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How math make AI easier to understand?

VIDEO: Why Topology Matters for Data Science and AI Topology offers a way to organize complex data by looking for shape, structure, and relationships. Yusu Wang, Ph.D., UC San Diego, and Gunnar E. Carlsson, Ph.D., Stanford University, discuss how ideas from algebraic topology move from pure mathematics into data science, machine learning, and AI. Car...

How earlier clues could change Alzheimer’s care.

VIDEO: Improving Early Alzheimers Detection in Women by Integrating Multimodal Data Into Clinical Decision Tools with Iris Broce-Diaz, Ph.D. Alzheimer's disease can begin developing years before memory and thinking problems become noticeable. Iris Broce-Diaz, Ph.D., of UC San Diego is developing accessible, noninvasive, and cost-effective tools to help primary care physicians and neurologists identify people at higher risk earlier. Her m...

Moving more can mean living better with pain...

VIDEO: Motivating Movement: An Age-Friendly Approach to Pain, Mood, and Mobility Chronic pain in older adults can affect mobility, mood, sleep, social connection, and independence. Una Makris, M.D., M.Sc., UC San Diego and VA San Diego Healthcare System, explains why musculoskeletal pain is common later in life and why medications or procedures alone may not meet the needs of ma...

Nobel Laureate Fred Ramsdell on scientific breakthroughs...

VIDEO: Trust and Support in the Future of American Science and Biomedical Innovation with Fred Ramsdell Scientific progress depends on curiosity, investment and the freedom to take risks. Nobel Laureate and UC San Diego alumnus Fred Ramsdell traces his path from community college to biotechnology and a discovery that reshaped understanding of immune regulation. He explains how decades of publicly fund...

Tips for helping kids with neurodevelopmental differences sleep better.

VIDEO: Sleep in Children with Neurodevelopmental Differences As part of the 2026 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Dr. Althea Robinson Shelton, Associate Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, discusses sleep in children with neurodevelopmental differences. Recorded on 03/06/2026.

How to navigate menopause and healthy aging with confidence.

VIDEO: Menopause and Healthy Aging Menopause and healthy aging affect women's health and well-being in important ways. Dr. Tami Rowen explains how the best available evidence shapes menopausal management, with a focus on the data and safety around hormone therapy. Dr. Riley Bove examines brain, heart, gynecological, bone, and emotion...

How art turns connection into social change.

VIDEO: Janelle Iglesias on Art, Identity and Collaboration Art can connect personal history, community, and social change. Janelle Iglesias, Assistant Professor of Studio Art at UC San Diego, traces her path from a multicultural childhood in Queens to anthropology, ceramics, sculpture, and public art. She explains how objects in her family home sparked an i...

Why returning to the Moon is harder today.

VIDEO: Returning to the Moon With the success of Artemis II, NASA is preparing for humanity's return to the Moon through the ambitious Artemis Project. In this lecture, Professor Neil Farber explores the future Artemis missions, the spacecraft and technologies designed to support them, and the challenges NASA faces in sending a...

When AI starts to feel almost divine.

VIDEO: From Talking Tools to Metahumans: Social Interaction, Semiotic Skill, and the Authority of AI Chatbots As chatbots trained on Large Language Models become more sophisticated, their responses can sometimes seem uncanny, as if they come from a source that is mysterious, inexplicable, or even divine. Webb Keane, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, examines what happens when people t...

Why uncertainty can be freeing...

VIDEO: How to Not Know with Simone Stolzoff In an age obsessed with expertise, certainty, and endless self-optimization, author and journalist Simone Stolzoff invites audiences to rediscover the power of curiosity, humility, and not having all the answers. His new book, How to Not Know, challenges the cultural pressure to define ourselves by....