Smart Materials and Advanced ManufacturingThe highlights of our workshop include our kickoff speaker, Dr. Tom Kurfess, who until very recently served as the Assistant Director for Advanced Manufacturing in the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy. Also featured is a distinguished industrial panel that will share with us their view of the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Building Text-Analysis Tools for Literary StudyHearst and Wagner will discuss their National Endowment for the Humanities funded WordSeer project. This project began as an experiment by Ph.D. candidate Aditi Muralidharan asking how natural language processing and data visualization could be applied to the process of literary study. Two years and two NEH grants later, the ...
This conversation with Timothy Egan, a former media fellow with the Bill Lane Center and the National Book Award-winning author of The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, will look at perhaps the largest, most sustained human-caused environmental disaster, the Dust ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
For Goodness SnakesThis one-of-a-kind educational experience will introduce you to the fascinating world of reptiles. Come enjoy the opportunity to hold and interact with their docile animals.
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Exploring new frontiers of quantum optical scienceWe will discuss recent developments involving a new scientific interface between quantum optics, many body physics, nanoscience and quantum information science. Specific examples include the use of quantum optical techniques for manipulation of individual spins and photons using ultra-cold atoms and atom-like impurities in diamond as well as control of ...
Aging is the single largest risk factor for diseases such as Alzheimer's and cancer. Such chronic diseases account for 75 cents of every dollar spent on health care in the United States. The physical, emotional and financial burden carried by those who suffer from age-related conditions and disease – as ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, Free for members
Timothy Egan worked as the Pacific Northwest correspondent and a national enterprise reporter for The New York Times for 18 years. In 2001, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his contributions to The Times series "How Race Is Lived in America." In 2006, Egan won the National Book Award, the ...
