Mastering Migraines: Prevention and Natural StrategiesLearn to identify and avoid your unique migraine triggers by looking at the most common triggers: food, odors, additives and deficiencies. All the information provided during this program will relate to safe treatments, which are available without the side effects that often come from taking prescription drugs. For example, you will learn ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, Free for Members, $7 Student
Multiscale and block-partitioned solvers for coupled reservoir flow and geomechanicsUnderstanding the hydro-mechanical behavior of subsurface formations is key in many subsurface engineering applications, such as hydrocarbon recovery, subsurface hydrology, and geologic carbon storage. Although one-way coupled or staggered in-time approaches may be successfully used in practice, it is unfortunately not in general known a priori when these weaker approximation ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Two Stanford Symbolic Systems Forum PresentationsNeural Responses to Monetary Incentives in Bipolar Disorder (Hershel Mehta, advisor: Brian Knutson, Psychology)Behavioral research implicates elevated reward sensitivity in bipolar disorder, which predicts both onset and more severe course of mania.  To neurally probe reward responsiveness in the context of bipolar disorder, we elicited neural responses to anticipation and ...
NASA's Kepler mission has determined that hospitable planets - just in our Milky Way Galaxy - number in the billions! Can we really be alone in this marvelous universe?Speaker: Dan Werthimer, Chief Scientist, Berkeley SETI
IMAGING EXTRASOLAR PLANETSDr. Bruce Macintosh of Stanford University will discuss how with current technology, young planets can be directly imaged - resolved from their parent star - with a technique called adaptive optics. He will discuss results from such imaging, particularly the four-planet system orbiting HR8799.
This talk will discuss a high level overview of some of Chevron’s macro-economic outlook, some key lessons learned from historical oil market outlooks, and a forward view of some of the key drivers of oil and gas markets for the next several years.Speaker: Patricia Leigh, Chevron
This talk attempts to debunk the GPU vs. CPU myth in deep neural networks applications, specifically for the connectomics problem in neuroscience. The talk will discuss how to performance engineer computer vision CNN networks (such as LeNet) with Caffe to achieve inference throughput on the order of 1 TB/hr on ...
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Life on Earth and BeyondKrish Seetah will tell us how lessons from history can help us combat disease outbreaks in future followed by a tour of the universe with Jessie Dotson.Astronomy on Tap Bay Area will be bringing you Astronomy in News TRIVIA! There are some cool prizes to be won!!Ages 21+
Where: Palo AltoCost: $5 advance, $10 at door
Nerd Nite East Bay: Bug Lessons, Exciting Deaths, Political AdsInsights From Insects: Be Better By Anthropomorphizing Arthropods Follow the blinking bug butt-lights into a better understanding of being human. Insects display some of the very best traits humans hope for in our own species, and offer value lessons on self-improvement. See from the perspective of rain beetles, learn ...
Where: OaklandCost: $8 Advance, $10 at door
Space ExplorationJoin Taste of Science at PianoFight for a night focused on space! Marcia Fiamengo a NASA Ambassador and Virgin Galactic Future Astronaut will speak about the importance of space exploration. Miguel Ramahlo-Santos, an associate professor at UCSF, will explain what he has learned from stem cells to open the possibility ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $5 advance, $10 at door
SF Green Film Fest: 'The Islands and the Whales'The Faroe Islands are rugged and forbidding. It’s a harsh, remote landscape surrounded by hundreds of miles of rough seas. However, the world is closing in. The Faroese, hardy descendants of Norse settlers, have eked out a living on these islands for over 1300 years. However, climate change and mercury ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $14 Seniors/Students
