Free Wednesday at Cal AcademyFree admission is available to visitors on the third Wednesday of every month, through the generosity of The Bernard Osher Foundation. Admission is on a first come, first served basis, and early arrival is recommended due to the likelihood of high demand. Also, please note that final entry to the ...
The keeping of electronic medical records has led to an explosion of data and an academic industry that is trying to find patterns that predict illness, for instance based upon people's workplace, lifestyle habits, etc, or based on automated collection of medical data in a hospital setting. In this talk, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The oxygen isotopic composition of the Sun: implications for solar nebula chemistryWe have measured the oxygen isotopic composition of the solar wind, captured and returned to Earth by NASA's Genesis mission. The data demonstrate that the Earth, Moon, Mars, and bulk meteorites are depleted in 16O by ~7% relative to the bulk solar system in a non-mass-dependent manner. Gas phase photochemistry, ...
Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: Dealing With Massive Complexity and Uncertainty Climate change policy makers need good information upon which to base their decisions. Climate change is fundamentally an international and very long-run problem requiring information from a wide range of disciplines from physics to psychology. One response to the complexity with deep uncertainty that comes with this requirement has been ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
FREE Science Educators' Day (EDAY) 2011!The Optical Society (OSA) is hosting our annual Science Educators' Day (EDAY) with the help of OSA Student Chapters at Stanford University, Berkeley University and San Francisco State University for teachers and parents in the San Jose area who are interested in science education. This program focuses on effective and ...
Where: San JoseCost: FREE
The Science of Beer & Biotech Vendor ShowcaseJust because you may enjoy it on weekends doesn't mean there isn't some serious science behind it. San Jose BioCenter presents The Science of Beer featuring Dr. Charlie Bamforth, Dept Chair, Food Science & Technology, UC Davis and Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Brewing Science. Dr. Bamforth's talk will 'tap' into ...
Dr. Batalha has been affiliated with NASA Ames Research Center since 2000 where she conducts research on extrasolar planet detection and stellar astrophysics. She is a co-Investigator for NASA's Kepler Mission whose objective is to identify and characterize habitable, earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars. As Director of the Systems Teaching ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Making Faces: Developmental Mechanisms of Craniofacial EvolutionMarin Science Seminar for Teens, Educators & Their Families presents:Rich Schneider, Ph.D. of UCSFDr. Schneider will overview experiments in his laboratory that have revealed molecular and cellular processes involved in facial patterning. He will describe how his studies to understand the basis for skull shape in breeds of dogs led ...
Where: San RafaelCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #17: Open Source, B-Horror Science and Toxoplasma!Nerd Nite SF guarantees to give you the creeps this month as our speakers expound on the creeping trend of open source and data, what's creeping into the brains of cat ladies, and how the B-horror movie creeps up and down the subject of science. Be there and be creepy, ...
