Neutral Net Neutrality: Expressing User Preferences With Network CookiesShould applications receive special treatment from the network? And if so, who decides which applications are preferred? This discussion, known as net neutrality, goes beyond technology and is a hot political topic, even making it to John Oliver's weekly show. In this talk we will approach net neutrality from a ...
Where: StanfordCost: FRee
ProtoDESI: a Pathfinder for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic SurveyParker Fagrelius of UC Berkeley will discuss ProtoDESI, a pathfinder for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which aims to better understand Dark Energy through the measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Redshift Space Distortions.
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Sampling-Based Motion Planning: From Intelligent CAD to Crowd Simulation to Protein FoldingMotion planning has application in many domains such as robotics, animation, virtual prototyping and training, and even protein folding and drug design. Surprisingly, sampling-based planning methods have proven effective on problems from all these domains. In this talk, we describe sampling-based planning and give an overview of some variants developed ...
Few things are more important to our lives than the availability and reliability of electricity. Electricity is the lifeline to our homes and the lifeblood of our digital economy.The grid is facing new challenges from extreme space and earth weather to the integration of renewables which will reduce the CO2. ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Nerd Nite East Bay #47: Spooktacular Lectures and DrinksThree lectures, beer, and a costume contest. Come dressed as your favorite scientist, or science experiment. Prizes will be awarded!They Are Getting Closer…To Killing You, Eating You, and Turning You: Zombie Research Has Arrived by Joseph ChenStem cell research is advancing like never before, but so is the looming Zombie ...
Twenty-six years ago, the United States and Europe joined hands and set off together on a spectacular adventure.�It was a mission named Cassini and it called for a journey across the solar system and into orbit around Saturn, followed�by an in-depth, comprehensive look at everything in the Saturn system.Cassini is ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members and Seniors
