Conversation on the New Manufacturing Revolution: 3D Printing and its Impact on SocietyCITRIS is hosting a lunchtime panel discussion on the New Manufacturing Revolution. Paul Markillie is a senior editor at The Economist. Paul worked for a number of national newspapers in Britain before joining the magazine in 1986 to work for the business section, where he covered transportation industries, including ...
The presentation starts with a quotation from Nikola Tesla who conceived an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in 1898. From there, the presentation moves to the 1960's which started with Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard diving to the bottom of the Challenger Deep. Then design issues are reviewed. Designs are developed ...
The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) and Berkeley City College will host a free public talk on "Verifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions," by Dr. Inez Fung in Berkeley on Wed., Nov. 6 at 7:00 pm. The lecture is part of the "Not on the Test: The Pleasures and Uses of Mathematics" ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Chelyabinsk Meteor: Can We Survive a Bigger Impact?What would happen if an asteroid 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 impact of 1908, which flattened a thousand square ...
