Building Intelligence Around Limited Human Attention: Our Research Trajectory Toward Attention-Aware Agentic SystemHuman attention has become an increasingly scarce resource in everyday digital life. People are constantly exposed to notifications, messages, news updates, social media content, and AI-generated information, all competing for limited attentional capacity. In this talk, I will share our research trajectory around human attention, highlighting how attention has served ...
Dr. Kornberg’s research has addressed four major biological issues. His discovery and characterization of E. coli DNA polymerase III established the enzymatic mechanism of DNA polymerization in chromosomal replication. His lab’s cloning and genetic characterization of the Drosophila engrailed, cubitus interruptus and hedgehog genes established the molecular genetic basis of ...
Nanoscale materials exhibit fascinating light-matter interactions: in twisted multilayers, bound electron-hole pairs called excitons are trapped by the moiré superlattice potential and in metallic nanoparticles collective charge density oscillations called localized surface plasmons give rise to enormous light absorption cross-sections which can be harnessed in optoelectronic devices. In my talk, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
From the early days of SLAC to the near future- A very personal viewI will describe my early experiences at SLAC, beginning in the late 60’s with the electron-proton scattering program which discovered point-like structure in the nucleon. I will then move to the beginnings of SPEAR and the November Revolution and a few of the almost concurrent discoveries. I will then shift ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
The private life of lipids: small chemical changes that shape cell membranesOur lab investigates how - and why - cells control the composition of their lipid membranes. In this talk, I will focus on our efforts to uncover how lipid composition is controlled in intracellular membranes and describe emerging biophysical models to explain its chemical diversity in cells. I will first ...
In recent years, people across California and throughout the United States have witnessed the Northern Lights. This presentation will explore where, when, and why the different types of Northern Lights and their southern counterpart, the Southern Lights - collectively known as the aurora - appear and how they vary. The ...
Nature has provided many hints that our best current theoretical models of the universe are missing important constituents. These undiscovered constituents could include exotic ultralight bosons such as axions. Many well-motivated theories predict that such fields interact with the intrinsic spins of ordinary particles, producing extremely feeble torques that might ...
The United States needs to build generation, storage, and transmission infrastructure to meet growing electricity demand. However, there is a lack of decision tools and frameworks to inform investment decisions for energy technologies amid policy, technological, and other contextual uncertainties. Prof. Azevedo will present results from several ongoing analyses that ...
The cells of our body follow a strict rulebook: they copy their DNA and divide in a highly controlled manner. However, both the placenta and cancer cells defy this rulebook. To build the placenta, early stem cells break this rule through a unique process called endoreplication. Instead of dividing, they ...
