Trends in Neuroscience TechnologyTwo recent major initiatives, the European Commission's Human Brain Project and the NIH's Brain Research through Advanced Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) have put a renewed focus on the development and application of innovative technologies for neuroscience. Our Fall event will highlight the use of neuroscience technologies especially with respect to applications ...
Where: South San FranciscoCost: Free
Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast: Book talk and author signing (Oakland)It’s nearly mushroom season, and this book will help you get started on identifying some fungal friends! "Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast" is a comprehensive and user-friendly field guide for identifying the many mushrooms of the northern California coast, from Monterey County to the Oregon border.Author Christian Schwarz will be ...
Where: OaklandCost: FREE!
5G Mobile Communications: The Vision for 2020 and BeyondWith barely 15% of the world’s mobile subscriptions served by 4G, the industry is already well under way in defining the next generation of wireless communications known as “5Gâ€. Envisioned for commercialization in late 2020, 5G will be “Amazingly Fast with Great Service in a Crowdâ€. It will have the ...
Wheels do it. Electrons do it. Even plants and planets do it. Explore a universal motion at Spin.Learn how physicist Carl Haber digitally maps old recordings to recover lost sounds, and hear how the spinning tendencies of electrons shape the entire physical world from physicist Robert Cahn. Find out what ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $10 Members
Cafe InquiryMeet up with rationalists, skeptics, and freethinkers south of San Francisco
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Exploring the Universe with Paperclips and a SupercomputerThirteen billion years ago (just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang), the first stars and galaxies began lighting up. Â Finding the "Cosmic Dawn" of our universe is one of the top goals of astronomy in this decade, and one of the most powerful techniques available takes ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast: Book talk and author signing! (Berkeley)It’s nearly mushroom season, and this book will help you get started on identifying some fungal friends! "Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast" is a comprehensive and user-friendly field guide for identifying the many mushrooms of the northern California coast, from Monterey County to the Oregon border. Author Christian Schwarz will ...
