At the Foothills of an AI Era in ScienceAdvances in artificial intelligence are rapidly transforming the scientific enterprise, offering powerful new methods for generating hypotheses, designing experiments, and interpreting data. I will discuss the promise of AI to accelerate scientific discovery, sharing examples that illustrate emerging patterns of innovation driven by the rapid scaling of cycles of generation ...
Rapid advances in computational modeling, such as deep neural networks, applied to brain data and imaging technologies, like functional, quantitative, and diffusion MRI, are revolutionizing our understanding of how the human brain sees.Dr. Kalanit Grill-Spector, a neuroscientist at Stanford University and expert in how the brain ‘sees’ will give a ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Vaccination and its Historical Discontents - LivestreamHesitancy and resistance to vaccination is more common than not in U.S. history. This talk will explain how and why public attitudes toward vaccination have changed over time, with an emphasis on the twentieth and twenty-first-century trends reflected in today’s vaccination debates and controversies.Speaker: Professor Elena Conis is a writer ...
The harnessing and manipulation of electronic states in quantum materials has the potential to revolutionize computation, sensing, storage, and communications, thus impacting multiple facets of our everyday lives. In this talk I will discuss my group’s recent experiments with graphene, a highly versatile carbon-based quantum material that hosts ultra-relativistic charges. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Status of Circular Electron Positron Collider in China After the discovery of Higgs, Higgs factory is now recognized by the community as the highest priority for the future of particle physics. We proposed Circular Electron-Positron Collider in 2012, which is now almost ready for construction. I will describe its design, R&D and the construction planning.Speaker: Yifang Wang, Chinese ...
Symmetries and topology are central to our understanding of physical systems. Topology, for instance, explains the precise quantization of the Hall effect and the protection of surface states in topological insulators against scattering from disorder or bumps. However discrete symmetries and topology have not, until recently, contributed much to our ...
You are interested in a career in sustainability. You want to make a difference. Save the planet. Save humankind. How do you figure out what career to pursue, in the vast world of sustainability? Would it be better to work in a climate startup or a Fortune 500 company with ...
