Very Long Term Planning: Integrating Planetary Protection in Human MissionsDespite decades of experience with human missions in low Earth orbit (LEO), we have only scant, outdated information applicable to human missions to planetary surfaces, where contamination concerns and planetary protection requirements raise unusual challenges. It has been over 40 years since the Apollo program dealt with the challenges ...
Join Will Elder (National Park Service-Interpretive Ranger) for a class discussing the Geologic History of the Presidio! Come and dig into the many layers of how the different substrates have formed and have evolved into what we see today. The class will start at Presidio 1216, and continue on an ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Donations encouraged
Science and Practice of Mindfulness Meditation in Sports, Work and LifeMeditation is embraced by world-class athletes, Fortune 500 corporations and by public figures such as Warren Buffet, Oprah Winfrey, Clint Eastwood and Rupert Murdoch. This ancient practice is often used to improve mindfulness, spirituality and to reduce stress, but is it something worth including in your day to day or ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Converged Packet-Optical Software Defined NetworkingService Provider Networks are complex and multi-layer in nature. Today, Provisioning and adding bandwidth requires order of days if not months. Since packet and optical networks are managed independently, each one of them has to be overprovisioned to deal with traffic anomalies and failures.This leads to lack of service agility ...
Paul Tang, MD, MS is the Vice President and Chief Innovation and Technology Officer at Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF), Sutter Health, and Consulting Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Tang directs the David Druker Center for Health Systems Innovation and also oversees PAMF's electronic health record (EHR) ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Earth-Sized Planets in the Habitable Zones of Cool StarsThis year marks the 20th anniversary of the first exoplanet discovered to orbit another star like our Sun. The field of exoplanets has since progressed dramatically, with a large part due to the success of NASA's Kepler Mission, which has discovered and confirmed over 1,000 planets in our galaxy to ...
