Introduction to Garden MaintenanceLearn gardening techniques to help care for your landscape, maintain aesthetic and keep it looking fresh! Desmond Murray (Presidio Seed Specialist & Longtime Bay Area Gardener) and Kaiya Giuliano (Intern at Presidio Nursery)will emphasize natural pruning techniques, fertilizing, pest care, and water management for California native plants. Tools and gloves ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Donations encouraged
Two KIPAC Tea TalksCharacterization of the LSST CameraSpeaker: Bela Abolfathi, UC IrvineA Perturbative Treatment of Galaxy Intrinsic AlignmentsSpeaker: Denise Schmitz, Caltech
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Making neural net classifiers more robust and explainable: Lessons from Adversarial AI As deep neural nets achieve ever greater successes, efforts to break them and learn about their failure modes are also ramping up. Security experts and malicious actors are interested in weaknesses per se, and we scientists are more interested in what we can learn about robustness to inputs somewhat different ...
'Nano' Implies Nonlinear DynamicsOne thing that we who have worked in the nano area for the past 20 years keep claiming is that new properties and opportunities arise from materials crafted at the nanometer scale. One of the major changes is that the response of materials to stimuli becomes increasingly nonlinear, and that ...
Green FridayThe Green Friday presentation for November will be by staff for East Bay Community Energy (EBCE), the new local electricity supplier in Alameda County. EBCE will provide cleaner, greener energy at lower rates to customers. EBCE is a not-for-profit public agency formed by the County of Alameda and 11 of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $3 donation requested
HISTORY OF TELESCOPES - the Modern EraReflecting telescopes ultimately predominated at professional observatories in the aftermath of the enormous success of this type of instrument at Mt. Wilson. This was followed by the epic construction of the 5 meter telescope for Mt. Palomar which was to remain the world’s largest for a generation. A spate of ...
