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  • Strengthening the Technical Foundations of U.S. Security
    Events at Stanford - 16:26 Jan 19, 2022
    Date: Thursday, January 20, 2022. 1:00 PM. Location: Live Virtual Event For decades, the United States’ research prowess and innovative ecosystem have been unparalleled. But with respect to artificial intelligence, arguably the next technological frontier, U.S. leadership may be in jeopardy. The lack of access to computing power and the scarcity of meaningful datasets are precluding many academic researchers from pursuing cutting-edge research. Such bottlenecks may also pose national security risks if the United States falls behind in advancing AI.  To address these concerns, Congress established the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) task force, with the mandate of implementing a National Research Cloud. Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) and the Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) have offered recommendations on a way forward for NAIRR. Join Stanford HAI Director of Policy Russell Wald, CSET Senior Fellow Andrew Lohn and Stan...
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  • HAIL Book Series: A Conversation with Author Davarian Baldwin
    Events at Stanford - 16:31 Jan 18, 2022
    Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2022. 4:00 PM. Location: Virtual Event on Zoom Join us for a conversation with author Dr. Davarian Baldwin, professor of American Studies at Trinity College and author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities. He will be interviewed by Michael Kahan, co-director of the Program on Urban Studies and senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Stanford. This event is free and part of the online book conversation series, Academic Innovation for the Public Good. Stanford Digital Education and Trinity College are co-sponsoring the series, which will engage ten monthly book conversations via Zoom with leading scholars on how higher education can affect the public good. The goal of the program is to foster discussion about how to make higher education’s future more equitable and accessible. The book conversations are free, and all are welcome. A full list of participating authors can be found at the "More Info" link. Those wishing to attend one...
  • 2022 Rebele Symposium -"The Facebook Files."
    Events at Stanford - 16:30 Jan 18, 2022
    Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2022. 4:30 PM. Location: Virtual The world's largest social network employs a team of researchers to study the consequences of its decisions, but much of that knowledge was kept secret -- until the Wall Street Journal obtained a trove of company documents which have become known as "The Facebook Files." The 2022 Rebele Symposium will feature a conversation with two Stanford graduates -- The Journal's Georgia Wells and The Washington Post's Will Oremus -- who are uniquely positioned to discuss investigative series about the company, the journalistic issues involved, and how Facebook has responded.  They will be joined by Communication Professor Jeff Hancock, founder of the Stanford Social Media Lab, on a panel moderated by Lecturer R.B. Brenner, a former Washington Post editor.   Join with zoom: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95151932649?pwd=MXZUOW9qODVqYXd5eWxuZnVNN0lmUT09 Passcode: 727628
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  • Fireside Chat: The Impact of Stereotype Threat with Claude Steele
    Events at Stanford - 16:28 Jan 18, 2022
    Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2022. 12:00 PM. Location: Virtual Event What is stereotype threat?  An individual's experience of being in a situation in which they want to perform their best, but know that a negative stereotype about their social group may adversely affect the way others see them.  This concern is distracting and compromises the individual's ability to function optimally.  Claude Steel, PhD is an American social psycholgist and professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University. He is the author of Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How Stereoptypes Affect Us, which summarizes his reseach into stereotype threat and the underperfomance of minority students in higher education.   In this intimate Fireside Chat hosted by Paul Yock, MD, Steel with discuss stereotype threat in educational and career settings and discuss strategies to mitigate its impact.  Register for this event: http:bit.ly/FiresideChat2022
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  • Stanford Academic Technology Showcase
    Events at Stanford - 16:24 Jan 18, 2022
    Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2022. 1:00 PM. Location: ZOOM To ring in 2022, the Stanford Academic Technology Community of Practice (CoP) is hosting its first annual Showcase event! This virtual event, also serving as the CoP's official kickoff event, will celebrate all of the innovative work being done in teaching and learning with technology across campus. The Showcase will include a keynote from Matthew Rascoff, Vice Provost for Digital Education, as well as spotlights on The Teaching Commons (Kenji Ikemoto - CTL), Panopto (Lina Piezas - SCPD), GSB's Canvas Course Template and Data Connections (Diane Lee and Cheryl Lock - GSB), adopting Ed Discussion (Paige Coleman - LTS), and the Digital Ambassador program (Josh Weiss - GSE).
