Arm AIoT Dev SummitArm AIoT Dev Summit is a developer-focused conference to cast vision and share actionable technical knowledge to developers, data scientists, product managers, and all engineers and architects in IoT, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Attendees will connect with industry leaders who will conduct deep-dive training, facilitate hands-on workshops and share real-world ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: $49 thru 11/17 with code, $149 after
Precision Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave BackgroundThe cosmic microwave background (CMB) provides unparalleled views into the early universe and its later evolution. Recent and ongoing experiments have contributed to our understanding of neutrinos, dark energy, and dark matter through measurements of large scale structure imprinted on the CMB and constrained the conditions in the early universe, ...
Biomolecules are exquisitely adept at molecular recognition and self-assembly, enabling them to direct all of the processes that make life possible. These capabilities have been fine-tuned by billions of years of evolution, and more recently, have been harnessed in the laboratory to enable the use of biomolecules for applications beyond ...
Microbes are nature’s chemists, capable of producing and metabolizing a diverse array of compounds. In the human gut, microbial biochemistry can be beneficial, for example by producing vitamins or breaking down the complex carbohydrates of our diet; or detrimental, such as reactivating an inactive drug metabolite and causing patient toxicity. ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Molecular mechanism of DNA replication - from origins to forks and factoriesIn eukaryotes, DNA replication origins are activated in the late G1 phase of cell cycle, in which Origin Recognition Complex recruits the helicase core Mcm2-7 onto DNA and assemble an inactive double-hexamer. The Mcm2-7 double-hexamer is converted to two active CMG (Cdc45-Mcm2-7-GINS) helicases at the G1-to-S transition. And in the ...
The electric power industry is going through a digital transformation just like every other industry. In particular, the digital transformation is enabling new approaches to customer participation, efficiency of operation (enabling the workforce), reliability and resiliency, and asset management. This discussion will focus in particular on the tremendous opportunities to ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Building an artificial brain with neuro-inspired deep learningThe field of Computer Vision explores how to make machines understand visual data in various ways. Modern Computer Vision started out with optimizing statistical machine learning methods primarily using hand-crafted "features" for tasks such as Object Detection, Segmentation, and Tracking. Another inspiration behind Computer Vision techniques comes from looking into ...
We have been applying the mathematics of information theory - originally developed for human communication systems and computers - to humpback whales in order to measure the complexity of their vocalizations. Is their "language" as complex as ours, or even more complex? Are there general rules for communicating knowledge that ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
Tuesday, 12/03/19
Arm AIoT Dev SummitArm AIoT Dev Summit is a developer-focused conference to cast vision and share actionable technical knowledge to developers, data scientists, product managers, and all engineers and architects in IoT, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Attendees will connect with industry leaders who will conduct deep-dive training, facilitate hands-on workshops and share real-world ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: $49 thru 11/17 with code, $149 after
State of AI and MLIn this event as part of series of regularly planned events, we plan to cover the state-of-the art advances in AI technology. Entire Program schedule along with speaker bios and talk abstracts can be downloaded as a PDFReceive IEEE PDH Certificate from IEEE Continuing Education.
Carbocations are important reactive intermediates that are invoked in many chemical transformations. These species are usually of the tricoordinated variety. Conversely, dicoordinated carbenium ions are rarely invoked as intermediates in practical chemical processes due to their high energy and energetically challenging formation. In this talk I will discuss our recent ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Humanity at a Crossroads: New Insights into Technology Risks for Humans and the PlanetThis program will present the biological and health effects of both natural electromagnetic waves innate to the body and man-made electromagnetic waves from wireless technologies, including discussion about 4G/5G antenna densification. It will also address the mental health and relational impacts of tech overuse and addiction. Importantly, new scientific understanding ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
Accurate and precise cosmological constraints from the large-scale structure of galaxy clustering Ongoing and future galaxy surveys, e.g., DESI, Euclid, WFIRST, etc., are going to collect >100M galaxy redshifts and reach sub-percentage precision on the cosmological measurements, e.g., Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, growth rates of large-scale structure, etc. We look forward to obtaining tighter constraints on the cosmological parameters, e.g., Hubble constant, equation ...
