Art in a Digital Age is a one-day conference featuring artists, scholars, and institutional leaders discussing the nature of art in a digital age. How are habits, institutions, and arts practices changing? How does the digital realm inform our experience of older art forms? What role can the academy play ...
Why does your heart beat faster when you exercise? What do those "power" drinks do for you when you're sweating? Investigate what goes on in your body during everyday exercise while scaling some of the city's most scenic inclines and sauntering through hidden alleyway flats. We'll experiment with balance, learn ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 adults, $10 under 18
Efficiency and Environmental Impacts of Electricity Restructuring on Coal-fired Power PlantsWe investigate the impacts of electricity market restructuring on fuel efficiency, cost of coal purchases, and utilization among coal-fired power plants using a panel data set from 1991 to 2005. Our study contributes to the literature in two aspects: (1) the use of more data from recent years allows us ...
With the increasing global demand for more efficient lighting solutions, light emitting diodes (LED's) have gained widespread adoption in both consumer and industrial lighting markets. While LED's have proven efficiency and longevity, such performance enhancements are highly correlated to their operating temperatures. While LED's do not produce infrared (IR) radiation, ...
Efficiency and Environmental Impacts of Electricity Restructuring on Coal-fired Power PlantsWe investigate the impacts of electricity market restructuring on fuel efficiency, cost of coal purchases, and utilization among coal-fired power plants using a panel data set from 1991 to 2005. Our study contributes to the literature in two aspects: (1) the use of more data from recent years allows us ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Planes, trains, and emissions: A study of aviation and high-speed rail demand and their climate impactsThe continuous growth of global air transportation has significant implications for strategies to reduce CO2 emissions of the transportation sector. There is evidence to suggest that high-speed rail (HSR) might offer a competitive, lower-carbon alternative to aviation, particularly for short-haul intercity travel. From an aviation systems planning perspective, the introduction ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Research in Energy Innovataion: the Need to Fill Gaps and Manage UncertaintyPanel: Laura Diaz Anadon, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy & Associate Director, Science Technology and Public Policy (STPP), Director, Energy Technologies Innovation Policy (ETIP), Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of GovernmentBldg 90, Room 4133
When the realms of art and science intersect, what will emerge? View original, stunning and astonishing images of scientific investigation, and meet the scientists who created them. Spanning two spacious gallery rooms, the wonders of research and discovery are presented through photography, video, painting, sculpture, conversation and demonstration.Practice the art ...
Soon astronomers expect to find alien "Earths" by the dozens in orbit around distant suns. Before the decade is out, telltale signs that these planets harbor life may be found. If they are, the ramifications for all areas of human thought – from religion and philosophy to art and biology ...
Where: OaklandCost: $23 General/$20 Members advance, $29 at door
Pigs and Turkeys: Friend or Foe?Reg Barrett, Goertz Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Management at UC Berkeley, will talk about feral pig and wild turkey populations in the Bay Area. The author of over 170 studies and publications concerning wildlife management, Reg will discuss the history, status and management strategies for wild pigs and wild turkeys ...
Scientists are superheroes too! While they can't leap tall buildings in a single bound or shoot weird web goo out of their wrists, they do take steps towards solving the big problems our world is faced with today. Meet five local scientists who are changing the way we understand the ...
Dr. Tomas Zobrist will recap his experience working at the Stewart Observatory Mirror Laboratory (SOML) helping to build the world's largest astronomical telescopes, including LBT, GMT, and LSST. He will provide a brief explanation of the fabrication process, starting from 5 kg chunks of glass to producing light-weighted, monolithic telescope ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Saturday, 11/03/12
Biology and Mathematics in the Bay Area (BaMBA) Annual SymposiumThe Biology and Mathematics in the Bay Area (BaMBA) annual symposium is now in its eighth year. The talks by keynote speakers will be followed by a poster session.Keynote speakers: Jun Song (UCSF) Monica Nicolau (Stanford) Alex Mogilner (UC Davis) Zev Bryant (Stanford)Participation in BaMBA is free and open to ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Tending the Wild: Native Plants and Native PeopleAll the Native American tribes (Wappo, Pomo, and Miwok) whose territories surrounded Pepperwood relied upon plants for their survival and used them in every aspect of their lives. Join anthropologist and Pepperwood Cultural Resources Coordinator Benjamin Benson and Autumn Summers, program coordinator for the California School of Herbal Studies, as ...
Observe migratory and more recent winter arrivals- shorebirds, ducks, and waders, and learn about their unique adaptations as we walk the trails surrounding this Petaluma wetland – the site of PRBO's San Francisco Bay Research Center & Headquarters. DIRECTIONS: Take Lakeville exit off Hwy 101; follow Lakeville eastbound and turn ...
