South Korea’s Internet Infrastructure: Risks, Idiosyncrasies, and Opportunities - LivestreamTensions between China, the United States, and their respective allies present challenges to East Asian countries, particularly in the cyber domain. One critical issue pertains to the risk to internet infrastructure, the backbone of global communication and commerce. The internet, though decentralized, relies on several key control points that could ...
In 2021, the novelist and journalist Vauhini Vara asked a predecessor of ChatGPT to write about her sister’s death, resulting in an essay that was both more moving and more disturbing than she could have imagined. It quickly went viral. The experience, revealing both the power and the danger of ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Whole Earth SeminarSpeaker: Monica Arienzo, Desert Research Institute / University of Nevada Reno
The passage of genes from parents to offspring is a fundamental rule of heredity. However, bacteria violate this rule of strict vertical inheritance by shuttling DNA between unrelated cells through horizontal gene transfer (HGT). Common vehicles for HGT are conjugative plasmids, extrachromosomal pieces of DNA encoding the machinery for their ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Addressing climate change and spatial structure in temperate nearshore ecosystemsNearshore marine ecosystems are among the most productive ecosystems on the planet, host diverse assemblages of ecologically, economically, and culturally important species, and also lie on the front lines of climate change. Yet like many ecosystems, classic models of organismal and ecological dynamics have often underpredicted effects of harvest and ...
Despite the increasing availability of climate data, there is a significant gap between the production of scientific information and its practical use within planning and decision-making. Over the past two decades, climate services - decision-support processes and tools - have been developed at this interface to transform climate data into ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Spotlight on Human and Planetary HealthClimate change is already impacting our everyday lives. Record-breaking temperatures, intense wildfires, more frequent coastal flooding, prolonged droughts, and damaging storms are just some of the growing risks we face. These massive changes impact public health and well-being in significant ways - ranging from increased respiratory and cardiovascular diseases due ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Human-Centered AI for Computational Experiences At the Intersections of AI, Games, and Human-Computer InteractionInteractive 3D environments, social simulations, and digital games now serve vital functions across entertainment, health, education, training, and global challenges like climate change. This diverse application landscape highlights the need for innovative methods to optimize and personalize these platforms while rigorously evaluating their effectiveness. These challenges have become focal points ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: Free
Psyche: Exploration of a Metal World - LivestreamIn January 2017 NASA selected Arizona State University to lead the next of its small, Discovery-class robotic planetary missions, named Psyche. Named after its intended destination, Main Belt asteroid (16) Psyche is the largest M-class (metallic) asteroid in the Solar System. It is thought to be the Fe-Ni core of ...
Join us for a discussion on the complex ecosystem of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta with senior environmental scientist, Aaron Haiman. Aaron will be sharing his experiences working in and birding this area, along with sections of his new book, Birds of the California Delta. The Delta is a fascinating example ...
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Making News with DataHow is technology reshaping the future of journalism? Save the date for an engaging conversation exploring how the news industry has adapted to past technological shifts - and how it’s evolving today.
The Sun, Moon, planets, and stars have accompanied sky watchers over millennia. The Pleiades star cluster, observable from every continent except Antarctica, is tied to Indigenous worldviews, astronomy, calendaring, traditional weaving, weather prediction, and agriculture. For the original peoples of Polynesia, Mesoamerica, and the Andes, the Pleiades cluster continues to ...
