Summit to SeeA monthly cross-country hike to a high point or other highlight of the sanctuary with natural history, photography, birding, etcPlease dress for the weather and bring at least one quart of drinking water. You may also wish to bring a hat, an extra layer, and a snack. There are no ...
Where: GeyservilleCost: Free
Magnetic Fields on the Sun: All that stuff from E & M really worksDr. Brian Welsch from the University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory will explain the manifestations of solar activity and the applications of textbook E&M to describe the structure and evolution of solar magnetic fields.
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
On the Topology of Black Holes and BeyondIn recent years there has been an explosion of interest in black holes in higher dimensional gravity. This, in particular, has led to questions about the topology of black holes in higher dimensions. In this talk we review Hawking's classical theorem on the topology of black holes in 3+1 dimensions ...
East of the coastal hills, California's great Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers merge in a watery world, most of whose glory has succumbed to levee building and agriculture. Still, far-flung sites scattered throughout the Delta remain rich in native plants. These include some of the state's showiest wildflowers as well ...
6:45pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.7:00-7:25: Allison Leigh Holt (Visual Artist) on "The Beginning Was The End: Interpreting the Traditional Javanese way of Understanding Reality"Research on Javanese cultural concepts of time and multi-dimensional reality led to models in diagrams, video-sculptures and a sound installation ... Read more7:25-7:50: Margot Gerritsen(Stanford) on "Linear Algebra: the ...
What would happen if a large sized asteroid or space object collided with the Earth? On February 15 2013, a rocky projectile entered the Earth's atmosphere traveling at more than 11 miles per second. It was about 65 feet in diameter, or half the diameter of the famous Tunguska impact ...
