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 ...
Remote island regions face many challenges when establishing reliable Internet connections and introducing technology into schools and communities. This talk draws from Professor Hosman's in-the-field experiences with technology-for-development projects, focusing on the PISCES Project, a multi-partnered, education-focused technology project in Micronesia. Using solar powered long-distance wireless connections and an all-in-one ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Can We Computerize an Elephant?The talk shows how techniques from computer science and software engineering can be applied beneficially to research in the life sciences. We discuss the idea of comprehensive and realistic modeling of biological systems, where we try to understand and analyze an entire system in detail, utilizing in the modeling effort ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Harbor porpoises re-occupy San Francisco Bay - POSTPONEDInstead of the harbor porpoises discussion, RTC will hold two graduate lead discussions on:1. Sublethal effects of the cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa on the copepod Pseudodiaptomus forbesi, Rita duMais, Kimmerer Lab2. The impacts of eelgrass restoration on aquatic invertebrate communities, Cassie Pinnell, Boyer LabThe RTC Seminar Series brings leading local, national, and international scientists to a ...
Genetic Adaptations to New Environments in Human PopulationsThe history of human evolution and dispersal was associated with remarkable environmental changes over time and space, which resulted in major challenges to homeostatic systems. Professor Di Rienzo's group has developed approaches for detecting the impact of selective pressures associated with environmental factors and they have applied them to genome-wide ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Ingress: a massibely multiplayer geo game from Google Ingress is a massively multiplayer geo game that was recently launched by Google's Niantic Labs. Players move through the real world using an Android device and the Ingress app to discover and tap sources of a mysterious energy. Players acquire objects to aid in their quest, deploy tech to capture ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Astronomy from the Stratosphere: NASA's SOFIA MissionWhy would NASA buy a used passenger airliner, cut a 10' x 10' hole in the fuselage, add a roll-back door, and install a 17-ton telescope inside? In his lecture, open to the public, Dr. Backman will introduce you to the engineering marvel and international scientific facility called SOFIA -- ...
Clarence Hamilton Kennedy was an entomologist, an artist, and the first person to carry out a comprehensive census of dragonflies in the western United States. In 1914 and 1915, he travelled throughout California and Nevada, compiling lists of species that he encountered at specific sites along with notes on environmental ...
Extreme Climate Events and Human HealthExtreme events are a hot topic for both climate scientists and public health professionals. Why? There is good evidence that the frequency and strength of some disasters--such as storms, floods, landslides, extreme heat, drought, and wildfires--will be affected as climate change progresses. Low-income groups and low-income countries are likely to ...
Experience the wildlife and natural beauty that make Younger Lagoon an exceptional local treasure on this docent-led tour to the lagoon and its beach habitat. Younger Lagoon is excellent for bird watching and seeing animals that call the reserve's intact coastal dunes home, such as: bobcats, foxes, seabirds, raptors, and ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with admission
For Goodness SnakesThis one-of-a-kind educational experience will introduce you to the fascinating world of reptiles. Come enjoy the opportunity to hold and interact with their docile animals.
Speaker: Dr. Danny Shechtman, Professor, MSE, Technion, Haifa and MSE, ISU, Ames, 2011 Nobel Laureate in ChemistryRoom 101/102
Where: StanfordCost: Free
NASAScience4Girls and Their FamiliesThe Sun is our closest star! Join us and find out how NASA is helping us learn about our Sun, what it can teach us about other stars, and the many ways it affects our life on Earth.
The effects of the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami and Canterbury Earthquake Sequence are discussed with respect to their impact on regional and international economics, national practices for security and recovery, and worldwide energy policy. The lecture explains why these events require a fundamental re-thinking of the way we evaluate the ...
STEM Symposium - Computer Science: Classroom to CareerThe purpose of the STEM Symposium is to develop partnerships, mentorships, networks, and STEM-education opportunities for regional STEM-related educators and business personnel. Co-sponsorsed by Oracle, we plan to offer dinner and hear from leaders in Computer Science education: K-12 educators, Oracle Academy, CSTA, and MESA with a focus on Computer ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: Free
Cafe InquiryMeet up with rationalists, skeptics, and freethinkers south of San FranciscoCafe 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! Look for the black balloon.For more information or if you have questions please ...
See Bay Area robots in action, from functional helpers to those working in the arts. Check out the work of local robot design studio BeatBots; robotic performance art group Survival Research Labs; camera control bot-makers Bot and Dolly; and Robot Garden's robot hackerspace. The managing director of nonprofit Silicon Valley ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
Photovoltaic Technologies & The Solar Efficiency RaceThe Solar industry is engaged in an intense technology race to produce the most efficient solar cells. This solar efficiency race has intensified as a response to the declining price of crystalline silicon modules and panels from China. More efficient solar cells justify a higher panel price. How does this ...
Where: San JoseCost: $6.50
Teaming up for Cures: Progress and promise of stem cellsLight snacks will be provided and a cash bar will be available.Come learn how your state stem cell agency is fueling the development of new therapies for debilitating diseases and conditions like blindness, heart disease, diabetes, cancer and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.California's stem cell agency, the ...
On Thursday March 7th, Stewart Brand and Isabella Kirkland will discuss their combined efforts to keep recently extinct species from completely fading away. Kirkland has created a series of paintings featuring endangered and extinct species (on display at the David Brower Center in Berkeley – where the talk will be held) and Brand is working with molecular and conservation biologists ...
Po Bronson on the science of winning and losing / Top DogWhat are the differences between a winning and losing performance? Why are we able to rise to the challenge one day, but wilt from it the next? Can we in fact become better competitors? In Top Dog Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman tackle a subject we all face every day-in ...
Elton Sherwin, Senior Managing Director of Ridgewood Capital, and author of Addicted to Energy, will detail how he dramatically cut his own home energy usage - and his prescription for cutting energy waste in government and business sectors as well. Join Acterra for a series of exciting conversations focused on ...
