I will summarize some major activities and strategic plans of the American Physical Society, including: publishing research while opening access; advocating in Washington for funding for research and new initiatives, fostering education, and supporting appropriate immigration policies for graduate students from other countries; engaging more physicists who are in the ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
People and Robots SeminarSelf-organization is a pervasive phenomenon in nature, which has inspired the development of multi-robot systems that can mimick their biological counterparts. As we consider larger groups of autonomous agents or swarms, new theoretical challenges appear that are associated with both their size and robotic-system limitations. In this talk, we outline ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Big Screen Science: GremlinsJoe Dante's hilariously funny, wickedly scary film is about Rand Peltzer (Hoyt Axton), an inventor who hasn't successfully invented anything. However, this Christmas he's bringing his family something special -- a small, cuddly creature known as a Mogwai. The little fella comes with three crucial instructions. He's not to be ...
7:00-7:25: Hirohisa Tanaka (Stanford/ SLAC) on " Neutrinos: The Desperate Remedy"The possibility that neutrinos and antineutrinos may behave differently has implications for why our universe exists at all...Read more7:25-7:50: Helen Blau(Stanford/ Biology) on "Stem Cells: Seeds of a Therapeutic Revolution"The derivation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Holiday Arts, Craft, and Science!Get ready for the holiday season at your local biohackerspace Counter Culture Labs, with bio-art decorations made from or based on designs from different organisms, or some holiday ornaments made from lab supplies!Create unique resin in a petri dish decorations - potentially using pigments from Rhodamine B, Fluorescein, and othersCreate ...
