Bounds on the Energy Consumption of Computational KernelsAs computing devices evolve with successive technology generations, many machines target either the mobile or high-performance computing/datacenter environments. In both of these form factors, energy consumption often represents the limiting factor on hardware and software efficiency. On mobile devices, limitations in battery technology may reduce possible hardware capability due to ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Climate Change 2014: The IPCC Fifth Assessment ReportChris Field is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, Melvin and Joan Lane Professor at Stanford University, and Faculty Director of Stanford's Jasper Ridge Preserve. He is co-chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which led the IPCC Special Report ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Geometry, Invariants, and the Elusive Search for Complexity Lower BoundsSince the 1970s, it has been known that algebraic geometry provides concepts and methods for proving that the evaluation of certain polynomials is hard. However, the range of these methods so far has been limited, and its successful application to algebraic versions of NP-complete problems (e.g., computing the permanent) has ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
THE EFFECTS OF SOLAR ACTIVITY ON OUR EARTHDr. Leif Svalgaard of Stanford University will talk about how the Sun's magnetic activity influences our environment, for better and for worse.
Program:6:45pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.7:00-7:25: Loren Frank (UCSF)on "What is a memory?"Recent discoveries have given us new insights into how memories are stored and retrieved...Read more 7:25-7:50: Lia Cook(Visual Artist) on "Woven Faces and Neuro Nets"Abstract...Read more 7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
A Deep View on the Early Universe: Extreme Makeovers and Overweight GalaxiesGalaxies are the building blocks of the Universe; massive structures that contain up to 1000s of billions of stars. Galaxies in today's Universe show a striking diversity among their properties, with large variations in their appearance, age, size, weight, and stellar birth rate. Despite this diversity, galaxies can broadly be ...
