Lithium (Li) has long been known to be the best anode material for rechargeable batteries, however, lithium metal batteries (LMB) have never been successfully used in rechargeable applications due to dendrite formation, resulting in thermal runaway and fire or explosion. During charging, Li ions nonuniformly deposit onto the Li anode ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Bill Nye: Science GuySifting through the Trump administration’s misleading statements on climate change can be a daunting task. That’s where scientist Bill Nye comes in. The Science Guy is on a quest to set the record straight when it comes to anti-scientific thinking and climate denial.A new documentary, Bill Nye: Science Guy, chronicles the ...
Modern cosmological data enables extensive tests of the degrees of freedom and interactions operating nearly 14 billion years ago. We will show how a basic feature of quantum field theory -- enhancement of multipoint correlations -- enables a substantial improvement on our ability to constrain this early universe dynamics.  The ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCEFrances Hellman will describe the developement of a series of experiments based on MEMS "lab-on-a-chip" devices utilizing a silicon nitride membrane as a thermal isolation platform which allows us to study orders of magnitude smaller sample sizes than other available thermodynamic measurements such as thin films (as thin as 20nm), ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Risk aware multi-objective planning for mobile roboticsRobotics is experiencing a period of explosive growth in academia and industry. As robots are assigned more and more complex tasks to be performed in a variety of situations, it becomes essential being able to pursue multiple objectives at once while coping with uncertainty and possible failures. In this talk I ...
Tech startups and the gasfields seem worlds apart.  Today’s top oil and gas industry executives are seeking innovative solutions from the world’s brightest minds in technology, but they don’t always speak the same language. Tech companies need to sell into a well-established, risk averse industry. On the flip side, natural ...
