Faculty from across the University of Delaware will discuss the research and careers of the 2024 Nobel Prize winners at this year’s Nobel Symposium at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 13, in the Harker ISE Laboratory Atrium.

Hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences, this annual talk gives the UD community an opportunity to learn more about the prizes and winners from faculty who conduct research in similar fields.

Speakers include:

• Manaswini Rao, assistant professor in the Department of Economics, will discuss Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson, winners of the Nobel Prize in economics, for their studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.
• Kathleen F. McCoy, professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, will speak about John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries and inventions that paved the way for machine learning with artificial neural networks.
• Sunmin Yoon, assistant professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and in the School of Music, will speak on the work of South Korean author Han Kang, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.
• Cecilia Arighi, instructor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, will discuss the work of David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Baker was recognized for work in creating new protein structures. Hassabis and Jumper were cited for their work using artificial intelligence to predict the structure of almost all known proteins.
• Jia Song, professor and associate chair in the Department of Biological Sciences, will discuss Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recipients Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun and their discovery of micro-RNA, a new class of RNA molecules that play a vital role in governing how gene activity is regulated.
• Darryl Flaherty, associate professor in the Department of History, will speak about the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, winner of the Nobel Peace prize. The group fights for a world free of nuclear weapons.