Study Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Galaxy ClustersThe CMB lensing signal by the galaxy clusters has been recently detected significantly. The measurements of this signal can be used to calibrate the masses of the galaxy clusters complementary to other calibration methods. I will present the resent detection results with introduction of the methods we use to characterize ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Global Health Seminar: Dr. Jamie EliadPlease join us for a seminar with Dr. Jamie Eliades, Technical Director of the USAID program, Malaria Cares. MalariaCare is a five-year partnership led by PATH and funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) under the US President's Malaria Initiative (PMI). MalariaCare aims to scale up high-quality diagnosis ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
THE BEATING HEARTS OF GALAXIESDr. Norbert Werner of Stanford University will discuss how the enormous amounts of energy released when matter falls into supermassive black holes helped to sculpt the galaxies and the surrounding large scale structure of the Universe.
Ralph Cavanagh has represented the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in California and national energy forums since 1979. He will reflect on the emergence of energy efficiency as the nation's most important energy resource, the history of efforts to mobilize it in California and nationally, and the challenges ahead. He ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Tuesday, 10/13/15
CITRIS DayCITRIS Day is the inaugural showcase of emerging research, leading-edge applications, collaboration opportunities and societal impact at the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). On October 13, 2015, we welcome faculty, students and collaborators from across the four CITRIS campuses to our headquarters at UC ...
Where: BerkeleyCost:
Astrochemistry: putting the astro in astrobiologyAstrobiology, the study of emergence of life and the its distribution in the Universe, addresses the most fundamental questions in science: "How does life begin ?" and "Are we alone ?" Over the last 20 years, we have discovered that planets are bountiful in the galaxy and that one in ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Creating a National Innovation EcosystemAmerica's prosperity has originated in part from the ability to capitalize economically on groundbreaking discoveries from science and engineering research. Simultaneously, a knowledgeable, creative workforce has maintained the country's global leadership in critical areas of technology. A strong capacity for leveraging fundamental scientific discoveries into powerful engines of innovation is ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Drilling in the Amazon and ArcticWith oil companies calling for a price on carbon emissions, is the energy industry finally changing its tune on pollution? Oil and coal have fueled economies and lifted people out of poverty. They also have fouled the air, land and water, especially in developing countries where governments are weak or ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Member, $7 Student
Free talk: A Shark's-Eye View of the BayThe Bay's murky waters are home to 11 varied species of shark -- broadnosed sevengill sharks cruise boldly; ray-like shovelnose guitarfish lurk in ambush; soupfin sharks depend on warm shallows as a safe nursery. In a talk with vivid video, marine biologist, advocate, and filmmaker David McGuire, founder of Shark ...
Where: AlbanyCost: 0
Microscopy WorkshopWe have a very special evening planned for our first meeting of the year. Dr. Tom Bruns is providing us with a UC lab and scopes to go deep in our mushroom studies. The workshop will be limited to 24 people. We are asking folks to sign up ahead of ...
One of the most pressing issues in ecology is determining the drivers of ecosystem functioning and stability. Researchers and managers of ecosystems and populations of concern are often faced with determining the relative effects of top down forces (top predators and lower level consumers), and bottom up forces (nutrient loading ...
Imagine America without Los Angeles: Applying Science to Understand the Vulnerability of Modern Society to Natural DisastersAlthough many recent advances, such as building codes and construction techniques, have reduced some aspects of risk to natural disasters, other features of modern society- including population density and the networking of transportation, power facilities, and communications systems-have led to increased vulnerability to natural disasters in California and beyond. Jones ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Taking Ownership of Your Clinical Laboratory Test Results - POSTPONEDWhile we've changed what we put into our bodies, we have not been engaged with what is being done to our bodies. Roughly 70 percent of all medical decisions are based on clinical lab test results, yet we don't know what medical tests are ordered or how results are interpreted. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
7:00-7:25: Sasha Petrenko(Choreographer) on "A World without Nature"Choreography reflecting a more integrated planetary existence...Read more7:25-7:50: Pieter Abbeel(UC Berkeley/ Robotics) on "How to train your robot"The ideas behind two promising types of robot learning...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Space Entrepreneurship and Global MakersFrom Maker communities and space agencies in Europe, the United States and around the world, new ideas are finding developers and investors! Join Alex Cureton-Griffiths of SpaceGAMBIT, advancing crowdsourced aerospace innovation with focus on early stage, open source projects in synthetic space biotechnology, open satellite Internet, and 3D printing in microgravity ...
