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Intelligent coordinated robot teams allow for the inspection of large infrastructures on land, air, water, and subsea, by combining robotic precision and speed with human intuition and abstract thinking. By recently unifying a priori system dynamics knowledge with efficient machine learning, robots are now able to learn complex manipulation tasks ...
Sophien Kamoun is a senior scientist at the Sainsbury Laboratory and a professor at the University of East Anglia. His group studies how filamentous plant pathogens, such as the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans, infect plants, and the plant processes that are modulated by these pathogens.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Sears Point Tidal Marsh Restoration: Dissecting Rapid Ecological Change Through Multiple Lenses Dr. Michael Vasey is a passionate believer in the need for good science to inform management decisions and public engagement in the cause of conserving the San Francisco Estuary (SFE). He left a career in teaching conservation biology at San Francisco State to practice conservation biology as manager of the ...
Corey Garza is an associate professor of Marine Science in the School of Natural Sciences at California State University, Monterey Bay. His research interests are in the area of marine landscape ecology using GIS modeling and spatial statistics to study the relationship between scale dependence, habitat complexity and patterns of species ...
Evolving Economies of CannabisDesign Considerations for Legalizing Cannabis with Dr. Beau Kilmer, RAND Corporation Canada, Uruguay, and 12 jurisdictions in the United States have passed laws to remove the prohibition on cannabis and legalize supply for adults. Many of these jurisdictions allow large-scale production and retail sales, but this is not the only ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $25 General, $22 Members & Students
Green Film Festival: 'Anthropocene: The Human Epoch'Experience this cinematic meditation on humanity's massive reengineering of the planet, as scientists argue we have now entered a new epoch. The Anthropocene is a full-scale, catastrophic change that we cannot reverse completely. But we must try.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Where: OrindaCost: $5 General, $1 students & K-12 Teachers
Peninsula Gem and Geology Society Monthly MeetingLocal mineral dealer and part mine owner Rick Kennedy will be giving a presentation on the Jackson's Crossroads Amethyst Mine of Wilkes Co. Georgia, the premier amethyst locality in the United States. The mine consistently produces world class specimens and crystals that are justifiably celebrated for pure rich purple color ...
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Skeptics in the Pub: MillbraeScience and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub West Bay, Fiddlers Green, Millbrae sponsored by Bay Area Skeptics.If ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the film-flam man, and if ye drink, drink with us, your friends. If ye shun the brewer’s art, at least help us lay waste to bangers & mash!Skeptics ...
The world we live in is wildly complex and open-ended. Despite the excitement surrounding AI, building an artificial intelligence that rivals or exceeds human levels in dealing with that world is far more difficult than we once believed. How can we create AI worthy of our trust when solving real-world ...
Astronomy on Tap: Saturn's Rings, Star Birth, and ExoplanetsBorn with the Dinosaurs? The Origin, Age, and Remaining Lifetime of Saturn's RingsSpeaker: Paul Estrada, SETIA Star is Born: How Stars Form in SpaceSpeaker: Jim Jackson, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrafred AstronomyWhat do we Know About Exoplanets? And What's Left to Learn?Speaker: Jesse Dotson, NASA Ames
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Thursday, 09/26/19
Tip the Scales: Pushing the Limits of Computational AstrophysicsThe role of computation in astrophysics has grown substantially over the last decade, driven by the growth in computer power, sophistication of computational methodologies, and increasing data volumes. Over the next decade, the importance of computational astrophysics will continue to grow as computers reach exascale performance and data-intense observational surveys ...
Editor's Note: This event has been postponed until Spring, 2020.Since Fall 2002, the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering has hosted the Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium (SVLS). The Symposium hosts industry and technology leaders to talk about business and technology trends. It also features prominent leaders who discuss broader societal ...
