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Cosmic Shear in the Year-3 DES data: 2-point and 3-point correlationsThe cosmology analyzes of the Year-3 (Y3) data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) is at full speed ahead. Our preliminary weak lensing sample contains 120 million objects over 4200 square degrees of sky and is the largest shape catalog to date. This statistical power comes at a price: the ...
A new trust framework is emerging - fueled by social, economic and technological forces that will profoundly alter how we trust, not only what we see and read online, but also one another. At the same time, technology is influencing how we behave and relate to one another, with important ...
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting area has been investigated for decades as a means to convert sunlight to fuels. To date, PEC still faces many challenges, ranging from low efficiency, poor stability and noncompetitive cost. I will present two examples of our recent efforts in overcoming some of the challenges facing ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
An Atomic-Scale Look at Point Defects in 2D SemiconductorsPoint defects in semiconductors are of great technological significance in semiconductor industry and have been proposed more recently as a room temperature qubit platform. In two-dimensional semiconductors such as transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers, defects have an even larger impact on material properties, but offer exciting possibilities as atomic quantum ...
The first major experiments at SLAC were the electron proton scattering studies at End Station A in the late 60’s. The deep inelastic scattering yielded a complete surprise - the electrons were scattering off charged points in the proton. Follow up experiments showed the analogous behaviour for the neutron and ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost:
Switches, sensors, and new shapes: from design of new functions to cellular consequences of allosteryI plan to discuss our most recent work in computational protein design (we have designed new, modular small-molecule sensors that function in living cells, and new protein shapes with atom-level control). I will then focus on a more biological problem: How do protein switches control diverse protein functions in the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
THE SEARCH FOR RARE EARTHQUAKE-LIKE PRECURSORS: MAXENT MOUN-SPIN RESONANCE MgO STUDYAccording to Prof. Dr Freund (NASA Ames) currents of positive holes in the earth's crust are precursors of earthquakes; Menlo Park seismologists are not so sure. MaxEnt Muon-Spin research yields indirect evidence, these itinerant positives holes are indeed present in MgO; earthquake warnings of weeks (not seconds) ahead are well ...
Road transportation, which accounts for 22 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, is undergoing a major transformation with the advent of ridesharing, autonomous driving, and vehicle electrification. Collectively these technologies, in conjunction with renewable sources of electricity, have the potential to dramatically reduce the negative impact of road transportation on the ...