Our next talk for STEM Bytes is on Wednesday, October 9 from 11 – 12:00 pm PT on Zoom!

To register, visit tinyurl.com/STEMBytes10-9

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿: 𝗧𝘂𝗼 𝗭𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴
🎤 Talk: Can AI Understand Art? Recent Research Using VLMs on Chinese Arts

In this paper, we offer the Pun Rebus Art Dataset, a multimodal dataset for art understanding deeply rooted in traditional Chinese culture. We focus on three primary tasks: identifying salient visual elements, matching elements with their symbolic meanings, and explanations for the conveyed messages.

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿: 𝗥𝘆𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗧𝗶𝗯𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝘀
🎤 Talk: Hot Till It’s Not: How Appalachian Mountain Building and Pangea Breakup Changed the Temperature of Earth’s Crust

(U-Th)/He dating and thermal history modeling of 500 million year old rocks from the Newfoundland Appalachian Mountains reveal when and how the temperature of the Earth’s crust evolved during the formation and breakup of our planet’s last supercontinent, Pangea, and the opening of the Atlantic Ocean.