Practical Garden Design for the Home GardenerSpend the morning turning your garden dreams into a reality! Join horticulturist for the Garden's Australasian and California collections, Clare Al-Witri, for a perennial garden design workshop. Come with a garden design project in mind and receive advice on steps you can take to create the garden you desire. You'll ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $20 General, $15 Members
Impact of seawater desalination on the marine environment. What do we know (and don’t)?With 18,000 desalination plants in 150 countries and an installed capacity to produce 86 million liters per day of fresh water, the desalination industry invests large amounts in the planning and construction of plants as well as in technological research and development. A wealth of publications exists in the scientific ...
How do parental endowments shape the economic prospects of their children? Using a newly constructed dataset from the U.S. Census Bureau linking survey, Census and administrative records, we evaluate the effect of early childhood pollution exposure on the long-run effects of the individuals directly affected, as well as the persistence ...
Computer Vision at the Edge and in the Cloud: Architectures, Algorithms, Processors, and ToolsComputer vision is rapidly becoming ubiquitous. From autonomous robots, vehicles and drones to smart buildings to home assistants that can advise you on your fashion choices, vision is showing up everywhere.A key architectural choice underlies this ubiquity: should vision processing be done at the edge, in the cloud, or a ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: $5 General, Free for members
7:00-7:25: Liat Berdugo (Media Artist) on "Technologies of Power, Access, and Freedom"We live in a world saturated with glowing rectangles...Read more7:25-7:50: Ronald Zuckermann(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) on "The Molecular Building Blocks of Life"How did they emerge and organize themselves?...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone ...
Kristy Kroeker, PhD, will speak on the ecological effects of climate change on the oceans and the vital role oceans play in mitigating impacts. She is assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Â She holds a PhD in Biological ...
