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SUMMARY:AI Day SF
DESCRIPTION:**You can register on our Eventbrite page [here](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-day-sf-registration-1120928480259?aff=oddtdtcreator). (This is a paid event\, RSVP on meetup is not enough to attend\, you must register on Eventbrite).** \n[AI Day SF](https://aidaysf.org) provides attendees both training and thought leadership around AI. This all day event includes a training track where you learn how to integrate AI into modern Cloud Native technology stacks. For the workshop details\, please view\nhttps://youtube.com/live/8W2yAxGVYyQ \nThe thought leadership track will provide a wide view of how AI is impacting business strategy and operations\, regulatory environments\, legal impact\, and more. For speakers and topics\, review\nhttps://youtube.com/live/kyRxaYKWM-4 \nAI Day SF is your one stop to get a full 360 view of AI and its impact. \nThis event is brought to you by the local chapters of the Association for Computing Machinery and Internet Society. \nNote 1 – https://aidaysf.org has been updated (12-Jan-2025)
URL:https://svec.org/event/ai-day-sf/
LOCATION:Google Community Space\, 188 The Embarcadero\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250207
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SUMMARY:Member Appreciation Day
DESCRIPTION:Join the Recreation and Wellness Center at SRWC for member appreciation day! Come scan in at the front desk and grab a snacks and refreshment! There will be a table set up with snacks and refreshments from 7am until supplies last.
URL:https://svec.org/event/member-appreciation-day/
LOCATION:Stanford Redwood City Recreation and Wellness Center
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DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250205T184500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250205T203000
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CREATED:20250122T060916Z
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SUMMARY:Charting New Territories: Multimodal Information Processing in NLP through Deep Learning and Language Modeling
DESCRIPTION:Synopsis:\nMultimodal information processing involves utilizing data from diverse sources such as images\, videos\, and text to improve real-world applications. This presentation will explore how extracting insights from multiple modalities can enhance tasks like summarization\, hate speech detection\, complaint mining\, and medical question summarization. Combining data from videos\, images\, and texts can create more comprehensive summaries. The speaker will discuss their recent works in multimodal summarization\, focusing on areas like comment-aware multimodal summarization\, multilingual approaches\, and medical question summarization. The talk will also cover the datasets and methods developed to address these challenges in detail.\nSpeaker(s): Dr. Vishnu S. Pendyala\, Dr. Sriparna Saha\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/461803
URL:https://svec.org/event/charting-new-territories-multimodal-information-processing-in-nlp-through-deep-learning-and-language-modeling/
LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/461803
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SUMMARY:Charting New Territories: Multimodal Information Processing in NLP through Deep Learning and Language Modeling
DESCRIPTION:Synopsis:\nMultimodal information processing involves utilizing data from diverse sources such as images\, videos\, and text to improve real-world applications. This presentation will explore how extracting insights from multiple modalities can enhance tasks like summarization\, hate speech detection\, complaint mining\, and medical question summarization. Combining data from videos\, images\, and texts can create more comprehensive summaries. The speaker will discuss their recent works in multimodal summarization\, focusing on areas like comment-aware multimodal summarization\, multilingual approaches\, and medical question summarization. The talk will also cover the datasets and methods developed to address these challenges in detail.\nSpeaker(s): Dr. Vishnu S. Pendyala\, Dr. Sriparna Saha\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/461803
URL:https://svec.org/event/charting-new-territories-multimodal-information-processing-in-nlp-through-deep-learning-and-language-modeling-2/
LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/461803
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250131T220000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250131T230000
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CREATED:20250124T230347Z
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SUMMARY:To Cervantes with Love: Cervantine Blackness 
DESCRIPTION:Nicholas R. Jones (Assistant Professor\, Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, Yale University)\nThis presentation delves into the depths of Miguel de Cervantes’s portrayal of black Africans and sub-Saharan Africa in Nicholas R. Jones’s latest scholarly work\, Cervantine Blackness (Penn State UP\, 2024). With Cervantine Blackness\, Jones challenges entrenched paradigms and invites a reevaluation of the complexities surrounding racialized blackness and black social life in Cervantes’s literary corpus. By recalibrating the focus from conventional narratives of “agency” and “resistance” to a nuanced understanding of black subjects within Cervantes’s works\, Jones offers a systematic deconstruction of long-standing prejudices that seeks to forge new paths in literary and cultural criticism. This lecture will challenge its audience to rethink the portrayal of blackness in early modern literature writ large and\, more importantly\, its implications for contemporary discourse.\nRegistration Here
URL:https://svec.org/event/to-cervantes-with-love-cervantine-blackness/
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SUMMARY:Cross-Issue Creativity for Environmental Justice
DESCRIPTION:A half-day intensive workshop led by the California Allegory Project to share their design-research methodology advancing Environmental Justice through art.\nBrought to you by the EJ Working Group\, Earthtones\, and the Beehive Design Collective.
