Reminder! Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: How Looking at Genetics and Networks Led to Solving a Quantum Gravity Problem

We're now on Instagram! Follow us @NIMHgov NEWS AND EVENTS Director's Innovation Speaker Series: How Looking at Genetics and Networks Led to Solving a Quantum Gravity Problem Date/Time: April 26, 2022, 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET Location: Virtual  In the middle of the 1990s, a physicist named Edward Witten proposed the existence of 'M-Theory' as a candidate for a theory of Quantum Gravity. A simplified version of this problem contains over 4.2 billion unknowns. For over 30 years, no solution was found. In 2020, a solution was found by using techniques inspired by networks in the context of genetics. Sylvester James Gates, Jr., Ph.D.'s lecture presents the trajectory of this story. Dr. Gates is a theoretical physicist known for his work on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory.  NIMH established the Director's Innovation Speaker Series to encourage broad, interdisciplinary thinking in the development of scientific initiatives and programs, and to press for theoretical leaps in science over the continuation of incremental thought. Watch the last lecture with Foluso Agboola, MBBS, MPH: Beyond FDA Approval: Assessing the Value of New Health Technologies. Register for This Lecture

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