Bring the entire family and discover the wonderful world of primates at the Oakland Zoo. Leap like a lemur , swing like a siamang and learn all about apes, monkeys and prosimians! Make enrichment for a chimpanzee, meet a primate keeper, get your face painted and enjoy a Wildlife Theater ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
Adaptive Optics/Undergraduate Research at SSUI will be speaking about the technology to remove the "twinkle" from astronomical images to produce sharper images. I will describe the contributions to our program that SSU students have made.Speaker: Dr. Scott Severson, Sonoma State University Adaptive Optics/Undergraduate Research at SSU
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Benjamin Dean Lecture - Disks of Creation Dr. Aaron Boley is a theoretical astrophysicist working in the fields of planet formation, disk evolution, and early star formation. In this lecture, he will discuss the formation of disks around newly-forming stars, look at how these disks evolve, and help us to understand how they give rise to the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $6 members
6 short new plays inspired by the topic: 'Kingdom of Number'A SPECIAL EVENT: MSRI at Monday Night PlayGround!6 short new plays inspired by the topic: "Kingdom of Number"Monday Night PlayGround (now in its 17th season) is a monthly presentation of 6 short plays written on a common theme. This coming Monday, the theme will be a mathematical one: "Kingdom of ...
The Carbon Hunters: FRONTLINE/World Film SeriesIn the remote rainforests of Brazil, several American companies have been on the hunt for an increasingly valuable new commodity - carbon. But investing in big tracts of forest in order to soak up the carbon they may have to account for in proposed energy legislation is not without its ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: See description
Wednesday, 02/23/11
Biologically Inspired Micro- and Nanofluidic Systems for Biomedical ApplicationsMajor advances in science and engineering have greatly enhanced our understanding of the fundamental principles that nature uses to build, control, and manipulate living systems. These insights into the inner workings of nature offer unique opportunities to develop new engineering principles inspired by biological systems and utilize them to create ...
Saturn's F ring has brightened markedly in the last 25 years. It is twice as bright in the Cassini data as it was in the Voyager data from 1980 and 1981. We attribute this change to increasing perturbations by nearby Prometheus, which passes closer to the ring now that it ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Towards Digital Medicine : Patient-Specific Models of the HeartSpeaker: Hervé Delingette, INRIALive broadcast at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast; Questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents. The complete schedule for the spring semester is online at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/RE-spring2011. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/citrisuc.
Expedition Spotlight: For the Love of AntsDr. Fisher is modern day explorer that treks through the last remote rainforests, deserts and plains of Madagascar in search of ants. His research highlights insects as a useful tool to discover and preserve all plants and animals on this unique island. Along the way he has discovered over 1000 ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with museum admission.
Advances in Environmental EpidemiologySpeakers:Esteban Gonzalez Burchard, UCSF; Long Ngo, Harvard University; Sheryl Magzamen, University of Wisconsin; Thaddeus Haight, UC Berkeley; Michelle Odden, UCSF; Romain Neugebauer, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research; Jack Colford, UC Berkeley
Since the discovery of X-rays in 1895, radiography imagery has only been black-and-white. The reason for this can be found in any textbook on X-rays: The linear attenuation coefficient of a pure chemical element factorizes into a universal product of a power of the atomic number Z times a power ...
An Associate Professor of Anthropology and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, James Holland Jones is a biological anthropologist with interests in biodemography, life history theory, and the human ecology of infectious disease. Biological anthropology is the study of the origins and maintenance of human diversity. ...
Bill Gross founded Idealab in March 1996 and serves as the company's Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. Bill founded Idealab to create and build successful businesses that capitalize on innovations in areas with significant growth opportunities, including the Internet. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
40th Anniversary of SPICEPlease Join us for the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis), circuit simulator. SPICE was born as a class project at UC Berkeley and first released in 1971. You will get to witness a roundtable discussion of those responsible for the creation and world-wide ...
Supercomputers are the fastest, highest functioning computers. They can perform long, complex calculations and simulations for things like weather forecasting or creating massive models of the universe. With China's new, faster-than-ever supercomputer installation, the media has said that China has surpassed America in supercomputers. Crawford, who has more than 30 ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Planning Your Edible LandscapeIn this workshop you'll discover the simplicity of growing edibles and incorporating them into your ornamental Garden. Maximize your space in three dimensions. Kathleen Elliot, Horticulturist and owner of Hillcrest Ranch in Sunol will teach you how to companion plant and time your starts. Learn some of the most Bay ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $30 General, $25 Members
The End of Growth? Connecting Economy, Energy & EnvironmentMr. richard Heinberg will be introduced by May Boeve, US Campaign Director, 350.org. We all take economic growth for granted...until it falters. But what if the recent stutters are not just interruptions in the story of continuous economic expansion, but the first intimations of the end of growth as we ...
With urban homesteading all the rage and backyard and vacant lot food production on the rise it appears we're taking big steps toward encouraging self-sufficiency in the Bay Area. For sure people's requirements for connection to their food has changed. But how much do the popular local underground food movements ...
