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Exoplanets & Alien Life – Jan 29

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Humanity has looked up at the stars for millennia and wondered whether we're alone in the Universe. Yet only in the past few decades have we begun to discover planets outside our Solar System: to date, we've found over 4,000 such "exoplanets." Further, we have statistical reasons to believe that roughly one billion exoplanets — in our Galaxy alone — are promising abodes for life. Come learn about exoplanets and the exciting search for Earth-like and potentially habitable worlds.

Our speaker, Andy Mayo, is a PhD student and researcher in the UC Berkeley Astronomy Department. He is also a Wonderfest Science Envoy.


Andrew Mayo

WHAT: Exoplanets and the Search for Alien Life
WHO: Andrew Mayo, UC Berkeley Astronomy Department
WHERE: ONLINE, via Zoom: [https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82195772545]
WHEN: 2021-01-29 — 8pm PST, Friday, Jan 29 (1 hr)
Add to Calendar YYYY-MM-DD 2021-01-29 20:00 2021-01-29 21:00 Wonderfest, Exoplanets and the Search for Alien Life Speaker: Andrew Mayo, UC Berkeley Astronomy Department
Description:

Humanity has looked up at the stars for millennia and wondered whether we're alone in the Universe. Yet only in the past few decades have we begun to discover planets outside our Solar System: to date, we've found over 4,000 such "exoplanets." Further, we have statistical reasons to believe that roughly one billion exoplanets — in our Galaxy alone — are promising abodes for life. Come learn about exoplanets and the exciting search for Earth-like and potentially habitable worlds.

Our speaker, Andy Mayo, is a PhD student and researcher in the UC Berkeley Astronomy Department. He is also a Wonderfest Science Envoy.

 Location: ONLINE, via Zoom:
HOW:

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DeepfakeDetection

Deepfake Detection – Jan 20

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Computer vision systems now surpass the performance of human experts in fields like radiology and dermatology. Can they also help us discern real videos from deepfakes — videos manipulated by artificial intelligence? This Zoom presentation will provide an overview of the state-of-the-art machine-learning models for detecting deepfakes. It will also present evidence that reveals how most people are more accurate at spotting deepfakes than the best machine-learning models. We will examine results of a recent experiment suggesting that humanity's specialized ability for recognizing faces lies at the heart of our superior performance. (No face shown above belongs to a real person!)

Our speaker, MIT's Matthew Groh, is a PhD student and research assistant at the MIT Media Lab where he is a member of the Affective Computing Group. Before MIT, Matt cofounded Proprio Labs, worked as a data scientist at Qadium, RaiseMe, and DARPA, and was a research assistant at Innovations for Poverty Action and the World Bank.


Matthew Groh

WHAT: Cognitive Science of Deepfake Detection
WHO: Matthew Groh, Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab
WHERE: Online via Zoom [https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86878133505]
WHEN: 2021-01-20 — 7:30pm PST, Wed, Jan 20 (1 hour)
Add to Calendar YYYY-MM-DD 2021-01-20 19:30 2021-01-20 21:30 Wonderfest, Cognitive Science of Deepfake Detection Speaker: Matthew Groh, Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab
Description:

Computer vision systems now surpass the performance of human experts in fields like radiology and dermatology. Can they also help us discern real videos from deepfakes — videos manipulated by artificial intelligence? This Zoom presentation will provide an overview of the state-of-the-art machine-learning models for detecting deepfakes. It will also present evidence that reveals how most people are more accurate at spotting deepfakes than the best machine-learning models. We will examine results of a recent experiment suggesting that humanity's specialized ability for recognizing faces lies at the heart of our superior performance. (No face shown above belongs to a real person!)

Our speaker, MIT's Matthew Groh, is a PhD student and research assistant at the MIT Media Lab where he is a member of the Affective Computing Group. Before MIT, Matt cofounded Proprio Labs, worked as a data scientist at Qadium, RaiseMe, and DARPA, and was a research assistant at Innovations for Poverty Action and the World Bank.

 Location: Online via Zoom,
HOW:

What value does this admission-free experience have for you? Accordingly, please contribute to nonprofit Wonderfest via the Eventbrite portal, below.