LSST@SLAC: Tony Tyson: Understanding the LSST CCDsLike all detectors, our CCDs have "features" which should be understood if we are to maximize the science. I will review thick CCD detectors, their science justification, their care and feeding, modeling, lab measurements, and impact on Camera and other LSST subsystems including Data Management.
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Biotic Games- Playing with Living CellsThe Riedel-Kruse Lab combines basic research and engineering approaches by working on biophysics of development and biotic games. Biotic games require biological process to run and could have a similar impact on society as conventional video games based on electronics; and we design and engineer biotic games specifically targeted at ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern SexualityThis talk explores the encounter of sexual- and gender-variant people with psychiatry and psychoanalysis in mid-twentieth-century America and examines the role of psychiatric scrutiny and stigma in the making of modern sexuality. Focusing on the archive of St. Elizabeths Hospital, the federal hospital for the mentally ill in Washington, DC, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Peer Effects and Interventions in Online Networks: Causal Inference with and without ExperimentsPeer effects (i.e., social interactions, interference, social influence, spillovers) are common in many settings of interest to social scientists, epidemiologists, system designers, and policy-makers. Researchers often aim to estimate these peer effects themselves and/or estimate what would happen under a global (i.e., network-wide) treatment that functions partially through peer effects. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Institute of Transportation Studies Friday Seminar: Clean Transportation as the path to a Clean GridVehicles account for nearly 23% of global energy consumption, and global GHG emissions from vehicles will increase significantly by 2050. Transportation electrification is needed soon and at significant scale to meet climate targets and through the deployment of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) a unique opportunity exists to transform two major ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Night HikeHike under the beautiful crescent moon through the redwoods from twilight to moonlight on an easy 1-3 mile hike. After the hike, stay and explore other amazing objects in the night sky through our telescopes (weather permitting) or tour the Telescope Makers Workshop. Hike will take place rain or shine.**Advanced reservations ...
