In the last year, AI models have rapidly improved on public benchmarks measuring their ability to carry out research tasks autonomously. Such performance suggests that models may be capable of automating parts of the AI R&D process itself, thereby accelerating the pace of AI progress. However, there is still little ...
I am broadly interested in the conservation of Earth's biological diversity in the face of many interrelated threats, such as climate change, altered disturbance regimes, and land-use conversion. My research interests are in using remote sensing, geospatial technology, and machine learning to map and monitor our changing coupled human and ...
At a fundamental level, the macroscopic response of granular media depends on the spatial organization of contact forces between grains??"the so-called force chains. Despite their critical importance, force chains in granular media have been characterized and analyzed almost exclusively in 2D systems. To address this knowledge gap, we recently developed ...
In this presentation I will discuss results from a range of thin-film quantum materials where magnetic field-enhanced or induced superconductivity is observed. These materials include layered intermetallics, refractory metal oxides, and kagome intermetallics. The surprising pervasiveness of this physics has quantitative and qualitative impacts on how the critical magnetic field ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Mechanisms of retron phage defense and bacterial-derived technologies for molecular recordingThe Shipman lab investigates the complex molecular machines that bacteria use to defend themselves against viruses and other bacteria, then draws on those mechanisms to invent new technologies that help researchers study and manipulate technically challenging aspects of biology. This seminar will touch on both the fundamental and technological components ...
The electrification of thermochemical processes with clean electricity has great potential as both an immediate and long-term solution towards the scalable decarbonization of chemical production. In this talk, I will discuss new paradigms in electrified thermochemical reactors based on high frequency electromagnetic fields. I will first discuss metamaterial reactors in ...
The IceCube project at the South Pole melted 86 holes 2.5 kilometer deep in the Antarctic ice sheet to construct an enormous astronomical observatory that is also the largest neutrino detector ever built. The experiment discovered a flux of neutrinos from deep space with energies more than a million times ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Superintelligence, Superpowers, and the Fate of the WorldJoin us to hear Buchanan describe how the deepest challenge is not the contest with autocracy but the conflict AI will force within democracies themselves. Every choice pits security against liberty, speed against caution, power against principle. This is the bitter struggle. Buchanan and Collins say democracies have every advantage ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, discount for members
One of the most profound questions in biology is also one of the simplest: what is life? A powerful way to approach it is to trace life's origins back to LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Although LUCA lived billions of years ago, microbiologists can infer many of its properties ...
