Achieving climate change mitigation goals will likely require increasing the shares of variable renewable energy (VRE) from around 15% today to at least 70% by mid-century. Best-in-class macro-energy systems (MES) models explore important features of potential systems but make computational trade-offs in their resolution of grid features, weather, and land ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Toward Safe Water for All: From Geochemistry to Equity in AccessonSufficient freshwater to meet the needs of humanity is increasingly lacking. A changing climate coupled with increased demand challenges our ability to provide a sufficient, safe, economically viable, and equitable water supply for domestic use, food production, and industrial processes. California is no exception and, in fact, epitomizes the stresses ...
The Internet is at an inflection point. As AI and synthetic media explode, the world's digital knowledge faces unprecedented threats. At the same time, a new generation of web technologies known as "Web3" offer new opportunities to protect the security and integrity of data. This talk will outline a new ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
SETI Live: Welcome Moiya!Dr. Moiya McTier is an astrophysicist, folklorist, and science communicator in New York City who loves planets, galaxy evolution, her cat named Cosmo, and old stories about space. She is also the latest addition to our rotating cast of hosts for SETI Live! Join communications specialist Beth Johnson for an ...
While photophoresis, or “light-driven motion,” has long explained how aerosol layers remain aloft in the middle atmosphere, practical applications have only recently been gaining attention. Advances in nanofabrication now allow us to build lightweight structures that can propel themselves upward using photophoretic forces alone. These “photophoretic flyers” can sustain flight ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Biomolecular condensates: Interactions, emergent properties and potential functionsPhase separation compartmentalizes cells via the formation of membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates. Phase separation influences many fundamental biological processes, from transcription to sorting of molecules and the stress response. Phase separation is mediated by a combination of associative and segregative phase transitions, or networking and a density transition, ...
Virtually all of the isotopes heavier than iron would not exist without neutron-induced reactions. Despite there importance in many different astrophysical scenarios, there are almost no direct measurements for isotopes with half-lives shorter than a few years. A radically new approach is necessary to overcome this constraint. Ion storage rings ...
Until about decade ago, the central focus of climate mitigation efforts was how to make progress - how we might drastically reduce fossil energy emissions. By 2018, though, it was increasingly clear that electricity from renewables would beat fossil fuels on cost, and the focus shifted from just making progress ...
From lunar samples returned by the Apollo missions in the 1960s and 1970s to measurements taken from satellites orbiting the Moon in the present day, we've learned that the Moon used to have a global magnetic field just like the Earth does today. At some point, this global field disappeared. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
