WHAT (SOME) PHYSICISTS DO: ONE HILLBILLY'S PERSPECTIVE ON THE SUBJECTDr. Jerry Johnston from Optical Coating Laboratory Inc. in Santa Rosa will be talking about his career evolution from being an academic to a technical project manager position in the aerospace and defense industry.
Through systematic reviews and original research, this presentation will review evidence of environmental impacts of renewable electricity generation technologies compared, where possible, to their conventional incumbents. Evidence for greenhouse gas emissions, water and land use will be reviewed mostly from the perspective of life cycle assessment. Areas of uncertainty will ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Microfluidic Biological Processors: Towards Micro Biosystems on a ChipThe basic life components (genes, protein, cells) function at critical length scales; the aggregate of these multi-scale reactions enables precise and complex living operations, such as the immune response, regulation and adaptation, repair and maintenance, and hierarchical self-assembly. Rapid advancements in microfluidic technology are beginning to enable large-scale, high-throughput processing ...
Precise control of quantum systems currently occupies many labs throughout the world, with recent interest focusing on quantum information. This talk will focus on quantum-state manipulation in the context of trapped atomic ions, one example of similar work that is being carried out with many other AMO and condensed matter ...
Program:6:45pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.7:00-7:25: Laura Richard(UC Berkeley Art Historian) on "An interdisciplinary introduction to artist Maria Nordman"Abstract forthcoming... Read more7:25-7:50: Paul Skokowski(Stanford Philosopher) on "Are you a zombie?" Abstract forthcoming... Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have ...
What if YOU could hear with your ankles, shed your skin to get smaller, squeeze seven kinds of silk from millions of tiny built-in spigots, or release a balloon from your hind end and sail 30,000 feet above the earth? What if you ate your mate after sex – or ...
Where: AlbanyCost: Free
The Modern Origins Story: From the Big Bang to Habitable PlanetsThe scientific understanding of our origins began in earnest with Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin, and others, and has since evolved into a rich, detailed, and well-tested model. In addition to their intrinsic scientific importance, these ideas also have far reaching implications for other aspects of people's lives (e.g., philosophical, religious, and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $8 Members, $10 Seniors
