Verge of Discovery
Evgeniy Shishkin - interviews with the experts in science and technology fields.
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036: The Future of Renewable Energy with Dr. Christopher Clack
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03/21/16 • 31 min
Dr. Christopher Clack is a mathematician and research scientist for the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at Colorado University at Boulder. He joins us to talk about his latest work of building an energy, well more specifically electric, simulator. Dr. Clack discusses how it allows us to seek out the most cost effective approach to rebuild the future energy system in a methodical calculated way. It is a model, so you can investigate almost infinite possibilities and display them for decision makers.
035: Visual Attention, Neural Networks and Computational Neuroscience with Dr. Rougier
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03/07/16 • 27 min
Dr. Nicolas Rougier is a full-time research scientist at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control. During the past decades he’s been working extensively on visual attention in order to understand how we visually explore a scene. Dr. Rougier discusses his work and visual attention and computation neuroscience in particular. He also dives deeper into how seeing is mostly an illusion and that we do not process all visual information that passed through our eyes and we're making deliberate (consciously or not) choices on what we concentrate.
034: Part 2 - The Quantum Violation of the Pigenhole Principle and its Implications with Dr. Tollaksen
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02/29/16 • 32 min
Dr. Jeff Tollaksen joins us to discuss his groups’ latest discovery of the quantum violation of the pigeonhole principle. Dr. Tollaksen expands on how the field of physics has transformed from classical physics to quantum physics over the years. He explains how the culture has shifted from a deterministic view to a more capricious view with the acceptance of the quantum theory. We then discuss the quantum violation of the pigenhole principle and it's implications in more detail.
033: Part 1 - Why God Plays Dice and the Quantum Pigenhole Effect with Dr. Tollaksen
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02/22/16 • 25 min
Dr. Tollaksen details the discovery of the quantum pigenhole principle and describes the physics leading up to this discovery. Part one of a two part series.
032: LiFi is the future of WiFi with Dr. Haas
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02/15/16 • 35 min
Professor Haas received the PhD degree from the University of Edinburgh in 2001. He currently holds the Chair of Mobile Communications at the University of Edinburgh, and is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of pureLiFi Ltd as well as the Director of the LiFi Research and Development Center at the University of Edinburgh. He first introduced and coined LiFi. LiFi was listed among the 50 best inventions in TIME Magazine 2011.
031: Rockets and the Challenges of Space Travel with Dr. Vanstone
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02/08/16 • 36 min
Dr. Leon Vanstone is an aerodynamic engineer and a real life rocket scientist. Travelling really fast through the atmosphere generates a lot of heat due to friction from the air. Leon’s work looks at how to stop things that do this from melting. It’s pretty hard to travel fast enough to melt something unless you drop the object from space and so this problem usually only applies to rockets and re-entry vehicles. Leon discusses some of these challenges and tells us a bit more about orbital travel.
030: Big Data, Cloud Computing and Machine Learning with Dr. Ryoo
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02/01/16 • 31 min
Dr. Jungwoo Ryoo is the interim head of the division of business, engineering, and information sciences and technology (BEIST) and an associate professor of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at the Pennsylvania State University-Altoona. He discusses his field of expertise in big data, cloud computing and machine learning. Dr. Ryoo dives deeper into the state of big data field and how we need more and more qualified interdisciplinary experts in the field to advance this industry into the future.
01/25/16 • 27 min
Dr. Jyutika Mehta is an associate professor at Texas Woman’s University and directs Neurophysiology lab in the department of Communication Science & Disorders. Her primary research interests are to study speech and language representation in normal and disordered brains.
028: Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain Scans and ADHD with Monica Rosenberg
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01/18/16 • 25 min
Monica Rosenberg is a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. Monica discusses how applying cognitive neuroscience research can help identify and treat disorders like ADHD. She expands on how ability to sustain attention varies widely across individuals and researchers lack a standardized way to measure it. Monica dives deeper into her groups recent work introducing a new fMRI measure of sustained attention based on patterns of functional connectivity, or correlated activity across the brain.
037: The Dangers of the Zika Virus and its Transmission with Dr. Sarkar
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03/28/16 • 20 min
Dr. Sarkar is Professor of Integrative Biology and of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin where he has taught since 1998. His laboratory focuses on spatial ecological planning and neglected tropical diseases including Chagas, Dengue, and Zika. Dr. Sarkar discusses his work on the modification of transmission models for dengue to perform risk analyses for the emerging threat of Zika. He also discusses Zika virus with its implications and transmission patterns in added detail.
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FAQ
How many episodes does Verge of Discovery have?
Verge of Discovery currently has 47 episodes available.
What topics does Verge of Discovery cover?
The podcast is about Genius, Nasa, Space, Enlightenment, Learn, Geology, Psychology, College, Future, Research, Human, Intellectual, Chemistry, Energy, Podcasts, Technology, Brain, Science, Dna, Phd, Physics, Math, Biology and Engineering.
What is the most popular episode on Verge of Discovery?
The episode title '040: Video Games and the Nature of Aging and Play with Dr. Bob De Schutter' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Verge of Discovery?
The average episode length on Verge of Discovery is 28 minutes.
How often are episodes of Verge of Discovery released?
Episodes of Verge of Discovery are typically released every 5 days, 12 hours.
When was the first episode of Verge of Discovery?
The first episode of Verge of Discovery was released on Sep 4, 2015.
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