Colloidal Heat Engines: Extracting Work from Bacterial Activity and Non-conservative ForcesArtificial microscale heat engines are prototypical models to explore the mechanisms of energy transduction in a fluctuation dominated regime. This talk will first discuss our experiments to realize a micrometer sized active Sterling heat engine operating between two nonequilibrium reservoirs with different activities of the bacteria. At high activities of ...
Biology is no longer destiny. Our DNA doesn’t determine our health and disease prospects, as geneticists once believed. According to the new science of epigenetics, the vast majority of our genes are fluid and dynamic -and their expression is shaped by what we think and what we do. Our genetic ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: sold out!
Human Intuition, Decision Analysis, and the Value of InformationOur intuitive decisions are subject to all kinds of biases and fallacies according to extensive research in the psychology of judgment. Decision analysis provides practical tools to help bring greater rationality to important decisions. Decision analysis has long been intertwined with computer science. John von Neumann, famous for the “von ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #109: Shaping SF, Otherworldly Geometry, and Cell Biology!June gloom increasing your sense of doom? Follow our nerdy beacon to the Rickshaw, where we’ll dig down through decades of fill to SF’s foundations, confound the flat-earthers by imagining a donut-shaped world, and watch cells do the splits. Just add music, alcoholic beverages, and Miss Arepita and boom - ...
