'Can machines discover scientific laws automatically?' with Hod Lipson, Feb. 14

Thursday, Feb. 14, 7 p.m.
Rasmuson Hall, Room 101

The UAA Complex Systems Group, in collaboration with the College of Arts & Sciences and the UAA Honors College, is pleased to present the following public lecture:

"Accelerating Discovery: Distilling Natural Laws from Experimental Data, from Physics to Biology; Can machines discover scientific laws automatically?" with Hod Lipson, Ph.D.

This talk will outline recent research projects, starting with self-reflecting robotic systems and ending with machines that can formulate hypotheses, design experiments and interpret the results to discover new scientific laws. We will see examples from psychology to cosmology, from classical physics to modern physics, from big science to small science.

Lipson is the director of Cornell University's Creative Machines Lab at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His work focuses on evolutionary robotics and creating machines that can demonstrate some aspects of human creativity.

For more information, call (907) 786-4748 or visit the Complex Systems Group website.