Biologically Inspired Micro- and Nanofluidic Systems for Biomedical ApplicationsMajor advances in science and engineering have greatly enhanced our understanding of the fundamental principles that nature uses to build, control, and manipulate living systems. These insights into the inner workings of nature offer unique opportunities to develop new engineering principles inspired by biological systems and utilize them to create ...
Saturn's F ring has brightened markedly in the last 25 years. It is twice as bright in the Cassini data as it was in the Voyager data from 1980 and 1981. We attribute this change to increasing perturbations by nearby Prometheus, which passes closer to the ring now that it ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Towards Digital Medicine : Patient-Specific Models of the HeartSpeaker: Hervé Delingette, INRIALive broadcast at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast; Questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents. The complete schedule for the spring semester is online at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/RE-spring2011. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/citrisuc.
Expedition Spotlight: For the Love of AntsDr. Fisher is modern day explorer that treks through the last remote rainforests, deserts and plains of Madagascar in search of ants. His research highlights insects as a useful tool to discover and preserve all plants and animals on this unique island. Along the way he has discovered over 1000 ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with museum admission.
Advances in Environmental EpidemiologySpeakers:Esteban Gonzalez Burchard, UCSF; Long Ngo, Harvard University; Sheryl Magzamen, University of Wisconsin; Thaddeus Haight, UC Berkeley; Michelle Odden, UCSF; Romain Neugebauer, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research; Jack Colford, UC Berkeley
Since the discovery of X-rays in 1895, radiography imagery has only been black-and-white. The reason for this can be found in any textbook on X-rays: The linear attenuation coefficient of a pure chemical element factorizes into a universal product of a power of the atomic number Z times a power ...
An Associate Professor of Anthropology and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, James Holland Jones is a biological anthropologist with interests in biodemography, life history theory, and the human ecology of infectious disease. Biological anthropology is the study of the origins and maintenance of human diversity. ...
Bill Gross founded Idealab in March 1996 and serves as the company's Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. Bill founded Idealab to create and build successful businesses that capitalize on innovations in areas with significant growth opportunities, including the Internet. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
40th Anniversary of SPICEPlease Join us for the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis), circuit simulator. SPICE was born as a class project at UC Berkeley and first released in 1971. You will get to witness a roundtable discussion of those responsible for the creation and world-wide ...
Supercomputers are the fastest, highest functioning computers. They can perform long, complex calculations and simulations for things like weather forecasting or creating massive models of the universe. With China's new, faster-than-ever supercomputer installation, the media has said that China has surpassed America in supercomputers. Crawford, who has more than 30 ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Planning Your Edible LandscapeIn this workshop you'll discover the simplicity of growing edibles and incorporating them into your ornamental Garden. Maximize your space in three dimensions. Kathleen Elliot, Horticulturist and owner of Hillcrest Ranch in Sunol will teach you how to companion plant and time your starts. Learn some of the most Bay ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $30 General, $25 Members
The End of Growth? Connecting Economy, Energy & EnvironmentMr. richard Heinberg will be introduced by May Boeve, US Campaign Director, 350.org. We all take economic growth for granted...until it falters. But what if the recent stutters are not just interruptions in the story of continuous economic expansion, but the first intimations of the end of growth as we ...
With urban homesteading all the rage and backyard and vacant lot food production on the rise it appears we're taking big steps toward encouraging self-sufficiency in the Bay Area. For sure people's requirements for connection to their food has changed. But how much do the popular local underground food movements ...
In this multimedia presentation, Dr. Brian Greene, superstring theorist and one of our foremost science writers, takes us on a captivating exploration of parallel worlds and reveals how much of reality's true nature may be deeply hidden. With his unrivaled ability to make the most challenging of material accessible and ...
Where: San JoseCost: $42 General, $35 Senior & Students
