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Sara Seager - The Hunt for Planet BFor 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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Peter S. Dodds - The Science of Stories: Measuring and Exploring the Ecology of Human Stories with Lexical InstrumentsI will survey our efforts at the Computational Story Lab to measure and study a wide array of social and cultural phenomena using “lexical meters” — online, interactive instruments…
From Katie Gentilello
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John Preskill - Quantum Computing and the Entanglement FrontierThe quantum laws governing atoms and other tiny objects seem to defy common sense, and information encoded in quantum systems has weird properties that baffle our feeble human minds. John Preskill…
From Katie Gentilello
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Einstein's Cosmos and the Quantum: Origin of Space, Time, and Large-Scale Structure of the Universe - Abhay AshtekarFor over two millennia, civilizations have pondered over the questions of cosmogenesis. But serious attempts to address them began only with Einstein's discovery of general relativity a century…
From Katie Gentilello
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Assembly of Big Genomic Data - Paul MedvedevAs genome sequencing technologies continue to facilitate the generation of large datasets, developing scalable algorithms has come to the forefront as a crucial step in analyzing these datasets. In…
From Katie Gentilello
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Second Order Machine Learning - Michael MahoneyA major challenge for large-scale machine learning, and one that will only increase in importance as we develop models that are more and more domain-informed, involves going beyond high-variance…
From Katie Gentilello
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