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Athermal Phonon Sensor R&D for Low-Mass Dark Matter Detectors - LivestreamIn the direct detection of dark matter with masses down to O(keV), the energies im- parted in the detector become vanishingly small. Many novel ideas have been proposed for instrumenting athermal phonon sensors on Fermi-degenerate materials [1], polar crys- tals [2-4], and CVD diamond [5], requiring detector energy thresholds of ...
Where: Cost: Free
Florilegia: From Historic Voyages to the Present-day Revival - LivestreamA florilegium is a collection of botanical illustrations depicting the plants of a notable location. This online lecture by botanical artist Catherine Watters will take you on a journey from 16th century voyages of exploration to gather and document plants from far corners of the world, to contemporary collections illustrating ...
Where: Cost: $10 General, $5 for Members
How do we know anything at all about space? - LivestreamNo one has ever travelled beyond our cosmic back yard, so all we really have to go off is the tiny drizzles of light that hit our telescope.The Andromeda Galaxy weighs 800 billion times the mass of the sun. The Galaxy M51 is 26 million light years from earth. The ...
One surprising barrier to improving our habits is the English language. Our vocabulary for behavior change is impoverished. And frankly, I don’t know why. On one hand, we have common words (like reward and habit) that are ambiguous. On the other hand, we lack English words for important behavior-related concepts ...
Where: Cost: Free
Continuous Single-Shot Detection of Quasiparticle TrappingSuperconducting quantum circuits are plagued by nonequilibrium populations of quasiparticle excitations. These quasiparticles can cause relaxation and spurious excitation of qubit states, producing errors in a quantum algorithm, and can cause correlated errors that are particularly difficult to address with error correction. To mitigate the effects of these quasiparticles, we ...
How does diversity intertwine along a pathway as a researcher, teacher, public intellectual, presidential advisor, husband, and father (along with 11D supergravity)?This will be recounted by our speaker, Jim Gates, Brown University
Where: Cost: Free
Fertile grounds for agricultural resilience: Harnessing multiple interactions in agroecosystemsDr. Aidee Guzman is interested in agroecological approaches that could harness biodiversity and ecosystem functioning for improved agricultural resilience. She is currently an NSF and UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Irvine. Previously, she completed her PhD in the Department of Environmental ...
Vivas Kumar is CEO and founder of Mitra Chem, which is the first lithium-ion battery materials manufacturer focused on shortening the lab-to-production timeline by over 90%, addressing the largest barrier to innovation: R&D and scale-up speed. Vivas received his MBA for Stanford University.Livestream here.
Where: Cost: Free
Breaking the Standard Model (of Embryonic Development) - LivestreamOver the last few decades, we have witnessed a revolution in the study of living matter. However, we have yet to reach a predictive understanding of such matter that is on par with the successes seen in physics for inanimate matter. In this talk, I will show how we take ...
Long Now continues our dialog with the acclaimed writer Kim Stanley Robinson around COP26 and his most recent book The Ministry for the Future. Tickets for the in-person talk in San Francisco & RSVP for the livestream will be released to Long Now Members first, about one month before the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: TBA General, Free for members and online