The second full day of the 13th Heidelberg Laureate Forum has ended and we have collected some memorable moments and impressions in another “Snapshots” clip on our YouTube channel!

The morning began with in-depth Master Classes by attending laureates, as well as a livestreamed lecture by Pierre Deligne in honor of Jean-Pierre Serre’s 100th birthday celebrations. 

Afterwards, attendees assembled in the New Auditorium for the highly anticipated panel discussion on "AI in Mathematical Research." Panelists discussed opportunities, concerns, and predictions resulting from AI's newly forming role in conducting mathematical research. Fields Medalist Peter Scholze noted: "I think the bottom line is that AI wants to accelerate everything, and I don't see any inherent value in acceleration at all. And I also believe that even without AI, we're making a lot of progress in mathematics to the point where I think to acquire a genuine understanding of all the progress [we have made] is already a bottleneck."

The afternoon saw a joint lecture by Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, who together this year received the ACM A.M. Turing Award for their work in quantum information science, on the "Quantum Information Revolution." Brassard pointed out what many overlook when it comes to the arrival of quantum computing breaking conventional public-key cryptography: "Some of you may think that if quantum computers appear today, my data is gone tomorrow. That's a big mistake. What we should think is that if a quantum computer arrives tomorrow, then my data is gone today." That is to say, bad actors could harvest data at any time in order to decrypt it at a later date.

Later, while some small groups assembled for informal discussions with laureates, other attendees took in noted mathematician Jean-Pierre Serre's livestreamed talk from his aforementioned 100th birthday celebration in Paris.

Finally, 30 young researchers presented their research to fellow attendees via posters. 

To round out the day, the evening saw attendees gather for “Beats and Bites,” where they carried on the discussions of the day amid a reception and raucous karaoke singing, and together created mathematical graffiti artworks.

As always, select photos from this day can be found on our Flickr page.

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