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Black holes in the Universe: where, what, and why? - LivestreamIn 2015, a merging pair of black holes was directly detected for the first time. Since then, the number of detections has grown substantially. This talk will describe the new catalogue of black holes and highlight some surprising features that pose new challenges for our understanding of these elusive objects.Register ...
Where: Cost: Free
Optimal Transport and the Geometry of Collider Data - LivestreamCollider experiments probe physics at the shortest distances by smashing protons together and measuring the debris produced by the collisions. However, it is challenging to infer the detailed short-distance physics from the distribution of debris measured by the detector. Over the past two years, the mathematical field of optimal transport ...
You wore a mask. You sheltered in place and avoided travel. You got the vaccine. You thought we would soon be on the other side of the pandemic. Then the Delta variant came and caused a surge over the summer.Now, although the number of new cases and hospitalizations have been ...
Speaker: Sambeeta Das, University of DelawareSee weblink for Zoom information
Where: Cost: Free
Deciphering the prion codePrions are proteinaceous infectious particles that allow the propagation and inheritance of structural information by proteins. Prions populate the tree of life, propagating as fibrils both in laboratory strains and in the wild. Disease-causing prions are responsible for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, a wide range of neurodegenerative disorders affecting a variety ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now Beyond his position as chairman of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr rose to global prominence in the business world with his development of OKRs (objectives and key results), which he popularized in his best-selling book Measure What Matters. Could the same set of management tools be applied ...
Where: Cost: $10 General, Free for Members.
The Future of Filmmaking: AI for Volumetric Capture and Reconstruction - LivestreamOne picture is worth a thousand words, so what have been told with videos? What about 100 simultaneous videos to reconstruct every frame of life in a[masked] sq. ft dome? Is it enough to reconstruct and digitize us realistically? Similar to other industries, the entertainment industry is also being reshaped ...
Where: Cost: Free
Astronomy on Tap: Los Angeles - JWST Edition - LivestreamJoin us for a special Astronomy on Tap celebrating the imminent launch of the James Webb Space Telescope streamed over YouTube Live. We’ll hear from Dr. Christina Williams: “The Search for the First Galaxies with JWST” and from Dr. Justin Spilker: “Magnifying the Earliest Galaxies”. In addition, we will host ...