Mariage(s) Made in HeavenThe coming decade will see a plethora of large area astronomical surveys, from both the ground and space and across the electromagnetic spectrum. Combining these data is a wonderful example of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. We will discuss two examples: gains from combining the ...
The Bay Area is rich in varying habitats that are home to many bird species. Some birds are here throughout the year, but fall marks the return of a number of species that had gone elsewhere to breed. We’ll talk about many bird species that can be found in our ...
As AI-based technology has rapidly expanded into high-impact, user-facing domains, we have observed myriad ways in which it can perpetuate harmful biases, embed problematic values, or entirely fail. In the face of these errors, we are starting to see that algorithmic fairness and explainability methods may not be sufficient fixes ...
Around 2008 our peer reviewers held these beliefs to be true: "No one will use computational research-based app to analyze or guide experiments. No one will use such apps in education. Such apps are not publications!" Today we measure how experimentalists, researchers in adjacent fields, and education researchers cite nanoHUB ...
The harnessing and manipulation of electronic states in quantum materials has the potential to revolutionize computation, sensing, storage, and communications, thus impacting multiple facets of our everyday lives. In this talk I will discuss my group’s recent experiments with monolayer graphene (MLG), Bernal stacked bilayer graphene (BLG), and trilayer graphene ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) as scientific supercomputersGoogle's TPUs were exclusively designed to accelerate and scale up machine learning workloads, amid the ongoing planet-wide race to build faster specialized hardware for artificial intelligence. But one must surely be able to use this hardware for other challenging computational tasks, right? We explored how to turn a TPU pod ...
Pathways to carbon neutrality in California: the bioenergy opportunityCalifornia has an abundance of biomass-based resources derived from the state’s diverse agricultural, urban waste and forest streams. These biomass resource types can be converted to bioenergy products that have many potential applications across California's energy system. However, today, most of the ...
Where: Cost: Free
Introduction to the Ray AIR for Scaling AI/ML and Python Workloads - LivestreamExisting production machine learning systems often suffer from various problems that make them hard to use. For example, data scientists and ML practitioners often spend most of their time-fighting YAMLs and refactoring code to push models to production.To address this, the Ray community has built Ray AI Runtime (AIR), an ...
