Soil Health Series: Understanding Growth Media & the Chemistry of SoilYou've undoubtedly heard of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act. But what about the Clean Soils Act...? Why not? Soil is the largest chemical reactor on the planet. Happening beneath our feet are fascinating chemical reactions responsible for immobilizing, filtering, purifying, detoxifying, and recycling. This class will cover: ...
Using Artificial Intelligence for hypothesis testing and physical insight extraction Artificial Intelligence techniques excel at predicting values or classifications based on complex training data. However, they do so as a "black box" and often offer no new insight on the physical processes behind the data. In this talk I will discuss uses of AI in which our focus is in ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Process Chemistry Approach to the Total Synthesis of BMS-813160BMS-813160 is being investigated by Bristol-Myers Squibb as a combination therapy for colorectal and pancreatic cancer. In order to evaluate the clinical efficacy, a safe, robust, scalable, and cost-effective total synthesis was needed. The talk will focus on how process chemists enabled the production of multi-kg of BMS-813160 by route ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Imaging at the genomic-scale: from 3D organization of the genome to cell atlas of the brainProf. Xiaowei Zhuang, the 2019 Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lecturer and the David B. Arnold Professor of Science, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Professor of Physics of Harvard University, will give the Appied Physics/Physics colloquium.Inside a biological cell, thousands to tens of thousands of different genes function collectively to ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Republicans on ClimateIs there hope for bipartisan progress with the Green New Deal shaking up climate politics in Washington, D.C.? Championed by Democratic U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and U.S. Senator Edward Markey (D-MA), the bill’s ambitious clean energy goals are backed by prominent Democratic support but are criticized by Republican leaders ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Join us for the second SLAC on Tap in Palo Alto. SLAC engineer Margaux Lopez will chat about what on earth Maseratis, ice hockey and corgi puppies have to do with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). Have a drink, find out more about telescopes, and learn how to build a mini three-axis telescope out of ...
Bill McKibben is an author, environmentalist, activist, and the co-founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement. His first book,The End of Nature, is considered the first book about climate change written for a general readership. McKibben has been awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, The Gandhi Prize, a ...
