Recent advances in quantum hardware have highlighted both the importance and the growing feasibility of scaling up quantum systems and distributing entanglement across physically separated qubits. Researchers are pursuing multiple paths toward this goal: on one front, novel hardware platforms (e.g. new qubit technologies) promise to support much larger qubit ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
SETI Live: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean - LivestreamJoin Beth Johnson for a thought-provoking conversation with Professor Dagomar Degroot, an environmental historian at Georgetown University. They delve into the themes of his new book, Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean, set to be released on October 28, 2025.Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean offers a sweeping history of human encounters with ...
The sinking of gravitationally unstable lithosphere beneath high-elevation plateaus is proposed to be a key driver of their uplift and is proposed to have occurred across our planet including beneath the Andes Tibet Anatolia Colorado Plateau and Nevadaplano. Where the lithosphere is actively sinking geophysical imaging affords a snapshot of ...
A deep property of quantum field theory is the irreversibility of the renormalization group flow: as we move to longer length scales, the number of relevant degrees of freedom only decreases. In this colloquium, we will show how ideas from quantum information theory provide a new understanding of this irreversibility. ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Southeast Alaska - The Splendor and Magic of the Inside Passage - LivestreamPlease join us as photographer-extraordinaire, Jodi Frediani leads us on a trip through the Inside Passage. We'll meet lunge feeding humpback whales, black and brown bears, eagles, lots of other critters and take in this majestic landscape. Along the way, Jodi will share her collaboration with researchers, film crews, and ...
A common model of AI suggests that there is a single measure of intelligence, often called AGI, and that AI systems are agents who can possess more or less of this intelligence. Cognitive science, in contrast, suggests that there are multiple forms of intelligence and that these intelligences trade-off against ...
Where: NovatoCost: Free
Understanding AI - If Anyone Builds It, Everyone DiesIn 2023, hundreds of AI luminaries signed an open letter warning that artificial intelligence poses a serious risk of human extinction. Since then, the AI race has only intensified. Companies and countries are rushing to build machines that will be smarter than any person. And the world is devastatingly unprepared ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $18 General in person, $9 online
