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SynBioBeta 2020: The Global Synthetic Biology Conference - RescheduledSynBioBeta is where tech meets bio and bio meets tech. Join us September 29 - October 1, 2020 to see how synthetic biology is disrupting consumer products, food, agriculture, medicine, chemicals, materials, and more. The SynBioBeta Global Synthetic Biology Conference 2020 unites the leading biological engineers, investors, innovators, and entrepreneurs ...
Where: OaklandCost: $2,500 after Feb 21
Global Energy Dialogues: Atmospheric Carbon Removal at the Gigaton Scale - LivestreamStanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy director, Prof. Arun Majumdar, leads a conversation on Atmospheric Carbon Removal with Ajay Mehta, General Manager of New Energies Research & Technology at Shell Oil Company; Chris Field, Director of Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment; and Stanford University Precourt Family Professor Sally Benson. ...
Where: Cost: Free
Live ScienceJoin Chabot Science Educators for a fun and interactive science experiment! Together, we will investigate and observe a phenomenon of science through a captivating demonstration.We’ll ask for observations and explanations of what YOU think is happening before revealing the science behind it. Then, we’ll end with a live Q&A for ...
Solomon Hsiang directs the Global Policy Laboratory at UC Berkeley, where researchers are integrating econometrics, spatial data science, and machine learning to answer questions that are central to managing planetary resources. He will discuss their work and its impact on policy-making, including the economics of climate change, UN treaties that ...
Michael is a professional engineer with the California Department of Water Resources and PhD Candidate in the UC Davis Hydrologic Science Graduate GroupRegister at weblink for Zoom information
How do scientists go from OMG to PhD? How do they turn their passion for science into their profession? What advice do they have for future scientists? If you are a 5th-12th grade student, undergraduate, teacher or parent, join us to ask these questions and more in a Q&A session ...
Vero’s work explores how “modern energy for all" - the internationally-supported goal to increase electricity access - came to be touted as a primary means of poverty alleviation in the Global South. Despite outsized amounts of money and support, electricity development goals have been largely unrealized and huge disparities in ...
Where: Cost: Free
How do models learn? - LivestreamHow can we explain how deep neural networks arrive at decisions? Feature representation is complex and to the human eye opaque; instead a set of interpretability tools intuit what the model has learned by looking at what inputs it pays attention to. This talk will talk about interpretability tools for ...
The pursuit of more sustainable consumption and production of consumer goods has taken an inside-out turn. Instead of external stakeholders devising carrot-and-stick methods of influence, industry players like brands, retailers, and platforms are increasingly finding value in sustainability governance. Able to collect data streams inaccessible to stakeholders, with the market ...
Where: Cost: Free
American Health Care: What's Left After COVID-19? - LivestreamJoin us for a virtual medical panel discussion about whether the COVID-19 crisis will end up trimming some of the waste out of America's health-care system or changing it more fundamentally.For this 10th Annual Lundberg Institute Lecture, previous TLI lecturers will join Dr. George Lundberg in a reprise of some ...
