Carl Haber is an experimental physicist. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University and is a Senior Scientist in the Physics Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California. Most of his research interest involves the development of instrumentation and methods for detecting and measuring ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Environmental Genomics of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Testing and Generating HypothesesSpeaker: Dr. Andrew Whitehead, UC Davis The RTC Seminar Series brings leading local, national, and international scientists to a public forum at RTC to speak about the latest advances in science, and provides an opportunity for graduate students to present research in progress. The Series is open to the public. ...
Where: TiburonCost: Free
Teaching in Hunter-Gatherer InfancyCultural anthropologists Margaret Mead, David Lancy, and Barbara Rogoff indicate that teaching does not exist or is rare in small-scale cultures. By contrast, recent research by cognitive scientists Gyorgy Gergely and Gergely Csibra indicate that one type of teaching, called natural pedagogy, is a human universal, part of human nature, ...
When we designed Blue Waters, the most powerful petascale supercomputer for the NSF community, the single most pressing concern about its success was that "GPUs are too hard to program." The rise of GPU computing has significantly boosted the pace of progress in numeric methods, algorithm design and programming techniques ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
'Dive!' Film Screening at Albany High SchoolFood Shift, a local non-profit organization, will be hosting a film screening of the documentary film "Dive!". The film will be followed by a discussion of the film and a Q&A lead by the Food Shift team. 40% of all food produced in the United States is wasted. This means ...
Where: AlbanyCost: $5 suggested donation
Science and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub, West BaySkeptics in the Pub, West BayFiddlers Green, MillbraeIf ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the film-flam man, and if ye drink, drink with us, your friends. If ye shun the brewer's art, at least help us lay waste to bangers & mash!Skeptics in the Pub is a monthly ...
Circadian rhythm (sr-kd-n): A daily cycle of biological activity based on a 24-hour period and influenced by regular variations in the environment, such as the alternation of night and day. Circadian rhythms include sleeping and waking in animals, flower closing and opening in plants, and tissue growth and differentiation in ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
The Brilliance of SleepScientists have long wondered why we power down our brains and enter into a sleeping state then spending countless hours in light dreamless slumber. Professor Matt Walker in the Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory within the Department of Psychology at U.C. Berkeley and his team have found compelling evidence for the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22/27 General, $20/25 Members
