Mini Monday: Feathered Friends Feasting Encourage your young naturalist's curiosity at Mini Monday, a special day for children and their caregivers. Animal encounters, activities and crafts help connect your child to our natural world and all its wonders. Fee: $10 for the first child ($20 for non-members), $6 for each additional child ages 2 and up. Children under 2 ...
Where: Walnut CreekCost: $10 for the first child ($20 for non-members)
The fight between cooling and heating in clusters of galaxies Clusters of galaxies are the largest gravitationally-bound individual objects in the Universe. The vast majority of their baryonic mass is found in the form of hot 10^6-8 K gas, known as the intracluster medium (ICM). The density of this gas strongly increases in the cores of the galaxies where the ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
ULTRASHORT PULSE LASER SCIENCE AND ITS APPLICATIONSSince the introduction of sub picosecond pulse generation in 1970s, the femtosecond laser science has growing into one of the main subject of modern optics. In this seminar, Dr. Sangyoun Gee, SSU lecturer, will discuss the basics of femtosecond laser science together with several research examples. Then selected applications of ...
The discovery of the Higgs particle at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012 completes the Standard Model of particle physics, which successfully accounts for almost all phenomena observed in the universe. Professor Dimopoulos will overview this model and some of the deep questions that suggest going beyond it to theories ...
