Discovery Station: GymnospermsDiscover gymnosperms -- a type of plant that, literally translated from Greek, means "naked seed." Gymnosperms - in contrast to angiosperms or flowering plants - are plants whose seeds are not enclosed within an ovary..See examples of gymnosperms, including cycads and ginkgos -- along with conifers and Gnetales (like Ephedra ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with admission
Quantum computing algorithmsThe Center for Quantum Coherent Science presents The Spring 2019 Berkeley Quantum Science and Technology Seminar. Join the group for talks and conversations over refreshments. Talks feature distinguished scientists in the fields of Math, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, and Computer Science.Speaker: Umesh Vazirani, UC Berkeley
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Biophysics of cell adhesion: how cells sense and respond to forceCells in tissues exert forces as they squeeze, stretch, flex and pull on each other. These forces are incredibly small - on the scale of piconewtons, but they are essential in mediating cell survival, proliferation, and differentiation. A key protein responsible for sensing mechanical forces, are the classical cadherin family ...
Katherine Yelick is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley and the Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research is in programming languages, compilers, parallel algorithms, and automatic performance tuning. She is well known for her ...
Investment in adaptation capital reduces the damage from extreme weather, mitigating the welfare cost of climate change. Federal aid for disaster relief reduces the net costs to localities that experience extreme weather, decreasing their incentives to invest in adaptation capital. We develop a heterogenous-agent macro model to quantify the relationship ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
TECH WEEK: Inventing TomorrowPizza! Guest Speaker! Film!In celebration of Tech Week, enjoy a special presentation from Cal NERDS, then watch a film about 6 teens from around the world using STEM to help improve their communities while competing in the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) https://bit.ly/2IHX5Xr.Pizza while supplies last! Everyone welcome!Cal NERDS provides coaching and mentoring ...
Measurements of neurotransmitters in the extracellular space are limited by combinations of poor chemical, spatial, and temporal resolution. Brain chemistries, therefore, are unable to be investigated dynamically, particularly at the level of neural circuits and across numerous signaling molecules.1 To understand neurochemical signaling at scales pertinent to encoded information, micro- ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Inequality and the Social Cost of CarbonWe present a novel way to disentangle inequality aversion over time from inequality aversion between regions in the computation of the social cost of carbon. Our approach nests a standard efficiency based estimate and an equity weighted estimate as special cases. We use two integrated assessment models (FUND and RICE) ...
Recent advances in deep learning and satellite imagery make it possible to remotely monitor economic and agricultural trends across the developing world, at high resolution. These advances are now being translated from research labs into the real world. This seminar will discuss the technology and vision behind Atlas AI, ...
Placebo effects are most often considered in the context of randomized controlled trials, in which an active drug or treatment is compared against an inert placebo treatment. This allows the factors that contribute to placebo effects to be separated from the medically active properties of a drug or treatment. But in the ...
