2012 UC Berkeley Green Chemistry Conference: Collaborative Approaches and New SolutionsThe 2012 Green Chemistry Conference will highlight green chemistry's growing role in education, research and outreach at UC Berkeley. The themes for the conference are: 1) Advancing legislation for innovation, 2) Creating new green catalysts, 3) Promoting greener materials use, and 4) Developing an ethics for ...
Speaker: Dr. Andreas Meyer-Lindberg,Director, Central Institute of Mental HealthProfessor and Chairman of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of HeidelbergClinical Director of the Department Psychiatry and PsychotherapyRoom 299
Incomplete Nature, radically reformulating the concept of emergenceBy recasting emergence theory in dynamical terms and focusing on the role of constraint in explaining ascending levels of causal relationships, this talk will argue that such basic scientific challenges as explaining the origins of life, the nature of information, and the dynamics of mental function need to be rethought. ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Query Processing with People and Machines: CrowdDB The challenge of "Big Data" analytics is not just data size -- it's about issues such as diversity, ambiguity, and incompleteness in both queries and the underlying data.While advances in scalable data processing are helping to address the data size problem, there remain many important data-centric tasks where humans are ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Cafe InquiryMeet up with rationalists, skeptics, and freethinkers south of San Francisco.Cafe Inquiry is a social event hosted by the Center for Inquiry|San Francisco. We'll meet at Café Borrone http://www.cafeborrone.com/ between Kepler's Books and the British Banker's Club!
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
The World of Your Senses After Dark @ the explOratorium The World of Your SensesSee the US premiere of a Tibetan thangka-style painting exhibition and engage with Tibetan monks from India to explore sensory perception through Buddhist and scientific perspectives.A collaboration between the Exploratorium, the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives (LTWA), the Sager Family Foundation's Science for Monks Program, ...
Diagnosing Lung Cancer EarlyNew National Cancer Institute screening guidelines have been released demonstrating that screening by Chest CT scan in smokers can help detect early lung cancer and reduce lung cancer-related deaths by 20%. This talk will focus on this new diagnostic tool and how people who are most at risk can access ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your BehaviorTo help us uncover and understand how the human mind works, Dr. Mlodinow explains why every aspect of our life plays out in two versions: our conscious and unconscious. He discusses the profound ways our perception, behavior, memory and social judgments are shaped by our subliminal minds and how that ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
What goes on in the Zoo once the rest of the guests leave? You'll find out when your group spends the night at the Oakland Zoo! A variety of themes allows you to visit the rain-forest, be a detective and snoop your way around the Zoo, or even create your ...
Where: OaklandCost: $60
SudoRoom Oakland Hackerspace Kickoff & FundraiserSudo Room is an open, collaborative community of tech developers, citizen scientists, activists, and artists who are interested in and working towards social change. The goal is to create the first inclusive, dedicated hackerspace in downtown Oakland, so that ideas and projects in areas such as citizen science, digital/online citizenship ...
Where: OaklandCost: free, but donations are encouraged
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, 05/05/12
Coyote Creek Nature WalkTake an easy walk with a Ranger to look for wildflowers, plants and wildlife along the Coyote Creek Trail. Meet at the park office at end of Malaguerra Ave. in Morgan Hill. Bring comfortable walking shoes, water and sun protection.
Where: Morgan HillCost: Free
Get to Know Your Reptile and Amphibian NeighborsPepperwood has a remarkable diversity of frogs, salamanders, lizards, snakes, and turtles. Learn where they live, what they eat, how they reproduce, and how they are doing in the face of of urban and agricultural development. Dr. Nick Geist is an associate professor of biology at Sonoma State University where ...
Where: Santa RosaCost: $20
Guided Nature WalkWe hope you'll join us for this special opportunity to explore the Bouverie Preserve. Our half-day 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, flower-carpeted oak woodland, and rugged ...
San Jose Astronomical AssociationOur speaker is Marita Beard, a San Jose high-school teacher, who is a participant in NASA/SOFIA "Partners in Science Education" program.
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Sunday, 05/06/12
Julia Robinson Mathematics FestivalVi Hart, YouTube recreational "mathemusician" sensation (http://www.youtube.com/user/Vihart) will lead an interactive mathematical session and banish any notion that math is boring at the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival. Register your 6 - 12th grader online early at https://hosted.msri.org/jrmf/2012/stanford/register before it fills up.The Julia Robinson Festival is challenging but noncompetitive, highlighting rich ...
