California's Stem Cell Initiative Conference - Confronting the Legal and Policy Changes on: UC Berkeley Webcasts Tutorial: the Basic Science of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, and some Foundational Legal and Bioethical Issues Two experts will conduct this tutorial on some of the basic scientific principles and legal and bioethical issues underlying human embryonic stem cell research.
Sidney Nagel University of Chicago Singularities and Topological Transitions: Breaking Away, Selective Withdrawal, Islets in the Stream. on: Fermilab Colloquium Lectures The exhilarating spray from waves crashing into the shore, the distressing sound of a faucet leaking in the night, and the indispensable role of bubbles dissolving gas into the oceans are but a few examples of the ubiquitous presence and profound importance of drop formation and splashing in our lives. During fission, a fluid forms a neck that becomes vanishingly thin at the point of breakup.
Looking Inside Clouds on: Jet Propulsion Laboratory When NASA's CloudSat satellite launches, it will allow scientists to see clouds in 3-D for the first time.
Micheal Dine UC, Santa Cruz String Phenomenology on: Summer School on Strings, Gravity and Cosmology Dr. Michael Dine presented a series of 3 lectures on String Phenomenology at the PIMS Summer School on Strings, Gravity & and Cosmology. When you get to the page, click on 'videos'.
Larry Witham reporter, writer Measure of God: Can We Reconcile Science and Religion? on: WGBH Forum Journalist and author Larry Witham explores the tension between science and religion that lies at the heart of contemporary debates on stem cell research, cloning, and teaching evolution in the school curriculum.
Dan Meiron California Institute of Technology Dan Meiron: Large Scale Simulation of Physical Systems on: Caltech Dr. Dan Meiron, Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Computer Science and Associate Provost for Information and Information Technology at Caltech, presented this lecture as part of the 0.1 Seminar series. He highlights the essential role played by both numerical analysis and computer science in taming the complexity of large-scale simulations of physical systems.
Richard Feynman California Institute of Technology Lecture 3: Electrons and Their Interaction on: Vega Science Trust Feyman diagrams and the intricacies of particle interaction. Simply the best physics lecturer of all time, in top form.
Innovation is Nothing New:100-Odd Years of Venture Capital Wisdom on: Reid Dennis, founder of Institutional Venture Partners, and Franklin Pitch Johnson, founding partner of Asset Management, review their combined 100 years of venture capital experience and observation, from the major mistakes to the spectacular successes. How does venture capital affect innovation? What have we learned? What is really new? Come learn and be entertained by the very personal stories and views of these two legendary venture capitalists.
Benjamin Lev California Institute of Technology Benjamin Lev: The Atom Chip on: Caltech Benjamin Lev, graduate student in physics, talks about the atom chip, a device reminiscent of a computer circuit board but designed for cold neutral atoms, and how it is an important new addition to the toolboxes of quantum physics and nanotechnology. Quantum computer hardware and atom laser manipulation are but a few promising atom chip applications.
David Goldstein California Institute of Technology Caltech: The Mechanical Universe: 03- Derivatives on: Newton and Leibniz's Differential and Integral Calculus: The function of mathematics in physical science and the derivative as a practical tool.
Harry Kroto Florida State University Astrophysics Lecture 8: Radio Astronomy - Resolution Issues on: Vega Science Trust Radio astronomy - resolution issues. The detection of long carbon chain molecules by radio astronomy. The conjectures on the origin of the chains in space and their possible relationship with the Diffuse Interstellar Bands that initiated the experiments that uncovered the existence of the C60 molecule. C60 extraction and interstellar dust.
V. S. Ramachandran University of California, San Diego The Uniqueness of the Human Brain on: Google Video Lecture 6 of 12. Ramachandran discusses phantom limbs and synesthesia (esp. color-blind synesthete) as a function of neuron innervation. Specifically, he focuses on cross-linking between nearby cortical regions, which he believes to be genetically caused
Edmund Phelps Columbia University 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics on: New York Times Edmund S. Phelps won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for explaining the relationship between inflation and unemployment, profoundly impacting macroeconomic policy.
James Reilly astronaut First spacewalk of Atlantis' mission on: Yahoonews After a brief delay, astronauts James Reilly and Danny Olivas got started on connecting a new, 35,000 pound segment to the space station and remove bolts and restraints holding a solar array in place on the segment.
Mike Pinkerton Camino Project Camino Browser on: Google TechTalks Mike Pinkerton will discuss the past, present and future of Camino development, along with lessons learned from Mozilla and the open source community.
Milena Anguelova Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University Identifiability of Delay Parameters for Nonlinear Time-delay Systems with Applications in Systems Biology on: The concept of parameter identifiability will be introduced briefly, followed by a short description of how this property can be tested for ODE-systems in general by rank calculations. Then, the extension of this analysis to delay systems, recently developed by Xia et al. [1] and Zhang et al. [2] will be reviewed
Cool Jobs: Desert Defender on: Discovery Channel Park Superintendent Kathy Billings has a deep affinity for the desert, even though she spends 75 percent of her time dealing with border issues.
Dudley Herschbach Harvard University Science on the Edge: Research Faculty Symposium on: Harvard University Professor Dudley Herschbach moderates a discussion among 5 distinguished Harvard scientists on their research in cancer treatment, artificial intelligence, Genomics, controlling the speed of light and bio-diversity.
Lab in Lorry on: CUSP gets out and about around the Festival with a look at Lab in a Lorry, a favourite of the children at the Festival. Megan talks to Helen Lloyd about the project, and looks at two of the experiments on offer. First up is polarizing light, followed by an explanation of how oil wells work.
