Faculty Lunch Seminar: Yasha Neiman
Date
Wednesday, October 9, 2019 - 12:00
Location
Blackboard area, Lab 2, Level B
Description
This is the second installment of the rebooted Faculty Lunch Seminar.
Bring your lunch!
Speaker: Yasha Neiman (Sergeant First Class)
Title: "Let us breed a Schrodinger's Cat"
Abstract:
I would like to share my excitement about two major conceptual revolutions in science: evolution by natural selection and quantum mechanics. Each of these revolutions provides a fascinating update to our notions concerning knowledge, information and probability. I will then spend some time geeking out about the larger-than-life persona of Erwin Schrodinger, who contributed decisively to both fields, and was easily the most interdisciplinary thinker since Leonardo da Vinci.
Finally, I'd like to air out a concept for a crazy experiment, with the aim of demonstrating that simple organisms can "learn" quantum-mechanical probabilities through natural selection.
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