The United States faces the need to build generation, storage, and transmission infrastructure while meeting a growing electricity demand. I will present results from several ongoing analyses that quantify the costs, benefits, and technology investments needed across the country for a variety of policy and technology scenarios. We use a ...
A mechanistic account of how our environments shape how we learn is critical for understanding individual differences in behavior. In this talk, I will propose that specific statistics of experienced environments shape reward learning across multiple nested timescales via a meta-learning process, focusing on the example of environmental controllability. The ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship and the Evolving U.S. Nuclear Deterrent - LivestreamThe United States has not conducted an explosive nuclear test since 1992, yet confidence in its nuclear deterrent has been maintained through the science-based Stockpile Stewardship Program. Over the past three decades, this effort has driven major advances in high energy density science, materials science, experiments, simulation, and high-performance computing, ...
Dr. Ryan Chin will share the vision for the Sustainable Mobility Center (SMC). Dr. Chin will discuss how grand challenges are powerful instruments for making non-incremental impact on sustainable mobility at a global level. He will also share his previous work on electric, shared, and autonomous mobility systems in both ...
As humans return to the Moon through NASA’s Artemis program, it’s worth asking: What are the most daunting points of a journey to the Moon and back? In its early days, the U.S. space program had little experience with rockets, reentry, or even the lunar surface itself. The same engineering ...
