Stanford researchers used micro-Raman spectroscopy to induce and sense localized high temperature inside a lithium battery. Studying the effects of tiny areas, hotspots, within lithium batteries which grow spiky tumors called dendrites that could cause short circuits and potentially lead to fires provides important insights to the development of safer batteries, thermal management schemes and diagnostic tools.
In a paper published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, Nicholas Ouellette, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering found that mated pairs of birds are loyal to each other and not to the group as a whole which has implications for the flight of the entire flock. In the future of autonomous vehicles based on conventional group behavior , Ouellete says, changes will need to be made by scientists and engineers for vehicle behavior of different species/makers.
Stanford Stadium is the venue for Stanford's 128th Commencement. This year's speaker will be Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple and a prominent voice on ethics in technology and business. The ceremonies will also be available via live webcast. Link.
The CARS 2018 Annual Meeting will be held on Thursday, November 7 from 8:30 - 4:30 p.m. at Paul Brest Hall. Please save-the-date for our all day annual research symposium. The CARS poster session and reception will be on Wednesday, November 6, 5:30-7:00 PM at VAIL. Please RSVP to Adele Tanaka.
CARS and BEAM, Stanford Career Education, invite you to thethird annual CARS Automotive & Mobility Career Night onThursday, Oct 3 from 5:30-7:30 pm at VAIL with setup for participating affiliates from 5:00-5:30 pm. This is an opportunity to meet with PhD, masters and undergrad students from a variety of academic disciplines with an interest in the automotive industry. Students attending will be seeking internships and full-time positions. Please register to participate
The Center for AI Safety is excited to announce a free two-week course on model checking for verifying properties of complex systems. It will be taught by Professor Alessio Lomuscio, from Imperial College London, from 10:00 am - 12:00 noon on the Stanford campus, August 12-23 (with the exception of August 19). There are limited slots available. Those interested should contact Karen Anderson.
Please join us for our summer Open Garage Talk with CARS Co-Director Mykel Kochenderfer and Tim Wheeler, eVTOL software engineer, authors of Algorithms for Optimization, in a moderated discussion with Sebastian Thrun, founder of Google's self-driving car team, discussing how modern design approaches shape what move us. Please register here.
CARS co-director, Mykel Kochender and Tim Wheeler's book on Algorithms for Optimization is available here. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to optimization with a focus on practical algorithms. The text provides concrete implementations in the Julia programming language.
The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) was designed to generate X-ray pulses a billion times brighter than anything before, producing high energy X-ray pulses that would last for femtoseconds, millionths of a billionth of a second. The US Dept of Energy invested in LCLS and in April 2009, after more than a decade of development, SLAC made history when the first light from LCLS was produced. See the 10 areas where LCLS has pushed boundaries.
Quantum dots, tiny, easy-to-produce particles, may soon replace more expensive single crystal semiconductors but have been hampered by uncertainties about their quality. A new measurement technique developed by researchers focusing on how efficiently quantum dots reemit the light they absorb, one telltale measure of semiconductor quality, shows they could compete with single crystals.
