Join professor Lew Feldman to learn the botany behind the celebrated plant changes associated with the fall season. We'll explore why (and how) some leaves appear to change color--exhibiting reds, yellows, and oranges--and the environmental influences that affect the brilliance of those colors. In addition, Dr. Feldman will explain the ...
Our galaxy is full of Earth-sized, potentially Earth-like, planets, yet we still barely know what these planets are actually like. I will use several examples to show how the rapid exploration of exoplanets offers unique opportunities for Earth Science, and how exoplanets are in turn helping us better understand Earth. ...
The current resurgence of artificial intelligence is due to advances in deep learning. Systems based on deep learning now exceed human capability in speech recognition, object classification, and playing games like Go. Deep learning has been enabled by powerful, efficient computing hardware. The algorithms used have been around since the ...
Where: Cost: Free
Friday, 11/26/21
Black Friday Hike at Rancho San VicenteJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful hike at Rancho San Vicente where you’ll explore the newest addition to Calero County Park, a beautiful oak woodland that POST recently helped expand! You will be guided by POST ambassadors who will share details about our contributions to the park, and ...
Join Edward Saltzberg, Executive Director of The Security and Sustainability Forum, and Richard Heinberg in a free discussion about the urgent need to transition to not just a different energy regime but a different basis for human habitation on the planet. The conversation features Richard’s new book, Power: Limits and Prospects for ...
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a versatile technique for studying proteins and other biological molecules in a wide variety of different conditions. However, the field is predominantly confined to academia with the result that commercial software packages are not geared towards its needs and are usually inadequate for the data ...
Speaker: Marynel Vazquez, Yale UniversitySee weblink for Zoom information
Where: Cost: Free
The Black Hole Information Paradox in the Age of Holographic Entanglement Entropy - LivestreamThe black hole information paradox - whether information escapes an evaporating black hole or not -Â remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of theoretical physics. The apparent conflict between validity of semiclassical gravity at low energies and unitarity of quantum mechanics has long been expected to find its resolution ...
With increasing frequency, AI algorithms are making high-impact decisions: When should a self-driving car slam on the brakes? Can an MRI scan reliably detect a tumor? Will facial recognition software identify your son as a Most Wanted fugitive? AI algorithms need to be aware of their confidence level - to ...