In this multimedia presentation, Dr. Brian Greene, superstring theorist and one of our foremost science writers, takes us on a captivating exploration of parallel worlds and reveals how much of reality's true nature may be deeply hidden. With his unrivaled ability to make the most challenging of material accessible and ...
Where: San JoseCost: $42 General, $35 Senior & Students
40th Annual Linus Pauling Lecture: Seigi Ogawa, Ph.D. (Director, Ogawa Laboratories for Brain Function Research,Hamano Life Science Research Foundation Tokyo, Japan) will give the lecture entitled "From the start of functional MRI of the brain"
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The role of extinction and range expansion in shaping the spatial pattern of marine biodiversityThe distribution of biodiversity across the planet is neither even nor constant. Attempts to explain such distributions generally focus on environmental correlations (such as richness vs. temperature), but diversity in any region is ultimately the result of the interplay through time of extinction, origination, invasion and extirpation. Mass extinctions and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
MODEL REDUCTION FOR FOR TIME-CRITICAL APPLICATIONS IN AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERINGIn many applications, high-fidelity time-dependent numerical simulations remain so computationally intensive that they cannot be used as often as needed, or are more often used in special circumstances than routinely. This is the case, for example, for turbulent CFD computations at high Reynolds numbers. Consequently in many engineering fields, the ...
Neil Osborne is a member of the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP) and a biologist with a dedication to the natural world. He uses his photographic skills to tell stories and effect conservation through visual media. As the director of Witness he interviewed some of the best environmental communicators ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 members
Marine Mammal Bio-Acoustics and Ocean NoiseBio acoustician Michael Stocker will explore bio-acoustic modalities - using sound to echolocate (bio-sonar). He will also share his work in marine research and policy focused on the impacts of human generated noise on marine habitat.
Bone Cleaning Class by Ron CaubleThe Bone Room's own Ron Cauble will again teach a class on the basics of bone and skeleton cleaning. Class fee is $10, and space is again limited so please call in advance to sign up.
Where: BerkeleyCost: $10.00
Is Our Coast in Jeopardy? Predicting the impact of extreme storms on the California CoastExtreme storms are expected to become more frequent and intense as a result of climate change. The USGS has developed the Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) for predicting the impact of extreme storms hitting the California Coast.CoSMoS provides an increased understanding and prediction of coastal flooding, erosion, wave heights, current ...
Many wineries and vineyard companies in California are incorporating sustainable practices in vineyard and winery operations. Ann Thrupp will summarize the sustainability programs being integrated in the California wine industry, "green" marketing trends and examples from Fetzer Winery and Bonterra Vineyards, both of which are pioneers in developing sustainable and ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Friday, 02/25/11
Mental TimeMental time has been investigated in pioneering ways by Leonard Talmy, Herbert Clark, and Endel Tulving. It will be shown how one can theoretically unify these three approaches by using Talmyan concept structuring as a basic theoretical framework. Thetheoretical strategy is to use linguistic expressions about time (cross-related events) as ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Why Fluorescent Lighting Isn't DeadSpeaker: Francis Rubinstein, LBNLPart of the Spring 2011 i4Energy Seminar Series. Live broadcast at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast; Questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents. The schedule for the spring i4energy series is at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/i4energy-spring2011.
A Look Ahead at California's Clean Energy FutureThe many statewide agencies responsible for regulating and planning energy use -- including the California Environmental Protection Agency, California Air Resources Board and California Energy Commission -- have recognized they cannot reach California's ambitious clean energy goals without identifying their policy interdependencies and improving cooperation. A new jointly issued report, ...
Meet Dr. Kaku just few days after the release of his new book Physics of the Future: How Science Will Change Daily Life by 2100. Dr. Kaku is the author of numerous previous books including Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos, and ...
Where: OaklandCost: $23 Advance, $29 at door
Saturday, 02/26/11
Design Squad Nation Ingenuity DayAt the Lawrence Hall of Science, meet Design Squad Nation hosts Judy and Adam, watch sneak peeks of new episodes, and try engineering challenges inspired by the show! Judy and Adam will be launching their giant catapult at 11am and 1pm in the auditorium. View episodes online at pbskids.org.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with admission
10th ANNUAL EVOLUTIONPALOOZA10th ANNUAL EVOLUTIONPALOOZAThis Sunday, February 27, 3022Evolutionpalooza! is this Sunday, February 27th, at the San Francisco Main LibraryCome join your fellow primates at San Francisco's oldest Darwin Day party. This year our program features Dr. David Vinson from UC Davis, speaking on "How to Talk to Evangelicals about Evolution." David Vinson is ...
George I. Matsumoto is a senior educational and research specialist at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA and his research interest is open ocean and deep sea communities; ecology and biogeography of open ocean and deep sea organisms; functional morphology, and natural history and behavior. ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
SMCAS Star Party Come out and bring the kids for a mind expanding look at the universe.Setup of telescopes begins around sunset, with observations beginning about 1 hour later.
Where: San CarlosCost: Free
Sunday, 02/27/11
Marine Mammal Research TourGo behind the scenes at Long Marine Lab. Learn about the work of scientists and their studies of dolphins, seals, sea lions, and whales. Tour is best suited for adults and children over 10 years of age. Space limited. Reservations required: (831) 459-3800.
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