The content shared on social media is the largest data set on human thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in history. We use Natural Language Processing and machine learning to leverage this data for social good and psychological science. I will demonstrate how Facebook data can be used to predict depression of ...
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Women in Astronomy - LivestreamIn the field of astronomy research, women have made some of the greatest contributions, even when access to the discipline was restricted. For example, a century ago women were enlisted to organize the data collected by new telescopes. It was these women, who were often condemned to only the most ...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Dark Matter - LivestreamThe nature of dark matter remains one of the biggest mysteries in our current understanding of the universe. As ongoing experiments continue to rule out large regions of phase space for higher-mass dark matter (e.g. WIMPs), new ideas for the direct detection of low mass (sub-GeV) are needed. In this ...
Strong winds in Southern Ocean storms drive air-sea carbon and heat fluxes and these fluxes are integral to the global climate system. Evidence from a range of sources indicates that the wind speeds that drive these fluxes are increasing. We present results from an experiment using the Biogeochemical Southern Ocean ...
Examining Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry with DUNE - LivestreamFollowing the Big Bang, the universe was created in equal parts matter and antimatter. Yet, we live in a matter dominated universe today. Leptonic charge conjugation - parity (CP) violation provides a possible rationale to explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry we observe. Accelerator-based long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments are uniquely well-suited to ...
The most common stars in the Universe are red dwarfs. These are small, faint, cool stars that range from one-tenth to one-half the diameter of the Sun and which have extraordinarily-long lifetimes. Recent surveys have discovered Earth-size planets around several red dwarf stars, including Proxima Centauri (the nearest star to ...
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