Remote island regions face many challenges when establishing reliable Internet connections and introducing technology into schools and communities. This talk draws from Professor Hosman's in-the-field experiences with technology-for-development projects, focusing on the PISCES Project, a multi-partnered, education-focused technology project in Micronesia. Using solar powered long-distance wireless connections and an all-in-one ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Can We Computerize an Elephant?The talk shows how techniques from computer science and software engineering can be applied beneficially to research in the life sciences. We discuss the idea of comprehensive and realistic modeling of biological systems, where we try to understand and analyze an entire system in detail, utilizing in the modeling effort ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Harbor porpoises re-occupy San Francisco Bay - POSTPONEDInstead of the harbor porpoises discussion, RTC will hold two graduate lead discussions on:1. Sublethal effects of the cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa on the copepod Pseudodiaptomus forbesi, Rita duMais, Kimmerer Lab2. The impacts of eelgrass restoration on aquatic invertebrate communities, Cassie Pinnell, Boyer LabThe RTC Seminar Series brings leading local, national, and international scientists to a ...
Genetic Adaptations to New Environments in Human PopulationsThe history of human evolution and dispersal was associated with remarkable environmental changes over time and space, which resulted in major challenges to homeostatic systems. Professor Di Rienzo's group has developed approaches for detecting the impact of selective pressures associated with environmental factors and they have applied them to genome-wide ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Ingress: a massibely multiplayer geo game from Google Ingress is a massively multiplayer geo game that was recently launched by Google's Niantic Labs. Players move through the real world using an Android device and the Ingress app to discover and tap sources of a mysterious energy. Players acquire objects to aid in their quest, deploy tech to capture ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Astronomy from the Stratosphere: NASA's SOFIA MissionWhy would NASA buy a used passenger airliner, cut a 10' x 10' hole in the fuselage, add a roll-back door, and install a 17-ton telescope inside? In his lecture, open to the public, Dr. Backman will introduce you to the engineering marvel and international scientific facility called SOFIA -- ...
Clarence Hamilton Kennedy was an entomologist, an artist, and the first person to carry out a comprehensive census of dragonflies in the western United States. In 1914 and 1915, he travelled throughout California and Nevada, compiling lists of species that he encountered at specific sites along with notes on environmental ...
