Changes in Industrial and Power Sector Carbon Capture: Higher Incentives/Lower CostsRelatively few industrial carbon capture or power sector carbon capture projects have been done in the U.S. in recent years for pollution control purposes. That is, carbon capture is widely used in industries such as natural gas processing and urea fertilizer manufacturing, where carbon capture is required for production purposes. ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Diagnosing quantum chaos in many-body systems using entanglement as a resourceClassical chaotic systems exhibit exponentially diverging trajectories due to small differences in their initial state. The analogous diagnostic in quantum many-body systems is an exponential growth of out-of-time-ordered correlation functions (OTOCs). These quantities can be computed for various models, but their experimental study requires the ability to evolve quantum states ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
ADVENTURES IN NANOMAGNETISMThe foundations of our modern society rest on storing and moving electron charges. Imagine what more we could discover and do if we could also manipulate electron spins, or the intrinsic magnetic moment of electrons. James Lee will describe his research to date along these lines in magnetic thin films ...
CryoEM and CryoET Automation: Where are we now and what do we still need?The dramatic improvements in the progress of cryo electron microscopy (cryoEM) and cryo electron tomography (cryoET) over the last five years has been accompanied by the adoption of a high level of automation. However, there are several automation challenges that remain to be addressed in the areas of specimen preparation, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Searching for Axion Dark Matter Below 1 micro-eV: the Dark Matter RadioOne of the most enduring mysteries in particle physics is the nature of the non-baryonic dark matter that makes up 85% of the matter in the universe. The QCD axion, originally proposed as a solution to the strong CP problem in QCD, is one of the most strongly motivated candidates ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Cutting Edge of Energy Innovation: Three SnapshotsEutectic Liquids for High-Energy Density Flow BatteriesWind and solar resources are abundant, but intermittent, requiring advanced energy storage options. Flow batteries can offer scalability, long cycle-life, and power-to-energy tunability, however, they have low energy density. In order to achieve high-energy density flow batteries, we employ eutectic mixing properties for the ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Half-Earth: How to Save the Natural WorldFeaturing the Horace M. Albright Lecture in Conservation and the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation Distinguished Lectureship in Biodiversity, with biologist and naturalist Edward O. Wilson, award-winning actress and environmental advocate Glenn Close, and other special guests.
The near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are a population of objects on orbit around the Sun that cross or come near the orbit of Earth; remnants of material from the early solar system that never accreted into planets. NEAs are accessible targets for space missions, but also pose a hazard due to potential ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
