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Stellar Property Statistics of Massive Halos: Common Kernel Shapes from Multiple Cosmological Hydrodynamics SimulationsIn the last decade, the astrophysical processes driving galaxy formation in a cosmological context at kpc scales have been incorporated, largely independently, into multiple codes developed by different simulation teams. Each simulation solves the complex evolution of baryon components (principally cold/warm/hot gas phases, metals, stars, and supermassive black holes) coupled ...
Proppant is small material such as 40/70 or 100 mesh sand which is placed in hydraulic fractures of geothermal or hydrocarbon reservoirs. The main role of proppant is to keep open, or prop, newly formed fractures in rock mass for enhancing hydrocarbons or geothermal fluid flow during reservoir exploitation by ...
The ability to prepare a physical system in a desired quantum state is central to many areas of physics, such as nuclear magnetic resonance, quantum simulators, and quantum computing. Yet, preparing states quickly and with high fidelity remains a formidable challenge. I will introduce reinforcement (RL) learning ideas to manipulate ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Optical detection of Mott and generalized Wigner crystal states in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlatticesMoiré superlattices can be used to engineer strongly correlated phenomena in van der Waals heterostructures, as recently demonstrated in graphene-based systems. Aligned transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) heterostructures may also support correlated electronic states, with additional opportunities arising from the strong-light matter interaction and large spin-orbital coupling. In this talk, I ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Robert Frank on the Psychology of Climate Change - 'Under the Influence'“After more than three decades, the public is finally beginning to grasp what a serious threat global warming poses. What’s missing from the climate conversation now is a plausible narrative about how we might parry this threat. Drawing on ideas from his recently published book, Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure ...
The motion of electrons in molecules and solids occurs on the subfemtosecond timescale. Consequently, the study of ultrafast electronic phenomena requires the generation of laser pulses shorter than 1 fs and of sufficient intensity to interact with their target with high probability.Since the first lasing of LCLS much progress has been made to ...
The promise of quantum computers is that certain computational tasks might be executed exponentially faster on a quantum processor than on a classical processor. A fundamental challenge is to build a high-fidelity processor capable of running quantum algorithms in an exponentially large computational space. Here we report the use of ...
It is very unlikely that climate damages can be reduced to an acceptable level by the end of the century relying only on emissions reduction. A conceptual model is presented that includes four climate change control strategies: emissions reduction, carbon dioxide (CO2) removal from the atmosphere, adaptation to climate change, ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
SLAC on Tap: A battery walks into a bar...X-ray vision might sound like the stuff of superheroes and science fiction, but at SLAC it’s what allows scientists to peer inside batteries and see what makes them tick. Join us for SLAC on Tap where PBR (Pushing the Battery Revolution) expert Johanna Nelson Weker will share how she and ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: free
Dancing with Robots: Expressivity in Natural and Artificial SystemsMovement seems to encode information. How does this work? We know that animals, including humans, use the motion of counterparts to produce coordinated, social behaviors. But how do we resolve the discrete measures of communication and information theory with the continuous laws of motion and mechanics? Answering these questions is ...
Nerd Nite East Bay: Dadbot, West Oak Archive, Synthetic BiologyFrom DAD to DADBOT: How Virtual Immortality Preserves People and PersonalityCan technology save the voices of people you love after they pass away, and create new conversations? Hear how the Dadbot was created and preserved the conversation style and stories of James Vlahos’ father, and how near future voice computing ...
