As the oil and gas industry comes under increasing pressure to decarbonize, companies are responding in several ways. A common denominator underlying most of them―reducing emissions from core operations, exploiting existing oil and gas assets for decarbonization purposes, launching new low-carbon business lines―is the technology and broader forms of innovation ...
Like many areas of AI, present-day NLP is data-driven. As a result, the available benchmark datasets are the primary factor in shaping the field itself. This has wide-ranging consequences for research, technology, and increasingly for society. How do we conceptualize different tasks, and which tasks receive the most attention from ...
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Quantum Nanophotonics Hardware: From Nanofabrication to Quantum Circuit Mapping - LivestreamPhotonic systems are the leading candidates for deterministic quantum sources, quantum repeaters, and other key devices for quantum information processing. Scalability of this technology depends on the stability, homogeneity and coherence properties of quantum emitters. Here, color centers in wide band gap materials offer favorable properties for applications in quantum ...
The theory describing dark matter remains completely unknown, and requires new search ideas to resolve its identity. It turns out that stars and planets can be ideal playgrounds to discover dark matter. In this talk, I will review a range of dark matter searches using celestial objects, including neutron stars, ...
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Bridging the process-pattern divide in ecology and evolution - LivestreamDr. James T. Stroud is an evolutionary ecologist that explores the processes responsible for the generation and maintenance of large-scale patterns of biological diversity, primarily using lizards as a model system. Specifically, his research focuses on bridging this process-pattern divide by studying how ecological and microevolutionary processes - those able ...
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Energy, Engineering, Education, and Everything - LivestreamDrawing on Dr. Swisher's two decades of teaching clean energy and climate solutions at Stanford and state universities, we'll explore new models for teaching and learning with a mission to avert climate change and achieve sustainability, which are also the charge of Stanford's new School.Speaker: Joel Swisher, Western Washington UniversitySee ...
Slugs & Steins : What is the Dark Matter? - LivestreamFour fifths of the matter in the universe is made of something completely different from the "ordinary matter" we know and love. I will explain why this "dark matter" is an unavoidable ingredient to explain the universe as we observe it, and I will describe what the fundamental, particle nature ...
