Two KIPAC Tea TalksDirect Detection of Black Hole-Driven Turbulence in the Centers of Galaxy Clusters Speaker: Yuan Li, UC BerkeleyThe Extremes of the Blazar SequenceBlazars are among the most luminous, persistent, sources in our Universe. With powerful relativistic jets closely pointed to our line of sight, they are detected at high redshifts (up ...
San Francisco’s Energy DestinyFrom a changing climate to the PG&E bankruptcy, San Francisco is facing a new energy landscape and the city’s elected leaders are considering a shift to public power to stabilize costs, ensure reliability, increase local oversight and expand the city’s use of renewable energy. But can this approach work? What ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for members
Measuring the Hubble constant from time-delays of strongly lensed quasars The recent tension between early- and late-Universe measurements of the Hubble constant highlights the necessity for independent and precise probes such as the time-delay cosmography. The measured time-delays between the lensed images of a background quasar depend on the absolute physical scales in the lens configuration. Thus, the time-delays allow ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Black Holes in Physics and AstrophysicsProfessors Roger Blandford and Eva Silverstein of the Stanford University Physics Department will each give an Applied Physics/Physics colloquium
Growing interest in offshore geologic carbon sequestration (GCS) motivates evaluation of the consequences of subsea CO2 well blowouts. We have simulated a hypothetical major CO2 well blowout in shallow water of the Texas Gulf Coast. We use a coupled reservoir-well model (T2Well) to simulate the subsea blowout flow rate for ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Sun Country: How to make solar power really shineRaffi Garabedian - the Chief Technology Officer at First Solar, one of the largest solar power companies in the country - will discuss how solar can help the United States lead the global clean-energy transformation.
Where: StanfordCost: Free
E360: California's Energy TransitionThis quarter Stanford Energy Club is continuing E360, our quarterly panel discussion series featuring energy experts in academia, industry, policy, and finance to talk about solutions to the energy challenge. This quarter’s E360 topic is California's Energy Transition: Energy Policy's Role in Achieving 100% Decarbonization, a discussion on current developments ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
A Debate on Breaking Up Big TechResolved: The U.S. Federal Government should invoke antitrust legislation to break up big technology corporations such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook.Over the last two decades, the valuation and market share of America's largest technology companies has increased massively. Now, some of these companies are under investigation for abusing their customers' ...
Gene therapy is currently undergoing clinical trials to evaluate its effectiveness at treating sickle cell disease. In this talk, Dr. Suchi Pandey will review how gene therapy is currently being used to treat sickle cell disease, the different kinds of gene therapy options being evaluated, and the potential impact to ...
7:00-7:25: Danielle Wright(North American Sustainable Refrigeration Council) on "Natural Refrigerants: The #1 Climate Solution Hiding in Your Supermarket"Most of us have little idea of the environmental impact of keeping our food cold...Read more7:25-7:50: Charles Lindsay(SETI AIR) on "Inter-species Communication" or "Art for a Post-Earth Humanity"Abstract forthcoming...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. ...
