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SPHEREx: An All-Sky Spectral SurveyI will present SPHEREx, a NASA mission to map the entire sky with near-infrared spectroscopy. With a targeted launch date in early 2025, SPHEREx has broad scientific reach including 1) cosmic inflation through the three-dimensional distribution of galaxies, 2) the formation of galaxies and the history of light production through ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Emergent symmetry - a new way to understand strongly interacting gapless states and quantum field theoryIt is well known that gapless states have emergent symmetry. If we greatly generalize symmetry to include anomalous non-invertible ones, and beyond, the generalized emergent symmetry may largely characterize gapless states. We may understand a gapless state via its emergent symmetry. Here, I will use a simple language of conservation ...
Coarse-grained models enable large-scale simulations of complex biomolecular systems over long timescales. We have introduced bottom-up approaches based on contrastive learning to parameterize these models using atomistic simulations, and top-down approaches based on maximum entropy optimization to parameterize them from experimental data. We performed coarse-grained simulations to study the liquid-liquid ...
In this talk, I pose a major challenge for AI researchers: to develop systems that learn in a human-like manner. I illustrate this idea with two domains -- mathematics and driving -- where people are effective learners. I review briefly the history of machine learning, noting that early work made ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Role of National Marine Sanctuaries in Protecting Whales and Benefits from that ProtectionDr. Lisa Wooninck became Superintendent of Monterey Bay National Marine in November 2021. Prior to that she was policy coordinator for the five sanctuaries on the west coast and a fishery biologist at the NOAA Fisheries Lab in Santa Cruz.Her talk will describe 30 years of whale conservation across the ...