Zipline designs, manufactures, and operates small robot aircraft to deliver lifesaving medical supplies. With Zipline, all citizens can have fast and reliable access to lifesaving medical products like blood, vaccines, and essential medicines, regardless of challenging terrain and road infrastructure. In October 2016, the company launched the world's first drone ...
President Obama made science, technology and innovation top priorities of his Administration. The White House launched initiatives in areas such as data science, robotics, materials by design, neurotechnology, open innovation, STEM education, and the Maker Movement. Where do these ideas come from? What role do "policy entrepreneurs" play in ...
Microbiomes in Health and Disease: A Science Cafe EventWhat do we know about our internal microbial communities - their roles in healthy living and disease? Michael Shapira will explore some intriguing ideas about the contribution of our internal flora and fauna to evolution.Speaker: Michael Shapira, UC Berkeley
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Thursday, 05/04/17
Geo-Engineering Distinguished Lecture SeriesPlease join us for an exceptional set of lectures, a wonderful social and poster session, and a dinner that celebrates the GeoEngineering Profession in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Lecture Series will be held in the Sibley Auditorium. The Hosted Social and Dinner will be held at the Hearst ...
Panel: Rick Ambrose, Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Where: San JoseCost: Free
A Journey Around ColorIt is not just a question of color as decoration, the idea of color is far more rich and complex than that. Color can be a useful tool to reach different goals in our everyday lives, homes, offices, and institutions. Pia Lopez-Izquierdo, Architect and Visiting Scholar in the Department ...
Celebrate Star Wars Day with us and learn about the forces that shape our universe. Celebrate this intergalactic holiday with physics, inventions, artworks, and encounters with the force.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $10 Members
Cafe InquiryMeet up with rationalists, skeptics, and freethinkers south of San Francisco
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
How-To: Maker NightLifeGet crafty with a night of tinkering, tools, art, and tech from some of SF’s most creative makers.----> Celebrate May the 4th with salutes to a galaxy far, far awayâ€"including 3D models and roaming R2 droids.----> See how creative tech can be when you step inside a world of your ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
How Cities Can Solve the Climate ChallengeMayors around the country are bypassing national politics and working around federal restrictions to both clean up their cities and foster growth in renewable energy. In red and blue states, local leaders are solving traffic congestion, promoting smart growth, and preparing for the impacts climate disruption will have on public ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Birds & BotanyHike the forests, meadows and hills around Pine Flat and up Redhill with ACR Volunteer Patrick Woodworth & ACR Resource Ecologist Dave Self. We’ll be watching (and listening) for birds on the hike out. After lunch, we'll botanize as we consider the seasonal interplay between bird foods, habitat history and current activity ...
Where: GeyservilleCost: Free
Adventures in Program RepairProgrammers constantly face errors that are confusing and hard to fix. In particular, inexperience programmers, who cannot address commonly occurring errors, have to resort to online help-forums for finding corrections to their buggy programs. I will present three ideas that leverage advances in program synthesis to automatically assist unskilled programmers ...
How People Intentionally Teach Agents in Interactive SettingsPeople intuitively teach other people, animals, and even machines. Psychologically, teaching involves multiple interacting processes including modeling the learning agent, predicting its future behavior, and deciding on how teaching actions can facilitate learning. This raises questions about social cognition and interaction, as well as questions of how to design systems ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Soil Health Series: Composting Methods & Biological Properties of Soil (Rescheduled)Soil is the most complex biomaterial on Earth...really! Join the very knowledgeable Stephen Andrews (UC Berkeley Professor, specializing in soils) for a hands-on class to discover the basics of creating a successful compost, and how the soil foodweb drives the sustainability of nearly all living things on Earth. Prepare to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Donations encouraged
Increasing Freeway Capacity by Efficiently Timing its Nearby Arterial Traffic SignalsThe objective of freeway on-ramp metering is to regulate the entry of vehicles to prevent capacity drop on the freeway mainline. However, the nearby arterial traffic signals facilitating freeway access fail to recognize that the metered on-ramps can be oversaturated due to the flow restriction and limited storage. Instead, the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Twilight HikeTake advantage of this rare opportunity to experience the beauty and rich natural history of this 535-acre preserve as dusk arrives and the animals start to appear. Our twilight hikes are on select Fridays throughout spring and fall. Participants are divided into small groups and paired with a trained Bouverie ...
Using your Eyes and your Camera to get the most out of Solar EclipsesOn August 21, 2017, millions of people across the United States will see nature's most wondrous spectacle - a total eclipse of the Sun. It is a scene of unimaginable beauty; the Moon completely blocks the Sun, daytime becomes a deep twilight, and the Sun’s corona shimmers in the darkened ...
The course will introduce Apache Spark to participants. This is an introductory course and no previous knowledge of Spark is needed. Detailed course outline is listed below.About the Course: Apache SparkThis course will introduce Apache Spark. The students will learn how to use Spark for data analysis. We will cover ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: $150-195
Family Bird WalkLet family walks become a shared time of nature learning. We’ll begin by helping kids create their personal bird watching field guides, and then head out onto the trails to find those birds. A limited number of binoculars are available to borrow. Recommended for children ages 5-10. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. Register ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Girls Day @ The TechDiscover your inner maker and bring the whole family to Everybody Makes: Girls Day @ The Tech! This event is devoted to providing girls and their siblings with opportunity, inspiration and fun with STEM learning. Meet members of Space Cookies, an all-girls robotics program sponsored by Girls Scouts and NASA ...
