Event Categories Research Fellow Candidate Presentations

Physics for Artificial Intelligence: Locality, Correlations, Phases, and Universality

Yifan Frank Zhang, Princeton University

Date: Friday, November 13, 2026 Time: 12:00 - 12:45pm Virtual Link , opens in a new tab/window

Physics has successfully explained and predicted the behavior of complex systems. I will discuss how its tools—locality, correlations, phases, and universality—can help us understand AI, whose capabilities outpace our understanding.