Field Botany FridaysCome hike with ACR staff. While we hike, we may identify plants, survey for rare plants, photograph wildflowers, discuss ethnobotany or other trailside botany. Takes place the first Friday of every month.Please dress for the weather and bring at least one quart of drinking water. You may also wish to ...
Where: GeyservilleCost: Free
Theoretical Perspectives on Visual Short-Term MemoryWe propose two new theoretical perspectives on visual short-term memory (VSTM). In Project 1, we conceptualize VSTM as an information channel for transmitting visual information from the past to the present. This information-theoretic perspective allows us to quantify the capacity and precision of VSTM in a rigorous fashion, and to ...
One of the greatest opportunities and challenges in developing a sustainable and efficient transportation infrastructure rests upon intelligent energy management in electrified vehicles. This talk specifically addresses problems at three levels of vehicle electrification: the battery, the vehicle, and the infrastructure. We address energy management at each level from a ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
PFC Contaminants in Soil EcosystemsA wide range of pollutants enter the environment directly or indirectly via human activities. Soil as a terrestrial reservoir plays an important role in these pollutants' fate and toxic effects. These contaminants can enter the food chain and impair the quality of water and food. Dr. Zareitalabad's research focuses on ...
Hypothesis examines the intersection of art and science by showcasing the ways in which both artists and scientists ask questions, experiment with processes and arrive at outcomes. Participants will represent their practice (artistic, scientific or any combination thereof) in relation to the scientific method and present it in the form of ...
Actors meet scientists! See what happens when experts in comedy improvisation glorify, qualify, and versify the science insights of earnest PhD students (Wonderfest's Science Envoys)… Laughter joins learning to capture your imagination.
Everyone loves a good time travel story. However, given what we know -- and don't know -- about physics, is time travel in any way plausible? Using popular movies as a framework, Prof. Ken Wharton will outline several distinct categories of consistent time travel stories, and discuss possible connections with ...
