Scientists at Work: What Are Local Seabirds Eating?How do scientists learn what Bay Area birds are eating? Come see for yourself, as biologists from Point Blue Conservation Science invite visitors to watch them while they work. They'll be studying the diets of local cormorants by dissecting the indigestible pellets coughed up by these birds. Each pellet contains ...
Jared Blumenfeld, Administrator for EPA's Pacific Southwest Region (Region 9) was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as EPA regional administrator for the Pacific Southwest in November 2009. His priorities at EPA include strong enforcement, environmental justice, protecting and restoring our air, land and waters, building strong federal, state, ...
Our world today--from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media to the strategy of the Pentagon--has been shaped irrevocably by the technology of silicon transistors. Year after year, for half a century, these tiny switches have enabled ever-more startling capabilities. Their ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Nature NightlifeBecome one with nature as NightLife gets out and about for an evening of nature-themed fun.Learn how to keep a hive (and make sweet honey) at home with Urban Bee, hold giant insects in the palm of your hand courtesy of Save Nature, and brush up on local flora with ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
Screening of Sean Penn's 'The Human Experiment'The Human Experiment is a documentary from Oscar-winner Sean Penn and Emmy-award winning journalists Dana Nachman and Don Hardy.Refreshments will be served prior to the screeningThe screening will be followed by an audience Q&A with the the film's executive producer and Ashvini Bhave, and a panel of experts, including award-winning investigative journalist Mark ...
Where: BerkeleyCost:
Action for LemursDr. Patricia Wright has been studying lemurs – the most endangered mammal on the planet – and working with the local people to conserve lemur populations. She was also able to convince the Malagasy government to set aside space for Ranomafana, the largest national park in Madagascar. Oakland Zoo lemur ...
Where: OaklandCost: $12 - $20
Latest Advances in Stroke TreatmentSpeaker: Jeremy Heit, MD Clinical Instructor, Neuro-Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Stanford University Medical Center
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Friday, 05/01/15
Computational Imaging with Nonlinear Inverse ProblemsComputational imaging involves the joint design of optical systems and post-processing algorithms such that computation replaces optical elements, enabling simple experimental setups. This talk will describe new optical microscopes that employ simple experimental architectures and efficient nonlinear inverse algorithms to achieve high-resolution 3D and phase images. By leveraging recent advances ...
Globular Clusters of the Milky WayMuch of Graeme Smith's research centers around properties of red giant stars within the Milky Way galaxy: their physical evolution, their chromospheric activity and mass loss, and what they can tell us about the chemical enrichment history of the Galaxy. Much of this later work has been directed towards the ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Saturday, 05/02/15
Free Community Day at CuriOdysseyExplore science and meet native California animals! CuriOdyssey's free Community Days take place on varying days, both during the week and on the weekend, so that more visitors have the opportunity to experience CuriOdyssey.Please be aware that Community Days are typically crowded in the morning and early afternoon. If you'd ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
An Introduction to Deep Sky Video AstronomyVideo astronomy is no longer just for the planets, the moon and the sun. Today's astro-video cameras can easily reach down to 18th magnitude or lower and bring up dramatic color views of galaxies, nebulae, star clusters and many other deep sky objects. No longer do you need to stare ...
Learn about simple circuits then let your imagination soar as you explore and express your creative side!Ages 10 and up.Register here.
Where: BerkeleyCost: $40
MinecraftEdu: Entertainment and Education in the Classroom!Coming all the way from Finland, join TeacherGaming for a free informational session about how to use popular entertainment games, like Minecraft in the classroom. You'll learn how the games work, how they support learning and about the growing community of teachers behind the movement. You will also find out ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Monday, 05/04/15
Joint Engagement and Attachment Patterns in Infants with Visual ImpairmentsThis research reports on two early childhood developments, joint engagement and attachment patterns, and explores a possible relationship between the two in a sample of 20 infants with various levels of visual impairments, without additional disabilities. Joint engagement and attachment patterns have been associated with positive developmental outcomes, such as ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The UC San Diego Design Lab. Human-Technology TeamworkDon Norman likes to explain that he was living happily in Palo Alto, retired, busy, and did not want a job. But Pradeep Khosla, the chancellor at UCSD came to his home and lured him back by giving him two goals: be important, be exciting. In this public seminar, Don ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Modern Coding Theory - Many Ideas, One GoalError correcting codes are ubiquitous. Every time we make a call, connect to WiFi, download a movie, or store a file, they help us get things right. Over the years, the way we construct these codes has changed significantly. Initially, algebra brought structure to a previously intractable problem. Then ...
