California's Water FutureHow should California manage its water in the future and which incentives will motivate the biggest changes in conservation and agricultural efficiency? Which water policies and practices have backfired? Join water economist David Zetland for a fresh perspective on how we can manage our most precious resource in the 21st ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Dispersal of Protoplanetary DisksProtoplanetary disks originate during star formation and evolve rapidly, to form planetary systems before they disperse in a few million years. Dr. Gorti will describe disk evolution and discuss disk dispersal mechanisms in the context of recent theoretical models. Theory will be compared with observations to summarize our current understanding ...
Over the next 10 years, personal robots (as opposed to industrial robots) have the potential to improve people's lives by taking automation to a new level. Like personal computers of 30 years ago, the personal robotics industry will take off and become an economic engine. But robotics is a complex, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Frailty, thy Name is Not Always Woman: Health and Disease of Women in the PastThe unique nature of the human skeleton as a product of both tissue level bone biology as well as behavior over the life course, provides bioarchaeologists with a powerful perspective on the construction of gendered identity in past populations. Variation or changes in bone morphology observed on the skeleton have ...
Mountain lions have recently been seen at sites in the Golden Gate National Parks-Milagra Ridge, Mori Point, Rancho Corral de Tierra-and San Pedro Valley County Park.Please join mountain lion expert Zara McDonald of Felidae (www.felidaefund.org) as she discusses mountain lion ecology and how to safely coexist with these important parts ...
Where: PacificaCost: Free
February LASER Event6:45pm-7pm: Socializing/networking.7pm - 7:25pm: Daniel Small and Luca Antonucci on "First Light"The Hubble Ultra Deep Field imaging system unveiled the deepest portrait of the visible universe ever achieved by humankind that reveals the first light from 13.5 billion years ago.7:25-7:50pm: Anne Fougeron (Architect) on "City of the Future"As of 2008 ...
All animals live in close contact with microorganisms of all sorts. These microorganisms depend on animals for food, shelter, places to reproduce, etc... These microbes' lives are thus affected by ways in which the animal behaves, and many of these microbes have evolved ways to ensure that their hosts behave ...
Where: AlbanyCost: Free
Sleep: How Much Do We Need? How Do We Get What We Need?Dr. Allison Harvey is a faculty member of the UC Berkeley Department of Psychology and Director of the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic. Her research focuses on the relationship between sleep and mood, and on treatments to improve sleep in adolescents and adults.
Where: El CerritoCost: Free
29th Annual Bunyan LectureProf. Andrea Ghez of UCLA will give the annual Bunyan lecture. Prof. Ghez's research is focused on using and developing high spatial resolution imaging techniques to study star formation and investigating the proposed massive black hole at the center of our Galaxy.
