During the last few years we established the synthetic and analytic infrastructure required to develop a promising new class of materials that operate on the basis of their structurally programmed molecular motion. Having a combination of static and rapidly moving components, we refer to them as being amphidynamic. They can ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Cosmology from the diffuse baryons between galaxies The field of cosmology has to make do with a theory of structure that is incomplete in the ``ultraviolet'' -- we lack a precise understanding of the cosmologically minute scales on which galaxies form and affect their surroundings. I will review methods to circumvent this limitation, with a particular focus ...
The hydrothermal systems that form at mid-ocean ridge (MOR) spreading centers represent perhaps the largest and most impactful geochemical phenomenon on Earth. There is 65,000 km of MOR encircling the globe, and the flow of water through the hydrothermal systems amounts to the entire volume of the oceans every 600,000 ...
Advancing the Science: The Latest in Alzheimer’s ResearchAlzheimer’s disease is a global health problem with more than 5.8 million people living with the disease in the United States alone. The only way to solve that problem is through research, and this talk will focus on the scientific advancements and progress in the field. Tremendous gains have been ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
Engram Preservation: Early work towards Mind UploadingIs it possible to preserve and read memories after someone has died? Robert McIntyre thinks it is, and that the technology is closer than most people realize. His company Nectome is working on documenting the physical properties of memory formation, and studying ways to preserve those physical properties after death. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 - $100
Data Science, Beer & SPORTSIn celebration of SF Beer Week, come enjoy Standard Deviant’s great beers and listen to a few talks with USF’s Data Institute. This is USF’s fourth annual Beer + Data Science event and this year our focus will be on Sports Analytics. Hear from practitioners, professors and students as they ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Stories of a Changing Planet -- Environmental Documentaries in Transformative TimesFriends of Five Creeks' free Bay Currents talks present author and filmmaker Stephen Most who has scripted and co-produced environmental documentaries including Oil on Ice, Green Fire, River of Renewal, and Wilder than Wild.  His book Stories Make the World reflects on storytelling and the art of the documentary. Showing trailers from his ...
