The innate immune system is ancient and shared across kingdoms. Most organisms utilize innate immunity in the absence of an adaptive immunity to recognize rapidly evolving pathogens and elicit disease resistance response. Our laboratory works with plant, bacterial and fungal host-pathogen systems to understand biodiversity of the innate immune receptors ...
The Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR) was launched in December 2021 by Timnit Gebru as a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence. Unlike the current trend of centralizing power and claiming to build one giant model that serves the needs of everyone while ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
nano@stanford Open HouseAll are welcome to visit us for the nano@stanford Open House, which will be held in the Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center (Foyer & Amphitheater)!! This event will feature a Research Showcase (poster session), a Vendor Expo, and the opportunity to interact with industry professionals and representatives from other NNCI sites.  The nano@stanford Lab Member Collaborative and ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Silicon Valley Talks: Chris Clay, 'Unstoppable'Unstoppable explores the life of Roy L. Clay Sr. from his time as a teenager using his uncanny math skills to run back-room craps game in segregated, rural Missouri, to his rise as a Silicon Valley technology pioneer. Unstoppable has been featured by Stephen Curry's Underrated Book Club, USA Today, NBC Bay Area ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Community-Engaged Climate Adaptation Research in Yucatán, MexicoIn Yucatán, as in many regions around the world, a history exists of Indigenous land and heritage dispossession, which continue today. This presentation introduces a case in which archaeologists, in partnership with town leaders and residents, strive to counteract those tendencies. The current initiative of PACOY (the Proyecto Arqueológico Colaborativo ...
Market-based climate policies decentralize abatement decisions by establishing a CO2 price, either via taxes or via a pollution permit market. Since CO2 emissions are often released jointly with conventional air pollutants, CO2 permit trades give rise to implicit trades of such co-pollutants. In contrast to CO2 emissions, co-pollution emissions are ...
Customers are adopting new energy technologies, incentivized by state and federal electrification programs. At the same time, utilities and regulators are exploring new pricing strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy costs. Will the electrical distribution system be able to support these innovations without expensive system upgrades? In this ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
AI's Impact on Society: How Do We Do This the Right Way?Ready for a night out? We got views, food, and drinks - and an important panel discussion:"AI's Impact on Society: How Do We Do This the Right Way?"Delve into the world of AI's development and its hidden complexitiesLearn about the tools and strategies used to tackle risksExplore responsible AI practices ...
What can zombie movies teach us about biology, behavior, evolution, and survival?Join Dr. Jason Lewis for a crash course in Zombiology based on his popular Stony Brook University class. Dr. Lewis and The Leakey Foundation’s Brandon Upchurch will discuss contagion, conflict, cannibalism, and what a zombie apocalypse can reveal about ...
The geometry of the ancient Greeks took place on an ideal, infinite, flat plane. In the millenia since then, mathematicians have opened our minds to the more general and flexible geometries of curved spaces - from the fabric that makes up our clothing, to the spacetime around a black hole. ...
Where: Castro ValleyCost: Free
Archaeology and Ecological Crisis: Lessons in Sustainability from the PastThe world today is facing a variety of ecological crises and to combat these crises, policymakers are working hard to promote sustainability. While rarely included in policy discussions, archaeology has a part to play in contributing to a sustainable future. Archaeology uniquely provides us with thousands of years of information ...
