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

Fei-Fei Li: as a grad student she didn't know if she could make it as a scientist — she was still running her family's dry-cleaner shop. No one guaranteed the outcome; passion, resilience and conviction carried her through. #AASF #FeiFeiLi #WomenInSTEM

Terence Tao: he and Nets Katz released a roadmap to the Kakeya conjecture 10–15 years ago — it sat there until his former students Hong Wang and Josh Zahl completed it.
Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtOMM8HrT64
#AASF #TerenceTao #Mathematics

Jay Xu, co-chair of the National APA Museum Commission: a national museum can place Asian American pioneers' stories in their full historical context and share them with the entire nation.

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

#AASF #JayXu #NationalAPAMuseum

Chuan He: expressing the human gene FTO in rice doubled biomass and yield in the greenhouse, with a 20–40% yield gain in real field tests.

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

#AASF #ChuanHe #PlantScience

Liang Jiang: the best medium to send a photon is not material, it's vacuum — refocus the beam with a lens every few kilometers and a single photon could cross the continent.
Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_edssYqFozY
#AASF #LiangJiang #QuantumCommunication

Steven Chu on optical tweezers: Art Ashkin trapped E. coli with light in the mid-1980s; Chu's bet was to grab a single biomolecule via a polystyrene sphere — two years later it worked.

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

#AASF #StevenChu #OpticalTweezers