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Tour of Sparq Lab and ObservatoryThis October our guest speaker Kurt Kruger from Piner High School, has invited us to meet at the Piner High School Campus to enjoy a personal tour of the new SPARQ Lab and observatory! The SCAS board has agreed to do this.Editor's Note: This is a one time location change
The Challenges of Science Communication: What Does Storytelling Have to do with Climate Change?A fundamental of scientific analysis is the rejection of stories. Anecdotes can mislead you and solid analysis of the data is needed to ensure that coincidence is not mistaken for correlation. But one of the fundamentals of communication is the human need for stories to make an emotional connection to ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
VISUALIZING PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS & LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS WITHIN INDIVIDUAL NANOPARTICLESIn Pixar's Inside Out, Joy proclaims, "Do you ever look at someone and wonder, what is going on inside?" Dr. Dionne's group asks the same question about nanomaterials whose function plays a critical role in energy, biology, and information-relevant processes. In this presentation, Jen will describe new techniques that enable ...
Modern technology has enabled massive innovation in our models for developing and scaling digital technologies, but the institutional ecosystem for advancing physical science innovations remains highly constrained. To support top technology innovators in addressing the world's most pressing problems, we need to build new habitats for hard technology: environments that leverage ...
T-Minus Zero: Why Space Startups Are Taking OffJoin Dan Berkenstock, co-founder of Skybox Imaging (acquired by Google), Peter Platzer, CEO and co-founder of Spire Global, and Barry Matsumori, SVP of Business Development at Virgin Galactic for this exciting event sponsored by the Computer History Museum NextGen Advisory Board. For details and registration, visit http://bit.ly/1Qqobjm and use discount code ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: $15 - $20. Early bird and tickets-for-2 discounts
Charging AheadCalifornia creates more wealth per puff of carbon pollution than anywhere else on the planet, and its largest electric utility, PG&E, has become one of the cleanest power providers in the country. Now the state has laid out ambitious new goals for generating an even greener and smarter economy. That ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Gathering LightWith digital cameras in every cell phone, everyone is a photographer. But people still aspire to the better zoom, the lower noise, and the artistic bokeh effects provided by the digital SLR cameras, if only these features were available in as convenient and light-weight a package as a cell phone ...
Maria Popova's wildly popular blog "Brainpickings," which started as a weekly e-mail to seven friends, now has fans like William Gibson, Drew Carey, Mia Farrow and Biz Stone and is included in the Library of Congress permanent web archive. A recent sampling includes Sylvia Bornstein on Pablo Neruda, 19th century ...
7:00-7:25: TBAAbstract forthcoming...Read more7:25-7:50: Andreas Weigend(Stanford and former chief scientist at Amazon) on "Data of the people, by the people, for the people: How the Social Data Revolution changes (almost) everything"Abstract forthcoming...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections ...
Our ability to identify birds by sight has grown dramatically since the early 20th century. Meanwhile, technical advances in optics and photography continue to change the way we see birds. Joe Morlan will present a history of bird identification, starting with early pioneers like Ludlow Griscom and continuing with a personal ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $5 donation
Everything Matters: NitrogenThe periodic table outlines the fundamental building blocks of all known matter in the universe. Composed of irreducible atoms, these elements arrived from the earliest reports of the Big Bang, the fusion wombs of stars and supernova, and collisions between interstellar matter and cosmic rays-as well as through artificial production ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Friday, 10/16/15
UNCHARTED: The Berkeley Festival of IdeasUncharted was founded in 2013 as the Bay Area's first ideas festival. It brings together some of the world's great thinkers, designed to engage and inspire. It's an interactive, eye-opening two days of discussion, debate, workshops, and good food, beer and wine. Chris Anderson, Brad DeLong, and Masha Gessen are ...
Climate science tells us that our climate is changing. The question is, why aren't we? Research shows that more than half of all Americans believe in anthropogenic climate change yet energy consumption remains high and introducing sustainable solutions has been limited. Every good coach knows that the players on the ...
Where: OaklandCost: $26 General/$23 Members Advance, $30 at door
Third Annual LAST FestivalThe LAST (Life Art Science Technology) festival celebrates the confluence of art with the multiplicity of new media technologies and nascent sciences emerging from the intense cultural ecosystem of the Bay Area.See web link for activites and details.
James "The Amazing" Randi is a world-famous magician and escape artist who has devoted the past 40 years to debunking charlatans of all stripes, including self-described psychics, homeopaths and other medical frauds, claims of occult phenomena, and all manner of flim-flam. He's a bestselling author, an educator, as well as ...
Where: FremontCost: $15 general; $10 Students with ID
Not Quite Alone in a Sea of StarsWith the recent "buzz" surrounding our recent visits to Pluto, Ceres, and the discovery of surface water on Mars, just as The Martian hit the big screen, it is an opportune time to reflect on what we have learned in recent years about our place in the solar system, and ...