Heterogeneous catalyst design is often hampered by a lack of precise information about the molecular identity of the active sites. Synthesizing model catalysts with control of the local structure allows us to interrogate the active sites about their interactions with reactants and products, including activation and deactivation processes. The approach ...
As a result of controls on NOx emissions from cars, trucks, and electricity production, NOx levels (sum on NO and NO2) have decreased rapidly across North America over the past decades. The reductions in NO alter the photochemical pathways followed in the oxidation of numerous chemicals emitted from the biosphere ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Healthcare Technology ExpoJoin us for an evening of informative discussions and interact with advanced robotic technology. Test drive the robots and hear from physicians who use them. Learn how these high tech tools are of great benefit to physicians and patients with improved outcomes and less time spent in the hospital.Spine Surgery: ...
Where: Los GatosCost: Free
Artificial Stupidity: The New AI and the Future of FintechFinancial AI seems so close, yet so far. We have automated trading algorithms, machine-learning models of credit risk, electronic exchanges, robo advisors, and cryptocurrencies, but machines still haven’t replaced portfolio managers, financial advisors, and bankers. So what’s missing? Not artificial intelligence. What's missing is that we have yet to develop ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Broadband Ferromagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: The 'Swiss Army Knife' for Understanding Spin-Orbit PhenomenaModern spin-based technologies rely on multiple, simultaneous phenomena that originate from the spin-orbit interaction in magnetic systems. These include damping, magnetic anisotropy, orbital moments, and spin-orbit torques that are manifested in the spin-Hall and Rashba-Edelstein effects. While cavity based ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectroscopy has been used to characterize magnetic materials ...
Where: MilpitasCost: Free
Don't Be Evil or How Big Tech Lost Its Soul"Don’t be evil." This phrase was written into Google’s code of conduct during the early days of the company. It was meant to guide employees’ actions as they built a tool used by millions in the hopes of making the world better. However, in 2018 the company quietly and seemingly ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $10 Student
Science at the Library: Reaching for the StarsLooking up in the night time sky you see many points of light. Many are stars that can be found within our galaxy, the Milky Way. Only a few points of lights are far away galaxies. Learn about constellations and how they are used by astronomers.There are 4 activities at ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Wednesday, 12/04/19
State of AI and MLIn this event as part of series of regularly planned events, we plan to cover the state-of-the art advances in AI technology. Entire Program schedule along with speaker bios and talk abstracts can be downloaded as a PDFReceive IEEE PDH Certificate from IEEE Continuing Education.
The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC) is a multidisciplinary data repository created to ensure that data generated from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). Our first efforts in developing GRIIDC in 2011 focused on making it easy ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Vibrational spectroscopy and plasmonics: a new toolbox for fingerprinting tumor-associated exosomesRecently it has been demonstrated that cancer pathology is dramatically mediated by cellular vesicle transport machinery via a number of key proteins, lipids, small molecules, and non-coding RNAs trafficked in exosomes and related nanoscale extracellular vesicles (EVs). Sensitive and specific detection of the cell-specific biomaterials recruited and packaged in EVs ...
We investigate the short- and long-term effects of a shale gas boom in an economy where energy can be produced with coal, natural gas, or clean energy sources. In the short run, cheaper natural gas has counteracting effects on CO2 emissions: on the one hand it allows substitution away from ...
ALUMNI PANEL - Achieving Liveable, Equitable, Sustainable CommunitiesThis colloquium features a panel of four accomplished Energy and Resources Group alumni who are leading advocates for liveable, equitable communities that address large-scale challenges like gridlock and climate change. ERG student Emma Tome will facilitate discussion of the panelists’ academic and career paths, as well as current challenges these ...
