Free First WednesdayFree museum admission all day, to anyone from anywhere, at Bay Area Discovery Museum
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Free Wednesday at UC Botanical GardensEnjoy free admission to the UC Botanical Garden on the first Wednesday of the month. Parking is limited. Docent-led tours for groups are not available on Free Wednesdays. No admission after 4:30 pm. In order to minimize the impact on the plant collection, ensure the safety of visitors, and to ...
One of the challenges in big data analytics lies in being able to reason collectively about extremely large, heterogeneous, incomplete, and noisy interlinked data. We need data science techniques which can represent and reason effectively with this form of rich and multi-relational graph data. In this talk, I will describe ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Two Presentations at Romberg Tiburon CenterMustafa Gul (Nielsen Lab) Competition success of native and invasive fouling species under temperature and food stress Morgan Meyers (Carpenter Lab) Effect of ocean acidification on the nutritional quality of phytoplankton for copepod reproduction
Storage Industry Current and Future Trends Challenges of Deploying Storage Infrastructure at Scale In this talk we explore the different trends in modern storage architecture and challenges of deploying storage solutions at scale. The talk covers current and future storage media technologies as well as a view into the storage infrastructure for hyper-scale companies.The paradigm of storage has and will continue to shift ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Lights, Camera, Take Action; Storytelling for Change: The San Francisco Green Film FestivalThe evocative documentary film has a purpose that compels its director to grapple with the essence of the art form. What is the magic of its storytelling? How do we reach a wide audience through the medium? Most critically, how can we use this kind of storytelling to change opinions ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Student
The Science of Personal and Global TransformationBruce Lipton is an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. Stem cell biologist, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief and recipient of the 2009 Goi Peace Award, he has been a guest speaker on hundreds of TV and radio shows, as well as keynote presenter for national ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
100 Years of Einstein's Relativity (and How it Underlies our Modern Understanding of the Universe)2015 marks the 100th anniversary of Einstein's completion of his General Theory of Relativity, the comprehensive theory of space, time, and gravity. As part of the international celebrations, Dr. Bennett, a noted astronomer, educator, and author, is embarked on a "National Relativity Tour" to discuss how we need relativity to understand the cosmos. ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: free, but there is a charge of $3 for parking
In a world where every inch has been impacted-directly or indirectly-by industrial society, what does it mean to "preserve nature"? How does the idea of adaptation shape our responses to extinction, climate chaos, and nature? How does our sense of "history" shape our ideas about nature, evolution, and conservation? How ...