URL:https://svec.org/event/cross-issue-creativity-for-environmental-justice/
LOCATION:O’Donohue Educational Farm
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250131T090000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250131T100000
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CREATED:20250122T060915Z
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SUMMARY:Predictive Engineering and Artificial Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Humans make decisions and solve problems using heuristics (“thinking fast”) or abstract approaches such as modeling (“thinking slow”). Artificial intelligence approaches can similarly use either heuristics that are related to correlation and categorization\, or use models that are related to causation. Predictive Engineering\, which melds engineering modeling with probabilistic thinking\, aligns closely with causation and an aspect of artificial intelligence called Causal Learning. Issues with some artificial intelligence approaches will be explored\, with real (and sometimes controversial and provocative) examples\, and promising approaches encompassing causation /predictive engineering will be discussed.\n[]\nSpeaker(s): Eric Maass\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/445270
URL:https://svec.org/event/predictive-engineering-and-artificial-intelligence-2/
LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/445270
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250131T090000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250131T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160539
CREATED:20250122T060915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250122T060915Z
UID:64354-1738314000-1738317600@svec.org
SUMMARY:Predictive Engineering and Artificial Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Humans make decisions and solve problems using heuristics (“thinking fast”) or abstract approaches such as modeling (“thinking slow”). Artificial intelligence approaches can similarly use either heuristics that are related to correlation and categorization\, or use models that are related to causation. Predictive Engineering\, which melds engineering modeling with probabilistic thinking\, aligns closely with causation and an aspect of artificial intelligence called Causal Learning. Issues with some artificial intelligence approaches will be explored\, with real (and sometimes controversial and provocative) examples\, and promising approaches encompassing causation /predictive engineering will be discussed.\n[]\nSpeaker(s): Eric Maass\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/445270
URL:https://svec.org/event/predictive-engineering-and-artificial-intelligence/
LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/445270
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250201
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SUMMARY:Spring Phase 2 Deadline - Schedule Build for Priority Room Scheduling
DESCRIPTION:Deadline to submit schedule changes to be included in priority room scheduling for Spring Quarter
URL:https://svec.org/event/spring-phase-2-deadline-schedule-build-for-priority-room-scheduling/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160539
CREATED:20250122T060915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250122T060915Z
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SUMMARY:Networking Night
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an in-person networking event for meet-and-greet with members of the IEEE SSCS SCV Section at Mountain Mike's Pizza\nFood will be provided. Please register to allow for proper planning.\nParking structure located at 2585 Augustine Dr. 3-hour free parking\nLook for the glass double doors to the party room.\n2510 Augustine Dr\, Santa Clara\, CA 95054\, Santa Clara\, California\, United States\, 95054
URL:https://svec.org/event/networking-night/
LOCATION:2510 Augustine Dr\, Santa Clara\, CA 95054\, Santa Clara\, California\, United States\, 95054
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160539
CREATED:20250122T060915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250122T060915Z
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SUMMARY:Networking Night
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an in-person networking event for meet-and-greet with members of the IEEE SSCS SCV Section at Mountain Mike's Pizza\nFood will be provided. Please register to allow for proper planning.\nParking structure located at 2585 Augustine Dr. 3-hour free parking\nLook for the glass double doors to the party room.\n2510 Augustine Dr\, Santa Clara\, CA 95054\, Santa Clara\, California\, United States\, 95054
