Climate Science & Solutions for Bay Area SchoolsSchool groups from all over the Bay Area will be coming by bus to this event. Featuring hands-on science on climate change and solutions. Student groups will be viewing films and taking part in the Active Cinema Room, where the interactive climate science labs wil be set up.We're looking for ...
When quantum materials get hot: anomalous thermal conduction and radiationHeat conduction in and radiation from solids provides a unique window to probe solid state physics, and also plays a pivotal role for a wide range of industry applications. Although it is a traditional research focus in mechanical engineering, study of heat transfer from materials scientists’ perspective would result in ...
Reinventing Expertise in the Age of Platforms: The Case of Data Science"Data scientist,†so says the Harvard Business Review, is “the sexiest job of the 21st century.†What accounts for the prestige that this new professional mode of knowledge production now enjoys across institutions ranging from non-profits to research labs, corporations, hospitals, and schools? Based on a two-year ethnographic study of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Fishes of the San Francisco Estuary: A Seascape PerspectiveSeascape ecology is an emerging field that applies principles of landscape ecology to marine environments. For my dissertation research, I used long-term data on a fish assemblage in the Suisun Marsh, San Francisco Estuary, California, to answer the following questions: (1) Do species exhibit ontogenetic or seasonal shifts in distribution? ...
Mind the GAP: Bridging Strategies for Universal Energy AccessOver 1 billion people face energy poverty around the world, without access to modern, reliable, and affordable energy. The slow pace and high cost and environmental impacts of energy poverty alleviation is in part the result of relying on century-old planning, financing, and institutional paradigms to design and operate energy ...
The future of lossy image compression: what machines can learn from humansThe availability of massive public image datasets appears to have hardly been exploited in image compression. In this work, we present a novel framework for image compression based on human image generation and publicly available images as "side information." Our framework consists of one human who describes images using text ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Origins of Silicon Valley: Why and How It Happened HereWhy did Silicon Valley come into being? The story goes back to local Hams (amateur radio operators) trying to break RCA's tube patents, "angel" investors, the sinking of the Titanic, Fred Terman and Stanford University, local invention of high-power tubes, WW II and radar, William Shockley's mother living in Palo ...
