Kepler's: Leonard Susskind
Physicist Leonard Susskind will discuss and signs his new book: "The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics." Susskind and hacker-scientist George Hrabovsky cover the minimum that readers need to study more advanced topics. Beginning with classical mechanics, the work ends with discussions of electromagnetic fields and chaos theory. The event is today, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m. at 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Go to keplers.com

Talk: Local energy generation
Craig Lewis, executive director of Clean Coalition, will discuss the benefits of local energy generation in the first of four "Beyond Fossil Fuels" talks offered by the nonprofit Acterra this spring. The event is today, Feb. 12, 7:30-9 p.m. at Fenwick & West LLP, 801 California St., Mountain View. Go to acterra.org

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