2024: 60 Years of Laser Mode LockingWe present a brief history of mode locked lasers, starting from early beginnings in 1964, and including the transformation from mode-locked lasers to frequency combs in 2000. Based on the vast available research material, we also boldly attempt to predict where the technology may be headed in the future, encompassing commercial applications as well as new opportunities in ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
A Reexamination of Global WarmingThe most quantitative evidence for global warming consists of 1.4 billion earth land surface temperature measurements dating back to Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. There is useable Earth coverage from 1800 to the present, and excellent coverage from 1900 onward. There have been several criticisms of the prior analyses of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Fukushima from the back-end of the fuel cycle and waste managementWhile the crippled reactors at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station are yet to reach cold shut-down state, the rate of radioactivity release from the site has significantly decreased. Now the main focus has turned to environmental remediation, treatment, and eventual disposal of contaminated materials. These actions will be heavily dependent ...
As unlikely as it may seem, the future of the commercial nuclear industry, except perhaps in a few European countries and in Japan, appears to have been little affected by the Fukushima disaster. In the United States, Fukushima may have an impact on the relicensing of old plants and result ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Dava Sobel: A More Perfect HeavenThe bestselling author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter tells the story of Nicolaus Copernicus and the revolution he inspired. By 1514, the reclusive cleric Copernicus had written an initial outline of his heliocentric theory - in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, not the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 standard, MEMBERS FREE, $7 students
November LASER Event6:30pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking.6:45-7:10pm: Jennifer Parker (UC Santa Cruz) on "Down to Earth: Art, Astronomy and Physics" Highlighting new works created by artists and scientists from the UCSC OpenLab Network. The OpenLab Network is a new research initiative at the University of California Santa Cruz. The OpenLab Network targets a complex education ...
Eoin Brodie: How will shifting rainfall patterns affect the soil and the carbon cycle? Microbial ecologist Eoin Brodie leads an effort to understand how communities of soil microbes change as the climate changes.Janet Jansson: A handful of soil teems with billions of microbes, a few of which could lead to ...
Israeli-born psychologist Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his groundbreaking work on the psychology of judgment and decision making. His latest book examines the two systems that drive the way we make choices – one fast, intuitive, and emotional; the other slower, more deliberate and logical. Discover ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20-$25 General, $17-$22 Members, $10 Students
Mesoamerica's great pyramids excite our imagination with images of a fascinating civilization in the distant past, but they also provide a tangible link to the richness and enduring power of Maya culture as expressed by the Maya people today. The infamous year 2012 gains astronomical and cultural significance in a ...
