Radha Basu speaks about the connection between mobile devices and public health. She will highlight the concept of frugal innovation, which emphasizes engineering competencies for appropriate technologies.
Where: Santa ClaraCost: Free
Accelerator Frontiers: Where Can We GoRalph Assmann will present selected results from state-of-the-art accelerators are discussed. The observations illustrate the high level of excellence reached in accelerator science and technology but also some of the limitations encountered. We will discuss how novel acceleration methods may allow building a new generation of particle accelerators. Thoughts on ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Solar Geoengineering as a Tool to Manage Climate RisksThe combination of inertia and uncertainty makes the coupled climate-economic system dangerously hard to control. If the climate's sensitivity is at the high end of current estimates it may be too late to avert dramatic consequences for human societies and natural ecosystems even if we could quickly cut emissions to ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
'Planets Everywhere: More Than 500 and Counting' (twice! 6:30 & 7:45)On Monday evening, Jan. 31, astronomer Andrew Fraknoiof Foothill College & the Astronomical Society of the Pacific will give an illustrated, non-technical talk on:"Planets Everywhere: More Than 500 and Counting"at the Sunnyvale Public Library, 665 W.Olive Ave, just offEl Camino Real.The program will be presented twice, once at 6:30 pm ...
Beauty may be only skin deep, but the damages associated with its absence go much deeper. Unattractive individuals are less likely to be hired and promoted, and are assumed less likely to have desirable traits, such as goodness, kindness and honesty. Women pay even higher penalties for falling short. Join ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $17 Members, $10 Students
The Hidden Reality – The Fabric of The Cosmos Conversations at the Herbst: Brian Green, in conversation with Michael KrasnyThe Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos is the latest book from the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos. In recent years, a growing body of work-based on the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $18 Members
