Collection of biological samples in the field often presents issues of specimen damage or degradation caused by preservation methods, handling, and transport to laboratory facilities for identification. Traditionally, the collection of high quality microscopic images in the field has not been a realistic possibility due to the size, weight, and ...
Dr. Kenneth Loh, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, serves as CITRIS campus director at UC Davis. Professor Loh directs the Nano-Engineering & Smart Structures Technologies (NESST) Laboratory and recently won the 2014 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the UC Davis College of Engineering. His research ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Solving the Color Cubes PuzzleGiven a palette of colors, a color cube is one where each face is colored with exactly one color and all colors in the palette appear on some face. To solve the puzzle you need to arrange a subset of the collection into an n x n x n cube ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Four Presentations at the Romberg Tiburon CenterRubaya Pervin: Identifying Changes in Mangroves in Trat Province, Thailand and Koh Kong Province, Cambodia Kechaunte Johnson: Comparison of mitochondrial and nuclear genetic variation of copepods in the San Francisco Estuary Gaurav Rele: TBA Tim Fuller: The Tiny Fish Invasion: Travels Through Space and ...
Where: TiburonCost: Free
Creating Silicon Valley's World: A Conversation with Author Ann BridgesMichael Fallon, Director of SJSU Center for Community Learning & Leadership and professor of sociology, will have a conversation with Ann Bridges, the author of Private Offerings (hardback and paperback both available September 15, 2015), about the fast-paced business world of Silicon Valley as found in her novel, in Dave ...
Come tour the UCSF Human Performance Center and experience various ways we test human movement and performance. After a tour of the lab we will be demonstrating the use of our motion capture equipment. 1-2 volunteers will be suited up with reflective markers and get to see how we measure ...
Social media, mobile marketing and cloud-based computing are the most widely understood mega-trends that are revolutionizing online communications. In this eye-opening presentation, media innovator and pioneer Jon Leland goes a step further to illuminate how these new forms of multimedia-and digital video in particular-are creating revolutionary new channels that are ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Member, $7 Student
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 ...
