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For thousands of years, inspired by the star-filled dark night sky, people have wondered what lies beyond Earth. Today, the search for signs of life is a key factor in modern-day planetary…
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Sara Seager Date
November 14th, 2022
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Abigail Diering Date
April 8th, 2022
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For several decades, Elizabeth Loftus has been manufacturing memories in unsuspecting minds. Sometimes these techniques change details of events that someone actually experienced. Other times, the…
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Elizabeth Loftus Date
February 27th, 2020
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Chemical elements have played important roles in the geopolitics of modern times and will continue to do so.From Einstein’s 1939 letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt highlighting the need…
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Margaret Kosal Date
November 12th, 2019
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In 1997, the Japanese oceanographer Yoshiyuki Nozaki compiled a periodic table of ocean chemistry, encapsulating the distribution of elements as a function of depth. In this periodic table, many…
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Takamitsu “Taka” Ito Date
October 31st, 2019
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For more than half a century, dedicated and eager groups of scientists have contrived ways to introduce heavier and heavier elements into the universe. Their efforts finally completed the seventh row…
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Monica Halka Date
September 11th, 2019
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Guest speaker Gretchen Goldman, a Tech graduate and research director for the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, will discuss Science for the Public Good? Federal…
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Gretchen Goldman Date
July 26th, 2019
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Why did Gandhi hate iodine? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium? How did radium nearly ruin Marie Curie’s reputation? And why did tellurium lead to the most bizarre…
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Sam Kean Date
April 18th, 2019
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The history of silicon is usually told as a history of electronic materials and devices. However, it is better told as a history of manufacturing innovation. This talk will take a journey through the…
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Michael A. Filler Date
March 5th, 2019
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Workers are often assumed to construe their organizations as entities and develop a reciprocal social exchange relationship resembling that with other humans. To the extent that this assumption holds…
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Michael Ford biography
Michael Ford is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Alabama, Culverhouse College of Business. Date
September 26th, 2018
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What is computer science? Ask Google or Alexa, and you'll get an answer like "the study of the principles and use of computers." That doesn't really capture the breadth of the…
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Lance Fortnow Date
April 19th, 2018
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We discuss how the non-equilibrium driving forces introduced by the natural biological activity or by
physical self-propulsion mechanisms generically affect the structure, dynamics and phase…
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Ludovic Berthier Date
April 19th, 2018
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We perform a stick-slip experiment to characterize avalanches for granular materials. In our experiment, a
constant speed stage pulls a slider which rests on a vertical bed of circular photoelastic…
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Aghil Abed Zadeh Date
April 20th, 2018
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We are taught to understand solids by considering ideal crystals. This approach becomes untenable as
the amount of disorder increases; for a glass with no well-defined long-range order, a crystal is…
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Sid Nagel Date
April 20th, 2018
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Though the systematic use of topology to understand defects in ordered matter is now nearly 50 years
old, the original work failed to completely characterize systems with broken translational order,…
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Randy Kamien Date
April 18th, 2018
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Symmetry breaking is a ubiquitous phenomenon that occurs spontaneously when a system is subjected
to variations in size and/or perturbations in terms of thermodynamic parameters. As a stochastic…
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Younan Xia Date
April 19th, 2018
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