Beyond Black-Box: Human-Centric and Physics-Informed AI for Integrated and Autonomous ConstructionAs global demand for urban infrastructure collides with severe labor shortages and urgent decarbonization goals, industrialized construction has emerged as a critical paradigm shift for the AEC industry. However, the transition toward fully integrated and autonomous systems remains stalled by a fundamental technical hurdle: distributional shift. Unlike highly structured digital ...
Financial systems underpin climate resilience: they fund protective infrastructure, shape preparedness through risk transfer, and provide the insurance that enables communities to recover from disasters. Yet these systems are increasingly strained by climate-driven extremes, evident in the National Flood Insurance Program’s multi-billion-dollar debt and the withdrawal of insurers from high-risk ...
Machine learning is the key technology underlying today's amazing artificial intelligence systems.How did we get to today's technology which now supports a trillion dollar AI industry? What were the key scientific breakthroughs? What were the surprises and dead-ends along the way, as seen by the researchers who created them? Who ...
The Earth’s subsurface is fractured and highly heterogeneous, and fractures often act as preferential pathways that dominate fluid flow and solute transport. This fracture-controlled behavior strongly influences a variety of subsurface technologies including carbon and hydrogen storage, natural or stimulated hydrogen production, geothermal energy, enhanced hydrocarbon recovery, and long-term geologic ...
With all the trouble going on in the world, why would we make games? Shouldn't we be working on climate change or be out protesting? Games can be more than just escapism though. Come learn how they can be art, a protest or way to refresh ourselves when we're tired ...
Popular culture is one of the most powerful spaces where publics encounter science, form attitudes toward it and imagine what scientific futures might look like. Film, for example, reaches global audiences and offers a narrative imagination lab where emerging technologies can be explored long before they enter everyday life. These cinematic ...
Fault-tolerant quantum computation requires further advances in lowering physical qubit error rates in scalable architectures. In this talk, I will present our work on understanding and controlling the microscopic sources of decoherence in superconducting qubits arising from material defects and interfaces. I will present our identification of microscopic origins of ...
Speaker: James Gagnon, University of UtahRoom: Auditorium
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Accelerating Irregular ComputationThe last decade of hardware scaling has been defined by a contract of regularity in which modern parallel hardware reaches peak throughput when data is organized as dense tensors and computation is uniform. This contract breaks down for the irregular representations used to model the physical world, including dynamic meshes ...
The diversity of beetles is widely known - but beetles are complex creatures living in diverse locations so they don’t all compete. Far less well known is the diversity of bacteria within species, most surprisingly with huge number of variants living together and directly competing for very long times. Why ...
The global energy transition will only succeed with the active participation of the private sector. Corporates are central to this effort: they are major sources of greenhouse gas emissions, among the largest consumers of electricity, critical drivers of innovation and scale in climate technologies, and - crucially - key providers ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Advanced Geothermal Energy for California Science, Status and ChallengesAll indications are that advances in drilling technology, mostly developed for or by the oil and gas industry, have placed geothermal energy (the kind that generates electricity) on the cusp of major new opportunities. Historically limited to geographic locations where hot rock and water are relatively near the surface, the ...
Where: SebastapolCost: $7 Advance, $10 at door
From Prompt Grounding to Edge Delivery: Agentic AI at ScaleAs enterprises adopt Generative AI, the challenge shifts from building isolated models to engineering multi-tenant AI platforms that are secure, grounded, and operationally reliable. This session explores the architecture of prompt-grounded, agentic AI systems that combine prompt engineering, retrieval-based grounding, and tool orchestration with cloud and CDN-based delivery to enable ...
