Introduction to GardeningWith the pending rains, fall and winter are the best time to plan and implement your garden plans.Learn gardening techniques to help care for your landscape, maintain aesthetic, and keep it looking fresh! Desmond Murray (Presidio Seed Ecologist & Longtime Bay Area Gardener) will emphasize natural pruning techniques, fertilizing, pest ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Donations encouraged
Two KIPAC Tea TalksExoplanet SpectroscopySpeaker: Tom Greene, NASA AmesProspecting for quadruply lensed quasars in the past decade and the nextQuadruply lensed quasars ("quads") are used to study several important astronomical problems, including the abundance of LIGO-mass primordial black holes. But quads are rare, with only one out of every 3000 quasars lensed into ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
The influence of melting and viscosity on the thermo-chemical evolution of Earth and other rocky planetsIn this presentation I will firstly show results from numerical simulations of global mantle convection to explore the effects of melting on the thermo-chemical evolution of terrestrial bodies. I applied the models to investigate (i) how does melting-induced crustal production affects the interior state and surface behavior of an Earth-like ...
Join the Astonomical Society of the Pacific in celebrating their 130th anniversary with speakers and activities for all. Planetarium Shows3:40 PM, 6:30 PM, 8:45 PM, 9:30 PM. Lines begin 30 minutes prior outside the planetarium.  Thornton Hall.Portable Planetarium2:00 - 2:30 PM, 3:30 - 4:30 PM, 6:00 - 7:00 PM. Student Services ...
Miniaturized and rationally assembled nanostructures exhibit extraordinarily distinct physical and chemical properties beyond their individual units. This talk will focus on structured metal nanoparticle lattices that show unique diffractive coupling with lattice spacings engineered close to the wavelength of light. Collectively coupled plasmonic nanoparticles induce sharp, intense lattice ...
This talk describes complementary synthetic strategies to enhance the photoluminescence and photoredox properties of organometallic complexes. We have addressed the long-standing challenge of designing efficient and stable blue-phosphorescent molecules, currently the most significant technological hurdle in OLED technology. Our efforts have resulted in new designs for blue-emitting iridium complexes, using ...
