Two KIPAC Tea TalksGalaxy colors and halos - signatures from velocity spaceSpeaker: Susmita Adhikari (KIPAC)Polarimetry of Exoplanetary SystemsSpeaker: Max Millar-Blancher, JPLÂ
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Disruptive Transportation and the Future of the CityTransportation network companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft are dramatically changing the way we travel today. However, everyone suffers if we don’t proactively plan for the ripple effects of their increasing ubiquity, not to mention the impacts caused by autonomous vehicles. Come learn how the growth of TNCs is ...
Where: San JoseCost: $10 General, Free for Members
Adaptive management is an iterative approach to natural resource management, which evaluates a natural system and responds to new data. It enables action and decision-making in real-world scenarios.While the principles of adaptive management are well known in environmental systems management, there's a lesser-known kind of adaptation going on behind the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free, RSVP Required
Dooley and Pelosi: Bridging Trump’s Divide - RESCHEDULEDDebbie Dooley helped organize the Tea Party’s first national demonstration in 2009 and until recently was on the board of the Tea Party Patriots. She enthusiastically supports Donald Trump, defends Roy Moore and despises the “Bush cabal.†But her views transcend typical partisan boundaries. She loathes the Koch brothers, thinks solar ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Join us for a special SETI Talk on 1I/`Oumuamua, the first known interstellar small body, possibly an asteroid which is probably coming from another planetary system. Its recent discovery by Pan-STARRS1 offers a rare opportunity to explore the planetary formation processes of other stars, and the effect of the interstellar ...
RESCHEDULED TO 1.30.18Dr. Baldo Marinovic, a research biologist at Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz studies zooplankton ecology and the dynamics of ocean food webs. MS Marine sciences UCSC, PhD Zoology University Western Australia.Since 1997, he has been conducting surveys in Monterey Bay to understand what determines ...