the Academy’s official Nobel Lectures 2024, with this year’s Laureates in Physics, Chemistry and Economic Sciences.

The event is free of charge and open to the public, but registration is required. The live webcast can be watched on this page without  registration.

There will be a security check at the entrance, we urge everyone to be at the venue in good time before the events starts. Please note that it will not be allowed to bring bags into the building.

The doors will open 08:00 for the Nobel Lectures in Physics and Chemistry.
The doors will open 13:15 for the Prize Lectures in Economic Sciences.

Programme

09:00-09:05
Welcome address

09.05-10:20
THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS: They trained artificial neural networks using physics

Physics is a point of view
John J. Hopfield, Princeton University, NJ, USA

Boltzmann Machines
Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto, Canada

10:50-12:40
THE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY: They cracked the code for proteins’ amazing structures

De Novo Protein Design
David Baker, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA

Accelerating scientific discovery with AI
Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind, London, UK

Building chemical and biological intuition into protein structure prediction
John Jumper, Google DeepMind, London, UK

14:00-15:50
THE PRIZE IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES: They have helped us understand differences in prosperity between nations

Institutions, Technology and Prosperity
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Disease Environments, the Mortality of Europeans, and the Creation of Institutions in the Colonial Era
Simon Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Paths towards the Periphery
James A. Robinson, University of Chicago, IL, USA

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