'The Company We Keep' with David Alan GrierFollowing up on 2009's Too Soon to Tell, The Company We Keep is a second compilation of essays based on and growing out of "The Known World" column in Computer magazine. Like the original column, this collection explores the human side of how technology is developed, deployed, and used. The ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: TBA
A Cook's Tour of the CheMin XRD/XRF instrument and an insider's view of the MSL Curiosity mission on MarsDr. David Blake of the NASA research Center is the chief designer and Principle Investigator of the CHEMIN instrument on the Mars Science Laboratory Rover 'Curiosity', which is now investigating evidence of liquid-borne sediments at Gale Crater on Mars. He will give an insider's view into the mission and update ...
The First Three Years at the LHCProf. Bete Heinemann (Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley) will give the Applied Physics/Physics colloquium entitled, "The First Three Years at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider)"
This presentation is to educate residents, students, faculty and community members on Concentrating solar power (CSP). An overview of Sandia National Laboratories and career opportunities will also be presented. CSP uses a large array of mirrors to focus sunlight onto a receiver containing a heat-transfer fluid, which absorbs the high ...
As electronics become faster and more powerful and the components of integrated circuits shrink, scientists are bumping up against the limitations imposed by fundamental physics, forcing them to invent new technologies. Today computer hard drives store information in tiny magnets, essentially, in the direction in which electrons spin. But there ...
