Recommended events in the Bay Area: Apr 27 @ Sudo Room: BICEP2s collaborator Jamie Tolan on their discovery of gravitational waves https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/gravity-waves-results-and-implications-of-the-bicep2-experiment/?instance_id= Apr 28 @ UC Berkeley ATC: composer Paul De Marinis atc.berkeley.edu/ Apr 29 @ Berkeley: Bay Area Modern Music composersinc.org/ Apr 29 @ Stanford: mediaX 2014 Conference Apr 29 @ Kinetech: David Glowacki on Quantum Art kine-tech.org/ Apr 29 @ California College for the Arts: Isaac Julien speak his NYMOMA installation Ten Thousand Waves Apr 30 @ Stanford: Ed Catmull, cofounder of Pixar May 1 @ Center for New Music: composer Brenda Hutchinson centerfornewmusic/calendar/ May 3 @ UC Berkeley: Cognitive Science Conference cssa.berkeley.edu/conference.php May 5 @ USF: Terry Johnson (UC Berkeley/ Synthetic Biology) on Teaching Old Cells New Tricks, Chhoti Rao (USF) on Indias Contemporary Art Scene, Bruno Olshausen (Director of the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley) on Modeling the Neural Basis of Visual Perception, and Implications for Technology and Art, Ashley Bellouin (Composer) on In Search of an Eternal Present scaruffi/leonardo/may2014.html May 6 @ UC Santa Cruz: Paul Koch (Biology), Norman Locks (Art), Elaine Sullivan (History), Ronaldo Wilson (Literature) arts.ucsc.edu/institute/events-site May 9 @ Berkeley Art Museum: Michael Gordons opera Van Gogh May 9-10 @ Zellerbach Hall: Orchester Wiener Akademie & John Malkovich May 9-10 @ Joe Goode Annex, 401 Alabama St: Katharine Hawthornes The Escapement, a evening-length dance performance tracking human methods of timekeeping from sundials through the atomic clock May 15 @ Stanford: Robin Fleming on using human bones to rewrite history https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/publicprograms/eventcalendar.php May 16-17 @ Stanford: Jack Kornfield on neuroscience and Buddhism https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/publicprograms/eventcalendar.php May 17 @ Cubberley Community Center: Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra performing Ralph Vaughan Williams, Ernest Bloch and Handel pacomusic.org/paco_wp/2013-14-concert-season Jun 6-7 @ Zero1.org : the first LAST festival lastfestival with Google’s director or research, DARPA’s director of Innovation, a cofounder of Pixar, a chief NASA planetary scientist and 12 hightech interactive art installations More: scaruffi/travel/sfoevent.html
Posted on: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 16:37:43 +0000