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: ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Wednesday, 05/10/17
Inclusive AI: Technology and Policy for a Diverse Urban FutureArtificial Intelligence (AI), algorithms that enable machines and systems to automate decisions and processes, shape our daily lives. These largely hidden systems determine how data is gathered, analyzed, and presented directly to us or used to make decisions on our behalf. With rapid global urbanization, AI promises not only to ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free - $100
Selective Attention in the Service of Reinforcement LearningOn the face of it, most real-world world tasks are hopelessly complex from the point of view of reinforcement learning mechanisms. In particular, due to the "curse of dimensionality", even the simple task of crossing the street should, in principle, take thousands of trials to learn to master. But we ...
Sunset/Full Moon Walk to the Point Bonita LighthouseJoin park staff and docents for a tour down the Point Bonita Trail, through the hand carved tunnel and out to the Lighthouse. We will walk along a half-mile trail which is steep in places. Arrive early as parking is limited. Meet at the Point Bonita Lighthouse trailhead. Dress warmly ...
Tim Stroshane (Restore the Delta) and Brenda Goeden (San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission) discuss the politics and prospects of facing our rapidly changing future around and health of the bayshore. Wetlands restoration, Sea Level Rise, Delta Tunnels, Clean Water Act, future of EPA, and more.Editor's Note: This event ...
Dr. Snyderman is a board certified Otolaryngologist-Head and Neck Surgeon and Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. She is a Visiting Consulting Professor in the School of Global Health at Stanford University and co-founded the Stanford University-NBC News Global Media Fellowship. She is also a Consulting Professor of Medical Communication ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Stressed! How plants cope through dynamic responsesWhile plants are sedentary, their bodies often traverse long distances as they explore their local environment in search of resources necessary for growth. The biology of root systems is governed by both micro-scale and systemic signaling that allows the plant to integrate these complex variables into growth and branching decisions ...
Exposure to environmental stressors is highly prevalent and unequally distributed along socioeconomic and ethno-racial lines. While the effects of stress on children and adults are well documented, less is known about the long-term consequences when exposure to stressors occurs before birth. This project combines a natural experiment and a longitudinal ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Brain & Body NightlifeJoin NightLife for an on-going event series that explores the brain and body with mind-expanding talks, cutting edge demos, and yoga sessions around the museum.All workshops presented by Yoga Tree and Yoga Works.In African Hall, join Wonderfest for a night of brainy talks by experts from UCSF: Dr. Elissa Epel on obesity and the brain, and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
The Importance of Diversity in the Environmental Movement for the 21st CenturyThe importance of local, national and international people of diversity throughout the world and the environmental movement is critical to maintaining and building safe and healthy environments for our planet. How will the tone set by the current administration impact efforts to build greater involvement and representation of women, people ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, Free for students
Off the Deep EndWe have the pleasure again of having Steve Gottlieb give a talk focused on observing deep sky objects: Off the Deep End -- Challenging Observing Projects for the Intrepid Amateur. Steve will be giving a version of this talk in Cambridge, UK, to the Webb Deep Sky Society in June. ...
As the largest and most popular reference work on the Internet, Wikipedia MIGHT be the source of much pseudoscientific misinformation. It isn’t, however, due in large part to the Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia (GSoW) project. Since 2010, GSoW has reviewed and corrected or wholly created Wikipedia pages concerning scientific skepticism. ...
Find out how the Bay Area’s busiest international airport serves ~53 Million passengers, employs 36,000 workers, contributes over $1B in regional economic impact AND will be carbon neutral, zero waste-to-landfill, and use net zero energy by 2021. Erin Cooke’s career has focused on assessing how climate risks affect varied businesses, nonprofits and ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: $10
Friday, 05/12/17
Alcatraz Historic Garden TourBeginning in 2003, the Garden Conservancy formed a partnership with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and the NPS to rehabilitate the Historic Gardens of Alcatraz. Join Shelagh Fritz (Project Manager of the Gardens), to learn about the preservation process of a cultural landscapes: through the planning stages, preparation of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Donations encouraged
Free Admission to UC Botanical GardenIn honor of National Public Garden Day, enjoy one complimentary admission! Follow this link to get your coupon: https://publicgardens.org/offer/19049 Valid for one admission on May 12th.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
People and Robots SeminarSpeaker: Loris D'Antoni, University of Wicsonsin - MadisonEditor's Note: Originally scheduled for 2:00 PM.
Green FridayMay's Green Friday presentation will be by Susan JuneFish, founder and director of the Parents for a Safer Environment (PASE). Exposures to toxic chemicals such as pesticides risk unnecessary harm to our health, wildlife and water supplies. PASE works to conduct research, outreach/education to the community and decision makers as ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $3 donation requested
The Role of Magnetic Fields in the Lives of StarsMagnetic fields are pervasive in the Universe, and often have very noticeable and important effects on astrophysical phenomena. In particular, essentially all stars are magnetic at some level, and magnetic fields begin to play a role even before the star is born. Young stars are much more active than our ...