  • Health Policy Forum | Climate Change: A threat to human health
    Events at Stanford - 21:51 Jan 14, 2022
    Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2022. 10:00 AM. Location: Virtual - link will be emailed to registrants Changes to the Earth's temperature and weather are not just a political and economic challenge. They also threaten human health, creating risks for infectious disease spread, unstable food supplies, and deaths from extreme weather events.  Please join us for the next Health Policy Forum to learn how human health can be protected in the wake of climate change with our guests Marshall Burke and Erin Mordecai of Stanford University and Kiran Savage-Sangwan of the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network.
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  • Creating a National AI Research Resource
    Events at Stanford - 17:29 Jan 14, 2022
    Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2022. 9:00 AM. Location: Live Virtual Event In July 2021, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation called upon the public for information on implementing a National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR). By September, over 80 responses were submitted from leaders across academia, industry, and government. This joint seminar will unpack two of these responses from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, the Center for Data Innovation, and SeedAI.  Join Russell Wald, Director of Policy of Stanford HAI, Hodan Omaar, Policy Analyst of the Center for Data Innovation, and Austin Carson, Founder and President of SeedAI for a discussion and Q&A on how to best design, implement and maintain a NAIRR. NRC Report
  • Camera as Witness Presents four UNAFF documentaries at the World House Documentary Film Festival
    Events at Stanford - 02:43 Jan 14, 2022
    Date: Monday, January 17, 2022. 1:00 PM. Location: Zoom Camera as Witness Stanford Arts presents the MOVING FORWARD series as part of the World House Documentary Film Festival in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day BARBARA LEE: SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER (82 min) US   Director/Producer: Abby Ginzberg  Representative Barbara Lee is a steadfast voice for human rights, peace and economic and racial justice in the US Congress who was the lone vote in opposition to the broad authorization of military force following the 9/11 attacks. FRENEMIES (86 min) Cuba/US     Director/Producer: Mirella Martinelli Decades of economic isolation have worn out the island and the morale of Cubans who still resist to keep their sovereignty. GHOSTS OF AFGHANISTAN (89 min) Afghanistan/US     Director: Julian Sher Producers: Natalie Dubois, Arnie Gelbart As a young and idealistic war correspondent, Graeme Smith followed the troops into battle in Afghanistan.  SEYRAN ATES: SEX, REVOLUTION AND ISLAM (82 min) Germany/Norway/Turkey   ...
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  • Plans are Worthless, But Planning is Everything: A Resurrection of the Study of Grand Strategic Plan
    Events at Stanford - 23:13 Jan 13, 2022
    Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2022. 1:00 PM. Location: Virtual to Public “Strategic planning,” so-called, is a practice into which states, firms, universities, and many other large organizations regularly invest substantial resources. The study of strategic planning is, however, mostly absent in the academy. Strategic planning had its heyday as a field of study in the three or four decades following World War II, mostly in the discipline of strategic management, but research on the subject has steadily declined in volume since the mid-1980s. Much of the contemporary literature on strategy, including on states’ grand strategies, has focused on strategy content – explaining its causes, effects, or the relative merits of competing proposals – rather than on strategy process. This book project undertakes an intellectual history that aims to explain the apparent disconnect between the on-going, widespread, real-world practice of strategic planning and the decline in scholarly research on the subject. Based on this hi...
  • Spin state and moment of inertia of Venus
    Events at Stanford - 23:10 Jan 13, 2022
    Date: Thursday, February 3, 2022. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom Meeting (see login details in Description) Jean-Luc Margot Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles Title: "Spin state and moment of inertia of Venus" Earth-based radar observations in 2006–2020 enabled the first measurement of the spin precession rate and moment of inertia of Venus. The observations also showed that the spin period of the solid planet changes by tens of minutes. The length-of-day variations are due to variations in atmospheric angular momentum transferred to the solid planet.  Some of the variations appear to follow the diurnal cycle.  Please join us here on Zoom Geophysics Winter Semianr Series 2022 Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95132482534?pwd=YUgwYnBVM3ArU1N3TG9XZ2xkUkdtUT09     Password: 314159
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  • Artists on the Future: Catherine Opie and Rebecca Solnit in conversation
    Events at Stanford - 23:09 Jan 13, 2022
    Date: Monday, January 31, 2022. 5:00 PM. Location: Online The Office of the Vice President for the Arts is pleased to present Artists on the Future: The Komal Shah and Gaurav Garg Artist Conversation Series. Monday, January 31, 2022 5:00pm PT via YouTube premiere Catherine Opie and Rebecca Solnit in conversation Catherine Opie (b. 1961, Sandusky, OH) is an artist working with photography, film, collage, and ceramics. She was a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow recipient and the Robert Mapplethorpe Resident in Photography at the American Academy in Rome for 2021. Opie’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad and is held in over 50 major collections throughout the world. Her first monograph, Catherine Opie, was recently published by Phaidon. Opie received a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute, and an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts in 1988, and lives and works in Los Angeles. She holds the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Endowed Chair in Art at UCLA where she is also...
