Special IAS High Energy Theory Seminar

Topic: Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics; Particles and "Strings"; Polytopes, Binary Geometries and Quiver Categories
Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed
Affiliation: Professor, School of Natural Sciences, IAS
Date: October 26…

General Relativity at 100: Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University Celebrate the Enduring Reach, Power and Mysteries of Einstein’s Theory

Andrew Strominger - November 5, 2015

https://www.ias.edu/gr100

Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity…

Digital Scholarship Conversations

Topic: Where to Find Millions of Books and How to “Read” Them: HathiTrust and HTRC
Speaker: Ryan Dubnicek
Affiliation: Digital Humanities Specialist, HathiTrust Research Center
Date: October 27, 2021


This workshop will…

What is matter really made of? How does the stuff around us escape annihilation in the fearsome heat of the Big Bang? And will we ever be able to understand the very first moments of our universe?
Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/RlilcMT-RaY
Harry's book "How…

In some situations, don’t pay so much attention

Earlier this week, I requested a ride through our Cruise app and took several back-to-back rides in San Francisco - with no one else in the vehicle! There are lots of other Cruise employees (not just me) who are testing and refining the full customer experience…

“Viruslike particles” open the way to safely study nucleocapsid and other viral proteins

In our mind’s eye, the universe seems to go on forever. But using geometry we can explore a variety of three-dimensional shapes that offer alternatives to “ordinary” infinite space.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang kicks off #GTC21 on November 9, 2021 with a keynote that presents the latest breakthroughs in #AI, data science, high performance computing, graphics, edge computing, networking, and autonomous machines.

Deep dive into announcements…

The quantum eraser experiment is one of the weirdest phenomena that has ever been observed.  It seems that quantum mechanics mixes past and future together. In this video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don takes you through this quantum conundrum.

Quantum mechanics and…

Nature - The latest bounty of 35 events features oddball black holes and a miniature neutron star.

On Thursday, November 11 at 6:32 p.m. EST, SpaceX’s Dragon autonomously docked with the International Space Station (ISS). Falcon 9 launched the spacecraft to orbit from historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday…

The essential biological role of rare earth elements lay hidden until the discovery in 2011 that lanthanides are specifically incorporated into a bacterial methanol dehydrogenase. Only recently has this observation gone from a curiosity to a major research…

Check out the math & physics courses that I mentioned (many of which are free!) and support this channel by going to https://brilliant.org/Sabine/ where you can create your Brilliant account. The first 200 will get 20% off the annual premium subscription.…

Everyone is blabbing about the metaverse. But what does this future digital world look like?

WSJ’s Joanna Stern checked into a hotel and strapped on the Meta Quest 2 virtual-reality headset for the day. She went to work meetings with Spatial and Horizon…

The math behind cryptocurrencies.
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