On Wednesday 1 February, Professor David Hand will be giving the 29th Schrödinger lecture in the Great Hall, entitled ‘Data, data everywhere, but let’s just stop and think’. After the lecture there will be a reception in the Queen’s Tower Rooms during which the MPE CDT students will have an opportunity to showcase their research and its impact.
The Schrödinger Lecture
The Erwin Schrödinger Lecture is an annual event named after the noted Austrian scientist. Schrödinger was a theoretical physicist and a significant contributor to the wave theory of matter, a form of quantum physics. He mathematically devised an equation of wave mechanics that bears his name. He was a co-recipient of the 1933 Nobel Prize for physics.
Today he is popularly known for the paradox of Schrödinger’s cat.
The 2016 talk was presented by Professor Sir Gordon Conway, entitled: Can we feed the world sustainably? Interact on social media using the hashtag #securefood.
Recent speakers at this lecture have included 2012 Physics Nobel Laureate Professor Serge Haroche, College de France, and Dr Elizabeth Blackburn, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Other speakers in the 27-year history of the lecture include Professor Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society and 2001 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology winner, and Professor Stephen Hawking, from the University of Cambridge.
Watch previous editions of the Schrödinger Lecture online via Imperial’s YouTube playlist (external link).
