Methane on Mars: potential origin and seepageIt is widely accepted that the occurrence of methane (CH4) in the Martian atmosphere may imply the presence of active geological sources, i.e. gas emission structures in the Martian soil and subsoil. In other words, gas seepage, a process well known on Earth, should exist on Mars. The concept of gas seepage,although obvious for ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Adventures in science communication: Shifting from the lab to a museumScience communication is a hot topic in the hallways of academia, but determining why, how, and where to practice it can be daunting.Dr. Jonathan Foley, the Executive Director of the California Academy of Sciences, will speak about his vision of science communication and the role that institutions like museums play ...
Over the next ten years, businesses are expected to compete by investing in customer experience. But what is experience? Believe it or not, when you ask 10 people what it is, you’ll get 11 different answers. This is critical though because without understanding what experiences are at their very core, ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
DEALING WITH CONFLICT OVER 'APPROPRIATE CARE': HOW CAN CLINICIANS DO BETTER26th Annual Jonathan King LectureshipSpeaker: Dr. Robert Arnold, Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and in the University of Pittsburgh Center for Bioethics and Health LawRooms LK 240 and 250
Where: StanfordCost: Free
360° Integration in Products, Virtual Tour Navigation, and 360° Video on Drones!Join us for an evening of presentations on 360 video. We'll have speakers from Brightcove, HoloBuilder, and the Flying Robot International Film Festival on hand to discuss a wide range of 360 video topics. Topics include how to integrate 360 video with your product, best practices for virtual tour navigation, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Extending range and simultaneous connection of Bluetooth for IoT applicationsBluetooth applications have grown tremendously in the recent years, and, is an integral part of the IoT world. The focus of this talk will be on opportunities for Bluetooth within the IoT, where it often needs to overcome the limitation of distance and the number concurrent connected devices. Cassia Network ...
For nearly all of human existence on the sea, our understanding of whales has been limited to what we can observe at the surface. For fully aquatic animals such as these, however, time spent on the surface is really a tiny fraction of the life cycle of these largest predators ...
A Material World: a Renaissance at the Atomic Scale, by Rob MooreIt would have been hard to predict Google, Facebook and Twitter as results of the creation of the first transistor out of a chunk of silicon. Only when looking back do we see ages of stone and iron, technological ...
The incredible story of a band of renegades, an epic race with a $10 million prize and the birth of private spaceflight.Kepler's is thrilled to bring journalist Julian Guthrie and special guests to celebrate the publication of How to Make a Spaceship.This exhilarating story chronicles the $10 million Ansari XPRISE ...
