Carl Haber is an experimental physicist. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University and is a Senior Scientist in the Physics Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California. Most of his research interest involves the development of instrumentation and methods for detecting and measuring ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Environmental Genomics of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Testing and Generating HypothesesSpeaker: Dr. Andrew Whitehead, UC Davis The RTC Seminar Series brings leading local, national, and international scientists to a public forum at RTC to speak about the latest advances in science, and provides an opportunity for graduate students to present research in progress. The Series is open to the public. ...
Where: TiburonCost: Free
Teaching in Hunter-Gatherer InfancyCultural anthropologists Margaret Mead, David Lancy, and Barbara Rogoff indicate that teaching does not exist or is rare in small-scale cultures. By contrast, recent research by cognitive scientists Gyorgy Gergely and Gergely Csibra indicate that one type of teaching, called natural pedagogy, is a human universal, part of human nature, ...
When we designed Blue Waters, the most powerful petascale supercomputer for the NSF community, the single most pressing concern about its success was that "GPUs are too hard to program." The rise of GPU computing has significantly boosted the pace of progress in numeric methods, algorithm design and programming techniques ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
'Dive!' Film Screening at Albany High SchoolFood Shift, a local non-profit organization, will be hosting a film screening of the documentary film "Dive!". The film will be followed by a discussion of the film and a Q&A lead by the Food Shift team. 40% of all food produced in the United States is wasted. This means ...
Where: AlbanyCost: $5 suggested donation
Science and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub, West BaySkeptics in the Pub, West BayFiddlers Green, MillbraeIf 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 in the Pub is a monthly ...
Circadian rhythm (sr-kd-n): A daily cycle of biological activity based on a 24-hour period and influenced by regular variations in the environment, such as the alternation of night and day. Circadian rhythms include sleeping and waking in animals, flower closing and opening in plants, and tissue growth and differentiation in ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
The Brilliance of SleepScientists have long wondered why we power down our brains and enter into a sleeping state then spending countless hours in light dreamless slumber. Professor Matt Walker in the Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory within the Department of Psychology at U.C. Berkeley and his team have found compelling evidence for the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22/27 General, $20/25 Members
The third lecture in the Implementing Health Care Reform in California Lecture Series will be presented by Kent Lieginger, PharmD, senior vice president, managed care and customer operations at Genentech.With 25 years in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, Kent Lieginger has held a variety of leadership roles in managed care, ...
Dark Energy and the Runaway UniverseWe expected that the attractive force of gravity would slow down the rate at which the universe is expanding. But observations of very distant exploding stars (supernovae) show that the expansion rate is actually speeding up. Filippenko, a member of teams that revealed the accelerating expansion of the universe, will ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Student
This week, we celebrate Human Odyssey, a dramatic new addition to the Academy's Tusher African Hall. Hear from a trio of Academy scientists who conduct fieldwork in Africa. Paleoanthropologist Zeray Alemseged will discuss studying human evolution in Ethiopia's Great East African Rift, known as the "cradle of mankind," and the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
Forensic Sculpture: A Chronicle of History and UseGloria Nusse will be talking about her forensic art. Gloria Nusse is a scientific and forensic artist who has worked for well known scientific, cultural and historical agencies and institutions. Her forensic artwork has aided with the identification of several individuals.
The movie "The Impossible", currently showing in theaters, portrays the destruction of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunamiRecent tsunami disasters in the Pacific Ocean testify to their destructive power -- are similar events likely in the Pacific Northwest?Geographic research is helping to understand the risk, assisting planners with developing effective emergency ...
Energy storages are expected to play a significant role in increasing grid penetration of intermittent renewable resources. In this presentation, I will show that -, based on various hourly simulations,- storage design and dispatch plays a significant role in our ability to transition to a grid that can accommodate very ...
Dr. Kriek is an assistant professor in the Astronomy Department of the University of California at Berkeley. Her research focuses on the origin and evolution of galaxies, using spectroscopy and deep multi-wavelength surveys. Prior to this, She was a Clay Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a Russell Fellow ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Saturday, 03/02/13
3rd Annual San Francisco Bay Area STEM Career FairScience, Engineering and Mathematics Link Inc (SEM Link) will host its 3rd Annual San Francisco Bay Area Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Career Fair and Exhibition. This event will provide K-12 students with an opportunity to explore careers and meet and interact with professionals in these fields. This event is free and open to the public; however pre-registration ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Brain Awareness DaySponsored in part by The Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives. Join the global celebration with the Society for Neuroscience and 2,800 partners in 82. Free It's Mindboggling! puzzle seriesbooklets for kids while supplies last. Stop by the Galaxy Explorer demo stations to explore brain anatomy, the powerful senses and mind-bending ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
Meet the Animals at the Randall MuseumOn Saturdays a special selection of the Randall Museum's animal ambassadors venture from their cages, pens, and perches to greet museum visitors up-close! Kids and their families can meet rodents and amphibians, check out a Great Horned Owl, and maybe even touch a tortoise! The Randall Museum is home ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
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.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Biological design and build automation platforms at JBEI and TeselaGenThe capacity to iterate through the biological design-build-test engineering cycle more quickly than the competition is mission critical for academics and biotechnology companies to be the first to publish or bring product to market. At the Joint BioEnergy Institute (jbei.org), we are developing several cloud-based software tools that accelerate the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: free
Ocean's Aglow: Family Night Hike & CampfireJoin us for a night hike to Rodeo Beach in search of bioluminescent plankton twinkling in the sand. Gather 'round the campfire with friends and family, sing songs, and roast s'mores by moonlight.All ages are welcome. Baby carriers are suggested for children 4 and under.