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  • Autocracy: A Substantive Approach
    Events at Stanford - 23:09 Jan 13, 2022
    Date: Thursday, January 27, 2022. 11:30 AM. Location: Zoom What are the defining traits of an autocracy? Leading works answer this question in negative terms: autocracies are non-democracies. We propose instead a substantive definition of autocracy, which we believe better captures what scholars actually mean when they invoke the term. We define autocracy as exclusive rule. Between substantive autocracy and electoral democracy, there is a residual space, of regimes that do not fit under either concept. We call these regimes “non-autocratic non-democracies” or NANDs. A substantive understanding of autocracy has important theoretical and empirical implications. Theoretically, it ensures that claims about the population of autocratic regimes are ontologically coherent, and that we do not end up calling barely non-democratic regimes autocracies. Empirically, our measure reveals that the post-Cold War era has been even less autocratic than it is normally portrayed, and that concerns about a global turn toward "aut...
  • The Future of Stablecoin Regulation
    Events at Stanford - 23:07 Jan 13, 2022
    Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2022. 1:00 PM. Location: Online The market cap for stablecoins, a type of digital asset pegged to a “stable” reserve asset like the U.S. dollar or gold, exploded in 2021, reaching more than $160 billion by the close of the year. As the volume of capital in the stablecoin market intensified, so did interest from regulators. On November 1, 2021, the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets (PWG) released a report on stablecoins which outlined the risks posed by payment stablecoins and recommended, among other things, Congressional action to ensure that payment stablecoins and payment stablecoin arrangements are subject to a consistent and comprehensive federal framework.  Both houses of Congress held hearings on stablecoins in December. A multitude of regulators, policy makers and market participants have voiced opinions on the best form of regulation and the proper regulatory body to oversee stablecoins. Should the United States develop a new regulatory framework for stablecoin...
  • Book talk with Adrian Daub - The Dynastic Imagination
    Events at Stanford - 23:05 Jan 13, 2022
    Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2022. 04:00 PM. Location: Virtual Event Adrian Daub, director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, professor of comparative literature and German studies, appears in conversation with scholars Dustin Friedman (American University), Catriona MacLeod (University of Chicago) and Lauren Shizuko Stone (University of Colorado Boulder) to discuss his latest book, "The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany." The book offers an unexpected account of modern German intellectual history through frameworks of family and kinship. This event is co-sponsored by the Stanford Department of English and the Department of History.
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  • Nine Thesis Films
    Events at Stanford - 23:01 Jan 13, 2022
    Date: Sunday, January 30, 2022. 12:00 PM. Location: Roxie Theater Stanford Department of Art & Art History presents Nine Thesis Films by the 2021 graduates of the MFA Program in Documentary Film. Q&A with filmmakers to follow. Featuring: No Soy Óscar by Jon Ayon Alonso Black Gold by Sydney Bowie Linden Still Waters by Aurora Brachman  The Game God(S) by Adrian Burrell Couchsurfing by Laura Gamse Batonebi by Anna R. Japaridze  Meantime by Michael T. Workman  Drummies by Jessie Zinn  Groundhog Town by David Zucker Learn more about the filmmakers and their films. — Seating is limited and a ticket is required; ticketing information forthcoming. Please note the current health and safety policy at the Roxie Theater: You will be required to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination when you arrive at the theater. Proof of vaccination that will be accepted: A vaccination card, showing fully vaccinated status A photo of your vaccination card, showing fully vaccinated status A digital vaccine record, which you can easily a...
