Trees of the UC Berkeley Campus WalkThis tour will seek out the best of Berkeley’s fall colors as we use visiting the most notable campus trees as a framework for our walk. As we enjoy the diversity of species, you may learn a bit of history about the development of the campus and a few stories ...
Power systems worldwide are changing rapidly in the face of the global challenge of decarbonization and the subsequent addition of more distributed and variable renewable energy sources. Since the power system is enormous in scale, has very long investment horizons, and stringent reliability requirements, changes to the system need to ...
Speaker: Tom Suchanek is a scientist emeritus at Western Ecological Research Center, United States Geological Survey, and Bodega Marine Laboratory, UC Davis.
 Join us for a conversation with Jeremy Henrickson, Chief Product Officer at Coinbase, an online platform for buying, selling, transferring and storing digital currency. Henrickson began his career at Apple as a research engineer and at Reactive (later acquired by Cisco) as the Director of Technology Services. Over nine years, ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Research Paradigms in Artificial IntelligenceArtificial Intelligence (AI) has been much in the news of late, with reports of impressive technical achievements alongside commentary on social benefits, risks, and policy. Receiving less attention has been the development of AI as an intellectual undertaking, with roots stretching back to the 1940s. Many observers today conflate AI ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
WeWork City Center Coding Club for Kids The WeWork City Center Dojo is a place where young people age 7-17 can code and explore technology in a fun and social enviroment. They can create apps, build a website, try out different coding languages, and get hands on with digital making using the Raspberry Pi.We recommend that children ...
Creativity is widely recognized as an essential skill for entrepreneurial success and adaptation to daily-life demands. However, we know little about how creative thinking is manifested in the brain and how to enhance it. In this talk, Dr. Saggar will discuss some of the work he did in collaboration with ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $10 Genera, Free Members & Students
SciComm 014: Conserving CoralsAs scientists continue publishing breakthrough academic research about the future of our coral reefs, how can artists support the outreach and awareness of the dangers facing these endangered environments? Join us for a talk by Stanford Professor of Earth Sciences Rob Dunbar, whose research on coral reefs and marine conservation ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Bioluminescent and Exotic MushroomsTaylor grew up near Seattle in an art-aware environment and took to music at an early age. After high school he entered the University of Washington College of Architecture, but by the time he was 21 he was playing several musical instruments and soon moved to California to start a ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Cosmology and Ambition: Losing the Nobel PrizeWhat would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers using the powerful BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole thought they’d glimpsed evidence of the period of cosmic inflation at the beginning of time. Millions around the world tuned in to the announcement, ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 parking)
The Data Analytics of Application Scaling and Why There Are No GiantsLike the 30 ft. giant in 'Jack and the Beanstalk,' myths and fallacies abound regarding application scaling. Many blog posts show some performance data as time-series charts, but otherwise only offer a qualitative analysis. This talk is intended to remedy that by showing you how to QUANTIFY scalability. Time series ...
Where: SunnyvaleCost: Free
The Invasive Death Cap Mushroom And Its Defensive Arsenal Not all mushrooms are meant to be ingested, because they contain a very deadly toxin known as amatoxin (or amanitin). Rapid detection of the toxin may help foragers or clinicians to know when they have encountered one type of deadly mushroom and to take the appropriate next steps. We will ...
