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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 14h

Terence Tao on the twin prime conjecture: "We found millions of twin primes, but we don't know that they go on forever." Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtOMM8HrT64 #AASF #TerenceTao #Mathematics

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 15h

Terence Tao on the twin prime conjecture: "We found millions of twin primes, but we don't know that they go on forever." Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtOMM8HrT64 #AASF #TerenceTao #Mathematics

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Jay Xu: the National APA Museum Commission is a bipartisan entity, created by Congress in 2022, charged with planning the who, what, why, where and how of a future National APA Museum. Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBFnX84t4_U #AASF #JayXu #NationalAPAMuseum

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Chuan He on why he left chemistry in 2008: tens of trillions of cells and 200 cell types all come from one fertilized egg. "How does that work?" Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS3ezI1Iuhg #AASF #ChuanHe #Genomics

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Liang Jiang traces quantum computing to 1982, when Richard Feynman proposed machines built on quantum mechanics to solve problems classical computers can't: a quantum machine for a quantum problem. Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_edssYqFozY #AASF #LiangJiang #QuantumComputing

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Steven Chu: as Energy Secretary he found a transmission line took 11 years to approve but only 2 to build — so when someone had to take charge of cutting it to 3, he raised his hand. Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4 #AASF #StevenChu #EnergyInfrastructure

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Carl Wieman: learning rewires the brain — MRI imaging shows a trained radiologist reading an X-ray activates the brain in a completely different way than a medical student just learning to. Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPpKrp87SHE #AASF #CarlWieman #ScienceEducation

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jeff Dean: build tools that run an experiment "in a minute or an hour instead of a day or a week," then run thousands in parallel and let the results pick the next ones. Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kC3xOZChdA #AASF #JeffDean #AIResearch

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fei-Fei Li: as a grad student she didn't know if she could make it as a scientist — she was still running her family's dry-cleaner shop. No one guaranteed the outcome; passion, resilience and conviction carried her through. #AASF #FeiFeiLi #WomenInSTEM

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Terence Tao: he and Nets Katz released a roadmap to the Kakeya conjecture 10–15 years ago — it sat there until his former students Hong Wang and Josh Zahl completed it. Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtOMM8HrT64 #AASF #TerenceTao #Mathematics

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Jay Xu, co-chair of the National APA Museum Commission: a national museum can place Asian American pioneers' stories in their full historical context and share them with the entire nation. Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBFnX84t4_U #AASF #JayXu #NationalAPAMuseum

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today, we honor Dr. Jane Ying Wu on what would have been her 63rd birthday. A prominent American neuroscientist, a mother, a friend, and a dreamer who came to this country for a better life. Learn more: buff.ly/VuVqFvu

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Chuan He: expressing the human gene FTO in rice doubled biomass and yield in the greenhouse, with a 20–40% yield gain in real field tests. Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS3ezI1Iuhg #AASF #ChuanHe #PlantScience

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Liang Jiang: the best medium to send a photon is not material, it's vacuum — refocus the beam with a lens every few kilometers and a single photon could cross the continent. Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_edssYqFozY #AASF #LiangJiang #QuantumCommunication

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Steven Chu on optical tweezers: Art Ashkin trapped E. coli with light in the mid-1980s; Chu's bet was to grab a single biomolecule via a polystyrene sphere — two years later it worked. Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4 #AASF #StevenChu #OpticalTweezers

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Jin-Yi Cai on the 1994 moment Peter Shor showed a quantum algorithm could factor large integers efficiently - the problem whose presumed difficulty underpins public key cryptography. Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UijjSGwB6Ek #AASF #JinYiCai #QuantumComputing

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Carl Wieman: same instructors, same intro CS course — switching from lectures to research-based teaching cut drop-and-failure rates to about a third of before. Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPpKrp87SHE #AASF #CarlWieman #ScienceEducation

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We are thrilled to announce the election of our 2026 AASF Fellows! This year, we hosted an inaugural induction ceremony for our extraordinary fellows. See the full Announcement: buff.ly/6TJwsel

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Jeff Dean on his new public benefit corporation: distribute its scientific discoveries as widely as possible, even when that is not in the company's financial interest. Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kC3xOZChdA #AASF #JeffDean #OpenScience

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fei-Fei Li: the robot that has gone further than any other is the car — around for 100 years, and Tesla and Waymo's decades of driving data are now bearing fruit. #AASF #FeiFeiLi #Robotics

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Terence Tao on compressed sensing: he thought they had cheated, like solving a crossword from 3 or 4 clues, until he found the loophole that now underlies MRI machines. Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtOMM8HrT64 #AASF #TerenceTao #Mathematics

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Jay Xu, co-chair of the National APA Museum Commission: listening sessions in 20 cities and hundreds of comments gathered ahead of the commission's October report to Congress. Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBFnX84t4_U #AASF #JayXu #NationalAPAMuseum

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Liang Jiang: solving an elliptic-curve crypto scheme takes about half a million superconducting qubits for 20 minutes, or tens of thousands of atomic qubits over a few days. Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_edssYqFozY #AASF #LiangJiang #QuantumComputing

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Steven Chu on laser cooling: his boss Chuck Shank told him he had earned the right to try — but it wouldn't work. Within a year, it worked. Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4 #AASF #StevenChu #Physics

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Steven Chu: AI's energy and learning vs. the human brain. Did you know children master complex skills with vastly less data and energy than AI? It's a powerful lesson in efficiency. #AI #HumanBrain #Learning #AASF #StevenChu

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yesterday, Terence Tao joined 24 other Fields Medalists in signing “A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics.” As he put it at AASF last month: “AI can achieve some of our goals, but at the expense of others.” Watch the discussion from 33:56: youtu.be/TtOMM8HrT64?...

