Smart City: What Is the Added Value?Smart City approaches rely on the integration of modeling/simulation techniques and ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) into city planning and practices, such as city growth projections, city operations (municipal water/electric supply, waste management, etc.), city processes (such as payroll), city services (to citizens, to businesses, to suppliers, etc.), etc. Smart ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $195
The Universe in an Atom: exploring deep mysteries of nature with precision measurements in atoms Modern cosmology poses deep, unanswered questions about the nature of the universe: - What is the dark energy that causes the accelerating expansion of the universe? - What is the dark matter whose gravitational influence holds together galaxies and galactic clusters? - What causes the matter-antimatter asymmetry ...
Scientists have been aware of human induced seismicity for decades. But attention to the issue has increased in recent years, as concerns have been raised for wastewater disposal, hydraulic fracturing, and CO2 sequestration. The importance of credible induced seismicity hazard assessment has never been higher.In this talk, Mark McClure will ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Hunting for the Higgs Boson and More at the LHCFor the past three years, experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have begun exploring physics at the high energy frontier. A rich harvest of initial physics results has been obtained that allows us to test the Standard Model (SM) of elementary particles and to make searches Beyond the SM ...
The Bay Area is at the center of the creative and technology innovation driving the Internet age. This period of rapid evolution has created new and dynamic networks reflecting the great diversity of our region. But it is also a time of contradiction and disruption, challenging the traditional boundaries of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free members
Benjamin Dean Lecture: The History of Planetariums as the Morrison Turns 60!Join us as we celebrate the 60th birthday of the Academy's Morrison Planetarium with a special presentation and look back through our dome's history and the history of planetariums across the country. Dr. Marché will lead us on a journey back in time from the early days of the Morrison ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Seniors, $6 Members
Earth StoriesSpeaker: Doug McConnell, NBC Bay Area reporter and PBS OpenRoad producer
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