They say all the world’s a stage - and here, you can enter nature’s cabaret and encounter the high drama of nature. From mating dances to glorious bird songs, from horror stories of hunting and the elation of birth to the mysteries of perplexing landscapes, indulge in the artistry of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 19.95 door, 14.95 members, AD members free
For Future Reference: Reckoning with the Ethics of Technology Institute for the Future (IFTF) and the podcast Reckonings invite you to join Reckonings producer Stephanie Lepp, Moment CEO Tim Kendall, and IFTF Digital Intelligence Lab research manager Katie Joseff, at IFTF for a conversation about the ethical decisions behind the technology in our lives. We’ll explore questions like:How do ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $10
Understanding Bias How biased are you? According to Jennifer Eberhardt, we live in a world where unconscious bias and innate prejudices affect our visual perception, attention, memory and behavior. These stereotypes can dramatically influence and impact our education, employment, housing and our criminal justice system.Eberhardt has worked extensively as a psychologist and ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $22 General, $15 Member, $8 Student
Learn about bat ecology, diversity, and the role they play in our ecosystem.See how scientists are using a variety of methods including capture, acoustic monitoring, and tracking, to learn more about local bat species.Find out how this information helps land managers address conservation challenges including habitat loss, emerging diseases such ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Green Film Festival: 'Walden'Through thirteen 360-degree shots, Daniel Zimmermann creates a meditative comment on the absurdity of the economic rationale that underlies our globalised world. Follow the reflective journey of a felled fir tree from a Catholic Monastery in Austria to a mysterious destination in the heart of the Brazilian rainforest.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Friday, 09/27/19
Photography BasicsThis class is for those who have an interest in getting better photographs with their cameras. It is designed to take beginners who are using the “Auto” mode most of the time and want to use the other features to improve their results. The approach will be to make the course ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Donations encouraged
Diffuse Galaxies As a Probe for Dark MatterLow mass galaxies provide an essential testing ground for theoretical predictions of cosmology. They dominate the counts in the Local Group and have high mass-to-light ratios, making them ideal for studying dark matter on small scales. Recent advances in telescope instrumentation have opened a new window into the population of ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Peculiar Velocities in Cosmology The Universe is not homogenous. Since the early times, its structures have grown and moved under the laws of gravity. By measuring these motions today we are able to trace the history of the Universe expansion and gravity laws and hence test the General Relativity. Peculiar velocity measurements rely on ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Transport Properties of Complex NanosystemsHeat, charge, and mass are fundamental energy carrying modes relevant to nearly all dynamic properties of interest in engineering, physics, and modern energy technologies. Here, I will discuss the design and understanding of transport properties in complex nanoscale systems where the dimensional constraints are changed systematically to reveal fundamental principles ...
Carbon dioxide is one of the most attractive renewable C1 resources, which has many practical advantages such as abundance, economic efficiency, and lack of toxicity. The favorable nature as a carbon source is, however, inextricably linked to its inherent inertness. Here we report a new strategy to circumvent thermodynamic and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Green Film Festival: 'The River and the Wall'This film follows five friends on an immersive adventure through the unknown wilds of the Texas borderlands as they travel 1200 miles from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico on horses, mountain bikes, and canoes. Their mission: to document the potential impacts of a border wall on the natural ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: 'Artifishal'This film is a call-to-action documentary about people, rivers, and the fight for the future of wild fish and the environment that supports them. It explores wild salmon's slide towards extinction, threats posed by fish hatcheries and fish farms, and our continued loss of faith in nature.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Saturday, 09/28/19
BABEC 2019 Fall Conference: Advancing Biotech EducationPlease join us for an engaging and inspiring day of community with other science teachers from across the Bay Area! Come see our new classroom resources and learn how biotech activities can help you teach NGSS.Strategies for Strong Workforce Program FundingLearn how to engage with new state funding options for ...
Where: San BrunoCost: Free
Guided Nature Walk Experience the beauty and rich natural history of this 535-acre preserve. Our guided nature walks are on Saturdays throughout fall and spring. Participants are divided into small groups and paired with a trained Bouverie volunteer to explore the mixed evergreen forest and flower-carpeted oak woodland.Visitors of all ages are welcome. In order ...
Did you know that our oceans are getting noisier, that plants might grow better with classical music playing, or that NASA scientists have converted solar flares into sound waves to learn about the sun? From rabbit ears to bat echolocation, from owls in flight to dolphin sonar, the sense of ...
A Shoreside at MSI promises to be a fun morning of exploration and discovery! At our beach front facility participants will work as a team to pull in a large seine (net) to catch local fishes, set a mud grab to gather bottom samples and invertebrates, and learn the difference ...
