Past Events

Abstract: As the most common construction material and second only to water in terms of use by mankind, concrete cannot simply be replaced with another material at a large scale. In terms of global usage, 14B cubic meters of concrete...

Jan22

Abstract: A new era in astrophysics was inaugurated with the 2015 discovery of gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes in data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). Since then, LIGO and its sister project Virgo...

Dec11

Abstract: More than eighty years after the muon was discovered it is still a source of mystery. I ndeed, experiments are underway that use muons as a window to search for new particles or forces. The muon's anomalous...

Dec4

Abstract: This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Anne l’Huillier, and Ferenc Krausz, for discoveries that launched attosecond science and technology at the turn of the century, before SLAC ever had an x-ray free electron...

Nov13

I fell in love with foundation models because they radically improved data systems that I had been trying to build for a decade. Motivated by this experience, the bulk of the talk focuses on efficient building blocks for foundation models...

Nov6

This colloquium will present and discuss some of the key findings from the recent Hoover Institution-Asia Society report on how to secure the global trade in semiconductors. It will address the current strategic environment surrounding the global trade in semiconductors...

Oct30

In this talk, I will cover a few recent papers and projects that focus on the measurement of emissions and the costs, benefits, and opportunities associated with a transition to sustainable, deeply decarbonized, and equitable energy systems is needed in...

Inês M.L. Azevedo, Department of Energy Science & Engineering at Stanford University

Oct23

Synthetic biology is one of the most promising fields of research for the 21st century. It offers powerful ways to build the global economy, manufacture sustainable materials, and address climate change. However, current access to biotechnology breakthroughs is unequal, largely...

Michael Jewett, Dept. of Bioengineering at Stanford University

Oct16

The dramatic increase of human population and consumption over the last 100 years has led to exponential growth, both in the use of natural resources and the production of waste streams. The use of fossil fuels and the emissions of...

Prof. Arun Majumdar, Stanford University, Doerr School of Sustainability

May22

Past Events

Sustainable Concrete Construction – Present and Future

Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves

The dance of the muon

Attosecond Science and the 2023 Nobel Prize

SLAC Colloquium - "Some Building Blocks for Foundation Model Systems" by Chris Re, Stanford University

SLAC Colloquium - "Silicon Triangle: The US, Taiwan, China, and Global Semiconductor Security" by Larry Diamond, Stanford University

Mitigating climate and air pollution from the electricity and transportation sectors in the United States

Synthetic biology for sustainability

Climate & Sustainability: The Defining Issue of the 21st Century