2012 UC Berkeley Green Chemistry Conference: Collaborative Approaches and New SolutionsThe 2012 Green Chemistry Conference will highlight green chemistry's growing role in education, research and outreach at UC Berkeley. The themes for the conference are: 1) Advancing legislation for innovation, 2) Creating new green catalysts, 3) Promoting greener materials use, and 4) Developing an ethics for ...
Speaker: Dr. Andreas Meyer-Lindberg,Director, Central Institute of Mental HealthProfessor and Chairman of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of HeidelbergClinical Director of the Department Psychiatry and PsychotherapyRoom 299
Incomplete Nature, radically reformulating the concept of emergenceBy recasting emergence theory in dynamical terms and focusing on the role of constraint in explaining ascending levels of causal relationships, this talk will argue that such basic scientific challenges as explaining the origins of life, the nature of information, and the dynamics of mental function need to be rethought. ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Query Processing with People and Machines: CrowdDB The challenge of "Big Data" analytics is not just data size -- it's about issues such as diversity, ambiguity, and incompleteness in both queries and the underlying data.While advances in scalable data processing are helping to address the data size problem, there remain many important data-centric tasks where humans are ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Cafe InquiryMeet up with rationalists, skeptics, and freethinkers south of San Francisco.Cafe Inquiry is a social event hosted by the Center for Inquiry|San Francisco. We'll meet at Café Borrone http://www.cafeborrone.com/ between Kepler's Books and the British Banker's Club!
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
The World of Your Senses After Dark @ the explOratorium The World of Your SensesSee the US premiere of a Tibetan thangka-style painting exhibition and engage with Tibetan monks from India to explore sensory perception through Buddhist and scientific perspectives.A collaboration between the Exploratorium, the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives (LTWA), the Sager Family Foundation's Science for Monks Program, ...
Diagnosing Lung Cancer EarlyNew National Cancer Institute screening guidelines have been released demonstrating that screening by Chest CT scan in smokers can help detect early lung cancer and reduce lung cancer-related deaths by 20%. This talk will focus on this new diagnostic tool and how people who are most at risk can access ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your BehaviorTo help us uncover and understand how the human mind works, Dr. Mlodinow explains why every aspect of our life plays out in two versions: our conscious and unconscious. He discusses the profound ways our perception, behavior, memory and social judgments are shaped by our subliminal minds and how that ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
