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Liang Jiang: Shor's algorithm was proposed in 1994 — 30 years on, the field has moved from controlling single qubits to ~100-qubit machines that show something classical computers cannot simulate.

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

#AASF #LiangJiang #QuantumComputing
November 11, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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Join award-winning journalist, MS NOW anchor, and filmmaker @RichardLui on Nov. 16 at @UofMaryland for the AASF DMV Regional Forum!

Hear career insights and how storytelling can challenge perspectives, build understanding, and inspire change.

#DMVEvents #MarylandEvents
November 14, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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Jay Xu asked the public for just a few sentences for the National APA Museum: a story that deserves to be remembered, and a pioneer whose contributions should be recognized.

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

#AASF #JayXu #NationalAPAMuseum
November 14, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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Steven Chu on going back to Berkeley to talk about the climate challenge — and watching scientists, from postdocs to mid-career researchers, shift their careers toward it.

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

#AASF #StevenChu #ClimateChange
November 13, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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Chuan He: his gene-edited rice gave 30–50% more yield in the greenhouse and about 20% in early field tests — "put this as a grain of salt," he cautions.

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

#AASF #ChuanHe #CropYield
November 12, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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Join Maryland State Delegate and author Lily Qi on November 16 at U of Maryland for the AASF DMV Regional Forum!

Hear her personal stories, career insights, and lessons on leadership, perseverance, and navigating the immigrant experience.

#DMVEvents #MarylandEvents
November 10, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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Steven Chu: if Martians invaded, everyone on Earth would unite to repel the common enemy — and climate change is that enemy. "We should be able to come together."

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

#AASF #StevenChu #ClimateChange
November 10, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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Join award-winning journalist, MS NOW anchor, and filmmaker Richard Lui on Nov. 16 at U of Maryland for the AASF DMV Regional Forum!

Hear career insights and how storytelling can challenge perspectives, build understanding, and inspire change.

#DMVEvents #MarylandEvents
November 10, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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Carl Wieman: in his large-class physics experiment, random guessing scores about 3, lecture learning was very small, and the experimental class moved the entire distribution up — for every student.

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

#AASF #CarlWieman #ActiveLearning
November 9, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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Terence Tao: a solver with every technique in the literature, trying hundreds of combinations, can reach answers no human would find except by accident — and thousands of open problems are waiting.

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

#AASF #TerenceTao #AIforMath
November 7, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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Steven Chu: roughly 90% of the heat goes into the ocean, half of it deep, and it takes 50 to 100 years to reach a new thermal equilibrium.

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

#AASF #StevenChu #ClimateChange
November 8, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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Liang Jiang: quantum information is very fragile, so larger systems need error correction that encodes it at a logical level — demonstrated with atoms, ions and superconductors.
Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_edssYqFozY
#AASF #LiangJiang #QuantumErrorCorrection
November 6, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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📅 Monday, Nov. 16
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Connect with scholars and professionals for career insights, leadership lessons, and networking.
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Join the Asian American Scholar Forum (AASF) for the AASF DMV Regional Forum, featuring a book talk with Maryland State Delegate Lily Qi and author of Elected American, followed by a film screening…
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November 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Book mail! Many thanks Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso, Polina Levontin, et al., and all the contributors. AASF (book soon to be out and available) is a fantastic concept and resulting book, looking forward to Volume 2. See more on it here: appliedafricansf.com

#Africanfuturism #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
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November 4, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Jeff Dean on his new company Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation: "We want to automate machine learning science and engineering" to speed up discovery across fields.

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

#AASF #JeffDean #AIforScience
November 5, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Join AASF on Nov. 16 for our DMV Regional Forum!

Hear from Maryland State Delegate @LilyQiMaryland and journalist and filmmaker @RichardLui as they share career insights, leadership lessons, and personal stories of breaking barriers.
🔗 Register: aasforum.org/DMVforum
November 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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"Everybody and their aunt is talking about world models," says Fei-Fei Li — so two months ago she wrote a technical blog defining a functional taxonomy of them. The progress is accelerating.

#AASF #FeiFeiLi #WorldModels
November 4, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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oin AASF for Congress 202! Go inside the congressional committees influencing research funding, higher education, and science policy.
📅 Oct. 28 | 3–4 PM ET
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October 23, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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Carl Wieman: the brain primarily learns the thinking that it practices, and not much else — so science and engineering students need to practice technical problem-solving.

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

#AASF #CarlWieman #ScienceEducation
October 21, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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Jeff Dean on his new company: four co-founders who have worked together for 14 to 30 years, now building a company to advance scientific discovery.

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

#AASF #JeffDean #ScientificDiscovery
October 20, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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Fei-Fei Li on being an entrepreneur: no one guarantees success. Forget the glamour; it is a long stretch of dark tunnel with a lot of uncertainty, and you are driven by passion.

#AASF #FeiFeiLi #Entrepreneurship
October 19, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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Terence Tao spent five years trying to prove a conjecture before someone asked "Have you ever tried to disprove it?" — a question that had never occurred to him.

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

#AASF #TerenceTao #Mathematics
October 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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Jay Xu on the National APA Museum: "a national home for the APA communities of this and future generation, where our culture and history will be an essential part of the American story."

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

#AASF #JayXu #NationalAPAMuseum
October 17, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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Chuan He: at 37°C, 75% of ordinary plants were wiped out by heat stress, while 90% of his lab's engineered version survived — higher yield and resilience at once.
Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS3ezI1Iuhg
#AASF #ChuanHe #PlantScience
October 16, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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Chuan He: at 37°C, 75% of ordinary plants were wiped out by heat stress, while 90% of his lab's engineered version survived — higher yield and resilience at once.
Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS3ezI1Iuhg
#AASF #ChuanHe #PlantScience
October 16, 2026 at 8:59 PM