Stanford's Genetics department leads hands-on activities every day of the festival. Try your hand at DNA spooling from animal cells and look at your own DNA from cheek cells under a microscope. Figure out what 1000 letters of your DNA look like. Solve a mystery by looking at "DNA" patterns ...
School groups will be joining us for an international science pantomime, with a live-link to the Genoa Science Festival in Italy. The students in Italy will pantomime science concepts through live-link technology to our students, and then our students will guess the concepts – and vice versa – as they ...
Hear experts describe how stress changes your body, even at the cellular level, and impacts everything from aging to your risk of disease. Learn about innovative research on stress, health implications we may predict in the future, in addition to proven ways to reduce stress in your life today.
Join us for ghoulish fun at The Tech Museum on Halloween! Discover the chemistry behind the creepy as you make slimy worms and ghost-like bubbles filled with fog. Find out what the hand print of a ghost looks like as you make your own disappearing prints and learn some seriously ...
A weekly program for teachers and students centering around a community of students who want to work together on intriguing and challenging mathematical problems. The San Francisco Math Circle (SFMC) is an enrichment program specifically aimed at enthusiastic math students and their teachers.
Where: Cost: Free with admission
2011 Nobel Prize in Physics: Supernova, Cosmic Acceleration and the Fate of the UniverseThe 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Adam Reiss and Brian Schmidt for their discovery that the universe is accelerating. This realization, which was made by studying exploding stars called supernovae, may have vindicated a 93 year old proposal by Albert Einstein that space is permeated ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
A Sharper Image: Adaptive Optics and Laser Guide Stars for AstronomyAdaptive optics is a technology that can remove the blurring effects of turbulence in the earth's atmosphere, so that telescopes on the ground can "see" as clearly as if they were in space. I will describe the basic principles of adaptive optics, and illustrate why lasers are needed to increase ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Nonlinear Optics in Optical Fiber Communications: For Worse and For BetterOptical nonlinearities in various materials pose some of the biggest challenges and opportunities in optical communications. On the one hand, it is critical to minimize deleterious nonlinear effects in order to transmit data undistorted across vast distances. This has been accomplished for present-day optical fiber communication systems, but future systems will always be pushing the limit of ...
This talk will explore the relationship between the performance of computers and the electricity needed to deliver that performance. Computations per kWh grew about as fast as performance for desktop computers starting in 1975, doubling every 1.5 years, a pace of change in computational efficiency comparable to that from 1946 ...
