During the EU-funded project CoralFISH we explored the Cold Water Coral (CWC) Reefs of European margins from the Mediterranean to Iceland. Both historical records and multibeam data were used to locate reefs that were then explored and sampled with a remotely operated vehicle. Discovered about 25 years ago in Norway, ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
SFrame and SGraph: Scalable External Memory Data Frame and Graph Structures for Machine LearningA good machine learning platform requires not just robust implementations of statistical models and algorithms but alsothe right data structures for efficient and scalable feature engineering and data cleaning. In this talk, we discuss SFrame and SGraph, two scalable data structures designed with machine learning tasks in mind. These external ...
Radical Remission of Cancer: Surviving Against All OddsTurner, a researcher and lecturer in integrative oncology, was the first to delve deeply into studying "radical remission" from cancer – that is, when someone recovers from cancer without the help of conventional medicine, or after conventional medicine has failed. Join her as she describes the nine most common healing ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Member, $7 Student
Living Liquid: Celebrating the Power and Beauty of Microscopic PlanktonJoin some of the world's leading marine microbial ecologists for fascinating demonstrations and an intriguing discussion about plankton-beautiful, tiny organisms that drift with the currents. Plankton are vital to life on Earth. They come in a stunning variety of shapes and structures; they form the foundation of all oceanic food ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: free preregistration is required
Science and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub, West BayIf ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the flim-flam man, join us, your friends. Skeptics in the Pub is a group of like-minded people informally discussing the latest in science or pseudoscience over good eats & ale.Skeptics in the Pub is a monthly meeting for discussion of topics ...
