Frontal cortical dynamics during decision-makingIn a dynamic environment, animals must adjust their action plans to match the behavioral demands. For example, the same sensory stimulus may require different motor responses depending on the context. The mammalian prefrontal cortex is thought to be a central node mediating flexible behavior, however the synaptic and circuit mechanisms ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Meet Leela: A New Constructivist Approach to AILeela is a semantic artificially intelligent agent modeled on the child development theories of Jean Piaget. She builds increasingly abstract semantic models of the world from her experiences of exploration, play, and experimentation. She uses a similar mechanism to map language exposure to experience and meaning. As Leela is an ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
After Dark: You Are What You EatLiterally and metaphorically, we are what we eat. From vitamins and minerals to our cultural heritages, food is physiologically and emotionally important. Cuisine is passed down from one generation to the next, becoming apart of who we are. Come explore how historical and current conditions shape our relationship to food ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $17.95 advance, $19.95 at the door
Design NightlifeNightLife partners with San Francisco Design Week to explore the many ways design impacts lives, culture, and science - from AR to architecture, and beer labels to field experiments. Plus, celebrate the release of Lost Type Co-op’s new series of fonts, created in collaboration with and inspired by the Academy’s scientific collections.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
Hardcore Natural History: Saving the Ocean, One Golf Ball at a TimeJoin us for a conversation about one teenager’s personal project to clean the oceans in our area. Alex Weber and her father Mike have been free diving off the coast for sometime. A few years ago, Alex was struck by the number of golf balls that littered the ocean floor ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free with admission
Building New Elements: Beyond the Periodic TableLike modern day and much more scientific alchemists, nuclear chemists work to construct elements that don’t exist on earth but may reside on proton-packed Islands of Stability off the far end of the periodic table, where these new heaviest elements could be long lived. Learn how six new elements were ...
7:00-7:25: Kimford Meador(Stanford/ Neurology) on "How does the brain damage affect how we think?"Abstract forthcoming...Read more7:25-7:50: Irving Weissman(Stanford) on "How normal stem cells regenerate the body but sometimes lead to cancer"Abstract forthcoming...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of ...
