Recent Results from NASA's Kepler Mission: Good Planets are Hard to Find and Vice Versa Kepler vaulted into the heavens on March 6, 2009, initiating NASA's search for Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars in the habitable zone, that range of distances for which liquid water would pool on the surface of a rocky planet. In the 1000+ days since Kepler began science operations, a flood ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Silicon Convergence: Creating system solution by merging coarse and fine grained programmable hardwareWhile continuing semiconductor miniaturization enables ever more complex systems, the cost and complexity of system innovation becomes increasingly out of reach.A standard solution consisting of high performance processors, hardened peripherals, and a programmable logic fabric is ideal to address system integration challenges. Complementary to similar advances in software, a host ...
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September LASER EventSchedule:6:45pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.7:00-7:25pm: Hana Mori Bottger (USF Architecture) on "At the Intersection of Beauty and Strength: Earthen Structures that Survive Earthquakes"An overview of the variety of earth-composite structures throughout the world.7:25-7:50pm: Jennifer Dionne (Stanford Univ) on "Lights, Nano, Action!"Imagine a world where cancer is cured with light, objects can be made ...
When some stars die they produce remarkably bright "supernova" fireworks. Supernovae, the main source of the iron in our bodies, have had a profound impact on science for centuries. More recently, some types of explosions-called "Ia" supernovae-were used to make precise measurements of distance that revealed the mysterious acceleration of ...
