Enhanced Geothermal Systems: Are We There Yet? - LivestreamProf Roland N. Horne, Director of the Stanford Geothermal Program at Stanford University, takes stock of where enhanced geothermal stands. Geothermal power used to mean volcanic regions. Enhanced geothermal systems aim to make it work in far more places, by engineering the reservoir rather than finding one. He asks how ...
Polymeric materials are essential for modern life, but current production and disposal methods pose significant environmental harm. Most commodity polymers are constructed from a small set of petrochemical precursors that are non-renewable, are carbon-intensive to produce, yield materials that are challenging to recycle, and offer limited chemical diversity. My work ...
Understanding past landslides is essential for anticipating future hazards, mitigating losses, and saving lives. In response to the 2021National Landslides Preparedness Act, the USGS Landslide Hazards Program published a national strategy for landslide risk reduction. It addresses the Law’s mandate to build capacity for landslide disaster responses and develop national ...
n December 2025, the Australian Government implemented novel legislation aimed at restricting under 16-year-olds from accessing social media. This presentation will 1) review the prevalence of poor mental health in Australian adolescents; 2) present longitudinal data on the causal links between frequent social media use and poor mental health; and ...
Understanding past landslides is essential for anticipating future hazards, mitigating losses, and saving lives. In response to the 2021National Landslides Preparedness Act, the USGS Landslide Hazards Program published a national strategy for landslide risk reduction. It addresses the Law’s mandate to build capacity for landslide disaster responses and develop national ...
Hydrodynamics provides a remarkably universal description of matter in terms of a few continuous?fields. But how does this continuum description emerge from the dynamics of discrete quantum particles? I will address this question in open quantum systems of bosons with a conserved particle-number symmetry. In mixed states this symmetry can ...
Since the mid-1990s the iterative, tensor-based quasi-adiabatic propagator path integral (QuAPI) methodology has enabled numerically exact, fully quantum mechanical simulations of system-bath dynamics. Recent work showed that one can further disentangle the path integral variables through the rigorous small matrix decomposition (SMatPI), which leads to iterative propagation with matrices of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
'Cosmic Coda: Detecting Ripples in Spacetime from Merging Black Holes and Neutron Stars'Screening of the film which features historical footage of 2017 Nobel prize winner Rainer Weiss and modern footage of LIGO, followed by Q & A with filmmaker M.J. Doherty and Sonoma State University professor Lynn Cominsky (emeritus). Rainer Weiss did some of the earliest work on experimental designs for LIGO. ...
Two black holes collide over a billion light-years away, creating waves in the fabric of spacetime. But by the time those waves reach us, their effect is so small that they would change the light-years of distance by less than the width of a human hair. When Einstein predicted gravitational ...
We are thrilled to put a spotlight on kelp forests with author and award winning journalist, David Helvarg as he discusses his newest book, ‘Forest of the Sea - the Remarkable Life and Imperiled Future of Kelp’. Kelp forests need our attention - they inhabit up to one third of ...
For some people, compassion means sitting with another person's pain, listening, and emotionally connecting with their distress. For others, it means helping someone feel better by offering hope or a silver lining. And for some, it means doing both. But what if our understanding of compassion depends on culture?In this ...
Where: San JoseCost: $27
Wonderfest: Popular Myths of AstronomyMuch of what we think we know about outer space comes from film and television, but Hollywood’s job is more often to entertain than to educate. In this fun and informative presentation, Prof. Thomas Targett will sort fact from fiction, taking a tour through the worlds of Star Trek, Star ...
