Coronal heating and acceleration and NASA's Solar Probe Plus missionThe thermodynamic temperature of the Sun's atmosphere rises from ~6000K at the visible surface to millions of degrees in its outer atmosphere, the corona. This hot coronal plasma then expands supersonically to become the solar wind; this wind acceleration process is ongoing to very high altitudes (~10 solar radii) There ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Emerging Wireless Applications In BiomedicineIn recent years, we have become fascinated by the idea of tiny surgical robots that can be introduced into a blood vessel, travel through the patient's body, exchange information with an external controller for detailed diagnosis, and perform local interventions. They might even be permanently resident in the body for ...
Understanding the Deep Sea - Oceanography Meets BusinessOur community is increasingly asking demanding questions on the prediction of the natural world. What useful chemicals will be discovered from the ocean and ocean mud? Will the steady trend in movement of California precipitation from snow to rain continue, or accelerate? What is the average recurrence time for earthquakes ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 standard, $8 members, $7 students
Tim O'Reilly - Birth of the Global MindTim O'Reilly presents: Birth of the Global Mind"The history of civilization is a story of evolution in our ability to build complex 'multicellular minds,'" says Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media (books, conferences, foo camps, Maker Faires,Make magazine.)Speech allowed us to communicate and coordinate. Writing allowed that coordination ...
Finding paths for sustainable energy production is one of the foremost challenges as worldwide demand is quickly growing and increased concern of climate effect due to increased concentration of greenhouse gasses. One promising direction, especially for production of liquid transportation fuels, is re-engineering the metabolism of microbes like baker's yeast ...
