Disrupting the flow: Effects of stream fragmentation on juvenile steelhead ecologyPlease join Point Reyes National Seashore staff for Science Lectures, 45 minute presentations on scientific research being performed at Point Reyes and elsewhere in the California. Science Lectures are sponsored by the Pacific Coast Science and Learning Center at Point Reyes National Seashore.Speaker: Jason Hwan, UC Berkeley
Speaker: John Donahoe, Persident and CEO, EBayRoom 189
Where: San JoseCost: Free
STEM Speakers Series: Engineering is ElementaryAttendees will have the opportunity to hear about STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) classroom integration from experts in the field as well as use the STEM Center equipment for hands-on exploration.Each night the agenda is: 3-4pm Open House, 4-5pm Speakers Series, 5-6pm Open HouseSpeakers: Mark Miller, Learningtech.org; Marie Crawford, ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: Free
COGNITIVE COMPUTING WITH NANOSCALE ELECTRONIC SYNAPSES: MERGING NANOELECTRONICS AND NEUROSCIENCEDue to physical limits, CMOS transistor scaling has started to face significant barriers to achieving historical performance improvements. Addition-ally, the conventional computing paradigm based on Von Neumann architecture becomes increasingly inefficient as the computation gets more complex. In contrast, the human brain is massively parallel, robust, low power and fault-tolerant, ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Overview of Digital IC DesignSonoma State Engineering Science Lecture SeriesSpeaker: Mr. Ryan Hirth, Technical Director, Broadcom
Author Cecile Pineda poetically reflects on the first year following a nuclear disaster which erupted at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant following an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.Join us as Pineda speaks out on the ongoing catastrophe at Fukushima Daiichi which, is receiving increasing scrutiny both in the United States ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Reinvent growth without pollution: Can India do it? CANCELEDIndia is facing a double burden of environmental problems -- of the poor and of the rich. So, on one hand, its forests are under threat but on the other hand, its rivers are increasingly polluted by sewage and industrial waste and cities are choked under toxins from the spit ...
Are we biologically wired to be moral? Esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal (Our Inner Ape, Chimpanzee Politics) shares highlights from pioneering research showing that our moral nature stems from our primate social emotions, evidenced by chimpanzees who soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos who offer companions their own food. Frans de ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25-30 General, $20-25 Members, $15 Students
Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Great Blue Heron Colony in GG ParkNancy DeStefanis, Director of SF Nature Education, will speak on the 20th Anniversary of the first nesting pair of the Great Blue Herons at Stow Lake in GG Park. DeStefanis discovered the first nest in 1993, and has monitored and studied the behaviors of the herons since then.
Join guide Christopher Calonje for a photographic tour of Colombia and its birdlife, along with information on the country's geography, cuisine, culture, and people. Colombia boasts the world's longest list of birds, now over 1,890 species (more than North America and Europe combined). Much of this diversity is due to ...
For his PhD research, Matt Smith studied the ectomycorrhizal fungal communities in the xeric oak-dominated woodlands of the Sierra Foothills. Although these low-elevation habitat may seem dry and dusty to most mycologists, Matt found that these habitats host a high diversity of hidden fungal treasures. These woodlands are particularly rich ...