Where: StanfordCost: $10 per student
Wildflower HikeJoin a Park Docent on a 3-mile hike to enjoy spring wildflowers and learn how the rolling serpentine grasslands provide critical habitat for endangered species. Meet at Calero Reservoir, then carpool to the trail nearby. Bring sun protection, water, camera, sturdy hiking shoes and layered clothing. Note: This is a ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Firesafe Gardens SymposiumWith a diverse collection from areas around the world that share California's Mediterranean climate, the Garden offers an ideal site to learn about making your garden safe from wildfire. Join Cheryl Miller, from the Diablo Fire Safe Council and local fire agencies to explore how wildfire affects our neighborhoods and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $20 General, $12 Members
Muir Woods After HoursExplore the evening magic of Muir Woods, learning about the secret nightlife of an old-growth redwood forest.This special walk begins one hour before sunset and will conclude with the dark of night!We'll listen for owls, look for bats, and use our senses to guide us along the trails.This is an ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Monday, 05/07/12
Western Arctic: Adventures in AlaskaThe Sierra Club invites you to a special event: Western Arctic: Adventures in AlaskaA presentation by Debbie S. Miller, noted naturalist and author of the book Midnight Wilderness: Journeys in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.Ms. Miller will draw you into her three-year journey with a team of photographers that included hiking ...
Where: Redwood CityCost:
Architecting Android AppsAndroid brings to the table a whole new set of building blocks. Each has its own unique properties. Building an app is mashing them together in a unique way. Often, there are multiple approaches to seemingly the same result. Knowing what component to use when, is often a balance of ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
The First Sources of Light in the Universe Primordial stars, the first stars in the early universe, are unique objects that could have strongly influenced their environment despite their brief existence. These objects can be identified through their characteristic ionizing properties and the elements created by their supernovae. By combining these two signatures with a variety of current ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $6 Members, $10 Seniors
Tuesday, 05/08/12
Passive and Low Energy Architecture: The Israeli Approach Within the Sustainable Building StandardCurrent environmental assessment methods commonly use a simple 'point hunting' approach. As a result, developers and design teams try to obtain "cheap and easy points". Consequently, they avoid choosing "Energy points". Additionally, "Energy points" are mainly achieved by improving the mechanical, electrical and hot water systems, since they are easier ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Wednesday, 05/09/12
Putting Water Online - CANCELLEDThe seminar will feature Prof. Alexandre Bayen presenting the results of the Floating Sensor Network project, including the results of the day's experiment in Walnut Grove.On May 9, 2012, the Floating Sensor Network team will conduct a major experiment in Walnut Grove, CA. We will launch the complete 100-unit floating ...
A different perspective on the Lytro light field cameraLytro, Inc.has begun shipping the first consumer camera that captures 4-D light field pictures, rather than 2-D images. In this talk the camera and its picture-processing system are explored in the context of computer graphics and vision science, emphasizing parallax as a unifying principle for insight into their operation.Gallery of ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Passive Solar ArchitectureThe past few decades has seen a resurrection in buildings that work with their environment. Passive solar design is the most effective, healthiest and lowest-cost method to provide thermal comfort in any climate. This class will give an introduction to the physics of passive solar design, its historical use in a ...
Where: San RafaelCost: $10 Members advance, $15 at door for all
Wolf Recovery in the Western U.S.: A Primer for California The Sierra Club is excited to host a presentation by Carter Niemeyer, a respected Wildlife Society certified biologist:Wolf Recovery in the Western U.S.: A Primer for California Mr. Niemeyer is author of the 2010 book "Wolfer" and he is the former head of wolf recovery for US Fish & Wildlife ...
Where: Redwood CityCost:
Cell Phone Upside the Head: Health Effects of Electromagnetic RadiationWhat are the health effects of electromagnetic (EM) radiation? After exploring the fundamental (and fun) physics of electric and magnetic fields, we will see just what EM waves are. Then we'll consider how this radiation can, and might, and cannot disrupt the mechanisms of the body. Finally, we'll examine the ...
It is often said that mathematics is a universal language that we could use to make contact with another intelligence. But is that really the case? Or is this just a disguised version of anthropocentrism?Speaker: Dr Keith Devlin has written 31 mathematics books and over 80 published research articles. He ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
From the UNIVAC to Web 2.0: Politics, Computers and the Making of a 21st Century PresidencyDateline: November 4, 1952: UNIVAC Predicts an Eisenhower Win! Sixty years ago this November, public opinion polls gave the 1952 Presidential election to Adlai Stevenson. UNIVAC, star of CBS' election coverage (along with a new anchor, Walter Cronkite), predicted an Eisenhower landslide. UNIVAC was right. The computer's TV debut captivated ...
