Community-Scale Renewable Energy MicrogridsProfessor Isaacson is the principle investigator of the Sustainable Engineering and Ecological Design (SEED) research program at UCSC, which recently received a five-year $4.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to fund clean energy research and educational programsRegistration required for free box lunch.Speaker: Michael Isaacson, UC Santa Cruz
Trophic dynamics and animal movements establish links among humans, animals, plants, microbes, and the environment through resource acquisition and allocation. These linkages, in turn, create a reciprocal relationship between ecosystem goods and services and the impacts of humans on ecosystem structure and function. My research combines advanced analytical tools, including ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Changing Plankton of San Francisco BayBiological oceanographer Tara Schraga of the U.S. Geologic Survey will present The Changing Plankton of San Francisco Bay.The Exploratorium's Lab and Lunch is a free lunchtime series for adults that explores new work and collaborations between visiting scientists, educators, or artists and Exploratorium staff. Spend your lunch break in the ...
Next Generation Nonvolatile Memory and its Impact on Systems PerformanceFlash memory technology has been serving the storage memory application markets for several decades. However, in recent years, further scaling of this technology has shown profound limitations. Currently, it is widely accepted that scaling Flash below 20nm has degraded performance and reliability, thus, resulting in significant overhead complexity and computational ...
Darwin described how evolution produced "endless forms most beautiful," yet he was unaware of genetics and the laws of inheritance. Our genomes provide the ultimate record of evolution, and evolution explains many fascinating aspects of our genomes. This cafe will explore how genomics has deepened our understanding of evolution in ways ...
