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According to Dr. Vivian Lee, health care is killing our economy and, in many cases, killing us.Beyond the outrageous expense, the quality of care varies wildly, and millions of Americans can’t get care when they need it. This is bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for business.Dr. Lee ...
Where: Cost: Free
Identifying topological order through unsupervised machine learning - LivestreamThe traditional description of phase transitions, originally developed by Landau, relies on the identification of a local order parameter that indicates the onset of a symmetry-breaking phase. However, many physical systems evade this paradigm and exhibit topological phase transitions where states are distinguished by their global topological properties rather than ...
Beginning more than a decade ago, many large energy customers began to want to use more renewable energy than was available on their local power grids. A new wave of voluntary, direct, renewable energy procurement driven by non-residential customers has added more than 20GW of new renewable energy to the ...
Neutron stars are the remnants of supernova explosions. These stars have the mass of our Sun packed into a package the size of a city. When two of these tiny stars spiral in and crash into each other, the first evidence that humans can detect are gravitational waves and a ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
Tuesday, 06/02/20
Arepo-MCRT: Monte Carlo radiation hydrodynamics on a moving mesh - LivestreamI will discuss Arepo-MCRT, a Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) solver for the unstructured moving-mesh code Arepo. The method is designed for general multiple scattering problems in both optically-thin and -thick conditions. It incorporates numerous efficiency improvements and noise reduction schemes to help overcome efficiency barriers that ...
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Free Biotechnology Webinar Mark Snyder is a Process Manager at Bio-Rad Laboratories for their Chromatography Division. Snyder has been generous enough to host a free webinar about biotechnology as well as answer any questions. No RSVP required just join this link at 4 pm! https://bio-rad.zoom.us/j/94709955446
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Pictures of Distant Worlds - LivestreamIn the past two and a half decades, more than 4000 planets have been discovered orbiting other stars beyond our own Solar System. This has sparked a revolution in astronomy as we realize our Solar System is not alone. However, we still don’t know if our Solar System is rare ...
We will explore the most intriguing future “tourist destinations” among the planets and moons in our cosmic neighborhood. Our stops will include the 4,000-mile lava channel on Venus, the towering Mount Olympus volcano on Mars (three times the height of Mount Everest), the awesome Verona Cliffs on the moon Miranda ...
Until recently, the colors of ancient life forms existed only in our imaginations. In museums and on the big screen, we have seen fossil creatures portrayed in striking colors, but those reconstructions were based on very little scientific evidence. However, over the past decade or so, new fossil discoveries and ...
Where: Cost: Free
Wednesday, 06/03/20
Long-term Thinking in a Pandemic-Changed World - LivestreamCovid-19 is disrupting every human system on Earth, and the return to “normal” is highly unlikely after the virus subsides. The decline of the old system paradigm built on mechanisms of bureaucracy and control is accelerating, while a new paradigm built on biologic adaptability and telepathic technologies begins to take ...
Recipe for Action: Building Food Security in Insecure Times - LivestreamThe coronavirus pandemic and resulting economic, energy, and socio-political shocks have left tens of millions of American families food insecure, frayed or broken global food supply chains, and made it abundantly clear the need to build more localized, sustainable, and resilient food systems.In this 75 minute webinar we’ll speak with ...
Where: Cost: Free
COVID Conversations: COVID-19 Demographics and Public Health Updates - LivestreamJoin Exploratorium Senior Scientist Jennifer Frazier in conversation with Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco and Co-Founder of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. It’s well documented that African Americans, Latinos, ...
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Invisible Women in the Workplace - LivestreamThe world has a major design flaw. It wasn’t built for half its users: women. Even in our minds, we are often conditioned to set men as the default. When environments - physical, political, and social - are not designed with women in mind, they prevent 50% of the population ...
