30th Annual San Francisco Middle School Science Fair30th Annual San Francisco Middle School Science FairEach February, the Randall Museum plays host to a remarkable gathering of the City's young scientific talent. Last school year brought the 29th annual San Francisco Middle School Science Fair! Special thanks to 2011 Science Fair sponsors Genentech, the United States Geological Survey, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Fish Feeding FrenzyHelp Ranger Bill feed the hungry inhabitants of our fresh and saltwater tanks. Watch the different feeding styles of rock cod, sea stars, and steelhead trout.
Scale: the Next Challenge for New Energy SolutionsNew energy technologies have entered the market now, with meaningful energy efficiency improvements in products and buildings and $200B in annual global investment to deploy clean energy facilities. A new generation of energy technologies is brewing in labs today as well. This is just a start. What will it take ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Many Particle Systems and Plasma Physics: Landau damping -- proofs and problemsIn this lecture I shall go more deeply into some of the proofs of the nonlinear Landau damping, and evoke some of the many problems in the area which have hardly been touched so far. Speaker: Cédric Villani, Université of Lyon and Institut Henri PoincaréRoom 1
Speaker:Dr. Hayes is a Professor of Genomic Medicine at the San Diego Campus of the J. Craig Venter Institute. She received her undergraduate education from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and her Ph.D. in Medical Genetics from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands in 1999. After heading a research ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Towards Infinity and Beyond: Big Universe, Little Universe in the Ancient Near EastAncient Mesopotamians lived their lives in a complex urban environment in a universe that was governed by rules and regulations that were believed to have been set in place by the gods. Within this framework, Mesopotamian scholars produced cuneiform texts which, at times, hint at notions of infinity that may ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
U.S.-China Clean Energy Relations: He Said, Xi SaidThe media has often portrayed the U.S. and China as in a clean energy race and a clean energy trade war. This talk will focus on both the business and politics of clean energy investment and trade between the two countries to date, with a specific focus on the solar ...
The Trillion Dollar Space Enterprise --> Or How The Lynx Suborbital Vehicle Will Change The WorldFully resuable spacecraft are the critical enabler for regular, low cost and safe access to space, and such access will enable space utilization in ways we've only dreamed about in the past. Much as the early ARPANET laid the foundation for a multi-trillion dollar enterprise revolving around the internet, early ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
'Survivor' Yau-Man Chan on Skepticism- a Cultural IntrospectiveAlthough the Asian population in the US and Canada is very well represented in all fields of science and engineering, their presences is conspicuously absent among skeptics and skeptics organization. At the last Amazing Meeting (TAM), as an example, attendance broke all records (1,672), yet there were but a handful ...
