Climate Change Impacts on Delta MetropolisesClimate change will affect cities everywhere, but no places will feel the effects as strongly as low-lying coastal cities, particularly those located in large river deltas and near tidal estuaries. The new book Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions explores the urban form of three of these places: ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for Members
Generative Adversarial Network and its Applications to Human Language ProcessingGenerative adversarial network (GAN) is a new idea for training models, in which a generator and a discriminator compete against each other to improve the generation quality. Recently, GAN has shown amazing results in image generation, but the applications of GAN on text and speech processing are still limited. In ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: $10 General, Free IEEE members
Wonderfest: Andy Weir: Best-Selling Author of 'The Martian' and 'Artemis'Andy Weir was unexpectedly thrust into the world of science fiction stardom when his debut novel, The Martian, became a best-selling book turned Oscar-nominated blockbuster movie starring Matt Damon. With that success, Weir has been living out his dream of writing full time and releasing his second novel, Artemis.Don't miss an ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $22 General, $15 Member, $5 Student
Not Just Seizing Sea Lions: How Domoic Acid is Impacting Southern Sea OttersDomoic acid is a biotoxin produced by harmful marine algae. It can cause acute seizures and long-term brain damage in a variety of marine mammals and humans. Hundreds of California sea lions showing signs from domoic acid toxicity are rescued each year by The Marine Mammal Center for treatment. In ...
Summer in San Francisco, when it’s colder than the surface of Mars and all the academics are difficult to pin down due to their extended vacations. Despite this, enough of them have spontaneously scattered to the same location for another round of Astronomy on Tap! Come to DNA Lounge on Tuesday, July ...
