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During the 2014 - 2016 North Pacific marine heatwave, unprecedented sightings of juvenile white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) emerged in Central California. These records contradicted the species established life history, where juveniles less than 2.5 meters in total body length (TBL) remained in warmer waters in the Southern California Current. This ...
This talk will describe the dramatic creation of the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) and the broad range of efforts, both inside and outside of the Semantic Scholar project, to garner insights into COVID-19 and its treatment based on this growing corpus of research papers.Speaker: Oren Etzioni, Allen Institute for ...
My research program is broadly focused on applied aquatic ecology with an emphasis on fishes. In general, my work aims to fill critical data gaps needed by fisheries and water resource managers to implement effective restoration and conservation measures for imperiled species and ecosystems. In particular, my work has focused ...
The Surprising Usefulness of the Single Decision TreeWhen data scientists think about decision trees it is usually in the context of ensembles of hundreds or thousands trees such as in the gradient boosting machine or random forests. In all the excitement about these powerful but complex learning machines most data analysts have forgotten about their extraordinary ancestor, ...
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Thursday, 11/05/20
Social Justice Series: Native American Health & Covid-19 - LivestreamThe Native American community has been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. Native Americans in Arizona, New Mexico and other States have death rates due to COVID-19 that are more than 100% higher than the general population in those states. Dr. Newland will discuss the immediate policies and long-term strategies needed to ...
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Towards Hardware Cybersecurity - LivestreamElectronic system security, trust and reliability has become an increasingly critical area of concern for modern society. Secure hardware systems, platforms, as well as supply chains are critical to industry and government sectors such as national defense, healthcare, transportation, and financial. Traditionally, authenticity and integrity of data has been protected ...
Have you ever considered putting up a birdhouse? Do you know what birds might use them, how to care for them, and what information we can get from monitoring nest boxes? As a volunteer, Lee Pauser has been building, installing, and monitoring nest boxes for 19 nesting seasons. In this ...
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Astronomy on Tap Santa Cruz: Fast Radio Bursts - LivestreamIn 2007, astronomers discovered a peculiar class of objects now called fast radio bursts (FRBs). These events emit light at radio wavelengths for less than a few milliseconds, yet can release as much energy as our Sun does in a day. Sunil Simha (UCSC) and Jay Chittidi (CU Boulder) will ...
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After Dark Online: Sustenance - Home Movies - LivestreamIndulge in a bit of joyful voyeurism as we screen and celebrate home movies. Created to capture the moments that become the almanac of a life lived, home movies have the power to link the past to the present and cultivate empathy for real people. While each home movie is ...
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Friday, 11/06/20
Bay Area Raptor Rundown - LivestreamJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST), as we learn about birds of prey this fall with local Naturalist Jeff Caplan, director of Common Language Nature. Raptors play an integral role in the health of our ecosystems! Learn how to identify migratory and resident raptors when out on the coast or ...
In explaining extensive evidence for past liquid water, the debate on whether Mars was primarily warm and wet or cold and arid 4-Ga ago has continued for decades. The Sun’s luminosity was ~30% lower 4-Ga ago; thus, most Martian climate models struggle to elevate the mean annual surface temperature past ...
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November LASER Event - Artists at the border of art and science - LivestreamSachiko Kodama (Visual Artist) live from Japan on "magnetic fluid sculptures"Robert Buelteman (Cameraless Photographer) on "The Voice of the Biosphere Intruding on Human Unconsciousness"Register at weblink to receive connection information.
Nancy Falk will talk about her journey from her childhood in a rural Washington state community through her education and her technical career in the cleaning products industry, touching on some relevant technologies used in the industry. She will also reflect on work-life balance, technical society roles, outreach, and mentoring.Speaker: ...
Can we detect radio, infrared, or optical signals from other civilizations?Current and future SETI projects may provide an answer.Berkeley SETI Research Center chief scientist Dan Werthimer will describe the rationale for past and future searches and will show how new technologies are revolutionizing SETI.Dan will describe Breakthrough Listen, SETI@home, the ...
