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Midday Science Cafe: Adapting to Change: The Future of California’s Water-Energy Nexus - LivestreamWater and energy, two intricately connected systems, are critical to California’s future as we face increasing urbanization and climate change. In this Midday Science Cafe, we’ll hear from two researchers studying the connection between water and energy, or the “water-energy nexus”. We’ll learn from Julia Szinai about the implications of ...
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Converging Threats, Cascading Health Risks: Climate Change, Food Security, and Migration - LivestreamClimate change is anticipated to unleash unprecedented threats to global food security and to drive the largest wave of human migration in history. This session will evaluate the intersection of climate change with the social determinants of health, emphasizing the compounding connections between a warming climate, food and water security, ...
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LASER: Pulled Apart: Re-engineering and Re-purposing Human Civilization - LivestreamThe Thacher Gallery at University of San Francisco is having an art exhibition titled "Pulled Apart" (March 1 - April 25, 2021), for which the exhibiting artists (Terry Berlier, Adam Chin, Gail Wight, Carrie Hott, Cynthia Hooper) were invited to explore the intersection of art and engineering. These artists ...
This presentation will discuss how audio recording is used for conservation and research with examples ranging from the use of portable recording systems in tropical bird conservation, autonomous recorders for detection and monitoring, automated playback systems for reintroduction, and will also touch on related issues such as the ethics of playback. ...
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After Dark Online: Listening to the EnvironmentExplore the intersections of art and science through the practice of individual artists weaving science, technology, and methods of discovery. We'll hear from artists who tune into the sounds of the natural world, with a particular interest in broadcasting the impacts of climate change on our aural environment. From interpreting climate ...
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NightSchool: Illustrating Science - LivestreamScience has always relied on the skilled work of illustrators to help people better explain the world around them. Learn about the history of scientific illustration from the 1500s to today, and how visual artists have helped further our understanding of unseeable phenomena, microscopic organisms, and ecosystems we can’t travel ...
Where: Cost: Free
Friday, 04/16/21
Coded Bias - Online Screening of New Documentary On How AI Can Perpetuate Class, Race and Gender InequitiesCHM is delighted to offer a special complimentary online screening of the award-winning new documentary film, Coded Bias, available for viewing on-demand any time between April 16-19. The screenings are a companion to the CHM Live expert panel discussion, Is AI Racist?See weblink for additional information and to register
When Isaac Newton established the laws of motion in 1687, he created a foundation of understanding that still guides physicists to scientific discoveries today. As studies evolve, scientists get closer to understanding the deepest mysteries of space and time. Once physicists can successfully combine theories of relativity and quantum mechanics, ...
Most meteorites are remnant pieces of planetesimals, the first 1- to 1000-km planetary bodies to form in the solar system. Meteorites are divided into two principal groupings: chondrites (unmelted accretional aggregates) and achondrites (products of planetary melting). This division has commonly been interpreted as evidence that planetesimals either never melted ...
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Lick Observatory Back On Sky: 2020 Wildfire Recovery - LivestreamThe 2020 wildfire season saw an unprecedented series of lightning strikes sparking fires across the Bay Area. Located on Mount Hamilton, outside of San Jose, Lick Observatory was directly threatened by these fires and, for the first time in its history, was forced to evacuate. In this talk I'll discuss ...
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Saturday, 04/17/21
Climate Change, The Top 10 things you Should Know in San Francisco- LivestreamCyndy Comerford, Climate Program Manager at the San Francisco Department of the Environment provides a presentation on how climate change will affect our local communities, especially the most vulnerable, and the solutions available to address these near and long-term impacts. This presentation explores the top five impacts climate change will have ...
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Searching for the Darkest Galaxies: Ultra-Faint Dwarfs as Dark Matter Laboratories - LivestreamHow small is the faintest galaxy in the Universe, and what is the nature of the dark matter particle? These seemingly unrelated questions are brought together by so-called "ultra-faint" dwarf galaxies (UFDs). The smallest UFDs contain as few as hundreds of stars and are the most dark matter-dominated systems in ...
Black holes are among the most remarkable predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity: so much material is compressed into such a small volume that nothing, not even light, can escape. Black holes have also captured the public imagination, and are commonly featured in popular culture, from Star Trek to Hollywood ...
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 be ...
