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Acoustic observations of the ocean interior: Stories of gas bubblesGas bubbles are ubiquitous in the ocean and play an important role in several ocean processes. Gas bubbles formed by breaking wind waves play a role in the transfer of gas and momentum across the air-sea boundary. Methane gas formed by both biogenic and thermogenic processes is transported via bubbles into ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Mobile Technologies for HealthMobile and wireless health (mHealth) technologies promise to transform health and health care. Coupled with electronic health record (EHR), genomic, social, environmental, and other data, mHealth data has the potential to advance our understanding of disease, improve diagnosis and treatment, and lower healthcare costs in ways previously unimaginable. But mHealth ...
Dr. Ida Sim is a primary care physician, informatics researcher, and entrepreneur. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she co-directs Biomedical Informatics at UCSF's Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. Her current research focuses on the use of mobile apps and sensors to ...
We explore how policy updates and intertemporal trading of regulated quantities change the traditional comparative advantage of prices versus quantities. Intertemporally tradable quantity regulation leads firms to set current prices equal to expected future prices. We show that policy updates can take advantage of this behavior to achieve the first ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Artificial Intelligence: Think AgainThe common wisdom about Artificial Intelligence is that we are building increasingly intelligent machines that will ultimately surpass human capabilities and possibly even threaten mankind. This narrative is both misguided and counterproductive. Framing AI as a natural expansion of longstanding efforts to automate tasks makes it easier to predict the ...
Zero Net Energy Buildings and the Art of Energy PolicyIn the mid-2000s California began to establish policy goals for Zero Net Energy (ZNE) buildings. Commissioner McAllister will discuss progress toward these goals in terms of energy-related building codes, trends in buildings-related technologies and markets, local government authority and overall energy systems planning. ZNE buildings serve as a jumping-off point ...
Skin is the primary interface between ourselves and our environment, and changes in the structure and function of human skin have tracked major events in our evolution. These lectures will explore the nature and sequence of changes in human skin through prehistory, and the consequences of these changes for the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
East Bay Science Cafe: Searching for Dark Matter with Matt Pyle What is dark matter? For decades, firm astronomical evidence from observations of stars and galaxies has indicated that most of the matter in the universe cannot be seen directly in telescopes. Instead, this matter must be observed indirectly through its gravitational pull on the objects that we can see. This ...
The talk will explore the political and economic fault lines surrounding shale gas drilling, whether or not innovation in fossil fuel development is a viable answer to global warming, and how rural america has long paid for urban america's energy appetites. Speaker: Eliza Griswold, author and educator