PHYSICS AND LAW: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND 21ST CENTURY BUSINESSWayne Sobon of Inventergy, Inc, a Cupertino-based investment and licensing company, will be discussing how intellctual property is a modern business asset with ties to science, business, and language. Mr. Sobon will delve into his career path from an undergraduate degree in physics to patent law.
The expression of cancer-specific biomolecules by a tumor is dynamic in time, space, and may depend on the physiological environment the cells are in. Hence, in order to truly study cancer biology at the molecular level, it is important to visualize these biomolecules in living subjects – their most natural ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Rising Power: Cleaning Coal in ChinaChina consumes nearly as much coal as the rest of the world combined, and is leading the world in greenhouse gas emissions. Now, even as China builds more coal-fired power plants, it is working to roll out technologies to burn that coal more cleanly - from anti-smog filters to systems ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Accountability and Outcomes in Addiction Treatment in an Era of Health Care ReformNew standards of accountability are emerging in addiction treatment as a result of recent parity legislation and health care reform that involve the full range of unhealthy use to dependence. Gain an understanding of some of the key outcome and performance measures in the field as accountability becomes more integrated ...
Tumbling down Mt. Tamalpais through Muir Woods to the Pacific,Redwood Creek has enchanted generations, from the elite of San Francisco's Bohemian Grove to Zen meditators and more. But the creek and its critically endangered salmon were loved almost to death.Speaker: John Northmore Roberts, Landscape Architect
Where: AlbanyCost: Free
Earth Matters: 'Fracking'-The Blue Bridge to a Green Future?Fracking"-shorthand for obtaining natural gas through hydraulic fracturing-has become one of the most widely recognized and emotionally charged words in our contemporary energy lexicon. Thanks to abundant supplies, relatively low prices, and cleanburning properties compared to coal, shale gas is booming in the worldwide market. But concerns about the environmental ...