URL:https://svec.org/event/networking-night-2/
LOCATION:2510 Augustine Dr\, Santa Clara\, CA 95054\, Santa Clara\, California\, United States\, 95054
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T200000
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SUMMARY:2025 CES Download - Check out the latest tech innovations
DESCRIPTION:This is the annual IEEE SFBA Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc) event providing a summary of the latest and unique tech innovations from the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. This event has proven to be very popular as many people working in related industries do not get to attend CES. CES's focus has expanded to beyond consumer electronic devices to many (https://www.ces.tech/exhibits/product-categories.aspx) including wearables\, smart homes\, robotics\, drones\, medical and healthcare devices\, etc.\n2024 IEEE President\, Tom Coughlin and Region 6 Director\, Joseph Wei\, both are past-chairs of SFBA CTSoc will share highlights of the unique tech solutions at CES that may not have been covered by the mainstream media. This will be an in-person event\, and the room has limited capacity. Register early\, do not miss this event to get a glance in the future of consumer technologies. Previous CES Download and other meetings slides and recordings are available for viewing at https://site.ieee.org/scv-ces/recent-events/.\nThis is a FREE event for IEEE members who provide their IEEE membership # when registering\, and $10 for non-IEEE members (no refunds).\nSpeakers:\nTom Coughlin – President\, Coughlin Associates\nJoseph Wei – Managing Director\, Technology Ventures Group\, LLC\nSpeaker(s): Tom Coughlin\, Joseph Wei\nAgenda:\n5:30 – 6:00 pm: Check-in\, networking\, food and drinks\n6:00 – 6:10 pm SFBA CTSoc introduction\n6:10 – 7:30 pm Presentations by Tom Coughlin and Joseph Wei\n7:30 – 8:00 pm Q&A and Networking\nRoom: Silicon Valley Room\, Bldg: Plug and Play Tech Center\, 440 N.Wolfe Road\, Suite 71\, SUNNYVALE\, California\, United States\, 94085
URL:https://svec.org/event/2025-ces-download-check-out-the-latest-tech-innovations/
LOCATION:Room: Silicon Valley Room\, Bldg: Plug and Play Tech Center\, 440 N.Wolfe Road\, Suite 71\, SUNNYVALE\, California\, United States\, 94085
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160539
CREATED:20250122T060915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250122T060915Z
UID:64349-1738258200-1738267200@svec.org
SUMMARY:2025 CES Download - Check out the latest tech innovations
DESCRIPTION:This is the annual IEEE SFBA Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc) event providing a summary of the latest and unique tech innovations from the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. This event has proven to be very popular as many people working in related industries do not get to attend CES. CES's focus has expanded to beyond consumer electronic devices to many (https://www.ces.tech/exhibits/product-categories.aspx) including wearables\, smart homes\, robotics\, drones\, medical and healthcare devices\, etc.\n2024 IEEE President\, Tom Coughlin and Region 6 Director\, Joseph Wei\, both are past-chairs of SFBA CTSoc will share highlights of the unique tech solutions at CES that may not have been covered by the mainstream media. This will be an in-person event\, and the room has limited capacity. Register early\, do not miss this event to get a glance in the future of consumer technologies. Previous CES Download and other meetings slides and recordings are available for viewing at https://site.ieee.org/scv-ces/recent-events/.\nThis is a FREE event for IEEE members who provide their IEEE membership # when registering\, and $10 for non-IEEE members (no refunds).\nSpeakers:\nTom Coughlin – President\, Coughlin Associates\nJoseph Wei – Managing Director\, Technology Ventures Group\, LLC\nSpeaker(s): Tom Coughlin\, Joseph Wei\nAgenda:\n5:30 – 6:00 pm: Check-in\, networking\, food and drinks\n6:00 – 6:10 pm SFBA CTSoc introduction\n6:10 – 7:30 pm Presentations by Tom Coughlin and Joseph Wei\n7:30 – 8:00 pm Q&A and Networking\nRoom: Silicon Valley Room\, Bldg: Plug and Play Tech Center\, 440 N.Wolfe Road\, Suite 71\, SUNNYVALE\, California\, United States\, 94085
URL:https://svec.org/event/2025-ces-download-check-out-the-latest-tech-innovations-2/
