Stellar streams in the deforming dark matter haloes of the Milky Way and the LMCThe ongoing merger of the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is deforming the dark matter haloes of both galaxies, effectively making these galaxies a local dark matter collider. With stellar streams being sensitive to the gravitational potential, the Orphan-Chenab (OC) stream is particularly insightful as it spans ...
Autonomous Vehicles and the City 2022What are the issues and opportunities for cities as autonomous vehicles hit the road? How can we plan for and accommodate new forms of transport and smart city infrastructure that serves the public good?Join us on November 7 as a part of the 6th international Autonomous Vehicles and the City ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $15 Members in person, $5/Free web
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is mapping the sky with a 5000-fiber robotic focal plane and 10 optical spectrographs. I will describe the challenges in construction, installation, commissioning, operations, and data reduction. The 13 million galaxies mapped in the first year already promises to improve our understanding of cosmic ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Interdisciplinary approaches to reveal parasite vulnerabilitiesWithin the liver a single Plasmodium parasite transforms into tens of thousands of blood infective forms to cause malaria. The Derbyshire lab combines chemical biology, biochemistry and genomics to uncover molecular events that drive this transient developmental stage within the liver. Through an integrative approach, we utilize small molecule probes, ...
Physics Education Research or PER (pronounced P-E-R) was one of the first education research specialties. Physicists have long led the way for high-quality STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education. Where did this history come from? And more importantly, why should we care? Spoiler alert, but the one of the ...
Michael Lenox is the Tayloe Murphy Professor in Business Administration at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. He helped found and served as the inaugural president of the multiple-university Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability. Prior to joining Darden in 2008, Professor Lenox was a professor at Duke ...
Where: Cost: Free
14 billion years on, what can we learn about original imperfection?The conventional wisdom is that if you want to learn more about the early universe, you build a bigger telescope, and that if you want to learn more about subatomic particles, you build a bigger accelerator. I will talk about a third and complementary way to get at both sorts ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
For a Good Night's SleepResearch indicates that all animals sleep. For humans, sleep is essential for physical and mental health - as necessary as food, water, and oxygen. Yet many of us get insufficient and/or low-quality sleep. UCSF's Dr. Aric Prather has just written The Sleep Prescription: Seven Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest. During this online presentation, Dr. Prather will share ...
Where: Cost: Free with discount code
Theoretically Speaking: PACE Tech: Physics and Algorithms Coupled to Enhance TechnologyThe digital revolution affects every aspect of human society and infrastructure - communications channels, medical imaging, and radar systems, to name just a few. This revolution is based on sensing the physical signals around us and representing the acquired signals as digital bits that can be processed by a computer. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Compress Deep Learning models 10,000x with Probabilistic Hash Functions - LivestreamNeural Scaling Law informally states that an increase in model size and data automatically improves AI. However, we have reached a point where the growth has reached a tipping end where the cost and energy associated with AI are becoming prohibitive.This talk will demonstrate the algorithmic progress that can exponentially ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most complex and powerful astronomical space observatory ever built. It launched on Christmas Day in 2021 and has recently been commissioned in its final orbit in the Sun - Earth system. The large 6.5-m diameter JWST primary mirror and its science instruments ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
Total Lunar EclipseJoin Chabot’s astronomers for a live watch party of one of the two great eclipses of 2022. The moon will pass the earth’s shadow. Once covered, the moon will appear red in color, often referred to as a Blood Moon. Arrive by 11:30pm to learn from our astronomers. Our expert ...
Where: OaklandCost: $15 General, $7 Youth, Free for members
