FIRST Robotics LeagueWhat the Olympics are for sports and the Nobel Prize is to science, FIRST Robotics is to kid's engineering.Take part in the most prestigious robotics competition for youth in the world this fall by joining Celsius and Beyond team. You will learn about project management, computer programming, robotics design, analytical ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $950 in full, $330 per month
East Bay Mini Maker FaireA Maker Faire is about celebrating learning and doing - not the finished and perfect end product. It's a place to share what we're learning with others, and celebrate the fun and freedom of being an amateur. Featuring both established and emerging local "makers," the East Bay Mini Maker Faire ...
Come to Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands and get an up-close view of the fall raptor migration with the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory (GGRO), a cooperative program of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and National Park Service.A GGRO docent gives an hour-long talk about hawk monitoring and identification ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
The Sustainable Presidio ParkThe Sustainable Presidio ParkHow do we make the Presidio a sustainable national park? What does sustainability mean? Why couldn't the Army sustain a base here in perpetuity? We may ask more questions than we answer on this level, two-mile walk around the heart of the Presidio, but we'll sure have fun!Meet ...
Tom Parsons of the United States Geological Survey discusses the science of earthquakes, the likelihood of a major quake in California, and whether or not the frequency of earthquakes is rising.
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with admission
Religion and Science Part 2: Can Faith and Science Co-exist?Panel discussion with Berget Jelane, Dave Marshak, and Laurie Schlaepfer, moderated by Angie CoiroInside Islamic Science: Dialogues and DiscussionsModerated by Angie CoiroThe events are moderated by acclaimed interviewer Angie Coiro.Each interview, panel discussion, or lecture offers constructive dialogue on culture, religion, knowledge and beliefs, sparked by The Tech Museum's latest ...
With a quarter of the world's population in developing countries without access to basic electricity, solar energy is the panacea for solving the energy crisis that affects us today. Through years of research, solar technology has now reached the point where it can be deployed in terms of scale and ...
The California Council on Science and Technology has undertaken a study of California's energy system in 2050. By executive order, the state is to reduce emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. The study identifies energy system descriptions (call "portraits") from a technical perspective that would meet this standard ...
The Picture of Elemetary Particle Physics at Year Two of the Large Hadron ColliderThe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN collides protons with unprecendeted high energy and intensity. Dedicated detectors, named ATLAS, CMS and LHCb, measure these collisions and attempt to reconstruct the stable, unstable and elusive particles that were produced therein. Most of the observed reactions can be described with particles and ...
Supermassive black holes, with masses of millions to billions of times that of our own Sun, are found lurking at the centers of most nearby large galaxies. But which came first, the black hole or the galaxy? Dr. Greene will talk about the search for the smallest supermassive black holes ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $6 Members
Laura Cunningham presents Ten Millennia of California Ecology Ecologically, the past is always present if you know where and how to look. Paleontologist-biologist-artist Laura Cunningham spent 20 years exploring California's archives and relic lands to reconstruct exactly what life used to look like here over the past 10,000 years. Her beautiful images and her insights about long-period ecological ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for members
Tuesday, 10/18/11
Spooky Halloween ScienceGet ready for Spooky Halloween Science Fun! In this workshop, you will handle slimy worms and learn about their role in decomposition, turn your lab partner into a "mummy", make a witch's potion, concoct Oger boogers, create a skull mask, and observe a real sheep's brain. If you like disgusting, nasty, ...
The Post-Japan Tsunami Era: Is Nuclear Energy Still an Option?Era: Is Nuclear Energy Still an Option?The American Chemical Society presents: Heino Nitsche. Professor Nitsche is an ACS Fellow and a full professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Faculty Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1998. He is the ...
Boletes Come of AgeThis talk features the incredible colorful diversity of the boletes of eastern North America, and uses them as examples in an introductory discussion of how and why name changes occur in the fungi.Three hundred years ago, all gilled mushrooms were placed in the genus Agaricus. Back then, all pored mushrooms ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Wednesday, 10/19/11
Free Wednesday at Cal AcademyFree admission is available to visitors on the third Wednesday of every month, through the generosity of The Bernard Osher Foundation. Admission is on a first come, first served basis, and early arrival is recommended due to the likelihood of high demand. Also, please note that final entry to the ...
The keeping of electronic medical records has led to an explosion of data and an academic industry that is trying to find patterns that predict illness, for instance based upon people's workplace, lifestyle habits, etc, or based on automated collection of medical data in a hospital setting. In this talk, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The oxygen isotopic composition of the Sun: implications for solar nebula chemistryWe have measured the oxygen isotopic composition of the solar wind, captured and returned to Earth by NASA's Genesis mission. The data demonstrate that the Earth, Moon, Mars, and bulk meteorites are depleted in 16O by ~7% relative to the bulk solar system in a non-mass-dependent manner. Gas phase photochemistry, ...
Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: Dealing With Massive Complexity and Uncertainty Climate change policy makers need good information upon which to base their decisions. Climate change is fundamentally an international and very long-run problem requiring information from a wide range of disciplines from physics to psychology. One response to the complexity with deep uncertainty that comes with this requirement has been ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
FREE Science Educators' Day (EDAY) 2011!The Optical Society (OSA) is hosting our annual Science Educators' Day (EDAY) with the help of OSA Student Chapters at Stanford University, Berkeley University and San Francisco State University for teachers and parents in the San Jose area who are interested in science education. This program focuses on effective and ...
Where: San JoseCost: FREE
The Science of Beer & Biotech Vendor ShowcaseJust because you may enjoy it on weekends doesn't mean there isn't some serious science behind it. San Jose BioCenter presents The Science of Beer featuring Dr. Charlie Bamforth, Dept Chair, Food Science & Technology, UC Davis and Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Brewing Science. Dr. Bamforth's talk will 'tap' into ...
Dr. Batalha has been affiliated with NASA Ames Research Center since 2000 where she conducts research on extrasolar planet detection and stellar astrophysics. She is a co-Investigator for NASA's Kepler Mission whose objective is to identify and characterize habitable, earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars. As Director of the Systems Teaching ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Making Faces: Developmental Mechanisms of Craniofacial EvolutionMarin Science Seminar for Teens, Educators & Their Families presents:Rich Schneider, Ph.D. of UCSFDr. Schneider will overview experiments in his laboratory that have revealed molecular and cellular processes involved in facial patterning. He will describe how his studies to understand the basis for skull shape in breeds of dogs led ...
Where: San RafaelCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #17: Open Source, B-Horror Science and Toxoplasma!Nerd Nite SF guarantees to give you the creeps this month as our speakers expound on the creeping trend of open source and data, what's creeping into the brains of cat ladies, and how the B-horror movie creeps up and down the subject of science. Be there and be creepy, ...
Reading the leaves of an ancient beverageChock full of strange and wonderful compounds, tea is a royal beverage with a tale to tell. We'll venture through Chinatown and beyond to sample flavors, do some study of oxidation and diffusion, and dissect the differences between green, black, and oolong. We'll also ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $65
Go Wild! Kid's Nature ProgramDid you know that there is a 30,000 acre wildlife refuge right here in the South Bay? That it is home to over 280 species of birds each year? Join us as we learn more about Don Edwards SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge with stories and fun activities
The Environmental Forum informs the Stanford community about a broad range of environmental issues and solutions through presentation and discussion by global experts from within Stanford and other leading academic institutions, government, NGOs, foundations and business. The Forum covers a wide range of cutting-edge environmental and sustainability topics.Speaker: Amy Clement, ...
Science of Voting NightlifeWith only 20 days to go until San Francisco's mayoral election, it's time to get civic! Delve into timely issues like the pros and cons of ranked choice voting, and how it affects the mayoral candidates' strategies during a lively roundtable moderated by The Bay Citizen political writer Gerry Shih, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
'Ill-gotten Brains': The Grisly History of Sourcing Bodies for Anatomical Learning by Megan CurranJoin Megan Curran of USC's Norris Medical Library for the wild history of sourcing human bodies from the dawn of modern anatomy in the Renaissance through the 19th century's institutionalized medical school body snatchings, and up to Nazi medicine and the controversy over plastinated bodies in exhibits like Body Worlds. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: FREE
An Interdisciplinary Tour of the Human Condition in Three StagesAn Interdisciplinary Tour of the Human Condition in Three StagesPLEASE NOTE VENUE HAS CHANGED TO CUBBERLEY AUDITORIUM, SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONOver the years, artists, scientists, engineers, and humanities scholars have explored the grand themes that define the human condition from radically different perspectives. Too infrequently, they are given the opportunity to ...
Minimally Invasive Aesthetic and Functional Jaw Surgery - State of the ArtTraditionally patients with an imbalanced facial appearance, dental and orthodontic problems, sleep and breathing disturbances, need to undergo orthodontic treatment and orthognathic "jaw" surgery. It has recently been shown that facial growth can be stimulated and orthodontic treatment be accelerated by minimally invasive procedures possibly avoiding the need for jaw ...
Every winter, these large, long-legged birds occupy the fields and marshes south of Sacramento, providing great opportunities for nature enthusiasts to view them. But what do you watch for? Join crane biologist Paul Tebbel as he tells you all about these fascinating birds and describes how to identify and appreciate the verbal ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $5 General, Free Members
Delta Science Center: the Dream Becomes RealityThe Delta Science Center began as a community project in East Contra Costa in 1995. Its aim was to educate the public of all ages about the importance of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem as a California resource. This region is one of the most important, but least understood, natural ...
Where: AntiochCost: Free
Keeping Nature in the CityNature in the City's founder Peter Brastow shares his vision of how we can more meaningfully interact with the wild in our city, through projects like the Twin Peaks Bio Region, the Green Hairstreak project, amongst others.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Friday, 10/21/11
Energy Symposium and Innovation ExpoThe Berkeley Energy Symposium is one of the flagship energy events at UC Berkeley. Drawing over 600 attendees from government, industry, and academia annually, this event is responsible for showcasing Berkeley's energy talents to the world.
