Climate change mitigation requires gigawatt-scale deployment of low-carbon energy technologies, including carbon-negative technologies like bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) to reduce atmospheric CO2 concentrations. There are few deployments of BECCS outside of niche markets, creating uncertainty about commercialization, optimal design, and sustainability at scale. Here, I present results ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Undergraduate Learning in Cosmology Using an Interactive Student-Centered CurriculumDr. Kim Coble will discuss her classification of students’ ideas about concepts important to modern cosmology. She and collaborators developed The Big Ideas in Cosmology, an immersive set of web-based learning modules that integrates text, figures, and visualizations with short and long interactive tasks and real cosmological data in an ...
It seems the only thing changing faster than Earth's environment these days is the communication environment. Mainstream media are shrinking. Global connectivity is exploding. Facts and fantasy flow side by side. Filters and bubbles insulate factions. Andy Revkin, who's been communicating about climate, energy and sustainable development for more than ...
In the vein of H Is for Hawk and the works of Rebecca Solnit and Elizabeth Kolbert, award-winning writer and environmental thought leader Mary Ellen Hannibal comes to Cupertino Library for an evening lecture on becoming a citizen scientist. For her latest book, Citizen Scientist, Ms. Hannibal waded in tide pools, followed hawks, and ...
Over the past sixty years, computers have shrunk, networks have spread and flickering bits of information have ever more thoroughly infiltrated all aspects of our lives. The boundary between the virtual world of information and the physical world we ultimately inhabit has been slowly fading to the point that it ...
This talk will help make sense of the Higgs boson, the Large Hadron Collider and CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Dr. Gagnon�explains in simple terms the latest discoveries from CERN and shows how the theoretical model called the Standard Model describes the basic constituents of matter. The discovery ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members and Seniors
Tracking Time: A lecture/recital by Indre Viskontas and guestsNeuroscientist and soprano Indre Viskontas will give a faculty artist recital this Monday, November 7th, 2016 at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Part lecture, part musical performance, Dr. Viskontas will explore how our brains track time, both on the micro and macro levels. In the first half, she will give ...
