Just over half a billion years ago, almost all major groups of animal life seem to appear suddenly in the earths oceans, according to the evidence in the fossil record. These new organisms brought innovations like brains, vision, predation, even the first teeth and skeletons . How and why did this seeming explosion of biodiversity come about? What can it tell us about evolution and even some of our own distant ancestors?

Speaker: Aodhan Butler, Stanford

In this talk, I will address questions that have both theoretical interest and practical value.

How give a non-technical talk about coding theory to a wide audience? How to transmit information reliably over a noisy channel? How to cook an ostrich egg?

Speaker: Dr. Marco Mondelli, Stanford