Speaker: Joseph Jackson, Environmental Compliance Inspector, Contra Costa CountyEditor's Note: Lauren Ashlock, UC Davis, was originally scheduled to speak today
AI coding agents now complete multi-hour coding benchmarks with roughly 50% reliability, yet a randomized trial found experienced open-source developers took about 19% longer when allowed frontier AI tools than when tools were disallowed.This talk presents the evidence on the productivity paradox in AI coding, shows the bottlenecks in deployment, ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Rethinking Materials for a Resource-Constrained World: Pathways to Sustainable and Equitable InfrastructureMaterials - particularly infrastructure materials - account for a substantial share of global energy use, mineral extraction, and anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Yet they remain essential for the built environment that underpins meeting quality of life needs, and demand for them is expected to grow. Addressing their climate impacts therefore requires ...
The nature of dark matter remains an outstanding question in physics, driving searches across a vast range of scales, from microscopic interactions to the cosmos. In this talk, I will explore two exciting avenues for probing dark matter: direct interactions with materials and its influence on stellar streams. At sub-GeV ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
First Results from the JUNO Experiment Neutrinos are elusive particles with unique properties that offer key insights into the fundamental structure of matter and the cosmic sources that produce them. The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a next-generation, 20-kiloton liquid scintillator detector, the largest of its kind in the world, located in China and recently ...
Why do you immediately click with some people while others just as inexplicably turn you off? Do people emit vibes? Is it possible to read a room? Are bad habits contagious? Kate Murphy, author of the international bestseller You’re Not Listening, answers these and other fascinating questions in Why We Click, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $10 Online, discount for members
Dopamine is everywhere - on podcasts, in productivity hacks, in conversations about addiction, motivation, and “dopamine detox.” But what does neuroscience actually say?In this lecture, Lucas Encarnacion-Rivera, PhD candidate in Neuroscience at Stanford University School of Medicine, cuts through the hype to separate fact from fiction about the brain’s most ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25
Think Different: Apple, the Counterculture, and Digital Culture, 1976-2026Join us for this talk on the counterculture's significant influence on Apple's origin story as the company turns 50 on April 1st.As we approach the 50th anniversary of Apple Inc. on April 1, 2026, the counterculture's influence on the company's origins and brand continues to draw significant attention. This program ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $18 in person, $9 online