'Secrets of the Whales' - Exclusive Virtual World PremiereMembers of the ACS San Francisco Bay Chapter community are cordially invited to the EXCLUSIVE VIRTUAL WORLD PREMIERE of National Geographic’s Four-Part Special, “SECRETS OF THE WHALES”! You can be among the first to see this extraordinary four-part documentary!Narrated by Sigourney Weaver (Alien, Avatar, Gorillas in the Mist), “SECRETS OF ...
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Monday, 04/19/21
Dipolar excitonic insulator in atomic double layers - LivestreamThe excitonic insulator (EI) is a charge insulating state that arises from the spontaneous formation of bound electron-hole pairs (excitons). It presents an interesting platform for realizing quantum many-body ground states of bosons in solids, such as condensate and superfluid. Although the concept has been known for sixty years, to ...
I present a new measurement of the positive muon anomalous magnetic moment a_μ=(g_μ-2)/2 from the Fermilab E989 experiment. The quantity a_μ is an exquisite probe of the quantum corrections of the muon interaction with the electromagnetic field. The experiment is a follow up of the BNL E821 experiment, which saw ...
Measuring your ingredients: topological phases for quantum computing - LivestreamTopological quantum computing relies on qubits encoded in quantum states that are exponentially protected from local perturbations. One method for realizing such protected states is a practical recipe for topological superconductivity: hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowires in finite magnetic fields. In this talk I will describe experimental methods for identifying and manipulating ...
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Continuity: Discovering the Lessons behind the World’s Longest-lived Organizations - LivestreamOne of Long Now’s founding premises is that humanity’s most significant challenges require long-term solutions, including institutions that caretake and guide the knowledge and commitment needed to work over long time scales.However, there are a limited number of organizations that have managed to stay stable over many centuries, and in ...
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Virology 101What ARE viruses? Join us for a virtual talk by Columbia University professor Dr. Vincent Racaniello, who will explain what viruses are and how they work, followed by a wide-ranging discussion on the COVID-19 pandemic. He will cover the origins of the virus, the disease, how it is diagnosed, and ...
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Tuesday, 04/20/21
Is Artificial Intelligence Racist? - LivestreamAre AI technologies racist, by design, in their data collection, or through the optimization of their functions? Are uses of AI technology racist by application or outcome? Is there racism in the AI community of makers, companies, and funders? Is it possible that AI be used for anti-racist outcomes? This ...
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Being with Bears - Livestream“Being with Bears” will focus on Meghan Walla-Murphy’s work with the North Bay Bear Collaborative. She will outline the goals, research methods and findings of their research as well as share how to help bears thrive in the North Bay and how humans can live among bears safely.
Where: Cost: $15
Hubble Telescope Spacecraft - LivestreamThe Hubble Space Telescope was the first of NASA's great observatories in space. It was launched in 1990 and has provided an unbelievable amount of scientific data for over 30 years. This presentation will focus on the Lockheed portion of the Hubble through launch and then show some of the ...
Speaker: Jill Marshall, University of ArkansasThis event was originally scheduled for February 16, 2021.Zoom information can be found on the EPS advising Google calendar
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Two Talks: Popping the Science BubbleElephant seals: Are they nature’s SCUBA divers?Speaker: Kaitlin Allen (Integrative Biology)A day in the life of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (green algae)Speaker: Valle Ojeda (QB3 - California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences)See weblink for connection information
SETI Talks: Going Dark: The Mystery of Vanishing Stars - LivestreamComparing a 70-year-old survey with recent images of the night sky, astronomers have discovered that 100 stars may have gone dark. Those vanishing light sources could be short-lived flashes in the night or possibly, the disappearance of a long-lasting star. These preliminary findings almost certainly represent natural and well-understood events, but ...
Arsenic contamination of groundwater continues to threaten access to safe drinking water for California’s most vulnerable small, socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. How does this disparity persist in California, the wealthiest state in the US and one of the world’s largest economies? In this talk, I will first introduce challenges to safe ...
In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and author Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions - clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips - and reveals how they shaped the human experience.Ramirez shows not only how materials were shaped by inventors but ...
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Lessons and Opportunities in Large Scale Networks and Smart Health Application - LivestreamData science and statistical/machine learning techniques can be leveraged to tackle various predictive and decision control problems in a wide range of application domains. This talk will focus on two domains: (1) large-scale networked systems such as IP backbone or wireless cellular networks, and (2) smart health applications. The first ...
The Dragonfly mission to Titan is under construction and scheduled to launch in 2027. Titan is the largest Moon of Saturn and has a rich organic chemistry with lakes of liquid methane and ethane on its surface. The goals of the Dragonfly include the search for life. Could life exist ...
