Electrical transport and spectroscopy studies of the delafossite layered metalsThe delafossites, named after the French crystallographer Gabriel Delafosse, are triangular lattice layered materials with general formula ABO2. The family includes insulators, large gap semiconductors and a few astonishingly high conductivity metals. I will describe our group’s work on the latter, focusing on three aspects of our recent research. Firstly, ...
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have emerged as essential tools for the deployment of applied technologies such as self-driving cars, security, robotics and even consumer electronics. The fundamental physical and biological sciences, however, have not fully embraced AI/ML to leverage these tools for what they can offer in advanced data ...
When a Symmetry BreaksWhat is common among a magnet, a flounder, a rack of laundry, your heart on the left of your body, and the Higgs boson? The concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking is ubiquitous among many natural phenomena. I'll describe the basic concept and its applications. In particular, the original concepts from ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Big Screen Science: Jurassic ParkHold onto your butts, it’s the epic movie 65 million years in the making! After the film Kishore Hari (@sciencequiche) and Jeffrey Silverman (@J_M_Silverman) will discuss the science behind all those rampaging dinos, including which ones were portrayed accurately and which ones actually had feathers. They'll also talk about what ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16
My Dinner with AlbertA staged reading of a new one-act play that imagines a meeting between Albert Einstein and George W. Bush. Equal parts The Twilight Zone and Waiting for Godot, the comically tragic encounter is getting its first public reading at The Dragon Theatre in Redwood City.
