What can black hole dynamics tell us about Quantum Gravity?Forty years ago, Jacob Bekenstein and Stephen Hawking showed that black holes are "hot," with characteristic temperatures and entropies that depend on properties of their event horizons. The Hawking temperature and the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy are quantum and gravitational -- they depend on both Planck's constant and Newton's gravitational constant -- ...
Responding to climate change involves both mitigation and adaptation, and these impacts prove to be particularly profound on the built environment. Come hear from two leading climate practitioners, Cole Roberts and Alisdair McGregor, both of Arup, as they present their recently released book. Two Degrees: The Built Environment and Our ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for Members
Synthetic biology was once-upon-a-time reserved for big pharma and the multimillon dollar chemical manufacturing industry. But today, startups and hackers in their garages and basements are using cloud based services and low cost labs, tools and equipment to manipulate organisms to produce materials and products of economic value.Startups like Lygos ...
Where: StanfordCost: $40.00 - $50.00
Annual CES DownloadThis is one of our more popular meeting topics - a look at some of the latest and greatest, and sometimes weirdest new products shown at the Consumer Electronics Show. Both Gary and Tom have attended CES for over a decade each, and both are in Las Vegas for ten ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: $10 General, Members Free in advance, $5 at door
An Evening with Elon MuskElon Musk is living two ultimate boyhood fantasies: creating a sports car company and a rocket launch corporation. As co-founder of PayPal, Elon helped transform payment online systems and then, like a true revolutionary, set his sights on electric cars and space transport.Today Elon Musk is CEO of both Tesla ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: TBA
Dark Energy and the Runaway UniverseJoin us to hear Alex Filippenko, Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley, as he discusses the expansion of our Universe and how it is speeding up with time, driven by mysterious "dark energy." Dating back to 1998, observations revealed that the expansion rate of the Universe is speeding up with time, ...
Denis R. Benjamin, MD, grew up in South Africa, emigrating to the Pacific Northwest in 1970. He practiced pediatric pathology at the children's hospitals in Seattle, Washington and Fort Worth, Texas. He became an amateur mycologist soon after his arrival in the USA. He recently returned to the east slopes ...