Heterogeneous catalyst design is often hampered by a lack of precise information about the molecular identity of the active sites. Synthesizing model catalysts with control of the local structure allows us to interrogate the active sites about their interactions with reactants and products, including activation and deactivation processes. The approach ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Precisely unsustainable: when is sustainability in the eye of the beholder?Anyone trying to communicate about sustainability quickly runs into difficulties. The most common definition, “development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” first appeared in the World Commission on Environment and Development's report, Our Common Future. This concept ...
Constraining Planet Formation with Spectroscopy of Direct Imaged PlanetsIn the past decade, several new jovian exoplanets at wide separations have been revealed using ground based telescopes equipped with adaptive optics systems. These planets, with masses between ~2-14 MJup, remain a puzzle for both major planet formation models. At the same time, they offer a powerful tool in the ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Anthropogenic climate change at Point Reyes and across US national parksAnthropogenic climate change has already increased temperatures and raised sea level at Point Reyes National Seashore. Continued climate change could reduce habitat for marine mammals, shift vegetation, increase wildfire potential, and increase other future risks to natural and cultural resources in Point Reyes. This presentation will provide climate change science ...
Since Fall 2002, the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering has hosted the Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium (SVLS). The Symposium hosts industry and technology leaders to talk about business and technology trends. It also features prominent leaders who discuss broader societal and political issues that shape our life and society.Matt ...
21cm Intensity Mapping: A New Cosmological Tool? The 21 cm line from neutral hydrogen gas has many useful properties for mapping large volumes of the cosmos. These maps will give us a view of the Universe when the first luminous objects formed through gravity - the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization, and later, the post-Reionization ...
Keep the early dark of this winter’s night at bay with light, color, and warmth. Excite your atoms at Glow, our annual festival of ebullient lights and subtle glows celebrating the close of the year. Bask in the mesmerizing gleams of special installations and kinetic sculptures, take a shine to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95, 14.95 explO members, AD members free
San Francisco chess players, let’s play and learn together! Unwind after work, have dinner, meet new friends, and talk tactics. All levels and ages are welcome. Bring a chess set if you have one. There’s no charge to participate, but a purchase of food or drinks helps support our generous venue. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free, a libation purchase helps support the cafe
Cafe InquiryCenter for Inquiry San Francisco's monthly get together to talk about whatever interests us.
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Feel the Force NightLifeChannel your inner Jedi during an evening of galactic entertainment inspired by a galaxy far, far away.Wander among droids built by the R2 Builders club and come in costume to celebrate your favorite epic space saga.Get into character during a lightsaber workshop and prepare to be wowed by epic lightsaber ...
Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era when the term “drug” encompassed everything from herbs and spices - like nutmeg, cinnamon, and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $6 - $14
Astronomy on Tap: Santa CruzHow Gravitational Waves beame the new surf spot in Santa CruzSpeaker: Karelle SiellezHow Santa Cruz Astronomers Struck GoldSpeaker: Charlie Kilpatrick
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
The Promise and Peril of the Digital AgeAs Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith leads a team of more than 1,400 business, legal and corporate affairs professionals working in 56 countries. He plays a key role in spearheading the company’s work on critical issues involving the intersection of technology and society, including cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence, human rights, immigration, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $35 General, $25 Member, $10 Student
Can We Create New Senses for Humans?What would the world be like if we could expand our senses beyond the meager capacities of humans? Using the approach of sensory substitution, we can translate and feed almost any kind of data through the skin, expanding the human sensory experience. Join us for a talk with Stanford’s Dr. ...