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  • Democracy, Diplomacy, Geopolitics and the Future of Southeast Asia
    Events at Stanford - 22:54 Jan 13, 2022
    Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2022. 5:00 PM. Location: Via Zoom Webinar Register: bit.ly/3K2zEZu Southeast Asia is famously diverse.  Yet, all the ASEAN member states have committed themselves to ASEAN Community, including ASEAN Political and Security Community, with the expressed commitment to protect and promote democratic principles, human rights and good governance. As democracy retreats around the world, will autocracy spread throughout Southeast Asia?  How can countries of Southeast Asia navigate the complex dynamics between protection and promotion of democratic principles and human rights on the one hand, and the principle of non-interference in internal affairs on the other?  How can they navigate the similarly complex dynamic between protection and promotion of democratic principles and human rights on the one hand, and the geopolitical tensions and rivalries currently prevailing in the region?   Does ASEAN matter? Few are better positioned by knowledge and experience than former Indonesian foreign m...
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  • When a Witness Recants: Legal and Ethical Duties Arising from Wrongful Convictions
    Events at Stanford - 22:52 Jan 13, 2022
    Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2022. 4:00 PM. Location: Virtual Event In her recent New Yorker article, staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman wrote about a criminal case from Baltimore in which a 14-year-old provided eyewitness testimony in a murder trial resulting in the convictions of three innocent boys. Thirty-six years later, the witness recanted. Join us for a conversation with the writer and legal experts to discuss the legal and ethical issues that arise when a witness recants. What safeguards could prevent such a situation from happening in the first place? How can prosecutors better ensure the integrity of convictions? How should the court system deal with recantations by a trial witness whose testimony was essential to the conviction?  Public virtual event. RSVP.
  • REWIND: James Gray's Brooklyn
    Events at Stanford - 22:51 Jan 13, 2022
    Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2022. 2:00 PM. Location: Zoom Join renowned filmmaker James Gray for a discussion about his films Little Odessa (1994) and Two Lovers (2009) in light of our theme of House and Home in Jewish film. Stanford affiliates can stream the films in advance here: https://guides.library.stanford.edu/c.php?g=1192015&p=8719370 Others can find both films through paid streaming services. We look forward to being in conversation with you! Please note that the Zoom link and password will be sent out to those who have rsvp'ed the day before the event.
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  • Artist talk with Natalia Almada
    Events at Stanford - 22:49 Jan 13, 2022
    Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2022. 5:30 PM. Location: Online via Zoom Please note that this event, previously planned to take place in person, will now take place online via Zoom. Please register in advance. Stanford Department of Art & Art History presents an artist talk with filmmaker Natalia Almada. Natalia Almada combines artistic expression with social inquiry to make films that are both personal reflections and critical social commentaries. Her films are visually stunning, often lyrical and bold as she grapples with ideas/issues of identity, history, violence, memory, and loss. Her work straddles the boundaries of documentary, fiction, and experimental film. She will speak about her artistic practice, her ongoing inquiry on form, and the role of subjectivity in her work. Learn more at altamurafilms.com. — This event will take place online via Zoom. Please register in advance (your name and email address are required). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing a link to join the...
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  • Eva Dyer - Towards robust representations of neural activity: Why we need them, how to build them.
    Events at Stanford - 22:49 Jan 13, 2022
    Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2022. 10:00 AM. Location: Stanford Neurosciences Building, Gunn Rotunda (E241) & via Zoom Understanding how neural circuits coordinate to drive behavior and decision making is a fundamental challenge in neuroscience. Unfortunately, finding a stable link between the brain and behavior has been difficult--even when behavior is consistent, neural activity can appear highly variable. In this talk, I will discuss ways that my lab is tackling this challenge to form more robust and interpretable readouts from neural circuits. The talk will focus on our recent efforts to use self-supervised learning (SSL) to decode and disentangle neural states. In SSL, invariances are achieved by encouraging “augmentations” (transformations) of the input to be mapped to similar points in the latent space. We demonstrate how this guiding principle can be used to model populations of neurons in diverse brain regions in both macaques and rodents, and disentangle different sources of information in the neural ...

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