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Intelligent coordinated robot teams allow for the inspection of large infrastructures on land, air, water, and subsea, by combining robotic precision and speed with human intuition and abstract thinking. By recently unifying a priori system dynamics knowledge with efficient machine learning, robots are now able to learn complex manipulation tasks ...
Sophien Kamoun is a senior scientist at the Sainsbury Laboratory and a professor at the University of East Anglia. His group studies how filamentous plant pathogens, such as the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans, infect plants, and the plant processes that are modulated by these pathogens.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Sears Point Tidal Marsh Restoration: Dissecting Rapid Ecological Change Through Multiple Lenses Dr. Michael Vasey is a passionate believer in the need for good science to inform management decisions and public engagement in the cause of conserving the San Francisco Estuary (SFE). He left a career in teaching conservation biology at San Francisco State to practice conservation biology as manager of the ...
Corey Garza is an associate professor of Marine Science in the School of Natural Sciences at California State University, Monterey Bay. His research interests are in the area of marine landscape ecology using GIS modeling and spatial statistics to study the relationship between scale dependence, habitat complexity and patterns of species ...
Evolving Economies of CannabisDesign Considerations for Legalizing Cannabis with Dr. Beau Kilmer, RAND Corporation Canada, Uruguay, and 12 jurisdictions in the United States have passed laws to remove the prohibition on cannabis and legalize supply for adults. Many of these jurisdictions allow large-scale production and retail sales, but this is not the only ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $25 General, $22 Members & Students
Green Film Festival: 'Anthropocene: The Human Epoch'Experience this cinematic meditation on humanity's massive reengineering of the planet, as scientists argue we have now entered a new epoch. The Anthropocene is a full-scale, catastrophic change that we cannot reverse completely. But we must try.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Where: OrindaCost: $5 General, $1 students & K-12 Teachers
Peninsula Gem and Geology Society Monthly MeetingLocal mineral dealer and part mine owner Rick Kennedy will be giving a presentation on the Jackson's Crossroads Amethyst Mine of Wilkes Co. Georgia, the premier amethyst locality in the United States. The mine consistently produces world class specimens and crystals that are justifiably celebrated for pure rich purple color ...
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Skeptics in the Pub: MillbraeScience and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub West Bay, Fiddlers Green, Millbrae sponsored by Bay Area Skeptics.If ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the film-flam man, and if ye drink, drink with us, your friends. If ye shun the brewer’s art, at least help us lay waste to bangers & mash!Skeptics ...
The world we live in is wildly complex and open-ended. Despite the excitement surrounding AI, building an artificial intelligence that rivals or exceeds human levels in dealing with that world is far more difficult than we once believed. How can we create AI worthy of our trust when solving real-world ...
Astronomy on Tap: Saturn's Rings, Star Birth, and ExoplanetsBorn with the Dinosaurs? The Origin, Age, and Remaining Lifetime of Saturn's RingsSpeaker: Paul Estrada, SETIA Star is Born: How Stars Form in SpaceSpeaker: Jim Jackson, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrafred AstronomyWhat do we Know About Exoplanets? And What's Left to Learn?Speaker: Jesse Dotson, NASA Ames