Where: Cost: Free
Thursday, 06/04/20
Fast Radio Bursts - LivestreamFast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short (few millisecond) bursts of radio waves observed from cosmological distances. Their origin is presently unknown, yet their rate is many hundreds per sky per day, indicating a not-uncommon phenomenon in the Universe. In this talk, I will review the FRB field and present new ...
Join Dr. Tal Raveh, a researcher at the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, for a special Virtual Café Scientifique session spotlighting coronavirus.Today, humanity faces an unprecedented pandemic challenge; one that has prompted a massive response from doctors and scientists around the globe to fight COVID-19.In her ...
Where: Cost: Free
A Healthy Society Series: Healthier Rural America - Toward a Better Future - LivestreamMoving America forward will take more than a vaccine. As we are finding today, many parts of our nation have been left behind and are not able to share in the great American dream. Rural America is at the focus of attention now because it is our food production center, ...
How do you create a digital coral reef so large and complex it will fill a 75-ft. planetarium dome screen? Get a behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the Academy’s latest show, Expedition Reef, with production designer Mike Schmitt and animator Ken Ackermann - members of the Academy’s award-winning Visualization ...
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BioFutures: Mandatory Genetic Fingerprinting - CANCELEDIf someone is arrested for a federal crime, law enforcement officials are allowed to take a sample of their DNA. And last fall, the Justice Department approved the collection of DNA from the tens of thousands of people detained in immigration detention centers. UC Berkeley Law professor Andrea Roth will ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with After Dark Admission
City Star Party - 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!
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Friday, 06/05/20
Highlighting Results from the HAWC Observatory - RescheduledLocated on Sierra Negra in Puebla Mexico, the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory is one of the world's premier facilities for exploring the universe at γ-ray energies exceeding 100 TeV. Large field-of-view and high duty cycle observatories like HAWC enable deep, unbiased surveys of the TeV sky. Sensitivity to ...
Where: Cost: Free
The Soul of Design: Exploring the Neuroscience of Beauty - LivestreamOur living and work spaces can have a profound effect on us in both subtle and very direct ways. The experience of beauty promotes healthy brain chemistry, which in turn can make us feel better and inspired in our daily lives. In this online event, Lisa Staprans discusses how to ...
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Stanford Astronomical Society Virtual Stargazing Event - LivestreamWe will have members from our core group share interesting facts about astronomy for a general audience and take questions along the way. We will answer questions you may always wondered about including: - What's a black hole? - What constellations can I find tonight in the night sky and ...
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First Friday: Robots - CANCELEDFrom the Jetsons to Star Wars to Wall-E, Robots have intrigued kids and adults for generations. As reality catches up with science fiction, bots are as exciting as ever! Join us for this droid-tastic First Friday and cheer for your favorite fighter in Roomba Battle, play Heads Up with Alexa, ...
Where: OaklandCost: $5
Saturday, 06/06/20
Illuminating Dark Matter - LivestreamDark matter is the cosmic parent of all vast structures in the night sky, including our own Milky Way galaxy. Yet we know so very little about this mysterious stuff that constitutes 85%(!) of the material universe. We don’t know what it’s made of, we don’t know where it came ...
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Fantasy Flights to the Moon - LivestreamThis talk is in part based on the same section in my new major lunar observers handbook, Luna Cognita. The 3-volume set is scheduled to be published by Springer before the end of this year. Harrison Schmitt of Apollo 17 wrote the Introduction. The book is available on Amazon right ...
Join our resident astronomers on Facebook Live every Saturday evening live from Chabot’s Observation deck! Each week, our astronomers will guide us through spectacular night sky viewing through Nellie, Chabot‘s most powerful telescope. Weather permitting we will be able to view objects live through the telescopes and our astronomers will ...
SkeptiCal 2020 will be back in 2021! SkeptiCal is the annual Northern California conference focusing on science and skepticism.We are part of a national skeptical movement begun in the 1970s and 1980s by Carl Sagan and other scientists who were concerned about the public embrace of various pseudosciences.We seek to improve ...
