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Black Friday Hike at Rancho San VicenteJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful hike at Rancho San Vicente where you’ll explore the newest addition to Calero County Park, a beautiful oak woodland that POST recently helped expand! You will be guided by POST ambassadors who will share details about our contributions to the park, and ...
Join Edward Saltzberg, Executive Director of The Security and Sustainability Forum, and Richard Heinberg in a free discussion about the urgent need to transition to not just a different energy regime but a different basis for human habitation on the planet. The conversation features Richard’s new book, Power: Limits and Prospects for ...
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a versatile technique for studying proteins and other biological molecules in a wide variety of different conditions. However, the field is predominantly confined to academia with the result that commercial software packages are not geared towards its needs and are usually inadequate for the data ...
Speaker: Marynel Vazquez, Yale UniversitySee weblink for Zoom information
Where: Cost: Free
The Black Hole Information Paradox in the Age of Holographic Entanglement Entropy - LivestreamThe black hole information paradox - whether information escapes an evaporating black hole or not - remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of theoretical physics. The apparent conflict between validity of semiclassical gravity at low energies and unitarity of quantum mechanics has long been expected to find its resolution ...
With increasing frequency, AI algorithms are making high-impact decisions: When should a self-driving car slam on the brakes? Can an MRI scan reliably detect a tumor? Will facial recognition software identify your son as a Most Wanted fugitive? AI algorithms need to be aware of their confidence level - to ...
The story of Earth is a 4.5-billion-year saga of dramatic transformations, driven by physical, chemical, and - based on a fascinating growing body of evidence - biological processes. The co-evolution of life and rocks unfolds in an irreversible sequence of evolutionary stages. Each stage re-sculpted our planet’s surface, while introducing ...
Strategies for rapidly and inexpensively identifying neurological/psychiatric weakness and distortion - combined with genomics and increasingly more sophisticated chemical analyses of blood and other body fluids - now provide us with simple, scalable strategies for delineating specific aspects of preclinical stages of neurological and psychiatric disorders. In parallel, we have ...
Join one of the USA's most impactful environmental lawyers Robert Bilott for a conversation about his latest work followed by an intergenerational World-Cafe style dialogue aimed at inspiring hope and action. Rob is the protagonist in the recent award-winning film "Dark Waters" featuring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway and participants are highly encouraged ...
