Julia: A Fast Dynamic Language For Technical Computing Julia is a general-purpose, high-level, dynamic language, designed from the start to take advantage of techniques for executing dynamic languages at statically-compiled language speeds. As a result the language has a more powerful type system, and generally provides better type information to the compiler.Julia is especially good at running MATLAB ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Insects, Spiders, and Other Arthropods!They're not just "bugs," they're amazing animals! Learn about arthropod structure, function, and life cycles; emphasis is on insects and differences between arthropod groups. Touch and examine YSI's live, not-so-creepy crawly animals. Grades: PreK-8th. Attendance is limited to the first 30 children.
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Isaac Newton at the boundary between theology and natural philosophyIt is well known that Newton regarded Descartes as his principal philosophical interlocutor when composing the first edition of the Principia . The arguments in the Scholium on space and time, for instance, can be interpreted as focusing specifically on the relativist conception of space and motion in Descartes's Principles ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Robots! NightlifeWire your circuits for a night of robotic revelry. Meet the OrbSWARM, a herd of autonomous beings that will flock, flirt, dance and interact with the crowd; and a crew of humanoid robots, DIY Mars Rover, and autonomous tabletop bugs supplied by the organizers of Robogames (the Olympics of the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
Exploring 7 Billion: Population, Inequities, and our Changing ClimateIn late October, 2011, Earth became home to 7 billion people. For every one person alive at the turn of the 20th Century when many of our grandparents were children, there are now more than four. The world's resources are not growing in step with humans. Our dramatic resource exploitation ...
Historically, floods have been the most destructive natural hazard in the Nation The USGS and National Weather Service have developed an early warning system that produces online maps of tomorrow’s floods today The new USGS FloodPath system maps a forecast flood 3 days before it happens, showing when and where ...
The Alaska Whale Foundation: Field Research of the Southeast Alaska Humpback Whale PopulationThe Alaska Whale Foundation has been conducting field research of the Humpback Whale population in Southeast Alaska since the 1980s. Pieter will give us an exciting presentation on their current research on the study area, prey abundance and distribution, social foraging, whale profiles, the community structure, showing the latest Crittercam results ...
Where: SausalitoCost: $5 Suggested Donation
Vanishing Birds of the PhillipinesThe Bone Room Presents current featured artist, David Tomb, will speak about his artwork and its connection with the Phillipines Eagle Foundation and conservation group Jeepney Projects Worldwide.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Michio Kaku: Physics of the FutureIn Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku -The New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible - gives us a stunning, provocative, and exhilarating vision of the coming century based on interviews with over three hundred of the world's top scientists, who are already inventing the future in ...
