Podcasts about technical seminar

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Announcing: SERI Biosecurity Interventions Technical Seminar (BITS), published by James Lin on January 12, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. 1. Introduction The biosecurity space has promising technical interventions, such as UV-C and metagenomic sequencing. Often, students in college and community-builders are interested in biosecurity, but don't have an in-depth understanding of the solutions. This is concerning for 3 central reasons: Poor explanations are presented for biosecurity solutions, and may contain inaccuracies The reputation of the biosecurity community is damaged Public perception of biosecurity interventions will be off the mark relative to the intervention's true effectiveness (e.g. “far UVC will end pandemics by 2025”) As a consequence, people are turned away from biosecurity Promising people transition to other fields of work When someone doesn't understand the specifics, it's highly unlikely that they'll pursue direct work, e.g. building a startup for that technology Instead, they'll likely transition to community-building or traditional career paths Biosecurity culture becomes diluted and can't attract technically bright researchers or entrepreneurs Competence is magnetic, and promoting a culture of technical learning and deep dives is crucial to doing impactful work in a domain as challenging as biosecurity A technical biosecurity program can serve as a way for students to become much more knowledgeable about biosecurity solutions. 2. Context There have been biosecurity discussion groups run in the past, but most of these groups focus on the top-of-the-funnel content—the introductory information and context that helps to form a foundation. To our knowledge, there doesn't yet exist a deep dive group, one that specifically aims to equip students with technical understanding of various biosecurity interventions. When it comes to precedent, there have been similar discussion and research mentorship programs in the field of AI alignment, including AGISF, SERI MATS, MLSS, and the CERI Fellowship for biosecurity, nuclear risk, climate change, and AI safety. These programs have been largely successful, providing hundreds of students with hands-on technical experience or in-depth discussions about particular domains of AI safety. 3. Program About Our proposal is to establish an online 8-week-long technical deep dive group. This group will explore many crucial aspects of technical biosecurity interventions while ensuring that we maintain an emphasis on defensive interventions. Examples of session topics include far-UVC, SotA for PPE, and the NAO (syllabus). The program will culminate in a research presentation for a chosen aspect of related topics and interventions (more details here). Each group will meet once per week and will have ~5 people. The expected weekly time commitment is 2-3 hours. There will be a virtual and in-person pilot of this program. Everyone is eligible to apply for the virtual program. The in-person program seminar group will be held at Stanford, though depending on demand we may also run an in-person group at Berkeley. There are a few reasons for running a primarily virtual program: It's important to have an experienced biosecurity person facilitating, which usually limits these interactions to virtual Virtual programs are much more scalable and flexible It's easier to reach a critical mass of students If you would like to join, please feel free to apply! The application deadline is Friday, Jan 20th, and the program is expected to start in 2-3 weeks. We expect to start by running a few groups in parallel at different times during the week to accommodate those in different time zones. Syllabus This is the syllabus with the content we will be covering. There will also be an optional research poster to be submitted 2 weeks after the...

Hi, It's Tony Veroeven, Associate Director of NAFA, and host of Talking Air Filtration. We've got a bunch of episodes on the docket to release over the next several weeks, most of which will be some of our conference content since we've gotten back in person. This episode is Dr. Shelly Miller, a professor and environmental engineer from the University of Colorado. As the COVID-19 pandemic moved across the world, scientists like Dr. Miller work around the clock to better understand how the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its variants are transmitted, the details of the symptoms and illness, and how to stop the spread of the virus She presented “Helping to Save the World from COVID-19: why an urban air pollution engineer got involved, and what she did to makes things better” at our Technical Seminar in April of 2022. Listen and you will hear to her outline her research into how air filtration can be used in the battle against COVID. Do your customers and colleagues a favor and share this episode with them! Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nafahq/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nafahq/support

Susan Frew is the co-owner and president of Sunshine, Plumbing, Heating & Air in Colorado. Susan also speaks nationally as a keynote speaker, as was scheduled to speak at the 2020 Technical Seminar. Unfortunately the Seminar was canceled due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak. Our conversation includes how she grew her plumbing & HVAC business by taking care of customers with outstanding service. She also shares how she came to own a business in this industry. It was great to speak to a speaker from the industry. We hope to host Susan at a future NAFA Event. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nafahq/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nafahq/support

Get know Keith Jordan of Sanuvox based in Montreal, Canada. Tony Veroeven interviewed him at AHR in Orlando in January about his presentation that was supposed to take place at NAFA's 2020 Technical Seminar. The seminar was canceled because of COVID-19 (Corona Virus) but the content is still worth hearing. Learn how UV can supplement a successful IAQ plan and other applications. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nafahq/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nafahq/support

I met Barney Burroughs at NAFA’s Technical Seminar. You could say Barney is a legend in air filtration. He’s an author, speaker, fellow and former president of ASHRAE, 100-time attendee of ASHRAE conference. I interviewed him just before he took the stage to speak on the topic, “How You Can Impact the World Through Filtration” a subject Barney has been passionate about for over 50 years. Enjoy our conversation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nafahq/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nafahq/support

I spoke with Trey Fly the President of Joe Fly Company, and President of the National Air Filtration Association. Trey reflected on the successful 2019 Technical Seminar in Irving, TX, why he encourages his employees to obtain NAFA education and its certifications. Enjoy our conversation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nafahq/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nafahq/support

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