Pi Day, now celebrated by number lovers around the world, originated in 1988 at the Exploratorium. Join us as we celebrate the never-ending number 3.14159 . . . (and Einstein's birthday) at our last pi celebration at the Palace of Fine Arts.Pi Day Schedule:1 p.m.: Meet Pi Day founder, Larry ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
A Post-Equinox View of Saturn's RingsSaturn's Equinox 2009: Oblique lighting exposed vertical structure and embedded objects. The rings were thecoldest ever. Dr. Esposito will show how images inspired new occultation and spectral analysis that show abundant structure in the perturbed regions.The rings are more variable and complex than we had expected prior to this seasonal ...
In recent years, there has been significant interest in the applications of printed electronics for the realization of flexible displays, fully-printed RFID tags and embedded sensors. Printing of active circuitry is expected to enable a dramatic reduction in the overall cost of these systems, allowing for integration of electronic barcodes ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Real-time Field Monitoring of Levees within Comprehensive Health Assessment FrameworkAssessing the health of and maintaining civil infrastructure has been an increased concern worldwide in the wake of natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the summer 2007 flood events in the United Kingdom. The variability of properties within geotechnical systems makes predictions of soil behavior extremely difficult, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Building a Water Resilient CityThroughout the world, wastewater treatment and stormwater management systems are being re-thought. No longer considered a waste product, stormwater and other "waste" waters are now being managed, and sometimes reclaimed, in innovative ways that increases their resource value.There are clear connections between sewer system protection, stormwater management, and potable water ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Can we meet our renewable goals for 2030 and 2050?The California state legislature has set aggressive Green House Gas emissions reduction goals of 60% by 2030 and 80% by 2050. Achieving these goals requires combining strategies that significantly rethink how we plan and operate our power networks. In this talk I address how to rethink the dispatch of conventional ...
Electricity Economics: Time of Use Rates and Demand ResponsePanel discussion led by Professor Severin Borenstein, E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy at the Haas School of Business, Co-Director of the Energy Institute at Haas, and Director of the University of California Energy Institute.Panel: Mary Ann Piette (Director of Research): Lawrence Berkeley National Labs Roger Levy ...
Flash memory holds the promise of revolutionizing data storage and data processing as well. Sadly in the form of the SSD it has always broken this promise in the past. Principally flash SSD has suffered two major problems that have rendered it unusable in any high performance setting. SSDs have been unable ...
Pioneering cardiologist and geneticist Topol says that medicine is poised to go through its biggest shakeup in history. An unprecedented convergence of technologies, such as the ability to digitize human genomes and the invention of wireless tools, is gaining momentum, thrusting the medical field into the digital era. Topol describes ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
'Shelter in Place'Film by Zed Nelson. It is the vast, sprawling complexes of oil refineries and petrochemical plants that help make the Texan economy one of the largest in the world. But does the wealth come at too high a price to local residents? This alarming film is an intimate portrait of ...
Where: OaklandCost: $5 Donation
Ask a Scientist's PI DAY Puzzle PartyAsk a Scientist's PI DAY Puzzle PartyTrying to decide how you're going to celebrate Pi Day (3.14) this year? Avoid the congested airports and typical math holiday madness, and join us instead for Ask a Scientist's Pi Day Puzzle Party - a boisterous math and logic puzzle competition, hosted by the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Marilin vs. Marilyn: Lowly Adjunct Lecturer Challenges Woman with Highest IQIn a recent issue of Parade magazine, Marilyn vos Savant answered a question posed by a reader on how to combat the "onslaught of pseudoscience" in television shows. Marilyn answered that pseudoscience is only one of the many ways misinformation is disseminated in our society and, while, it does a lot of damage, "… we ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: FREE
The New BiologyThe development of new biotechnologies has resulted in an explosion of data that inform about the living world. I will describe one of these new approaches, SMRT DNA sequencing, emerging from a 3-person effort at a university through a silicon valley startup to a public company with currently more than ...
