b-Quark Tagging Algorithm CharacterizationSSU student Michael Dobbs will discuss his summer research conducted at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the largest physics laboratory and particle collider in the world, and describe how machine learning algorithms are a new and efficient way to capture interesting physics events in the ATLAS detector.
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Being Well While DyingAmericans tend to consider illness and dying as fundamentally medical problems. Doctors and nurses focus their attention on alleviating suffering at end of life. But though suffering is undeniably part of illness and dying, with good palliative care many people retain a capacity for subjective well-being through the end of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, Free for members, $7 students
