Many events are being cancelled due to concerns related to COVID-19. While we strive to make sure information here is accurate, please check the host's website for up to date event details.
Social Justice Series: The Death Gap - In the Wake of COVID-19 - LivestreamThe US, one of the most developed countries in the world has the most persistent gaps in life expectancy across racial and ethnic groups. Dr. Ansel will provide an overview of the social determinants and structural racisms that contributes to the gaps in life expectancy and discuss policies and solutions ...
Refuge Rails and Tales - LivestreamBehind the peaceful refuge and beautiful bay are many fascinating tales: the little rail vs. the big rail, the mouse with the mighty tail, the amazing mistake that led to the discovery of the bay, the marsh named after Chicago, how the bay was nearly destroyed (twice!), how three women ...
Where: Cost: Free
'Symphone of the Soil' Film Screening and Discussion - LivestreamJoin us in this screening of the film “Symphony of the Soil” and a short, follow-up discussion on carbon farming in home gardens. The film is created by Deborah Koons Garcia and Lily Films Studio. Symphony of the Soil Beautifully illustrates the complex life that exists in healthy soil ecosystems, the role ...
Where: Cost: Free
November LASER Event - LivestreamSummer Praetorius (USGS Geologist) on "The Heliocene"Miriam Dym (Pattern Artist) on "Decision Fields and Embodied Algorithms: working with infinitely variable and interactive pattern systems"Register at weblink to receive connection information.
As a vital form of intelligence, creative thinking takes many shapes. Tonight, we’ll dig into the creative mind; hear from creators about their processes; and uncover what neuroscientists have discovered about the brain, creativity, and the nourishing effects of both producing and experiencing creative outputs.This program features:Hear from Psyche Loui, ...
Two-toed or three-toed, giant or pygmy - we know you love the tree-dwelling, slow-moving mammals, but what do you know about sloth science? Learn about the coevolution of sloths and algae, a prehistoric giant sloth boneyard, and what wild sloths do when they sleep.Ages 21+See weblink for YouTube and Facebook ...
This dialogue with the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Dr. Fatih Birol, and Dr. Jonathan Pershing, program director of environment at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, will discuss the US energy and climate policy's impact on the rest of the world.Please join us for this session ...
The radiation belts of Jupiter are populated by energetic charged particles (electrons, ions) trapped by the gigantic magnetic field of the planet. The distribution and fluxes of these particles are sculpted by their interaction with the inner magnetosphere environment, including the environments induced by the volcanic moon Io and the ...
The waters surrounding the iconic Pigeon Point Lighthouse on the San Mateo Coast have many stories to tell. In addition to being a regional port since the Gold Rush period, the area was also home to a major shore whaling operation from 1862 to 1896. In this online webinar, CA ...
Where: Cost: Free
Friends of Butte Creek Wild and Scenic Film Festival - LivestreamJoin Friends of Butte Creek on Friday, November 20th, at 6:30 pm, for a VIRTUAL Wild and Scenic Film Festival evening of exciting films about wild places, wildlife, and the amazing people that are helping to keep things wild. All 12 short films are streamed virtually in HD. Watch on ...
Where: Cost: $12 General
How the Visions of Sci-Fi Led the Way to Space - LivestreamLong before a rocket carried the first person into space, people journeyed to the Moon, Mars, and other worlds on flights of fancy"imaginative voyages of fictional storytelling. Beyond entertaining us, science fiction tales have sometimes foreshadowed real events of space exploration and may even serve to shape future voyages. Speaker: ...
Where: Cost: Free
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 ...
Join Christine Manoux, UCBG Education Director, for a fun talk about the plants we eat! We'll explore plant parts, and learn surprising botanical facts about fruits and vegetables. (Did you know potatoes aren't roots and strawberries aren't fruits?) Plus, discover what their color might tell us about their ...
Where: Cost: $10 per family
San Francisco City Star Party - CanceledCome 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
Armchair Star Party (Online)Join San Jose Astronomical Association (SJAA) astronomers in our third Armchair (virtual) Star Party. We will take you on a guided tour of the current night sky and introduce you to the tools of astronomy. SJAA members will share live views (weather permitting) as well as long exposure photos of ...
Where: Cost: Free
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 ...
Where: Cost: Free
Monday, 11/23/20
Moiré superlattices: a new Hubbard model simulator - LivestreamThe Hubbard model, first formulated by physicist John Hubbard in the 1960s, is a simple theoretical model of interacting quantum particles in a lattice. The model is thought to capture the essential physics of high-temperature superconductors, magnetic insulators, and other complex emergent quantum many-body ground states. Although the Hubbard model ...
Broken symmetries in living matter - LivestreamActive processes in living systems create a novel class of non-equilibrium material composed of many interacting parts that individually consume energy and collectively generate motion or mechanical stress. In this talk, I will discuss experimental tools and conceptual frameworks we develop to uncover laws governing order, phase transitions and fluctuations in systems in which individual components break ...
Where: Cost: Free
The Alignment Problem - LivestreamThe real risk with AI is not that it will "turn on us," but rather, the danger has always been about being careful what we wish for. The real risk is the Midas Curse: that we build a powerful system able to learn by example but are somehow imprecise or ...
Where: Cost: Free
Astronomy on Tap Los Angeles - LivestreamWe’ll hear from Casey Honniball: “Water on the Sunlit Moon” and from Kishalay De: “How Merging Stellar Corpses are Connected to the Calcium in Your Bones”. In addition, we will host interactive astronomically-themed pub trivia.
Data Science for Managers Workshop - LivestreamThe AI Era: Opportunities and Challenges A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning Models:Decision TreeKNeighbours ClassifierRandomForest ModelGradient Boosting RegressorSVMNeural NetworksAgenda:10:50 am - 11:00 am Arrival and socializing11:00 am - 11:10 am Opening11:10 am - 12:50 pm Abdullah Karasan, " Data Science for Managers Workshop"12:50 pm - 1:00 pm Q&ASpeaker: Abdullah Karasan, ...
