Developing 3-D Imaging Sensors: Problems and TechnologiesWe discuss technologies for 3-D imaging-taking cameras, also variously called 3-QD rangefinders, telemeters or lidars. We start from the basic configurations used to build single-point laser rangefinders, that is, triangulation, sine-wave and pulsed techniques, and then analyzing the system requirements on parameters like: covered range, illumination power, detector noise, stray ...
Digital rock technology (DRT) has experienced tremendous progress in the last decade, with an increasing number of companies providing imaging hardware, modeling software and digital core analysis services. This technology is also commonly referred to as a transformational technology in different fronts, and yet, because the focus has been heavily ...
LIGO has detected gravitational waves from the coalescences of six binary black hole mergers and one binary neutron star merger. These systems provide unique insights into general relativity in the strong field regime. Recent results include important consistency tests, measurements of the speed of gravitational waves, the Hubble constant, and ...
Earthquake ground-motion data and magnitude-distance attenuation relationships, coupled with earthquake recurrence statistics and fault models, are the basis for our seismic hazard maps and building codes. Seismic hazard maps are constructed in a probabilistic sense for a given rate of recurrence; thus improving the accuracy, and likewise the precision, of ...
The electricity grid is transitioning from a centralized and uncoordinated set of large generators to a framework that includes decentralized and coordinated distributed energy resources. Advances in renewable generation, energy storage, efficiency, and controls technology present a significant opportunity for demand-side investment that is matched to the needs of the ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Graph analysis of 200,000 tweets from Russian Twitter trollsLearn how Ryan Boyd and his team reconstructed a subset of the Twitter network of Russian troll accounts and applied graph analytics to the data using the Neo4j graph database to uncover how these accounts were spreading fake news.Ryan covers how they collected and munged the data distributed by NBC, ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: Free
'Wilder than Wild' film screening & discussionWilder than Wild: Fire, Forests, and the Future, screens in the Bay Area premiere followed by a Q & A with Berkeley City Councilmember Kate Harrison, UC Berkeley fire scientist Scott Stephens, Berkeley firefighter, Mike Shuken, (a first responder in the Wine Country Fires) and filmmakers Kevin White and Stephen ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $15
Next-Generation Approaches to Cancer Genomics: Precision OncologyJoin us for a talk with Dr. James Ford, is a medical oncologist and geneticist focused on understanding the genetic basis of cancer risk, development and treatment responses. He directs Stanford’s cancer genomics program and the Molecular Tumor Board that performs molecular profiling of metastatic cancers in order to identify novel, ...