San Mateo County Astronomical Society Star PartyThe City of San Carlos Department of Parks and Recreation and the San Mateo County Astronomical Society have open Star Parties. These events are held in Crestview Park, San Carlos California. Dates and Sunset times are below. Note that inclement weather (clouds, excessive wind and showers) will cause the event ...
Where: San CarlosCost: Free
Sunday, 03/03/13
Free Day of ScienceFirst Sundays are FREE! OMCA is free all day the first Sunday of every month. Tour the building with members of the Museum's Council on Architecture at 1 pm and enjoy a Docent-led tour of the Gallery of California Art at 2 pm. Grab lunch or a snack at Blue ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Free Sunday at the California Academy of SciencesThe Academy is free to everyone on selected Sundays throughout the year. Admission is on a first-come, first served basis, and early arrival is recommended due to the likelihood of high demand. Please note that final entry to the museum on free days is 4:00 pm.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Monday, 03/04/13
Nuclear Weapons Reduction What Physicists Do series at Sonoma State.Speaker: Dr. Jay Davis, Hertz Foundation
One third of the world's carbon emissions are emitted by industry. Most industrial emissions relate to producing materials. Steel, cement, plastic, paper and aluminium are the most important contributors. The industries that make materials are energy-intensive, so they have always been motivated to be efficient and have now reached a ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Mysteries of Sleep One of the great remaining scientific mysteries is the question, why do we sleep? Walker will discuss the importance of sleep and describe how a night of sleep remodels our brains, enhances memory, inspires creative insights and rebalances our next-day emotional reactivity.Speaker: Matt Walker, Principal Investigator, UC Berkeley Sleep and ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $15 General, $10 Members, $5 Students
The signs of disruption to our climate are all around us. California has seen longer, hotter dry seasons leading to severe wildfires. Rising sea levels are threatening infrastructure and property along the State's coast, and a declining snow pack is causing concern for hydropower, water supply and tourism. Nationally, extended ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $8.50
Of CAVEs and Curiosity: Imaging and Imagination in Collaborative ResearchIn the KeckCAVES visualization facility at UC Davis, one can walk into a snowflake or fly over a landslide. Images from around space and time flicker into existence as researchers interact with their data in three dimensions. Among the sights to be seen are ancient microbes, chaotic attractors, and the ...
On the road to extragalactic transient discoveriesSurveys for radio pulsars serve as excellent historical records of the Galactic and extragalactic radio sky on sub-second time scales. Isolated radio impulses, such as those theorized to occur as signposts for evaporating black holes, coalescing neutron stars, and other violent phenomena, might be detectable in pulsar survey data. Lorimer ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Detecting Genomic Insertions and Deletions in the Cloud with MapReduce and CloudbreakThe detection of genomic structural variations remains one of the the most difficult challenges in analyzing high-throughput sequencing data. Considering multiple mappings of all reads, rather than only uniquely mapped discordant fragments, can improve the performance of read-pair based detection methods. However, the computational requirements for creating, storing, and processing ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
On Behavioral ProgrammingThe talk starts from a dream/vision paper I published in 2008, whose title "Can Programming be Liberated, Period?", is a play on that of John Backus' famous Turing Award Lecture (and paper). I will propose that --- or rather ask whether --- programming can be made a lot closer to ...
Solar Manufacturing from Wafer to EncapsulationCome learn about how solar cells are made and hear about the latest developments in solar cell technologies!Topics of discussion will include: the physical manufacturing process, the future of solar manufacturing & solar scalability, encapsulation, and process/quality management.Speakers: Professor Dan Kammen, Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy in the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
'Watershed' - Tiburon International Film Festival Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting is a well-worn saying when it comes to water politics, but in the Colorado River Basin, where the most dammed, dibbed, and diverted river in the world struggles to flow, some think fighting may be the only way left to reclaim this ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
'Over Troubled Waters' - Tiburon International Film FestivalThe Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the largest estuary on the west coast of the Americas, is a national treasure being squandered by greed. In this visually rich documentary, Ed Begley, Jr. narrates the story of the battle being fought by the people of the Delta to protect the region they love ...