Two KIPAC Tea TalksFOBOS InstrumentSpeaker: Kevin Bundy, UC Santa CruzLarge Scale Dynamo in a Primordial Accretion FlowWithout an existing large scale coherent magnetic field in the early Universe, Population III stars would likely rotate at or near break-up speed. Using results from hydrodynamic simulations, we find evidence helical turbulence with a dynamo number ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Cosmology with the Lya forest: beyond two-point statistics, DESI instrumentationThe Lyman-alpha forest is currently the only probe of cosmology and the state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) between redshifts of z=2 and 6. Its higher-order clustering, specifically its three-point correlation function (3PCF), contains information that can help to constrain fluctuations in the ionizing background and temperature fields of the ...
Rate- and State-dependent Friction (RSF) equations are commonly used to describe the time-dependent frictional response of fault gouge to perturbations in sliding velocity. Among the better-known versions are the Aging and Slip laws for the evolution of state. Although the Slip law is more successful, neither can predict all the ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
When Liquids are Liquids or Maybe NotWe introduce systems of liquids trapped in non-equilibrium configurations by interfacial assemblies of nanoparticle surfactants (‘NPSs’). These constructs consist of aqueous threads, length ~10-100 cm and diameter ~100 m whose mechanical properties are determined by an interfacial NPS assembly 20 nm thick. The interfacial layer consists of nanoparticles and polymers ...
What makes candy hard or soft? Learn what happens when sugar is heated up and how temperature effects the outcome. Enjoy candy making workshops and learn how to make your own candy at home! The Oakland Youth Chorus will be joining us for their winter concert under the Planetarium with ...
Where: OaklandCost: $5
The Dark Matter of Physics RapRap is the language of the youth. Science is a way to expand our understanding of the universe. As the Genius of the Wu Tang Clan, GZA’s proposes to combine these two disparate concepts into his anticipated album, Dark Matter. Some predict it will be corny, but a closer look at ...
Where: EmeryvilleCost: Free
Dwarfs: Failed Stars or Overachieving Planets?Giant planets can be up to 13 times the mass of Jupiter, while the least massive stars are about 80 times the mass of Jupiter. In between are objects called "brown dwarfs" - too massive to be called planets, but not massive enough to burn hydrogen and shine like stars. ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Saturday, 12/07/19
Hayward Fault Walking TourOver the last million years, the natural beauty of Fremont has been shaped by the Hayward Fault. Instructors will be leading these 'ground breaking' tours and exposing the science and beauty of the Hayward Fault. This fault is one of several active faults in the world actually creeping at 5 ...
It’s The Crucible’s craft show! Join us for GIFTY, the best place in the Bay to find your holiday gifts made right here by local artists, craftspeople, and Crucible faculty. With jewelers, metalworkers, artisan bath suppliers, button makers, bottle cap fashionistas, candle extraordinaires, and so much more, you are sure ...
Compare and contrast bony fishes from the SF Bay and Rocky Shore, learn about their differences and adaptations, and finish the day off with some fun holiday crafts and seaside story time.
Where: Redwood CityCost: $20
Trekking the ModelJoin a Ranger or docent on a guided tour of the Bay Model, a 1.5-acre hydraulic model of the San Francisco Bay and Delta. Discover the stories of the two major operations that took place at this location between 1942 - 2000.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
CRISPR: A Revolution in Genome EditingBacteria are under constant attack from viruses. In order to defend themselves, these microbes have evolved a unique and creative immune system that scientists have called “CRISPR.” As researchers began to unravel this perplexing defense system, they quickly realized that CRISPR proteins might not only improve the health of bacteria ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: free
Jazz under the Stars - CANCELEDCome peer through our telescopes and see craters on the Moon, the visible planets, star clusters, and more while we listen to CSM's very own KCSM Jazz 91 FM. Dress warmly. Free parking in Marie Curie Lot 5. Directions are available on the Maps, Directions & Parking page.This event has been canceled due ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
City Star Party @ The PresidioCome join us for our monthly San Francisco City Star Party. SFAA members provide telescopes for your viewing pleasure. Be sure to check the SFAA website for the latest updates…bad weather or overcast skies will cancel!
