Free Wednesday at Cal AcademyFree admission is available to visitors on the third Wednesday of every month, through the generosity of The Bernard Osher Foundation. Admission is on a first come, first served basis, and early arrival is recommended due to the likelihood of high demand. Also, please note that final entry to the ...
The formation of the regular satellites of giant planets mirrors in profound ways the physical processes leading to the formation of the parent planetary bodies and provides an independent probe of the early history of the solar system. Ongoing results from the Cassini spacecraft are radically changing this field. Dr. ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Technology and Disability in the Developing World: An Urgent Agenda for Low-cost Asssitive TechnologyThe United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) is a landmark in international agreements that has brought a rights-based perspective to disability into the policy environment of many signatory nations. To fulfill signatory nations' committments towards increased accessibility, there is an urgent need for widespread access ...
Policy Driving Health Care Transformation: IT and Health ReformErwin Cho is the Director of Financial Sustainability for Cal eConnect. He is responsible for business planning, development, and strategic iniatives that facilitate sustainable health information exchange.Before joining Cal eConnect, Mr. Cho was with Blue Shield of California where he held a number of positions of increasing responsibility related to ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering ColloquiaThe Clean Energy Project: Finding candidate materials for organic photovoltaics and electronics with the help of half a million volunteersSpeaker: Speaker/Performer: Prof. Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Chemistry & Chemical Biology Dept., Harvard UniversityRoom 180
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Power of AbstractionAbstraction is at the center of much work in Computer Science. It encompasses finding the right interface for a system as well as finding an effective design for a system implementation. Furthermore, abstraction is the basis for program construction, allowing programs to be built in a modular fashion. This talk ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Local/Salvaged Materials Most all green building strategies have some negative impacts, but one strategy that stands out as clearly win-win is the use of salvaged materials in our building projects. The use of salvaged materials reduces the waste stream, while at the same time serving as a valuable material resource. Wood salvaged from urban ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 Members Advance, $15 General & at door
Glenn R. Stewart of the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group will discuss falcons in a changing world, and will be accompanied by a live falcon. Falcons that once nested in remote cliffs are now nesting in cities on man-made structures such as buildings and bridges. In 1970 there were ...
Until 30 years ago, the rainforest canopies – the upper treetops - has been almost entirely unexplored. With the advent of canopy access techniques such as construction cranes and hot-air balloons, scientists have been able to document the highly diverse communities of plants, animals, and fungi that dwell 100 meters ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Seniors, Free Members
Our Explosive Sun: New Views of the Nearest Star and the Largest Explosions in the Solar SystemRecent satellite missions are giving scientists dramatic new views of the Sun and the huge magnetic explosions in its outer layers that cause flares and the ejections of huge masses of superheated gas. For example, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, a NASA satellite launched in 2010, is producing images of the ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($2 parking charge)
Nerd Nite SF #11: Pisco, Metallurgy, and Poli-PsyCombine: equal parts booze, brainpower, brilliant slide presentations, and intellectual banter. Add: a splash of irreverence and a couple ironic twists. Shake for 20 minutes. Serve in the coolest club in town. Discuss. And there you have it: Nerd Nite SF in a nutshell, um, highball glass! This month's cocktails ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $8
The Impact & Recovery of Asteroid 2008 TC3Join Dr. Peter Jenniskens from SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center for a presentation on The Impact and Recovery of Asteroid 2008 TC3. Dr. Jenniskens shares the incredible story of the impact of a small asteroid and the subsequent search for fragments in the remote Nubian desert of Sudan. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
This is Mission Control"This is Mission Control" with Jay Trimble of NASA-AmesNASA's space exploration missions are guided by teams of mission controllers on the ground. Whether it's the control of robots that extend our senses to the surface of distant planets, telescopic eyes that peer deep into the universe with multi-spectral vision, or ...
