Restoring Climate Health Through Innovative SolutionsPeter Fiekowsky founded Healthy Climate Alliance with the intention of restoring the climate to its preindustrial climate health. He hopes to accelerate an emerging array of innovations to reduce the level of carbon in the atmosphere and to preserve and rebuild Arctic ice. While reducing emissions is important, he promotes ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
The Sound of Darkness? Assuming the standard cosmological model, different data sets lead to inconsistent values of the Hubble constant. In this talk I will reformulate this discrepancy in terms of the sound horizon - the comoving distance traveled by sound waves from the beginning until recombination of the primordial plasma. The sound horizon ...
I will describe two projects in which we characterize complex systems - supercooled liquids and conjugated polymer aggregates - through single molecule or single particle fluorescence imaging. First, in supercooled liquids - systems that display behaviors consistent with the presence of heterogeneous dynamics - we investigate the time scales over ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Adding Numbers and Shuffling CardsPersi Diachonis, Stanford University, Depts. of Statistics & Mathematics, will give the Advanced Physics/Physics Colloquium.
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Hard Earth Talk: How Biodiversity Loss Hurts Human HealthThe Anthropocene -- the current geological age, shaped largely by human actions on the climate and the rest of Earth -- has been called the “sixth mass extinction.†One reason that’s a problem is that roughly half the new drugs approved in the United States over the past quarter century ...
