A 250-Year Argument (Belief, Behavior, and the Bootstrap) The year 2013 marked the 250th anniversary of Bayes rule. The rule has been influential over the entire period, and controversial over most of it. It's reliance on prior beliefs has been challenged by frequentist methods, which focus instead on the behavior of specific estimates and tests. The bootstrap helps ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Spring Bloom Plankton DemonstrationLiving in the water beneath the Exploratorium at Pier 15 is an ever-changing community of microscopic plankton. As spring approaches and the days get longer, plant-like phytoplankton are rapidly growing and reproducing.Join oceanographer Anna McGaraghan, from the Kudela Phytoplankton Ecology Lab at UC Santa Cruz, as she examines phytoplankton from ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Managing agricultural biodiversity for ecosystem servicesSpeaker: Dr. David Gonthier. As an agroecologist, I collaborate with farmers, academics, and other stakeholders to better understand how to promote environmental and socio-economic sustainability. In practice, my research evaluates the viability of agricultural management systems to curtail environmental problems while maintaining profitability and valuable ecosystem services. In theory, I ...
With a delegation led by Mayor Schaaf, Oakland was well represented at COP21, the United Nations summit on climate change held in Paris last December. Hear what happened at the conference, why Oakland was so deeply engaged and what next steps for climate action the city is planning.Speaker: Daniel Hamilton, ...
Look closely at nature – trees, leaves, cones, cacti, ferns, flowers, honeycomb, and more. Discover geometric shapes, angles, symmetry, and patterns, even fractals and Fibonacci numbers! Learn how nature's mathematical designs and patterns are adaptations helping plants to survive.Register at web site
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with admission
Arvados: A Free Platform for Big Data ScienceThis talk will introduce the Arvados (http://arvados.org) platform for data science. Arvados is a software system for managing compute clusters built around a scale-out content-addressed distributed file system (Arvados Keep) for storage, a cluster job queuing system designed for reproducibility (Arvados Crunch), and a user and group permission system for controlling and ...
American innovation, know-how, and prosperity depend on the talent of a diverse technical workforce. Every U.S. student must have an equal opportunity to gain the skills and knowledge needed to compete. New policies and strategies are needed to improve the educational environment for underrepresented engineering students, from K through Ph.D. ...
From rocks in space to rock 'n' roll, join us for NightLife's salute to rock in all forms.Be among the first to catch the Academy's latest original planetarium show Incoming!, narrated by George Takei-an out of this world, all-digital show exploring asteroids, comets, and the hard-hitting stories of our cosmic ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
Deep Brain Stimulation – Past, Present, FutureThis talk will focus on deep brain stimulation with respect to Parkinson's disease reviewing the history of its discovery, current indications, and future direction. In addition there will be short updates on treatment and research regarding Parkinson's disease.Speakers: Melanie Lising, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Supermassive Black Holes (and how to observe them cheaply!)In this talk Martin Gaskell, UC Santa Cruz, will explain how you can can detect the effects of supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. He will give the main observational properties and explain how the energy is generated. He will particularly emphasise how observations can be made remarkably ...
