Can a Circular Economy Salvage the Climate?Produce, consume, dispose: If you’ve ever made a purchase, you’re familiar with the steps of a traditional linear economy. Raw materials are extracted, produced into goods and used - sometimes only once, in the case of your morning Starbucks - before turning into waste.Enter the circular economy. Beyond just recycling, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Do No Harm: Civic Leadership and the Role of Health CareCan we design a health-care system that serves all? Rupa Marya thinks we can. Through hard lessons learned, Marya joins Donna LaSala, Presidio Graduate School professor, to discuss aspects of the U.S. health-care system that are aligned with social justice and others that create injustice. They will explore workable solutions for ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
Particle Physics & Astrophysics with Wide Field mm-Wave Surveys There have now been several generations of wide-field mm-wave surveys, with several ongoing and upcoming very ambitious projects. We have already learned a great deal about the early universe and put strong constraints on particle physics extensions to the standard model, also collecting large catalogs of strong gravitational lens systems ...
Professor Donna Strickland (University of Waterloo), co-recipient of the 2018 Physics Nobel Prize, will give the Applied Physics/Physics colloquium.Editor's Note: This lecture will also be given on May 6 at SLAC. See our listing for location and additional information.
