Cloud Computing Research Challenges for the Programming Languages CommunityCloud computing is an important industry trend that is having significant impact on businesses and society. Many computer science research communities have responded to this trend with vibrant research activities. However, the programming languages community seems to be mostly ignoring cloud computing, possibly because there is a perception that there ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Puma energetics, behavior, and ecology in a landscape of fear Much of California is mountain lion habitat and many thousands of people recreate in mountain lion country each day without incident. Fear of these top predators is understandable if one were to encounter a mountain lion. How does that fear change our decisions and behavior at that time? I am ...
Transforming Social Services with Data ScienceBayes Impact's is a non-profit whose mission is to use data science to do good on a large scale. Our work at the intersection of technology and policy has led us to work with governments and NGOs around the world in areas spanning health, social services, and international development. How ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Four presentations at Romberg Tiburon CenterMelissa Kent (Hines) Citizen Science's Role in Filling Data Gaps: Whale Watching Operators of Northern California Kerstin Kalchmayr (Holzman/Hines) Assessing spatio-temporal changes of invasive Limonium ramosissimum in San Francisco Bay wetlands Serina Sebilian (Boyer) The effects of elevated salinity and temperature ...
Climate change mitigation requires gigawatt-scale deployment of low-carbon energy technologies, including carbon-negative technologies like bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) to reduce atmospheric CO2 concentrations. There are few deployments of BECCS outside of niche markets, creating uncertainty about commercialization pathways and sustainability at scale. Here, I present results on the ...
Chemocatalytic routes for the conversion of sugars into monomers that can be used to create known and new polymers have significant potential to enable large-scale production of bio-based polymers. Starting from glucose, reaction pathways that lead to the synthesis of terephthalic acid (PTA) and racemic lactic acid (LA), that can ...
Sorting out membrane traffic with old friends: Having the time of my life at CalAs a cell biologist and biochemist, Emr's research has focused on uncovering the molecular mechanisms responsible for the biogenesis of a specialized organelle, the lysosome, which functions in the degradation and recycling of cellular proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and nucleic acids. Emr's lab has used a single-cell yeast as a genetic ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Happening: The Story of a Clean Energy Revolution that Is Patriotic, Democratic and Well UnderwayThe new documentary Happening takes us to towns, cities and people across the United States where new technologies are transforming our homes, schools, towns and cities into healthy and safe environments now and for the future.The panel will discuss the dawn of American's clean energy economy as it creates jobs, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Effective communication is crucial to successful collaborations, fundraising, and science policy.To help you understand how you can effect change in the scientific and lay community, AWIS has invited Natalie DeWitt to moderate a discussion panel with journal editors, grant writers, and science journalists. Natalie will facilitate a conversation between you and the panelists about:the current state ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $10 General Advance/$15 at door, Members Free
Replacing the Worlds Most Destructive IndustryImpossible Foods is leading the way to a sustainable food system by replacing animal-derived foods with irresistibly delicious meat and dairy products – made directly from plants. Impossible has developed an innovative platform to make foods with all of the nutritional value and complex flavors of meat and dairy, without the ...
Where: BelmontCost: Free
'The Great California Drought of 2012-2015. Will El Niño Save Us?'The drought of 2012 – 2015 has been unprecedented in California's history. The Sierra Nevada snowpack of 2015 was the lowest in 500 years, and by summer 2015 California was in the midst of a 1-in-1200 year drought. Record-low rainfall, minimal Sierra Nevada snow pack, reduced runoff, and massive reductions ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Can plants choose their ectomycorrhizal fungal partners?Have you ever wondered why some fungal species only grow under certain trees? Why are some parts of the woods great for the mushrooms you want, while other parts are barren? One part of the story may be that the trees can pick and choose the fungi on their roots. ...
Nerd Nite #66: Hypervelocity, SF Politicking, and Fake Deafness Cures!Should you elect to come to Nerd Nite this month, we guarantee – cross our quackish little hearts – that you'll come away cured of a certain amount of ignorance. Now, isn't that something to be thankful for? Join a speed obsessive, PR flack, a medical historian, a vinyl-spinner, some ...
