Can We Build a Brain?From the Nova Wonders website: "Artificially intelligent machines are taking over. They’re influencing our everyday lives in profound and often invisible ways. They can read handwriting, interpret emotions, play games, and even act as personal assistants. They are in our phones, our cars, our doctors’ offices, our banks, our web ...
Many jurisdictions in the United States - Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Washington, Nevada, Puerto Rico, and New York - have recently passed legislation setting ambitious midcentury targets of significant economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions reductions and 100% carbon-free electricity. However, few studies have considered the natural and agricultural land constraints and ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Static and Dynamic Control of Topological MatterUnderstanding materials based on their underlying topological order has caused a paradigm shift in condensed matter physics in how we classify and describe emergent phenomena in systems. Controlling and engineering these exotic orders is key for next-generation electronics and topological quantum computers. In this talk, I will discuss how the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
DUNE: How I learned to stop worrying and love the neutrinoSince the discovery of neutrino oscillations more than twenty years ago, we have made steady progress on understanding neutrino properties with ever more challenging experiments. Today, we know that the fundamental parameters that govern this process take on some peculiar values and that they set the stage for CP violation, ...
FROM ASTROPHYSICS TO ANGEL INVESTOR - HOW SCIENCE HELPED ME SUCCEEDEntrepreneur and lapsed astronomer Lance Cottrell will discuss how a background in physics has informed and supported his circuitous path from privacy advocate to intelligence community vendor to startup mentor.
New States in Complex SystemsComplex systems are often described by simple equations that nevertheless can lead to a rich variety of disparate solutions. Discovering and understanding the full spectrum of solutions that correspond to stable states is at the forefront of current research on the network modeling of complex systems. Recent work by our ...
Come and learn how to make colorful and unique living art. Design your own art piece using our colorful bacteria.Counter Culture Labs has been partnering with the American Society for Microbiology for their yearly Agar Art Contest (http://www.asm.org/agarart) - last year we even won in the Maker division!In this hands-on ...
Join Nerd Nite East Bay to learn how human systems borrow from nature, how and why the Transcontinental Railroad arrived in the East Bay, and the bonkers biology of our favorite Kaiju.Ecomimicry: How Human Systems Benefit By Copying NatureHuman activities have greatly modified natural ecosystems, sometimes to our own detriment. ...
