LEDs: Technology and ApplicationsThis class will provide a basic understanding of solid-state lighting technology; how LEDs work; their advantages (efficacy and lifetime) as well as disadvantages (heat and cost). The relationship between lifetime, reliability and economics will be discussed, as well as standards used to measure this new technology. In the afternoon, attendees ...
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.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Lost Landscapes of San Francisco: Fundraiser Benefitting Internet ArchiveRick Prelinger's Lost Landscapes of San Francisco is a movie happening that brings old-time San Francisco footage and our community together in an interactive crowd-driven event. Showing in the majestic Internet Archive building, your ticket donation will benefit the Internet Archive, which suffered a major fire in November. Please give generously ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25-$100
Molecular arms race at the virus-host interfaceViruses are at the threshold of the inanimate and the animate and represent the transitional phase in evolution, when chemistry morphed in to self-sustaining life on earth. For this reason, viruses are the most abundant biological entity on earth, found in all ecosystems infecting every type of living organism from ...
NuSTAR is NASA's newest eye on the X-ray sky, focusing on X-rays at higher energies than the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Since launch in June 2012, NuSTAR has been uncovering black holes hidden deep within gaseous galaxies, including studies of the black hole at the center of our own Milky Way. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #43: Accounting, Meyer Lemons, and Libraries and Librarians!From the sweetest of lemons to the sweetest of information scientists and the sweetest of… accounting?, we have a delightful cocktail of non-holiday-related talks that will make you glad you skipped that one Christmas party. So head over to the Rickshaw Stop and join us for fruity drinks and fruitful ...