Enjoy shark science, shark experts, shark art, shark films, shark conservation, food and live music!Event Schedule- Main Event Free!!11am: All art & science activity stations open, food truck & refreshments available.11am-1pm: Live Music - Ukulele Friends 11:30am: Special Programs (see below)1pm: Ocean Life Parade & Costume Contest2pm-4pm: Live Music - Heather Combs & Max Delaney2pm: Special Programs ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Golden Gate Raptor Observatory Hawk Talk & Raptor ReleaseThe Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and what we do here at the GGRO. Conditions permitting, a banding volunteer will bring up a newly banded hawk, talk about the banding program, and release the hawk in front of the crowd. ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Green Film Festival: 'The Woman Who Loves Giraffes'Think the Jane Goodall of giraffes and you'd get Canadian zoologist and feminist trailblazer Dr. Anne Innis Dagg, whose unprecedented work and scholarship on South African wildlife was stonewalled by institutional chauvinism. This film highlights both her pioneering research and her timeless fight for gender equity.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: 'Golden Fish, African Fish'The Casamance region in the South of Senegal is one of the last areas of traditional fishing in West Africa, and crucial to the food safety of many African countries. But the challenges of industrial fishing companies and harsh working conditions are putting the region in danger of collapse.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Marinship and California’s Second Gold RushDuring WWII, Sausalito (including the Bay Model building) was home to a shipyard called Marinship. Join Charles Wollenberg, history instructor at Berkeley City College and UC Berkeley for this talk and learn how the story of Marinship fits into the larger history of the "Second Gold Rush," the extraordinary process ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Green Film Festival: 'Silent Forests'Meet passionate and tenacious conservationists as they fight to stop forest elephant poaching in Arfica's Congo Basin region. Institutional challenges like corruption and lack of funding threatened to derail their attempts to save those that remain.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: 'Mossville: When great Trees Fall'As a centuries-old black community, contaminated and uprooted by petrochemical plants, comes to terms with the loss of its ancestral home, one man standing in the way of a toxic petrochemical plant's expansion refuses to give up.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: 'Ay Mariposa'Journey along this emotional odyssey in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas with advocates who show their fierce commitment to home, justice, wild beauty, monarch butterflies, and the future of the US-Mexico borderlands.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: 'Cooked: Survival by Zip Code'A life and death story about extreme heat, the politics of "disaster", and survival by zip code. This story explores the systematic ways that climate disasters like heat waves disproportionately affect lower income and marginalized communities.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: 'The Green Lie'The big companies would have us believe that we can save the world just by buying the right stuff in our own homes. In this film, greenwashing experts explore how we can fight back against the dangerous lies of big business.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: 'The Pollinators'A cinematic journey about the current international bee crisis and what it means for our food security. This film explains the problems of modern large scale agriculture and offers ideas on how it can be improved, illustrated through the migratory pollinators that are a vital cornerstone of our entire food ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Sunday, 09/29/19
Día de la Ingeniería/Latino Engineering Day 2019Join us for a family-friendly collaboration between the Exploratorium and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE).Latino Engineering Day/Día de la Ingeniería combines panel discussions, presentations on the science and engineering heritage of Latinos, and playful activities such as making NatureBots. This annual, drop-in program is conducted primarily in Spanish and provides opportunities to meet ...
The San Francisco Botanical Garden is one of the world’s premier gardens. Here you can see thriving collections of plants from all around the world. Our day’s activities will include a docent lead tour highlighting plant forms that are fun to draw, a potluck lunch (bring something to share- you ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 suggested donation
Golden Gate Raptor Observatory Hawk Talk & Raptor ReleaseThe Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and what we do here at the GGRO. Conditions permitting, a banding volunteer will bring up a newly banded hawk, talk about the banding program, and release the hawk in front of the crowd. ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Green Film Festival: The Age of StupidOscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living in the devastated future world of 2055, looking back at old footage from our time and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
'Anthropocene: The Human Epoch'Edward Burtynsky is a contemporary fine art photographer and filmmaker; his remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes and their incursions into the natural landscape are included in the collections of over 60 major museums around the world.He has been awarded numerous prizes for his work including the inaugural TED ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 - $100, Free for Members
You know what time is because of your daily experience, but what seems constant and unchanging is not. In 1905, Albert Einstein threw a monkey wrench in our perception of time and space. Join us as we examine a few of these quirks on a conceptual nonmathematical level. Yes, you ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: included with admission
Green Film Festival: 'Earth'Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans - with shovels, excavators, or dynamite. Nikolaus Geyrhalter observes people in mines, quarries and at large construction sites, engaged in a constant struggle to take possession of the planet.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: 'Once Was Water'This inspiring film explores the innovative water technologies in Las Vegas, Nevada: the thirstiest city in the driest state. The solutions presented could hopefully serve as a model for the rest of the world.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: 'Motherload'A crowdsourced documentary about a new mother's quest to understand the increasing isolation and disconnection of the digital age, its planetary impact, and how cargo bikes could be an antidote. How can choices within our nuclear families effect change on a global scale?