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Jeff Dean talked about building a multimodal AI from scratch. Combining expertise, ideas, and resources to train one model that understands text, code, images, and more. A foundation for everything. #AI #MultimodalAI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #Google #AASF

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Terence Tao — The Puzzle Behind Faster MRI Scans What does one of world's greatest mathematicians Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social have to do with state-of-the-art image reconstruction in the MRI machines used by your local hospital? Full talk: youtu.be/TtOMM8HrT64 #AASF #TerenceTao #HealthTech

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Even Terence Tao couldn’t resist “one more turn.” 🎮 He recalls discovering the internet, playing Civilization at Princeton, and the sleepless nights that followed. full clip: youtu.be/TtOMM8HrT64

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Fields Medalist Terence Tao: When I was younger, I thought being a mathematician, there was some council of senior mathematicians that would just assign us problems to work on, like some giant homework assignment. 👉full clip: youtu.be/TtOMM8HrT64

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

@jeffdean.bsky.social "read broadly, connect ideas others haven’t connected, and look for problems that are almost — but not quite — solvable." Watch the full clip: youtu.be/0kC3xOZChdA #JeffDean #AI #Research #Stanford #Google #DiscoveryLoop

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Jeff Dean | 2026 Frontier & Pioneer Symposium

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Fei-Fei Li: "How do we push the frontier of AI beyond language intelligence into spatial and physical world... evolution has told us a story, so much of the development of intelligence systems, from animals to humans, rely on spatial and physical intelligence." full video: youtu.be/wBDAjY7NqKE

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Explore the big ideas shaping America’s future in energy and innovation at the 2026 Frontiers & Pioneers Symposium. Register with code aasf2026-bluesky-10off and save 10%. Get tickets: aafuturefoundation.org

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Be part of a powerful conversation about science, innovation, and American leadership at the 2026 Frontiers & Pioneers Symposium. Save 10% when you use aasf2026-bluesky-10off. Register today: aafuturefoundation.org

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Celebrate groundbreaking scholars and researchers transforming science and mathematics at the 2026 Frontiers & Pioneers Symposium. Take 10% off registration with code aasf2026-bluesky-10off. Get your ticket: aafuturefoundation.org

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Two Nobel laureates. One inspiring weekend at Stanford. Join us for the 2026 Frontiers & Pioneers Symposium. Take 10% off with code aasf2026-bluesky-10off. Register now: aafuturefoundation.org

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Hear from the leadership, public service, and the policies shaping our future at the 2026 Frontiers & Pioneers Symposium. Save 10% with code aasf2026-bluesky-10off. Register now: aafuturefoundation.org

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Join national leaders for a timely conversation about public service and civic engagement at the 2026 Frontiers & Pioneers Symposium. Get 10% off with code aasf2026-bluesky-10off. Reserve your seat: aafuturefoundation.org

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hear from two visionary leaders shaping the future of AI at the 2026 Frontiers & Pioneers Symposium. Use code aasf2026-bluesky-10off for 10% off your ticket. Register now: aafuturefoundation.org

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The 2026 Frontiers & Pioneers Symposium is coming to Stanford University, August 7–9. Three days of keynotes and fireside chats with Nobel laureates and innovation leaders. Register: www.aafuturefoundation.org Use code for 10% off: aasf2026-bluesky-10off

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

44 years ago, Vincent Chin was a landmark hate crime case. His legacy ignited a civil rights movement and continues to inspire AASF's work protecting Asian American scholars, scientists, and researchers from discrimination. We remember his name: Vincent Chin.

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Ranking Member Rep. Ro Khanna questioned witnesses at the House Select Committee hearing -“China's economic espionage and influence in the U.S.”, and quoted AASF ED Gisela Kusakawa in this press release: democrats-selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/press-...

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This #ImmigrantHeritageMonth, we honor the scholars, scientists, and researchers who help drive American innovation. Be inspired by this video with @NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Condoleezza Rice, both keynote speakers at AASF's symposium last year. 🎥 www.youtube.com/shorts/KYJP6...

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Jensen Huang on Why the Immigrant Spirit Resembles the Entrepreneurial Spirit | Only in America

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Tomorrow at 1:30 PM ET, don't miss this critical conversation. Join leading attorneys on the front lines as they examine the evolving legal landscape for scientists, scholars, and researchers. Register now: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

On this Juneteenth, AASF honors the emancipation of enslaved African Americans and celebrates the fight for freedom and equality.

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Congratulations to AASF Fellow Professor H.-S. Philip Wong on his election to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest honors in engineering. His pioneering work in nanoscale electronics and semiconductor technology continues to advance America's innovation. tinyurl.com/4txnar52

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

AASF was recognized as a Founding Sponsor at the Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture's AANHPI Heritage Month reception in NYC, hosted by Senator Andy Kim and Congresswoman Grace Meng. nationalapamuseum.org

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Meet our panel of leading frontline attorneys defending researchers. Join us for a critical conversation on the evolving legal landscape and cases targeting scientists, scholars, and researchers in 2026. Date: Tuesday, June 23 at 1:30 PM ET. Register now: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Asian American Scholar Forum @aasforum.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

AASF ED Gisela Kusakawa joined national leaders as a featured speaker at two academic conferences: the 2026 APAHE National Conference in Anaheim, CA, and the AAPI/MENA Women in Legal Academy Workshop at Roger Williams University School of Law (RWU) in Rhode Island. www.aasforum.org/2026/04/30/a...

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