LOCATION:Room: Silicon Valley Room\, Bldg: Plug and Play Tech Center\, 440 N.Wolfe Road\, Suite 71\, SUNNYVALE\, California\, United States\, 94085
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160539
CREATED:20250129T063307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250129T063307Z
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SUMMARY:Energy-Autonomous Circuits: Starting Cold and Keeping Alive
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nPortable electronic devices are ubiquitously rising\, but are predominantly powered by batteries that require recharge/replacement to extend operation lifetime. Future devices\, especially for energy-constrained applications like continuous biosensing or remote environmental monitoring\, require energy-autonomy for seamless long-term operation. Ambient energy harvesting can be a sustainable way of powering these devices\, but integrated circuits (IC) or chips need to start and function intelligently with the small available energy.\nIn this talk I will present (a) ultra-low-voltage CMOS circuits for self-start and efficient power extraction from body-heat\, and (c) ultra-low-power circuit architecture for motion-adaptive heartbeat detection to demonstrate a truly battery-less wearable bioelectronic sensing system-on-chip (SoC). I will conclude the talk with research areas that my group\, BRICS at UC Santa Cruz will be working on soon.\nBiography:\nSoumya Bose received B.E. degree from IIEST Shibpur in 2009\, M.Tech degree from IIT Kharagpur in 2013\, and Ph.D. degree from Oregon State University in 2019.\nFrom 2013 to 2015 he worked at Rambus on high-speed integrated circuits.\nAs a research intern in 2018\, he worked at Kilby Labs\, Texas Instruments\, contributed to the development of nano-power LDO.\nAs a research scientist from 2019 to 2024 he worked at Intel Labs.\nIn 2025\, he joined University of California\, Santa Cruz\, as assistant professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering to start his research group BRICS. His research focuses on analog & mixed-signal integrated circuit (IC) design for sensor interfacing\, energy harvesting\, power management\, and data communication for energy constrained applications.\nDr. Bose's research work has been published in IEEE conferences and journals and has included several patents.\nHe received 2017 CDADIC best poster award\, 2014 IEEE TechSym best presentation award\, and 2024 Intel Labs DRA award.\nDr. Bose has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs from 2021-2023.\nHe is a technical reviewer for various IEEE journals and conferences.\nSpeaker(s): Soumya Bose\,\nAgenda:\n(5:30 pm – 6:30 pm) presentation\n(6:30 pm – 8:30 pm) meet new officers of chapter for 2025\nBldg: Mountain Mike's\, 2510 Augustine Drive\, Santa Clara\, California\, United States\, 95054
URL:https://svec.org/event/energy-autonomous-circuits-starting-cold-and-keeping-alive/
LOCATION:Bldg: Mountain Mike's\, 2510 Augustine Drive\, Santa Clara\, California\, United States\, 95054
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DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250129T193000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250129T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160539
CREATED:20250122T060915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250122T060915Z
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SUMMARY:Sustainable AI
DESCRIPTION:Synopsis:\nIf not solved\, AI models' power and water consumption threaten human society and ecology. AI is expected to consume 4% of the world's electricity by 2026. Water requirements are even more alarming as water is a shared\, non-renewable resource. This talk will discuss some ways\, such as data center redesign that industry and academia are working to tackle this issue and the research directions that may enable us to train and use energy-efficient models.\nSpeaker(s): Dr. Vishnu S. Pendyala\, Soumya Batra\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/455744
URL:https://svec.org/event/sustainable-ai/
LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/455744
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DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250129T193000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250129T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160539
CREATED:20250122T060915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250122T060915Z
UID:64346-1738179000-1738184400@svec.org
SUMMARY:Sustainable AI
