Dr. Arati Prabhakar, director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), will be the first speaker for the spring 2015 View from the Top series.
Celebrate your creative side with activities designed to get you thinking. Make light fly, create music with pen and paper, and animate a light cube. Benesse Corporation will be here, all the way from Japan, to showcase some of its best activities for lifelong learning.
Where: BerkeleyCost:
Does the Environment Still Matter? Daily Temperature and Income in the United StatesIt is widely hypothesized that incomes in wealthy countries are insulated from environmental conditions because individuals have the resources needed to adapt to their environment. We test this idea in the wealthiest economy in human history. Using within-county variation in weather, we estimate the effect of daily temperature on annual ...
Drinks reception for Sense About Science USA and the Ask for Evidence campaignThis event will introduce the recently established Sense About Science USA to an invited audience, with discussion of its collaboration with Stats.org and plans for the Ask for Evidence campaign in the US.Professor John Ioannidis, C.F. Rehnborg Chair in Disease Prevention at Stanford University, will give a keynote speech to ...
Mathematician Blaise Pascal famously wrote, "The heart has reasons that reason cannot comprehend." Perhaps. But, on Valentine's Day Eve, and with the expert help of UCSF's Thomas Lewis, Wonderfest and Ask a Scientist will give comprehension a try.How did the human race evolve from solitary predators into the intensely social creatures ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Green FridayGREEN FRIDAY meets on the second Friday of the month in the Sierra Club Office, 2530 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley. Doors open 7pm; the program runs from 7:30 to 9:30 including questions and discussion. Refreshments are served. $3 donation is requested. Our programs present speakers and topics discussing the most ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $3 donation requested
Imaging Extrasolar PlanetsAlthough more than a thousand extrasolar planets are now known, almost all have been discovered through indirect techniques. A small number have been directly imaged - the planet spatially resolved from its star - which opens up detection of new kinds of planets (young, massive, in the outer parts of ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 parking)
Flame Retardant Dilemma SymposiumThis symposium series brings together contributors from industry, government, academia, and citizens groups to share information on flame retardant standards as well as how to protect human and environmental health by reducing toxics in consumer products.A suggested donation to cover lunch and materials can be made at the registration table ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $25 General, $10 F/T Students, $50 Corporate
