Three presentations at Romberg Tiburon CenterApplications of AIS ship tracking for marine mammal conservation; Nathan GriegMigratory Seabird Habitat in the Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank NMS; Anna StudwellEffects of ocean acidification and atmospheric temperature warming on the growth of juvenile porcelain crabs; Carley Turner
Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor, and author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, Or How to Build the Future. He will be speaking on his philosophies on creating truly innovative startups and how to navigate a future marked ...
7:00-7:25: Lily Alexander(UC Santa Cruz) on "Counterculture, Collectivity, and the Aesthetics of Early Communications Art at the Western Front and Beyond"Abstract forthcoming...Read more7:25-7:50: Carlo Sequin(UC Berkeley) on "Hyperbolic Hexagon to Evolving Trefoil"How a 20-year collaboration between a physicist and sculptor Brent Collins resulted in large-scale commissioned sculptures...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. ...
Dr. Rodney Jackson has devoted nearly 35 years of his life to protecting the iconic cat of central Asian mountains, the snow leopard. Arguably the world's foremost snow leopard expert, Dr. Jackson has developed relationships with a myriad of people throughout the cats' range with the goal of empowering them, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Senior, Free members
What Was the Star of Bethlehem?The Biblical Gospel of Matthew describes a star appearing in the East at the time of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. For millennia, both believers and unbelievers, skeptics and the curious have wondered about the Biblical account of the Star of Bethlehem.Join Saint Mary's College's astrophysicist, Ron Olowin, to ...
Prof. Werner will be talking on his research into the largest objects in the universe. Giant eliptical galaxies, groups, and clusters of galaxies. He will show observations which reveal how the enormous amount of energy when matter falls into supermassive Black Holes at the center of these systems.Speaker: Norbert Werner, ...
