Members of the Brock community are invited to a lunchtime event discussing recent Nobel Prizes in chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine.

Organized by the Faculty of Mathematics and Science, the Nobel Prize 2024 — Learn at Lunch will feature three 15-minute talks from Brock researchers who will break down the complex scientific concepts behind the groundbreaking research and highlight potential applications that could revolutionize the future.

• Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Aleksandar (Sasha) Necakov will speak about the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
• Associate Professor of Computer Science and Biological Sciences Yifeng Li will speak about the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded jointly to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.
• Professor of Chemistry Travis Dudding will speak about the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which was divided with one half awarded to David Baker for computational protein design and the other half jointly awarded to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for protein structure prediction.

The Nobel Prize Learn at Lunch event will take place Tuesday, Oct. 29 from 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. at the Brock-Niagara Validation, Prototyping and Manufacturing Institute in Inniskillin Hall room 222 (IH 222).

All Brock faculty, students and staff are invited to attend. A background in science is not required. Attendees are welcome to bring their lunch and enjoy it while they listen to the presentations.

Please register via ExperienceBU. Seats are limited. Questions can be directed to fmsevents@brocku.ca