Writing the Code for Personal RelevancePersonal relevance is the currency of the experience economy. Context and intention drive digital exchanges in education, commerce and entertainment. We stand on the threshold of new opportunities for personally relevant interactions between people and their data, their devices, their environments, their communities. A few challenges remain. Join us on as ...
Where: StanfordCost: $125
Binary Black Hole AccretionBinary black hole mergers in the presence of gaseous accretion flows are prime candidates for simultaneous observations of both gravitational waves and electromagnetic signals. I will present the results of 2D hydrodynamical simulations of circumbinary disk accretion using the moving-mesh code DISCO. These simulations demonstrate that gas accretion is not ...
SEEING VOICES: IMAGING APPLIED TO EARLY RECORDED SOUND PRESERVATION Sound was first recorded and reproduced by Thomas Edison in 1877. Until about 1950, when magnetic tape use became common, most recordings were made on mechanical media such as wax, foil, shellac, lacquer, and plastic. Some of these older recordings contain material of great historical interest, may be in obsolete ...
It's no secret that NightLife likes to go BIG-and this week will be no exception!Marvel at colossal whale skeletons in the Academy's latest exhibit Whales: Giants of the Deep.Plus, crawl through a life-sized replica of a blue whale heart and view ancient artifacts from the Maori people of New Zealand.Watch ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
Life After Cancer: Managing Your Dental HealthThis presentation will cover general oral hygiene topics as they relate to overall systemic health for anyone who has undergone cancer therapy and problems that may develop after treatment has ended.Speaker: Catherine Draper, RDH, MS
Bryan's Shearwater (Puffinus bryani) was identified for the first time in 2011 by Peter Pyle and two colleagues, based on DNA analysis of a specimen collected in 1963 on Midway Atoll. That specimen had initially been misidentified as a Little Shearwater. Peter will recount discovery of the new species, which ...