Where: PetalumaCost: $10 Donation, Free to PRBO Members
Hike Sonoma Mountain!Located on the northwest flank of Sonoma Mountain, SSU's Fairfield Osborn Preserve is a wonderful place to explore oak woodlands, shady fir forests, and a rare fishless perennial stream. Trained naturalists lead visitors on hikes with excellent panoramic views of the surrounding landscape and (for the adventurous) plenty of opportunities to observe and ...
Where: PenngroveCost: $3 per person. Cost goes toward education programs
Climate Action and Adaptation Tour at the EcoHouseDraw inspiration to reduce your impact on climate change, and climate change's impact on you. We'll present ideas for do-it-yourself projects with a tour that features our toolshed built with 4 different natural building methods--strawbale, rammed earth, clay, and cob--all topped with a living roof; our ground-breaking constructed wetlands and ...
AT&T Park will become a science wonderland when the Bay Area Science concludes again with this FREE science extravaganza. Last year, over 21,000 attended the festival finale and we expect even bigger crowds this year.The event showcases the intrigue and pure fun of science with a non-stop program of interactive ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
From Light Bulbs to Legislation: an interactive climate change seriesIn this three-session introductory series, we'll explore the many layers of climate solutions, from urban farms to personal action plans. All are welcome to sign up and those who have attended previous Ecology Center climate workshops are also encouraged to participate in this new series. Session 3: EcoHouse Climate Mitigation and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Run of SalmonYears later and many millions of dollars invested, the endangered Chinook population is not recovering in ways hoped. What have scientists recently discovered? Is it something in the water? Find out more and feel free to share information with Ranger Linda.
Willow Garage's PR2 robot returns to The Tech Museum for an interactive program. Here's your chance to meet this powerful research robot who can see, talk, pick up objects, and even dance around! Create your own programs for the robot and then see your code come to life. Program the ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free with admission
History of the DeltaLearn about the history of the delta - from the early 1800s up to 2012 - from framing, discovery of gold, railroad building, and levee building to the present time with Ranger Bill. 1,000 miles in scope, 60-80 man made islands, and a population that exceeds 500,000! Historical. Educational. Informative.
Explore the Academy inside and out, gathering inspiration, resources and activities to bring science to life in your classroom.Choose when you arrive from a variety of hands-on workshops, behind-the-scenes tours, or activities in our exhibits. Meet Academy researchers and educators, experience the exhibits after hours, and learn about our many ...
Join our evening social, lecture, and art event dedicated to the critically endangered leatherback sea turtle! This species is 100 million years old, dives to depths of a mile, and is the largest and most wide-ranging of all sea turtles. But they could become locally extinct in our lifetimes. What ...
The famous K/T extinction event (death knell of the dinosaurs) shows that, even today, the collision of Earth with a small world gone astray can refresh the face of our planet. Impacts were much larger and more frequent on the early Earth. In all likelihood, impacts posed the greatest challenge ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Sunday, 11/04/12
Headlands Helping Hands: FREE Family Stewardship DayPartner up with NatureBridge to help grow and protect the Marin Headlands for all generations with family stewardship days throughout the seasons. Together we can make a difference with projects ranging from non-native plant removal, beach cleanups, and native plant nursery stewardship. All stewardship programs are FREE, family friendly, and ...
Willow Garage's PR2 robot returns to The Tech Museum for an interactive program. Here's your chance to meet this powerful research robot who can see, talk, pick up objects, and even dance around! Create your own programs for the robot and then see your code come to life. Program the ...
San Francisco's creative nature inspired innovation long before the silicon chip: Some of the world's most influential inventions were dreamed up by San Franciscan tinkerers. Explore seven surprising stories of innovation-from tech to tunes to treats-that exemplify San Francisco as a hotbed of creative thinking for nearly two centuries. We'll ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 adults, $20 under 18
Dinner to Dye For at Interface Art Gallery Interactive workshop and Dinner. After a delicious meal, we will use the food byproducts from our meal (onion skins, avacado pits, carrot tops, etc.) to dye fabrics. Tickets here.
Where: OaklandCost: $60
Monday, 11/05/12
Smart City: What Is the Added Value?Smart City approaches rely on the integration of modeling/simulation techniques and ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) into city planning and practices, such as city growth projections, city operations (municipal water/electric supply, waste management, etc.), city processes (such as payroll), city services (to citizens, to businesses, to suppliers, etc.), etc. Smart ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $195
The Universe in an Atom: exploring deep mysteries of nature with precision measurements in atoms Modern cosmology poses deep, unanswered questions about the nature of the universe: - What is the dark energy that causes the accelerating expansion of the universe? - What is the dark matter whose gravitational influence holds together galaxies and galactic clusters? - What causes the matter-antimatter asymmetry ...
