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swissnex Fireside Chat: Imagining New Realities 001 - LivestreamWork, education, economy, social life: the corona crisis is rapidly accelerating the digitization of important areas of society, and it is deeply impacting every aspect of our lives. How will this structural transformation of society play out in the long term? In a series of fireside chats, the trending informal ...
Andy Slavitt was brought in by the Obama administration to fix Healthcare.gov after a disastrous rollout and then asked to stay on to head Medicare and Medicaid. Since leaving government, he’s been one of the fiercest critics of the current administration’s efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and combat ...
Where: Cost: Free
COVID-19: Tracking, data privacy, and getting the numbers right - LivestreamAs plans for re-opening businesses, communities, and schools emerge, mechanisms to track the SARS-COV-2 virus become increasingly critical to consider. In this conversation led by Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter, Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and Professor of Physics, Berkeley faculty will present their recent research findings and ...
July 20, 2019 was the 50th anniversary of humanity’s first steps on the surface of the Moon. Since then, the Apollo missions, a fleet of robotic probes, and observations from Earth have taught us a lot about Earth’s surprising satellite. In this non-technical mini-course, Andrew Fraknoi will look at the ...
Where: Cost: $29 register online
Not Under Lockdown: Sweden's Singular Response to COVID-19 - LivestreamEurope has been among the hardest-hit parts of the world following the outbreak of the coronavirus. While some European countries opted immediately for a lockdown policy to prevent the virus from spreading, others -- such as the Netherlands and the UK -- soon abandoned earlier plans to fight the disease ...
Where: Cost: Free
Toward the 'New Normal' - Protecting Public Health as America Reopens - LivestreamThe seventh COVID-19 Conversations webinar will explore how public health, economic, and workforce priorities can be balanced to ensure a safe reopening of the country; how models can inform reopening and what data is still needed; how a nationwide testing strategy can support reopening strategies; practical considerations for educators and ...
Despite all the media attention given to black holes, dark matter and dark energy, astronomy is actually all about the light - the decillions of photons careening around the universe.Join us virtually for a conversation with Alex Filippenko, a Berkeley astrophysicist who works on deciphering, from all that photonic information ...
Join Exploratorium Senior Scientist Jennifer Frazier in conversation with Dr. Margaret Hamburg, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. This COVID Conversation will focus on the latest developments in testing and vaccine development. Explore why testing is so important to helping us end restrictions so we can get back ...
Where: Cost: Free
Two Chemistry and Biomolecular Engineering Colquium talks - LivestreamTandem H2-Scavenging Reactions for Dehydrogenation Equilibrium ShiftingThermodynamic constraints in alkane dehydrogenation can be mitigated by the scavenging of H 2 through reactions with O 2 to form H 2 O or with CO 2 to form CH 4 and CO, an approach often limited in practice by yield losses caused ...
Rick Doblin, Ph.D., is the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He received his doctorate in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. His life’s work is to develop legal contexts for the beneficial uses of psychedelics.See weblink for streaming information.
Where: Cost: Free
Trends in AI - LivestreamIn this light talk, we will start with a brief history of AI, talk about how the goals of early AI attempts got transformed into the ones of today's efforts, how and why AI efforts fancied hardware accelerators like GPUs, high-level software frameworks and low-level libraries, current trends in both software ...
