【LECTURE】Ideas and Methods in Distributed Computing
Gain insights from a Turing Award laureate into the ideas and future of distributed computing. From Logical Clocks to Consensus Algorithms: Understanding the Core Ideas of Distributed Computing. I...【LECTURE】From AIDS to Covid—Two pandemics and 40 years of global health
In 1981, a handful of young men were reported with an illness that should not have occurred in healthy people. There was no name for it, no test, and no treatment. This lecture follows the four dec...【LECTURE】Three Decades of Change: Phenology at the Crossroads of Climate, Ecology, and Society
Over the past decades, phenological research has transformed our understanding of how plant and animal species respond to a rapidly changing climate, revealing widespread shifts in the timing of le...【LECTURE】Global Health Challenges and the Role of Industry: Building a Healthier Future Together
Jon was appointed to the Board of GSK as Chair on 1 September 2019. Jon has extensive international financial, life sciences and governance experience. Jon served as an Independent Non-Executive Di...【LECTURE】Foundation Models and Agentic AI for Human Physiology
Michelle A. Williams, SM ’88, ScD ’91, is a renowned epidemiologist, an award-winning educator, and a widely recognized academic leader. She served for seven years as Dean of the Faculty at the H...【SEMINAR】BigTech Credit and Platform Economic Activity
BigTech firms play an important role in today's economy, with a handful of them accounting for a disproportionately large share of global equity market value. They increasingly integrate financial ...【LECTURE】Some aspects of changes in hydrologic extremes over the Western U.S.
This lecture systematically introduces the patterns and mechanisms of the impact of global warming on the water cycle in the Western United States. Over the past 75 years, warming has increased the...【LECTURE】Tsinghua Global Vision Lecture by Sir John Pendry, Chair in Theoretical Solid State Physics at Imperial College London
The lecture will discuss the latest developments which aim to structure materials in time as well as space - space/time crystals. These materials violate time reversal symmetry and offer possibilit...【EVENTS】QIQG 2026: Quantum Information in Quantum Gravity
Building on the discussions of QIQG 2025, QIQG 2026 will propel the dialogue into a new era of further synthesis of ideas in quantum information theory and quantum gravity and their applications. W...【LECTURE】Tsinghua Global Vision Lecture by Dr. Robin Geiss, Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
As artificial intelligence reshapes the foundations of international peace and security, the question is no longer whether these technologies will alter the strategic landscape, but how the interna...