Is Planetary Defense Feasible - DE-STAR: A Planetary Defense and Exploration SystemDr. Lubin will discuss how his team has proposed an orbital planetary defense system that is capable of beamed power allowing a number of directed energy (DE) possibilities including planetary defense, propulsion allowing relativistic probes and interstellar communications using existing technologies. Recent developments in photonics allow such a system whereas ...
Genomic Consequences of Climate Change: A Fish's PerspectiveGlobal climate change translates into an increase in ocean temperatures and ocean acidification, with far-reaching consequences. In this talk, Dr. Giacomo Bernardi of UC Santa Cruz will explore genomic changes due to warming and acidification. In Mediterranean waters, warming has resulted in an increase in biological invaders coming from the ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Rising Seas, Rising CostsSwelling sea levels used to be a concern associated with future generations and far away lands. Then Superstorm Sandy poured the Atlantic Ocean into the New York Subway. Cities and states are starting to realize they need to start planning and paying now for tides heading their way. San Francisco ...
6:30-6:55: Bernie Lubell(Kinetic Artist) on "Intimacy and Entanglement"Exploring the conflicted relationship we have with machines via interactive artworks derived from the mechanistic physiologies of E.J. Marey... Read more6:55-7:20: Katherine Sherwood(Visual Artist) on "How a Cerebral Hemorrhage Altered my Art"Abstract...Read more7:20-7:40: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the ...
ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager originally designed by Sun Microsystems (now a part of Oracle). The features of ZFS include protection against data corruption, support for high storage capacities, data compression, snapshots and copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic repair, RAID Z (RAID 5) ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Conversations on Science: The Neurobiology of Mind & BehaviorAntonio Damasio is a professor of neuroscience and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. His research helped uncover the neural basis for emotions and has shown that they play a central role in social cognition and decision-making. Since antiquity, artists and philosophers have ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $27 General, $25 Members
