Movie Reconstruction From Brain Signals and Statistical StabilityRecently, researchers have attempted to answer one of the important questions in computational neuroscience: Can the vast quantities of high-dimensional neuroscience data available today be used to decode brain activities? Professor Bin Yu reports on a thrilling breakthrough at the intersection of neuroscience and statistical machine learning that is ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
History of the U.S. Army Corps of EngineersJoin Ranger Bill to learn about the "When/Where/Why/What/ How," the diverse, complex, many faceted missions, goals and objectives of the USACE's "Birth" in 1775 under General George Washington.
Nation from the Bottom Up: Environmental Hygiene and Disease Prevention in Twentieth Century JapanThis talk is based on a chapter from Nation from the Bottom Up: Environmental Hygiene and Disease Prevention in Twentieth Century Japan. It examines the history of fecal-oral route and parasite-diseases, and the technology of toilets and waste-management, asking the larger question of how Japan managed, treated and disposed of ...
Treasure Island NightLifeGet marooned for a night of island-inspired entertainment as the Treasure Island Music Festivalreturns to NightLife.Get down with a live performance by local folk-rockers Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, whose latest release We the Common (Ribbon Music) has been lauded by the likes of NPR, Spin and Paste ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
'Odd Couples: Extraordinary Differences Between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom'Evolutionary biologist Dr. Daphne Fairbairn will be giving a talk and signing her new book, "Odd Couples: Extraordinary Differences Between the Sexes."While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: free
Neuropathic (Nerve) Pain-- from Toe to HeadThis talk will focus on treatment strategies for nerve pain ranging from peripheral neuropathy to complex regional pain syndrome.Speaker: Ian Carroll, MD, Assistant Professor, Anesthesia, Stanford University Medical Center
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
The Science of Our UniverseJoin Exploratorium scientist Ron Hipschman for colorful explorations of the physical world.We tend to think of "home" as the building in which we live, or the town or city where we reside. Voyage to the edge of the known universe, and gain some perspective on the tiny planet we call ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Alan Weisman / Countdown: Our Last Best Hope for Life on Earth?In his bestselling book The World without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that we would be inspired to find a way to add humans back to his ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $15 General, $8 students in advance, $20 at door
David Lukas, writer and naturalist, will cover bird bones, feathers, and muscles and how they work together to help a bird fly and live in its environment. Expect to learn about the inner and outer workings of birds.
The San Francisco–East Bay area still harbors one of the densest nesting populations of Golden Eagles in the world. Yet all is not well. Aside from development pressure putting the squeeze on eagle habitat, wind farm operations at the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area account for a high eagle mortality ...
Sydney Glassman is interested in the interactions between aboveground and belowground terrestrial communities, in particular the effects of mycorrhizal symbioses on plant community composition and function. She is also interested in understanding broad patterns of fungal and microbial diversity and the role of dispersal in shaping ectomycorrhizal communities. Sydney received ...
