Insights about the Assembly of Massive Central Galaxies using Hyper Suprime-CamPredicted by the promising hierarchical formation model, the stellar halos of massive galaxies should keep vital fossil records regarding their assembly history and galaxy-halo connection. However, due to its low surface brightness, much of this information is yet to be understood.  Using the deep i-band images from the Subaru Hyper ...
Correlative microscopy: a guide to effective materials explorationQuantum materials have fascinating properties due to the collective coupling of electrons, phonons, etc. to new quasiparticle states, mediated by a particular potential landscape. Our ability to study and explore these properties depends on our capability to build these materials with high specificity and an exquisite level of control over ...
Where: BerkeleyCost:
From the Accelerating Universe to Accelerating Particles: Cosmic PhilanthropyIn this talk, I will show how the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, your philanthropic neighbor on Page Mill Road, helps fund basic science. With an annual science budget of $100 Million per year, we are small compared to federal agencies, but we are free to select topics and methods ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Safe by design, developments in autonomous and proprioceptive soft robotsThe nascent field of soft robotics has emerged as an exciting area of research that stands to revolutionize our interaction with machines. Soft robots possess many attributes that are difficult, if not impossible, to achieve with conventional robots composed of rigid materials. Yet, despite recent advances, soft robots generally require ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Theory of Quantum Anomalous Hall and Axion InsulatorsTopological insulators (TIs) are insulating crystals in which the electronic wave functions are topologically twisted in a certain sense. In recent years, a bewildering variety of types of TIs have been proposed. In this talk I will focus on two. First, I will introduce 2D quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators, ...
During his undergraduate and post-baccalaureate studies, Rocky Ng researched Trichomonas vaginalis pathogenesis and Propionibacterium acnes/Mycobacterium smegmatis bacteriophages. He was able to isolate a novel bacteriophage from his own face, sequenced, and annotated the genome.Rocky Ng is a biotechnology and chemistry teacher at South San Francisco High School. He earned his B.S. ...
Where: San BrunoCost: Free and open to the public.
Mindful Travel in the Age of Climate ChangeHopping on an airplane is one of the worst things anyone can do for the climate, quickly blowing away the emissions savings earned by a vegetarian who walks to work and otherwise treads lightly on the Earth. So how do people still justify international travel? To see the wonders of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
In recent decades, our ability to study the universe with telescopes detecting a range of wavelengths of light -Â enabled by placing them on mountain tops, on airplanes, on balloons, to rockets and satellites in orbit -Â has revealed a beautiful, mystifying, dynamic, and rather extraordinary place. Infrared light, in particular, penetrating ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