Join us for a science open house at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station! We invite visitors of all ages to meet our scientists and explore the research we do here. Come swim through a virtual kelp forest, touch tidepool creatures, dissect a jumbo squid, hear science talks, and much more ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Pescadero State Beach and Marsh HikeJoin us as we explore an amazing marsh habitat where the fresh Pescadero Creek meets the salty Pacific Ocean. We will hike inland through the marshland and learn about birds and plant life specially adapted to this environment. Make sure to pack a lunch and water to enjoy in our ...
Where: PescaderoCost: $20
Restoring Inner Bair Island - RESCHEDULEDBair Island is now open! On this 1.5-mile walk, witness wetland restoration in progress. Hear the story of Bair Island and see how we are turning the former salt pond back into a healthy tidal marsh. RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED. Go to http://innerbairtour.eventbrite.com. Questions? Call Julie at 408-262-5513 ext.104.Editor's Note: This program ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: Free ($10 park fee)
Wildflower Walk at Fort FunstonWildflowers! To know them is to love them. It’s springtime, and all throughout California the wildflowers are beginning to bloom, including in your very own Golden Gate National Parks. We invite you to come and enjoy the huge variety of both native and exotics on display and prepare to be ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Challenges and Opportunities in the Global Fight Against Emerging Infectious DiseasesNew, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, such as pandemic viruses and resistant bacteria, pose a serious public health challenge. A concerted effort of experts from multiple disciplinesâ€"microbiologists, immunologists, clinical diagnosticians and epidemiologistsâ€"can address this problem by researching the mechanism of disease process (pathogenesis), discovering therapeutics and devising plans to mitigate ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Trekking the ModelJoin a ranger guided tour of the Bay Model, a 1.5-acre hydraulic model of the San Francisco Bay and Delta. Discover the stories of the two major operations that took place at this location between 1942 - 2000.
Our wetlands are an important stop on the Pacific Flyway, a major bird migration route. Stroll with docent Laurel Stell to learn why birds migrate, why they stop along the San Francisco Bay, and to spot the birds in action. Trail is easy and level. All ages and abilities welcome. Meet at the SF2 trail ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Beach Bucket Science - Family Learning WorkshopIn this Family Learning Workshop, parents will find out about the new Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and ways to support their children’s critical thinking skills. Kids will explore beach buckets and learn to make detailed observations about sands brought in from around the world.RSVP Online Today: http://hallsci.org/n7Ip30btOUH
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with your admission. Free for Members.
Gamma-Ray Spectrometers for Use in Planetary SciencesGamma-ray spectroscopy is a well-known technique used in measuring planetary elemental composition, a key to understanding planet formation and evolution. Orbital gamma-ray measurements have already been done on Mercury, the Moon, asteroids, and Mars. However, due to the need for a low-resource (power, mass) instrument, few surface measurements have been ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Sunday, 05/07/17
Restoring Inner Bair IslandBair Island is now open! On this 1.5-mile walk, witness wetland restoration in progress. Hear the story of Bair Island and see how we are turning the former salt pond back into a healthy tidal marsh. RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED. Go to http://innerbairtour.eventbrite.com. Questions? Call Julie at 408-262-5513 ext.104.Editor's Note: This program ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: Free ($10 park fee)
Kids Learning Fremont History Series: Vallejo Adobe and Rancho Era (7-10 yrs)Students will learn the history of the Fremont area after the collapse of the Missions in California. They will learn about the vaqueros and their way of life in the Fremont area, including horse, cattle, and wheat. Students will learn how to make adobe bricks.Meet at Vallejo Adobe.
Where: FremontCost: $19 per child, includes materials
Issues linking economic growth and climate change and are now at the centre of discussions regarding development strategies especially in the context of developing countries. Analysis shows a number of factors effecting the trend of historical GHG emissions in India. India has been focusing on energy efficiency both in policy ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Inheriting Climate Change: What Will Boomers Leave Behind?Consumption-crazed baby boomers are leaving millennials and Generation Xers with a mountain of debt and a destabilized climate. In his new book, Bruce Gibney, a venture investor in PayPal, Facebook, Spotify, SpaceX and other tech companies, writes that boomers are a generation of sociopaths who betrayed America. According to Gibney, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, Free for Members, $7 Student
Cosmology, Black Holes, and String Theory - Lecture 1Black hole and cosmological horizons -- from which nothing can escape according to classical gravity -- play a crucial role in physics. They are central to our understanding of the origin of structure in the universe, but also lead to fascinating and persistent theoretical puzzles. They have become accessible observationally ...
Humankind: How Biology and Geography Shape Human DiversityWhat effects have other species had on the distribution of humans around the world, and what effect have we had, in turn, on their distribution? And how have human populations affected each other’s geography, even existence? Alexander Harcourt brings these topics together to help us understand why we are, what ...
7:00-7:25: Enar de Dios Rodriguez (Photographer), Thomas Juffmann (Stanford/ Physics and SEEC Photography) and Phillip Haslinger(UC Berkeley/ Physics) on " Photography at the Speed of Light"Photographing light as it travels across objects...Read more7:25-7:50: Brewster Kahle(Founder and director of the Internet Archive) on "TBA"Abstract forthcomingRead more7:50-8:10: ...
