Liang Jiang: beyond computation, quantum tech can build sensors as small as a yellow fluorescent protein, with spins inside that sense a local magnetic field.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_edssYqFozY

#AASF #LiangJiang #QuantumSensing

Steven Chu: the idea of cooling atoms with light sat untried for a decade — "In 1983 we didn't know it was gonna be important."

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4

#AASF #StevenChu #LaserCooling

Carl Wieman: learning complicated expertise works best by breaking it into pieces — the music teacher doesn't say "Go play a Haydn symphony," but "worry about how you hold your fingers on the violin."

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPpKrp87SHE

#AASF #CarlWieman #ScienceEducation

Jeff Dean on Gemini: making the model multimodal from the beginning "has been really good" — text, code, images, video, audio, even a little lidar data.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kC3xOZChdA

#AASF #JeffDean #Gemini

Fei-Fei Li on being an immigrant: "you have to brave a new world, brave a new language... be so creative, be resourceful, be resilient."

#AASF #FeiFeiLi #Resilience

Terence Tao on the race after Yitang Zhang's proof: within 3 days a blog post cut the 70 million bound to 65 million, then 54.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtOMM8HrT64

#AASF #TerenceTao #Mathematics

Jay Xu on why he loves his career: "The museum is a hub of humanity. People from all walks of life come to museum."

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBFnX84t4_U

#AASF #JayXu #Museums

Chuan He on a side experiment he forgot about: a year after putting human FTO into plants, his collaborators came back with data showing it drives plant development.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS3ezI1Iuhg

#AASF #ChuanHe #PlantScience

Liang Jiang: we can already build thousands of physical qubits in superconductors, and co-designed fault tolerance brings a real quantum system closer.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_edssYqFozY

#AASF #LiangJiang #QuantumComputing

Steven Chu on calling his mother after being awarded the Nobel Prize: "That's nice, but when are you gonna visit me next?"

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4

#AASF #StevenChu #NobelPrize

Carl Wieman: across science and engineering fields, experts solving problems make "the same 29 decisions used over and over."

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPpKrp87SHE

#AASF #CarlWieman #STEMEducation

Jeff Dean on mixture-of-experts models: activate only the parts of a very large model that are useful, as a brain does, for about 10X better training compute to quality.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kC3xOZChdA

#AASF #JeffDean #MachineLearning

Fei-Fei Li: as scientists it's "our responsibility and, frankly, our enjoyment" to push the frontier of knowledge forward — out of love and curiosity, not whether it's a big deal in the VC world.

#AASF #FeiFeiLi #Curiosity

Terence Tao on the twin prime conjecture: "We found millions of twin primes, but we don't know that they go on forever."

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtOMM8HrT64

#AASF #TerenceTao #Mathematics

Terence Tao on the twin prime conjecture: "We found millions of twin primes, but we don't know that they go on forever."

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtOMM8HrT64

#AASF #TerenceTao #Mathematics

Jay Xu: the National APA Museum Commission is a bipartisan entity, created by Congress in 2022, charged with planning the who, what, why, where and how of a future National APA Museum.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBFnX84t4_U

#AASF #JayXu #NationalAPAMuseum

Liang Jiang traces quantum computing to 1982, when Richard Feynman proposed machines built on quantum mechanics to solve problems classical computers can't: a quantum machine for a quantum problem.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_edssYqFozY

#AASF #LiangJiang #QuantumComputing

Steven Chu: as Energy Secretary he found a transmission line took 11 years to approve but only 2 to build — so when someone had to take charge of cutting it to 3, he raised his hand.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4

#AASF #StevenChu #EnergyInfrastructure

Carl Wieman: learning rewires the brain — MRI imaging shows a trained radiologist reading an X-ray activates the brain in a completely different way than a medical student just learning to.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPpKrp87SHE

#AASF #CarlWieman #ScienceEducation

Jeff Dean: build tools that run an experiment "in a minute or an hour instead of a day or a week," then run thousands in parallel and let the results pick the next ones.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kC3xOZChdA

#AASF #JeffDean #AIResearch