Where: LivermoreCost: Free
The Birth of StarsWe've all learned that space is an empty vacuum, but it's not. The space between the stars in our Galaxy contains, on average, about 1 atom per cubic centimeter. That's a better vacuum than the best vacuum chamber we know how to make, but there are a lot of cubic ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 parking)
Saturday, 10/17/15
Astronomy and Imaging Open HouseThis fall, the west coast's largest astronomy exhibition comes to the San Jose Convention Center, presented by the Advanced Imaging Conference. In past years, admission was restricted to attendees of this annual world famous meeting. But this year, for one day only, the Astronomy Exhibition is open to everyone. It's ...
Where: San JoseCost: $10 General, $5 mention your astronomy club
Every October we celebrate the return of white sharks to our National Marine Sanctuaries. Join shark specialists and educators celebrating and learning about sharks in this annual Sharktoberfest education event. Shark games, shark science and shark fun for the whole family.
Stardust was the first spacecraft ever to bring back to Earth extraterrestrial materials from beyond the Moon. It was two missions in one spacecraft. Stardust returned the first samples from a known primitive solar system body, the Jupiter-family comet Wild 2. Stardust also carried a separate collector that was exposed ...
Our Hawk Talks and Banding Demonstrations occur every Saturday and Sunday from noon to 2 pm (weather permitting – heavy fog or rain cancels) during September and October, except for Fleet Week weekend. The Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Saturday CinemaSaturday Cinema is a core weekly program that captures the ideas which animate the Exploratorium. We highlight works that blend observation, poetry, and surrealism, and celebrate films that utilize unique, handcrafted processes. Appropriate for all ages and mediated by cinema arts staff, these screenings encourage the viewer to respond to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Included with museum admission
Third Annual LAST FestivalThe LAST (Life Art Science Technology) festival celebrates the confluence of art with the multiplicity of new media technologies and nascent sciences emerging from the intense cultural ecosystem of the Bay Area.See web link for activites and details.
Where: StanfordCost: $15 Donation
Family Science & Astronomy Festival + MakerspaceThe CSM Library Makerspace welcomes you to our free, drop-in crafting and tinkering workshops. Join us for hands-on projects and skill-sharing in electronics, crafts, media, and more! See this event for the keynote address on Pluto.
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Eat Like a Bird: Owl Pellet Dissection (Rotary Nature Center Adult Education Series)Owl pellets can be an excellent way to learn more about the eating habits and lifestyles of these nocturnal birds. Come and dissect some pellets and try to identify what the owls had for dinner! We'll also learn about digestion and eating habits of other birds (owls aren't the only ...
Where: OaklandCost: $15.00
Tthe Search for Alien WorldsWhy does Earth have abundant life, but nowhere else in our Solar System? Explore where weird life exists on Earth. What does that tell us about life elsewhere in the galaxy? What will the first alien life we discover likely look like? Which stars have planets where life might exist?Excitement ...
After a nine and a half-year journey at a speed of more than 30,000 miles per hour, the New Horizons spacecraft flew within a few thousand miles of the surface of Pluto on July 14, 2015. Images and other data for Pluto and its five moons obtained by the spacecraft ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Breakthrough Listen: Grand New Search for ETDr Worthier will discuss the potential effects of a $100 Million grant from The Breakthrough Prize Foundation given to UC Berkeley and other institutions for the most comprehensive Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) ever conducted. Discussing the rationale for past and future searches he will show how new technologies are ...
EAST BAY MINI MAKER FAIREA Maker Faire is about celebrating learning and doing - not just the finished and perfect end product. It's a place to show projects, and share what we're learning with others.Featuring both established and emerging local "makers," the East Bay Mini Maker Faire is a family-friendly celebration featuring rockets and robots, digital fabrication, ...
Where: OaklandCost: Adults: $14-20 Child/Student: $11-15 Children 3 an
Our Hawk Talks and Banding Demonstrations occur every Saturday and Sunday from noon to 2 pm (weather permitting – heavy fog or rain cancels) during September and October, except for Fleet Week weekend. The Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Third Annual LAST FestivalThe LAST (Life Art Science Technology) festival celebrates the confluence of art with the multiplicity of new media technologies and nascent sciences emerging from the intense cultural ecosystem of the Bay Area.See web link for activites and details.
Did you know that nearly three-quarters of UCSC's Coastal Science Campus is protected as Younger Lagoon Reserve? This unique urban reserve is part of the University of California's Natural Reserve System and is used for university-level teaching, research, and public service.The reserve provides protected habitat for over 100 resident and ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with admission
Fall Tarantula Hike with Lindsay Wildlife at Mount DiabloExplore the habitat of local tarantulas along the north face of Mount Diablo with an experienced naturalist. Fall is the time for these eight-legged, carnivorous yet docile creatures to come out of hiding in search of mates. The hike covers a distance of 2 miles, hiking shoes and bottled water ...
Where: Walnut CreekCost: $10 members ($15 non-members)