DESCRIPTION:Synopsis:\nIf not solved\, AI models' power and water consumption threaten human society and ecology. AI is expected to consume 4% of the world's electricity by 2026. Water requirements are even more alarming as water is a shared\, non-renewable resource. This talk will discuss some ways\, such as data center redesign that industry and academia are working to tackle this issue and the research directions that may enable us to train and use energy-efficient models.\nSpeaker(s): Dr. Vishnu S. Pendyala\, Soumya Batra\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/455744
URL:https://svec.org/event/sustainable-ai-2/
LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/455744
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250129T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250129T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160539
CREATED:20250124T230335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250124T230335Z
UID:64580-1738171800-1738177200@svec.org
SUMMARY:Using Text as Data in Policy Analysis Workshop featuring Tianyi Wang discussing “McCarthyism\, Media\, and Political Repression: Evidence from Hollywood.
DESCRIPTION:Our 30th workshop features a conversation with Tianyi Wang on “McCarthyism\, Media\, and Political Repression: Evidence from Hollywood” on January 29\, 2025\, from 9:30AM – 11:00AM PT.\nThe Hoover Institution Workshop on Using Text as Data in Policy Analysis showcases applications of natural language processing\, structured human readings\, and machine learning methods to analyze text as data for examining policy issues in economics\, history\, national security\, political science\, and other fields.
URL:https://svec.org/event/using-text-as-data-in-policy-analysis-workshop-featuring-tianyi-wang-discussing-mccarthyism-media-and-political-repression-evidence-from-hollywood/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250128T233000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250129T003000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160539
CREATED:20250125T230706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250125T230706Z
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SUMMARY:Applied Physics/Physics Colloquium: Renata Kallosh - "Attractors in Black Holes and Cosmology"
DESCRIPTION:The concept of attractors\, well-known in classical mechanics\, proved very productive in the theory of black holes and inflationary cosmology. I will start with attractors in supersymmetric black holes and discuss how the discovery of Kaluza-Klein black hole attractors helped recently to explain the mysterious cancellation of ultraviolet divergences in 82 Feynman diagrams in 4-loop superamplitude in N=5 supergravity.\nI will also describe inflationary alpha-attractors. This large class of inflationary models gives predictions that are stable with respect to even very significant modifications of inflationary potentials. These predictions match all presently available CMB-related cosmological data. Some of these models have a Kaluza-Klein origin and provide targets for the future satellite mission LiteBIRD\, which will attempt to detect primordial gravitational waves. I will show that potentials in some of the recent advanced versions of cosmological attractors have a beautiful fractal landscape structure.\nProfessor Kallosh works on the general structure of supergravity and string theory and their applications to cosmology. Her main interests are related to the models early universe inflation and dark energy in string theory. She develops string theory models explaining the origin of the universe and its current acceleration. With her collaborators\, she has recently constructed de Sitter supergravity\, which is most suitable for studies of inflation and dark energy and spontaneously broken supersymmetry.\nShe is analyzing possible consequences of the expected new data from current and future cosmological observations\, including LiteBIRD satellite CMB data. These results may affect the relationship between superstring theory and supergravity\, and the real world. Professor Kallosh works\, in particular\, on future tests of string theory by CMB data and effective supergravity models with flexible amplitude of gravitational waves produced during inflation.
URL:https://svec.org/event/applied-physics-physics-colloquium-renata-kallosh-attractors-in-black-holes-and-cosmology/
LOCATION:Hewlett Teaching Center\, 201
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Presentation/Talk
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