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The NASA transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was launched in 2018. It is providing exquisite photometry to enable searches for new exoplanets and studies of stars and other objects. In this talk I will discuss how we are using these data to conduct asteroseismic studies of stars, by detecting intrinsic ...
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New Year’s Resolutions for the Land - LivestreamThese are the questions that more and more of our neighbors are asking themselves. As we head into the New Year, we at Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) want to help you answer these questions for yourselves and get some great ideas from others in the community! We are bringing ...
Deep Ocean to Outer Space: Plastic Pollution Solutions - LivestreamAre you concerned about the amount of plastic inside us, in our oceans, and in outer space? Join us for our December 4 webinar, where panelists will discuss the impacts of and potential solutions to plastic pollution in the ocean, as well as in outer space. This special event is ...
In this online talk, Nick Kanas (UC San Francisco, Emeritus) will explore the evolution of celestial cartography. People have observed the night sky since antiquity in an effort to predict celestial events and understand their place in the universe. Many cultures organized the stars into heavenly patterns that reflected issues ...
Where: Cost: Free
Saturday, 12/05/20
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, 12/07/20
Energy Futures: Smart Grids - LivestreamUniversity of Applied Sciences in Engineering and Management of the Canton Vaud (HEIG-VD) share their research and discuss how we might face the complexity of future supply and demand of energy sources with three focused areas of research.Mauro Carpita and Mokhtar Bozorg at HEIG-VD’s new Reine laboratory test these control ...
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From Wearables to Cordless Kitchen, NFC delivers wireless power and data - LivestreamNear-Field Communication (NFC) is already in billions of devices and is popular for its "tap-to-pay" functionality, but did you know that NFC can also be used for wireless charging? It's true. NFC charging is emerging as a powerful solution for devices with power requirements up to 3W that can appear ...
Perception is limited by the information that the brain can extract from the noisy dynamics of sensory neurons. I will present a new microscope to monitor neural activity across the primary visual cortex and analyses to quantify the information conveyed by large neural ensembles. The data reveal limitations on the ...
Venture capital may not be a common career path for PhD chemistry students, but learning about how venture capital fits into the funding ecosystem is valuable to anyone interested in how innovations are commercialized. This talk will share some of my own journey from an academic career path to the ...
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Tuesday, 12/08/20
COVID-19 Misinformation: Understanding and Seeking Truth during a Pandemic - LivestreamMisinformation about the coronavirus pandemic continues to create confusion and contention along scientific and political lines. In this conversation, Berkeley faculty will help us understand the nature of misinformation in order to assess, evaluate and engage more effectively with the information resources we consult. They will discuss some of the ...
The carbonate clumped isotope thermometer is a promising proxy for the study of environmental change through time. In principle, this technique can provide a thermodynamically based estimate of carbonate mineral formation temperature and a relatively assumption-free calculation of water 18O/16O ratios. Over the past thirteen years, I have studied the ...
Join us for a special Director's talk to discover what makes UCBG one of the most plant diverse places on the planet. How did the collection come to be, what does it represent, what work is the Garden involved with, and how can you get involved. Come on a virtual ...
Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, journalist James Nestor questions the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function, breathing.Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the science behind ancient breathing ...
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Telomeres: from curiosity driven research to human disease - LivestreamTelomeres are structures made of repetitive DNA that protect the ends of chromosomes. Every time a cell divides, telomeres shorten by a small amount. This shortening is counterbalanced by the enzyme telomerase, which elongates telomeres by adding repetitive DNA to maintain an equilibrium in length. Increased telomere length enables the ...
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A Grand Tour of Remarkable Exoplanets - LivestreamExoplanets are everywhere. Astronomers have discovered more 4,000 of them and today we know that in average each star in our galaxy has 2 planets! Among them, 300 million could be habitable. That’s a lot of worlds! The SETI Institute’s Franck Marchis will give us a tour of the most ...
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Wednesday, 12/09/20
The Impact of COVID-19 on Refugees - LivestreamOur distinguished panel will discuss how beleaguered nonprofits are struggling to deal with the increased challenges for desperate refugees and aid workers in the Middle East and elsewhere during the COVID-19 crisis.Dr. Niveen Rizkalla will present findings from her timely research with an emphasis on Syrian refugees and aid workers ...
The use of data science in healthcare has been rapidly accelerating for several years, although data science applications designed to understand and address mental health problems have lagged behind the rest of the field. In many ways, however, mental health is the perfect application for healthcare data science: the burden ...
Most people have a pretty strong sense of right and wrong and can be quick to judge others through that sharply focused ethical lens. What if everything you accepted about the notions of right and wrong changed… and all of a sudden you were the one being judged? History has ...
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Electric Vehicles (EV) 101 - LivestreamThinking about buying an electric car? Curious about the benefits of driving all-electric? Interested in clean transportation?Our Electric Vehicles (EV) 101 workshop will discuss the wide variety of vehicles on the market today, and their respective ranges. Other topics of discussion include home and public charging, available rebates and incentives, ...
We are confronting a challenging Pandemic paradox. Just as vaccines have begun to show promise and new coordinated policies provide a sense of optimism, the virus onslaught rages uncontained producing a wave of death and disease exceeding anything we have seen. Stanford virus expert Dr. Bob Siegel will discuss humanity’s ...
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Thursday, 12/10/20
After Dark Online: Celestial - Solar Eclipse - LivestreamOn December 14, the shadow of the moon will cross Earth in a rare event called a total solar eclipse. For a small portion of Earthly observers - in this case, those in a narrow stripe across South America - the moon will be perfectly lined up between our planet ...
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Astronomy at Home - Seattle: Charting the High Frontier of Space - LivestreamHow can we find and track all of the asteroids in our solar system? How can we map space? Join us and former astronaut(!) Dr. Ed Lu as he’ll talk about his efforts mapping space with the B612 Asteroid Institute. The event will begin at 7pm and there will be ...
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NightSchool: Science Craft Fair - LivestreamWe’re teaming up with SF Bazaar to present a special virtual version of our annual Holiday Bazaar event with an evening of nature- and science-inspired crafts! Get some DIY gift ideas, craft alongside artisans and makers, and browse a hand-selected virtual “fair” to help you shop online and support local ...
The rise of Deepfakes has prompted intense coverage in the press, concern from government officials, and fear among the public. Deepfakes, along with GANs (generative adversarial networks), are a class of “generative” neural networks capable of creating highly realistic synthetic images. The widespread availability of open-source Deepfake tools means anyone ...