As Senior Director for Microsoft's World Wide Public Sector team, Bill Mitchel leads the company's government business development to drive energy, transportation and sustainability solutions.Over the last three years, Mr. Mitchel has built an ecosystem of strategic partner relationships with ISVs, systems integrators, universities and government to deliver innovative energy efficient ...
In less than two decades, more than a thousand planets have been discovered orbiting other stars. This has sparked a post-Copernican revolution, as we realize our solar system is not alone. However, we still don't know if our solar system is rare or unique - the powerful techniques that detect ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $8 Members
Tuesday, 05/05/15
Brown Dwarf Variability and implications for ExoplanetsBrown dwarfs are sub-stellar objects that occupy the region of parameter space between gas giant planets, like Jupiter, and the smallest bona fide stars. Since brown dwarfs never achieve sustained core hydrogen fusion, they are destined to cool over cosmic timescales from thousands to hundreds of degrees Kelvin. Observations and ...
The American Health Care Mess: A Doctor's PerspectiveDr. Sandeep Jauhar, a cardiologist, is the director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. His two books about his medical education and career-Intern: A Doctor's Initiation and Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician-provide trenchant insights into the inefficiencies and waste of our troubled, profit-driven ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace & Babbage A graphic novel debut that transforms a compelling scientific collaboration into an unexpected -- and hilarious -- series of adventures.A unique take on the unrealized invention of the computer in the 1830s by the eccentric polymath Charles Babbage and his accomplice, the daughter of Lord Byron, Ada, Countess of Lovelace. ...
Junky Dory Sail your way through the discovery and resurrection of early 1900s Chinese junksy shrimp boats that worked in San Francisco Bay. From archaeological excavation of wrecks in China Camp State Park to research in the shipyards of Southern China to the accurate reconstruction and sailing of the resurrected ...
Where: NovatoCost: $5
Wednesday, 05/06/15
Free First WednesdayFree museum admission all day, to anyone from anywhere, at Bay Area Discovery Museum
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Free Wednesday at UC Botanical GardensEnjoy free admission to the UC Botanical Garden on the first Wednesday of the month. Parking is limited. Docent-led tours for groups are not available on Free Wednesdays. No admission after 4:30 pm. In order to minimize the impact on the plant collection, ensure the safety of visitors, and to ...
One of the challenges in big data analytics lies in being able to reason collectively about extremely large, heterogeneous, incomplete, and noisy interlinked data. We need data science techniques which can represent and reason effectively with this form of rich and multi-relational graph data. In this talk, I will describe ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Two Presentations at Romberg Tiburon CenterMustafa Gul (Nielsen Lab) Competition success of native and invasive fouling species under temperature and food stress Morgan Meyers (Carpenter Lab) Effect of ocean acidification on the nutritional quality of phytoplankton for copepod reproduction
Storage Industry Current and Future Trends Challenges of Deploying Storage Infrastructure at Scale In this talk we explore the different trends in modern storage architecture and challenges of deploying storage solutions at scale. The talk covers current and future storage media technologies as well as a view into the storage infrastructure for hyper-scale companies.The paradigm of storage has and will continue to shift ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Lights, Camera, Take Action; Storytelling for Change: The San Francisco Green Film FestivalThe evocative documentary film has a purpose that compels its director to grapple with the essence of the art form. What is the magic of its storytelling? How do we reach a wide audience through the medium? Most critically, how can we use this kind of storytelling to change opinions ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Student
The Science of Personal and Global TransformationBruce Lipton is an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. Stem cell biologist, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief and recipient of the 2009 Goi Peace Award, he has been a guest speaker on hundreds of TV and radio shows, as well as keynote presenter for national ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
100 Years of Einstein's Relativity (and How it Underlies our Modern Understanding of the Universe)2015 marks the 100th anniversary of Einstein's completion of his General Theory of Relativity, the comprehensive theory of space, time, and gravity. As part of the international celebrations, Dr. Bennett, a noted astronomer, educator, and author, is embarked on a "National Relativity Tour" to discuss how we need relativity to understand the cosmos. ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: free, but there is a charge of $3 for parking
In a world where every inch has been impacted-directly or indirectly-by industrial society, what does it mean to "preserve nature"? How does the idea of adaptation shape our responses to extinction, climate chaos, and nature? How does our sense of "history" shape our ideas about nature, evolution, and conservation? How ...