Scientists have been aware of human induced seismicity for decades. But attention to the issue has increased in recent years, as concerns have been raised for wastewater disposal, hydraulic fracturing, and CO2 sequestration. The importance of credible induced seismicity hazard assessment has never been higher.In this talk, Mark McClure will ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Hunting for the Higgs Boson and More at the LHCFor the past three years, experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have begun exploring physics at the high energy frontier. A rich harvest of initial physics results has been obtained that allows us to test the Standard Model (SM) of elementary particles and to make searches Beyond the SM ...
The Bay Area is at the center of the creative and technology innovation driving the Internet age. This period of rapid evolution has created new and dynamic networks reflecting the great diversity of our region. But it is also a time of contradiction and disruption, challenging the traditional boundaries of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free members
Benjamin Dean Lecture: The History of Planetariums as the Morrison Turns 60!Join us as we celebrate the 60th birthday of the Academy's Morrison Planetarium with a special presentation and look back through our dome's history and the history of planetariums across the country. Dr. Marché will lead us on a journey back in time from the early days of the Morrison ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Seniors, $6 Members
Earth StoriesSpeaker: Doug McConnell, NBC Bay Area reporter and PBS OpenRoad producer
Where: OaklandCost: $7 Donation
Tuesday, 11/06/12
Smart City: What Is the Added Value?Smart City approaches rely on the integration of modeling/simulation techniques and ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) into city planning and practices, such as city growth projections, city operations (municipal water/electric supply, waste management, etc.), city processes (such as payroll), city services (to citizens, to businesses, to suppliers, etc.), etc. Smart ...
We encounter and interact with robotic agents every day when withdrawing cash from ATMs, driving cars with anti-lock brakes, and tuning our thermostats. In the moment of those interactions, we behave in ways that do not necessarily align with our belief that these are just plain machines. Through a combination ...
'Garden in the Sea'A group of enthusiastic people started to work for the protection of the Islands in the Sea of Cortez in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Artist Cristina Iglesias was asked to make a piece of art for the Island. This documentary dives deep into the beauty of the place, the heart ...
Dr. Carlos Maltzahn is Associate Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is also Director of the UCSC Systems Research Laboratory, co-founder and Associate Director of the UCSC/Los Alamos Institute for Scalable Scientific Data Management. Dr. Maltzahn's research is in the area of Computer ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Evolution of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Life: A Theological Assessment- RESCHEDULEDThe set of assumptions that generates progressive research programs associated with the search for extra-terrestrial life--especially intelligent life--constitute a myth-like picture of reality.Specifically, the set of assumptions frequently include (1) placing the origin of life within the theory of evolution [Darwinian evolution describes speciation, not the origin of life]; (2) ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Real-time Auralization for Virtual Environments - An Overview of RWTH's Virtual Reality SystemThis talk gives an overview on the acoustics aspects of this virtual reality system. This includes the simulation of room acoustics, sound reproduction to the user and the required signal processing. The real-time auralization engine enables a physically accurate simulation of sound propagation, including important wave effects such as sound ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Going beyond the FPGA with Spacetime The idea of dynamically reconfiguring programmable devices fascinated Turing in the 1930's. In the early 90's, DeHon pioneered dynamic reconfiguration within FPGAs, but neither his nor numerous subsequent efforts, both academic and industrial, resulted in a useful and usable product. Over the last several years, we have significantly advanced the ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Game Changers: Mark Cerny with EA's Rich HillemanMark Cerny is one of gaming's most influential designers, a true "game changer." He's received the International Game Developers Association's Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as been inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' Hall of Fame. Mark Cerny joined Atari at the age of 17, and has ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Climate Action 2050: What's Really Needed to Achieve Local and State GoalsAs a community and as a state, we have ambitious targets for reducing the emissions that cause global warming. But what will it actually take to achieve those targets? What strategies and actions will make the biggest differences? What role must our community play? Join climate change leaders Timothy ...
Redwoods have inhabited Earth for well over 100 million years and have experienced a great deal of climatic change during their long history. Coast redwood in particular was once much more widespread but as global climate changed, its ecological range contracted to a narrow band along the California coast defined ...
Where: AlbanyCost: Free
Programming in HTMLSilicon Valley CoderDojo is a FREE programming clubs for kids, ages 8-17! New attendees and all programming experience levels are welcome anytime!Due to space limitations, tickts are required for each event. Sign up at EventbriteNOTE: Even if the event is listed as "sold out", please add your name to the wait ...
Many more children are diagnosed with autism today compared to 3-4 decades ago. Some of this difference reflects changing use of diagnostic terminology for more severe cases with low IQ and some is the tendency to make a diagnosis in individuals with milder behavioral symptoms. But there may be a ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
The Mystery of Bird SongHow do birds learn to sing such beautiful songs? Why do they produce so many different types of vocalizations? California naturalist and author David Lukas will help answer some of these questions and share his insights into the magical world of bird song-from the ways we study bird song, to ...
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