The state of California is required under the Assembly Bill 32 or known as the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 to control for greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector. Although the main instrument for the sector -- a cap and trade program -- is expected to become ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
StuffIn the past several years, Jeff O'Connell has given talks on Card Counting, the Golden Ratio, mathematics used in movies and on TV, and the mathematics used in website encryption. This talk is a collection of all the unfinished talks he has written. Topics include:Algebra I and Salt Lake City.What ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Light Harvesting and Water Splitting in Dye-Sensitized Solar CellsFuture solar energy conversion systems (solar cells and solar water splitting catalysts) must be both efficient and inexpensive in order to be competitive with fossil fuels. The dual challenge of high efficiency and low cost presents some interesting technical problems. Inexpensive polycrystalline semiconductor devices and photocatalysts are generally inefficient because ...
Prof. Renuka P. Jindal, President of the IEEE Electron Devices Society, provides a sweeping view of the history of modern wireless and optical networks. As described in Moore's Law, circuit complexity (e.g. in transistors per square cm) has been doubling every 24 months. Communication bandwidth has doubled every 18 months. ...
Join Suzanne Gurton, the Education Manager at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and Price Sheppy from Park Stewardship as we enjoy our night time National Park. We will be exploring the stars above through education, activities, and star gazing opportunities. This will be a great experience for all ages.Where ...
Where: PacificaCost: Free
My Einstein: Personal Memories of Albert EinsteinJoin us for an intimate conversation with Stephanie Asker, family friend of Albert Einstein. She will share her personal stories, photos and home movies from her childhood - including how the Center came to own one of Einstein's personal telescopes. Explore our Center and engage in fun Einstein-esque activties. Speaker: ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
Come to Foothill Observatory and join us in the exploration of our Universe!Foothill Observatory Friday Evening ProgramCome to Foothill Observatory and join us in the exploration of our Universe!Foothill Observatory is open for public viewing every clear Friday evening from 9:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. Visitors can view the wonders of the universe through the observatory's new computer-controlled 16-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. Views ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost:
Saturday, 10/22/11
Open Science Summit 2011 Oct 22-23The Open Science Summit examines the full spectrum of the most crucial questions affecting the future of science.We consider the disruptive changes required to improve the functioning of 21st century science, including institutional change, new infrastructure for data driven science, and new practices and approaches.Who should attend?Scientists, Hackers, Students, Patients, and Activists, Entrepreneurs, Funders,Citizens. Anyone and everyone who cares passionately ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: $100-$250
Dream Weavers of the Pomo and Miwok This class examines the rich heritage of basketry arts of the North Bay tribal cultures and discuss the botany, cultural ecology, and deep environmental philosophy of these North Bay tribes. Hands-on examples will be enjoyed. Students will learn to identify and distinguish these tribal baskets from other California tribal weaving. www.santarosa.edu/communityed Saturday, ...
Where: Santa RosaCost: $45
San José Clean Energy ShowcaseCome see the latest in solar, wind turbine, electric vehicle and solar hot water technologies. Bring the family and get everyone excited about clean energy! The time for clean energy is now! With money-saving rebates from the State, making home energy improvements has never been easier or more affordable. Come ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Hands On Science Fun: National Chemistry WeekNational Chemistry Week is here again!Come to the Children's Room for hands on chemistrydemonstrations for kids and their parents.It's fun, it's science, and it's free thanks to Exelixis, Inc.
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Where's Chabot? Lafayette!Experience the wonders of the night sky in Chabot's New Digital Inflatable Planetarium led by Chabot Space & Science Center's high school Galaxy Explorers. Using the latest technology in Digital Sky software, the Galaxy Explorers will fly the audiences from Earth to the outer regions of the universe and back ...
Where: LafayetteCost:
FIRST Robotics LeagueWhat the Olympics are for sports and the Nobel Prize is to science, FIRST Robotics is to kid's engineering.Take part in the most prestigious robotics competition for youth in the world this fall by joining Celsius and Beyond team. You will learn about project management, computer programming, robotics design, analytical ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $950 advance, $330 per month
Come to Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands and get an up-close view of the fall raptor migration with the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory (GGRO), a cooperative program of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and National Park Service.A GGRO docent gives an hour-long talk about hawk monitoring and identification ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Invented in San Francisco Walking TourScience and creativity in a city of innovationSome of the City's most interesting natives aren't people, but the brainchildren of make-it-happen San Franciscans that have changed the world. Explore the science behind the creations of some of SF's important imaginators, learn a bit about the neuroscience of creativity, and experiment ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $45
Mt. Diablo Astronomy ProgramPlease join Mt. Diablo Astronomical Society for the October 22nd astronomy program. The program starts at 6:00 (enter the park at least 45 minutes earlier). Although there is no fee for this program there is a $10 park entrance fee. This months program is - "Explore our Galaxy. Build a ...
Where: Walnut CreekCost: $10/car park entry
Spider NightReserve your space for this annual crowd-pleaser and learn everything you need to know about arachnids, including our local California brown tarantula. View cages and cages of creepy crawlers and handle some if you dare. Hear spider poems and folklore followed by popcorn, lemonade and the classic big-bug movie "Tarantula." ...
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.
