Lecture by James M. TiedjeDr. Tiedje will discuss new approaches to assess and interrogate complex soil community genomic data, and then use this and sister methods to provide insight into environmental problems including antibiotic resistance genes as pollutants and organic chemical pollutant biodegradation.Speaker: Dr. James Tiedjie, Michigan State Univ.
Where: StanfordCost: Free
THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER: OBSERVATION OF THE HIGGS BOSONDr. Beate Heinemann from University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab will explain how particle physics research is done at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, and in particular discuss the observation of the Higgs boson in 2012 for which the Nobel Prize was awarded in Dec. 2013.
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Energy Seminar - Latin America mini-series (1 of 4)Speaker: Dr. Alvaro Umaña, Former Principal Adviser and Leader of the Energy and Environment Group, Bureau of Developmental Policy, United Nations Development Program history from the University of California, Los Angeles and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
One hundred commercial nuclear reactors in the United States generate ~ 800 billion kWh of energy each year. This accounts for 19% of the electricity generated in the U.S. The nuclear power plants (NPP) themselves produce no carbon dioxide, but the construction of the NPPs does require energy that leads ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Visualization of Astronomical Information: From Galileo to the ZooniverseIn 1610, when Galileo pointed his small telescope at Jupiter, he drew sketches to record what he saw. After just a few nights of observing, he understood his sketches to be showing moons orbiting Jupiter. It was the visualization of Galileo's observations that led to his understanding of a clearly ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $8 Members, $10 Seniors