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You Can Almost Touch the Stars - LivestreamEven if you wanted to touch a star, they’re all impossibly distant. Despite these great distances, astronomers have learned an enormous amount about stars. How? The most common method to study the stars is called spectroscopy, which is the science of analyzing the colorful rainbow spectrum produced by a prism-like ...
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Virtual Telescope Viewing - LivestreamJoin 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 be ...
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Monday, 11/09/20
The Event Horizon Telescope: Imaging a Black Hole Through Global Collaboration - LivestreamWhat can medicine learn about collaboration and data sharing from one of the most successful team science projects of all time--creating a telescope the diameter of the earth to snap the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy?Black holes are cosmic objects so massive and ...
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Flat Bands in Flatlands - LivestreamIn a flat band system, the charge carriers’ energy-momentum relation is very weakly dispersive. The resultant large density of states and the dominance of Coulomb potential energy relative to the kinetic energy often favor the formation of strongly correlated electron states, such as ferromagnetism, nematicity, antiferromagnetism, superconductivity, and charge density ...
New polls show 7 in 10 Americans support legislation to eliminate fossil fuel emissions from the transportation, electricity, buildings, industry, and agricultural sectors by 2050. Then why is nuclear power - our largest and best source of carbon-free electricity in - in decline? In addition to growing concerns about the ...
Opus 12 is an emerging energy startup created by three Stanford alumni with an unconventional path to raising funds for the company. Opus 12 is developing a range of devices that recycles CO2 into cost-competitive chemicals and fuels that could impact a $300 billion market. The Opus 12 technology bolts onto ...
Covid-19: Pandemics, History and Science - LivestreamThe pandemic of Covid-19 has had an unprecedented impact on US society. This talk addresses the inequalities that the pandemic has revealed in our society specifically with respect to its disproportionate impact on African American communities. The impact of the pandemic on race relations within scientific communities has also received ...
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Tuesday, 11/10/20
How to Avoid Busting Up Your Furniture and Your Relationships During COVID-19 - LivestreamMonths and months in a sweet little bubble, with stresses and chaos on the outside, but warmth and safety on the inside . . . doesn't that sound great? But if this idyllic situation isn't yours right now, don't worry! Neuroscience and emotional resilience specialists Dr. Rick Hanson, psychologist and ...
The Mars Exploration Rover and Mars Science Lab missions have demonstrated that early Mars was habitable for (primitive) life as we know it. However, missions now on their way to Mars are shifting their objectives from the characterization of habitable environments to the search for prebiotic chemistry and biosignatures on ...
Two of the main questions in climate dynamics are: (1) what is the change in global mean surface temperature caused by a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, and (2) what is the change equator-to-pole temperature gradient for a given global mean temperature change. One hope is that paleoclimate records ...
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Harnessing Data Revolution in Quantum Matter - LivestreamOur desire to better understand quantum emergence drove the community's efforts in improving computing power and experimental instrumentation dramatically. However, the resulting increase in volume and complexity of data present new challenges. I will discuss how these challenges can be embraced and turned into opportunities by employing principled machine learning approaches. ...
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How Science Unlocks Copper's Hidden Powers - LivestreamIn particle accelerators, electrons are pushed to extreme energies by electromagnetic fields that oscillate inside evacuated metal cavities. Those cavities are usually made of copper. Even in SLAC’s most advanced accelerators, it is the strength of the copper material that determines how much field we can apply and how much ...
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Basic Science: Rising Stars of Berkeley Biology - LivestreamBerkeley’s renowned biological research carries forward in these early-career scholars, who are decoding cues of brain activity behind behavior; studying mitochondrial DNA’s links to metabolic diseases; and examining molecular bases of chemical coevolution in plants and insects.Please register in advance. To access the presentation, join the Zoom meeting.Matthew Welch, Francis Williams ...
BIDS Data Science Fellow Váleri Vásquez will be a featured panelist in a livestream conversation following BAMPFA's presentation of Woman and the Glacier (Audrius Stonys, Lithuania, Estonia, 2016), a portrait of portrait of Lithuanian scientist Aušra Revutaite, who has spent more than thirty-five years on the Tuyuksu glacier in Kazahkstan studying the effects of ...
