You are invited to our next Physics and Astronomy Colloquium taking place on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, from 12:10 - 1 PM in CNS 206/208.
Physics and Astronomy Seminar - The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021
By Eric Leibensperger, February 10, 2022
Taming Chaos to Understand Climate Change and Complex Physical Systems
A Summary of the Research Leading to the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics - Eric Leibensperger (Assistant Professor of Physics)
The 2021 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi for their research on complex physical systems ranging from atomic to planetary in scale. Manabe and Hasselmann were awarded one-half of the prize "for the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming", while Parisi was awarded one-half of the prize "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales." In this presentation, I will summarize their research with special focus on the contributions of Manabe and Hasselmann.