Free Days at Bay Area Discovery MuseumPlease join us for free on the first Wednesday of each month for a full day of creative and fun experiences for all.F
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Health Care Price TransparencyPrice variation for medical services has been well documented and recent federal, state, and private initiatives have focused on increasing price transparency in health care in hopes of reducing health care costs. However, the effect of federal and state initiatives remains unclear while the effect of private tools has not ...
Searching for Cosmic RaysWhen high-energy cosmic rays strike the atmosphere, they produce immense particle showers which scatter radiation over an area the size of the city of Berkeley. For over 100 years, scientists have been searching for the sources of these energetic particles. This talk will give an overview of the history of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $10, Free to UC Berkeley students and staff
Diversity and interactions among microbial populations are key to the geochemical cycles that maintain Earth's biosphere. Current knowledge of microbial community structure and distribution in the ocean is largely due to the use of flow cytometry, in which microbial cells are injected into a flow of ultra-pure "sheath" fluid and ...
Instruction execution on the Mill CPU: Working at Mach 3A perennial objection to wide-issue CPU architectures such as VLIWs and the Mill is that there is insufficient instruction level parallelism (ILP) in programs to make effective use of the available functional width. While software pipelining can reveal large quantities of ILP in loops, in open (non-loop) code studies have ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Saving the Mountain Yellow Legged FrogPlease join Oakland Zoo and Vance T. Vredenburg, Ph.D. The Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog, a local species found in the high elevations of the Sierra Nevada, is not excluded from the global amphibian crisis; only several thousand are thought to remain in the wild. Due to Dr. Vredenburg's research and conservation ...
Where: OaklandCost: $12-20 General, $10-20 Members
Dr. Harry Greene has endless curiosity about the natural world and is a vibrant presenter. He will be speaking on his adventures in natural history and also do some selected readings from his new book, "Tracks and Shadows." In his book, he describes how his work led him to believe ...
Where: AlbanyCost: Free
Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as ArtDr. Harry Greene will be presenting on his new book, "Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as Art."Intellectually rich, intensely personal, and beautifully written, "Tracks and Shadows" is both an absorbing autobiography of a celebrated field biologist and a celebration of beauty in nature. Harry W. Greene, award-winning author of Snakes: ...
