Soil Health Series: Biological Properties of Soil & Composting Methods Soil is the most complex biomaterial on Earth...really! Join the very knowledgeable and enthusiastic Stephen Andrews (UC Berkeley Professor, specializing in soils) and Dick Minor (Alcatraz Gardens Volunteer Compost Manager) for a hands-on class to discover the basics of creating a successful compost, and how the soil foodweb drives the ...
Galaxy Intrinsic AlignmentsThe shapes of galaxies provide key insights into the physics of our universe. Astrophysicists have long been interested in measuring the precise shapes of galaxies in order to understand their formation mechanisms. In particular, the correlation of intrinsic galaxy shapes contains interesting information about the relation between galaxy formation and ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
How to learn from cosmological data The mysteries of the cosmic beginning, gravitational clustering, and cosmic acceleration persist. How can we distill relevant cosmological information from the next generation of data sets? Taking examples from the cosmic microwave background, large scale structure, and supernova cosmology, I will discuss inference strategies, artificial intelligence, and computational approaches that ...
