Speaker: Bill Keener, The Marine Mammal CenterEditor's Note: This event was originally scheduled for April 21, 2025.
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Probing Young Planet Populations with 3D Self-Consnstent Disk ThermodynamicsProtoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets. Over the past decade, there have been significant advancements in disk observations thanks to the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and extreme adaptive optics (ExAOs). Hundreds of disks have been observed at higher angular resolutions, revealing rich substructures (e.g., gaps/rings) at various layers, ...
Subsurface geological formations are critical to the energy transition, offering both carbon storage and the potential for terra-watt-scale energy storage. While numerical modeling has traditionally been the foundation of subsurface management, machine learning (ML) presents a compelling alternative for modeling complex subsurface flow dynamics with unprecedented speed and accuracy. This ...
By tuning interatomic interactions, pressure drives materials toward structural and electronic instabilities - regimes where novel phases such as superconductivity, charge ordering, and magnetism can emerge, compete, or coexist. These transitional regions often lie near quantum critical points, where fluctuations persist down to zero temperature and give rise to rich, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
XLZD and the Search for WIMP Dark MatterThe nature of dark matter is one of the most profound unanswered questions in physics. One of the best motivated explanations is that it is composed of particles with mass and couplings tied to the electroweak scale of particle physics, as these are naturally produced as dark matter during thermal ...
Testing Gravity at ever shorter scale: a trip into exotic experimental physicsSince the times of Henry Cavendish and John Mitchell, the strength of gravity has been measured by comparing it to the reaction of a calibrated mechanical spring. While in the last 60 years planetary measurements (with natural and artificial bodies) have provided remarkable accuracy at large distances, measurements in the ...
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is building the largest 3D map of our universe to measure its expansion history over the past 11 billion years, and thereby, study the biggest mystery in cosmology: dark energy. The DESI first-year BAO results find tantalizing hints of time-varying dark energy. Combining BAO ...
The challenges of the water subsector and how the private and public sectors can collaborate to create a better future for all stakeholdersSpeaker: Michael Albrecht, Ridgewood Infrastructure
Are we alone? Or is there other life out there in the universe beyond Earth? If there is other life, is it complex life, capable of using language and creating technology like us? Dr. Sofia Sheikh seeks to answer this question by using facilities like the Allen Telescope Array to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