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: '16 Sunrises' Closing Night Wrap PartyFor six months, French Astronaut Thomas Pesquet and his fellow astronauts live on the International Space Stateion, 450 kilometers from Earth. As the space station revolves, they experience 16 sunrises each day, witnessing a planet that is constantly evolving. They capture spetacular footage of superstorms, cosmic phenomena, and life in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 General, $25 Members, $16 film only
Green Film Festival: 'Kifaru'Experience the intimate joys and pitfalls of wildlife conservation through the eyes of Kenyan rhino caretakers who witness extinction happening in real-time. With their protection "Sudan", the last make Northern White Rhino in existence, is the subject of a last resort IVG experiment to save the species they love.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Can We Build a Brain?From the Nova Wonders website: "Artificially intelligent machines are taking over. They’re influencing our everyday lives in profound and often invisible ways. They can read handwriting, interpret emotions, play games, and even act as personal assistants. They are in our phones, our cars, our doctors’ offices, our banks, our web ...
Many jurisdictions in the United States - Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Washington, Nevada, Puerto Rico, and New York - have recently passed legislation setting ambitious midcentury targets of significant economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions reductions and 100% carbon-free electricity. However, few studies have considered the natural and agricultural land constraints and ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Static and Dynamic Control of Topological MatterUnderstanding materials based on their underlying topological order has caused a paradigm shift in condensed matter physics in how we classify and describe emergent phenomena in systems. Controlling and engineering these exotic orders is key for next-generation electronics and topological quantum computers. In this talk, I will discuss how the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
DUNE: How I learned to stop worrying and love the neutrinoSince the discovery of neutrino oscillations more than twenty years ago, we have made steady progress on understanding neutrino properties with ever more challenging experiments. Today, we know that the fundamental parameters that govern this process take on some peculiar values and that they set the stage for CP violation, ...
FROM ASTROPHYSICS TO ANGEL INVESTOR - HOW SCIENCE HELPED ME SUCCEEDEntrepreneur and lapsed astronomer Lance Cottrell will discuss how a background in physics has informed and supported his circuitous path from privacy advocate to intelligence community vendor to startup mentor.
New States in Complex SystemsComplex systems are often described by simple equations that nevertheless can lead to a rich variety of disparate solutions. Discovering and understanding the full spectrum of solutions that correspond to stable states is at the forefront of current research on the network modeling of complex systems. Recent work by our ...
Come and learn how to make colorful and unique living art. Design your own art piece using our colorful bacteria.Counter Culture Labs has been partnering with the American Society for Microbiology for their yearly Agar Art Contest (http://www.asm.org/agarart) - last year we even won in the Maker division!In this hands-on ...
Join Nerd Nite East Bay to learn how human systems borrow from nature, how and why the Transcontinental Railroad arrived in the East Bay, and the bonkers biology of our favorite Kaiju.Ecomimicry: How Human Systems Benefit By Copying NatureHuman activities have greatly modified natural ecosystems, sometimes to our own detriment. ...
Where: OaklandCost: $8-10
Tuesday, 10/01/19
SynBioBeta 2019: The Global Synthetic Biology SummitSynBioBeta is where tech meets bio and bio meets tech.Meet the innovators and companies, find new opportunities, partner up and discover the potential of the biological industrial revolution. We loved our time at Mission Bay Conference Center, but our industry and our attendance have outgrown that facility, so we’re very ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Two KIPAC Tea TalksDirect Imaging of Habitable Exoplanets* (*In the Next Decade)Direct detection and detailed characterization of habitable exoplanets is a key science goal of future observatories. Although space-based telescopes will characterize exo-Earths in the late 2030s, extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) on extremely large ground-based telescopes (ELTs) has the potential to enable such ...
Learning from small scales in weak lensing and CMB data Weak lensing of photons by large scale structure is sensitive to both the growth of the (lensing) structures and the expansion history of the universe. The large number of modes available on small scales have the potential to constrain cosmological parameters beyond what is achievable in the linear regime, but ...
How well do you understand the links between housing policy and our climate goals? Many current housing policies undermine our ability to reduce transportation emissions the biggest source of climate pollution in California. These policies also affect issues of environmental justice, equity, building electrification and affordability. Come learn about these ...
A look at the gigantic animals that roamed Fremont area as well as the rest of coastal California. Irvington area of Fremont is one of the best preserved site of these fossils. Families will learn about sabertooth cats, mammoths, camels, mastodons, and many more large animals.There are 4 activities at ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Super-Human Operator: Controlling Accelerators with Machine LearningParticle accelerators are used every day in a wide range of scientific, medical and industrial applications. But did you know that the task of operating these machines is far from mundane? For example, for every experiment at SLAC’s X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source, human operators regularly adjust several ...