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Cool Clean TechDecoupling economic growth from carbon emissions will require new technologies to get the job done. Some of that innovation will come from established corporations, but much of it will come from creative entrepreneurs building new products and fresh ways to power our economy. Some of those inventions are cool. Others ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Salt formations are ideal regions for geologic storage. Their extremely low permeability, ease of mining, and propensity for creep means that they can be relatively quickly developed, used for storage of all types of media (solid, liquid, and gas) and are generally self-sealing to imposed damage in relatively short geologic ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
What Is Quantum Cognition?In this talk I will provide a review of Quantum Cognition which is an approach to construct cognitive models based on the mathematics of quantum probability theory rather than classical probability theory based on Boolean algebra.Despite the success of traditional cognitive models based on the laws of classical probability theory, ...
Reliable qubits are difficult to engineer. What can we do with just a few of them? Here are some ideas:1. Dimension test. An n-qubit system should have 2^n dimensions, but systems with just polynomial(n) dimensions can look like they have n qubits. Is nature really exponential? We give a test ...
This is a strange moment in the history of our planet - its intelligent life has rapidly altered its climate in a way that threatens their welfare, and the state of the earth system that supports them. We will discuss the risk of heat to the health of the habitable ...
Electrochemistry is used widely today, spanning from production of hydrogen and metals such as aluminum and Li-ion batteries. We will discuss current and future opportunities in using electrochemistry to power cars and buildings, and to make chemicals and fuels with energy from the Sun. Research towards establishing design principles in ...
On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, focusing its instruments on the long mysterious icy worlds of the Pluto system, and then, just as quickly, continued ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members and Seniors
For thousands of years people have wondered, “Are there planets like Earth?” “Are such planets common?” “Do any have signs of life?” Today astronomers are poised to answer these ancient questions, having recently found thousands of planets that orbit nearby Sun-like stars, called “exoplanets”. Professor Sara Seager will share the ...