Exploring the Hidden World of Backyard Birds - LivestreamExplore the stars of Backyard Birds Revealed with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and acclaimed wildlife photographers Tim and Russell Laman. This live online event celebrates the quiet wonder of winter birdwatching - the reminder that even in the coldest months, life and color thrive just beyond your doorstep.Our five-part video series ...
Slow, spatially complex motion and transport in the body play central roles in health and disease. Yet these dynamics remain difficult to measure non-invasively because they occur in small or geometrically complex regions, or are too slow and become buried under larger physiological fluctuations. To address this, we developed a ...
Right after it cooled off in the Hadean, Earth is thought to have been mostly an ocean planet. The first substantial record of emerging land dates to the early Archean, with the recognition of sedimentary rocks laid down in subaerial environments. Deciphering that record is paramount to our understanding of ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Quantum Computing in Practice - LivestreamQuantum computing is a rapidly emerging field that uses the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems that are far beyond the reach of even the most powerful traditional supercomputers. While there is tremendous promise, quantum information is remarkably delicate, and building systems that can manipulate it poses an enormous ...
The discovery of quantum materials, from unconventional superconductors to topological and correlated systems, has traditionally relied on a slow and fragmented loop between theory, computation, and experiment. Serendipity and brute force trial-and-error have played an important role in many important discoveries. In this talk, I will describe how Periodic Labs ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Responsibly Improving AI with Privacy-Sensitive Data: Principles, Theory, and PracticeLarge language models have revolutionized the field of machine learning, but a core tenet remains: AI systems need to be built and tuned using high-quality data from the right domain. As these systems increasingly touch our daily lives, the relevant data is frequently distributed and privacy sensitive. In this Richard ...
I will present battery-free autonomous microrobots that can fly in the wind or drive independently on the ground using microwatts of harvested energy from light or radio waves. These mobile sensing platforms could have a transformative impact in applications from agricultural monitoring, hazardous infrastructure inspection, exploring extraterrestrial environments, and reconfiguring ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Old-Growth Chronicles: Saving the Salmon Forests - LivestreamLynda Mapes will give a short presentation on highlights from her latest book, The Trees Are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests, including an exploration of how abundant salmon runs once nourished old-growth forests on both coasts. She will detail other takeaways from her wide-ranging project on these remarkable ecosystems, ...
There are scientific truths, religious truths, historical truths, mythical truths, and more. In our current swamp of misinformation, disinformation, truthiness, rewritten history, conspiracy theories, “fake news,” and bald-faced lies, how do we discern actual facts and truth? What is “truth,” anyway? The Declaration of Independence claims that “We hold these ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22 General, member discounts
Come learn more about the Western Snowy Plover, a diminutive shorebird that calls the beaches of Monterey Bay home. Point Blue Conservation Science ecologist Kriss Neuman has spent decades studying this tiny, threatened shorebird and will share information on the plover’s life history and breeding ecology, discuss why California’s sandy ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost:
Unraveling individual and environmental drivers of variation among elephant seals - LivestreamEnvironmental variation across temporal and spatial scales shapes individual differences in traits and causes resource acquisition and allocation to fluctuate dramatically. Spotlighting northern elephant seals as a model system, Roxanne and research technician Conner Hale will discuss how the Beltran Lab combines mark-recapture methods and animal-borne sensors to investigate how individual ...
The most energetic phenomena in the universe tend to reveal themselves through intense, short-lived signals. These violent transient events include novae, supernovae, and mergers of both neutron stars and black holes. Their signals - their natural messages - can span the entire electromagnetic spectrum, and may include gravitational waves as ...
