From microplastics contamination through jellyfish metabolism to ocean carbon fluxEOMAR research focuses on plankton metabolism. We measure physiological and enzymatic respiration and ammonia excretion in mysids, protozoans, bacteria, macro-algae, and seawater from different oceanic areas. In addition, we study the effects of microplastic contamination on marine biota in the waters around the Canary Islands. Recently, we have begun looking at the ...
CITRIS Research ExchangeSpeaker: Vint Cerf, Google
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Advancing Coastal Risk Reduction with Ecosystems and EquityGlobally, extreme weather, sea-level rise, and ecosystem degradation are placing people and infrastructure at greater risk of damages from coastal hazards. Flooding and erosion may be reduced by intact reefs and vegetation when these habitats fringe vulnerable communities. Yet the magnitude and nature of these effects are highly context dependent, ...
BECCS is relied upon heavily in integrated assessment models that chart pathways to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, yet deploying this technology at scale will require overcoming a suite of ecological and economic challenges, including land use competition, hydrology, nutrient application, and large incremental costs. This talk will ...
LUX & XeBrA: dark matter searches and electric field breakdown studies in noble liquidsThe Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment recently concluded 3 years of rare event searches 4,850 feet below ground in the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. Since LUX was a two-phase time projection chamber, a precise understanding of electric field inside the detector was necessary for appropriate data ...
Climate change may be the most far reaching manifestation of white privilege and class privilege yet to face humankind. Caused overwhelmingly by high-consuming people, climate change is wreaking death and destruction foremost on impoverished people who also are disproportionately people of color. This presentation will first posit climate change as ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Science (and Art) of Active Transportation Planning in BerkeleyBerkeley is a leading city in promoting walking and biking for transportation. The City recently adopted a new Berkeley Bicycle Plan (2017), laying out a “Low-Stress†Vision Network to promote bicycling. Hear how a process of data collection, public engagement, and analysis led to this vision, as well as the ...
Speaker: Charlie Gay, Director, Solar Energy Technologies Office and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Surveillance and Policing in the Era of Big DataCatherine Crump, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, and Andrew Ferguson, from the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law, will discuss issues related to surveillance and policing in the era of “big data.†In his talk, “The Rise of Big ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Nursery Series: Planning for a Year in the NurseriesThis class will introduce participants to planning for collection and growing of native plants. Covered subjects will include: communicating with restoration managers about their plant requests; calculating amounts of seed to collect; scheduling of collection, pre-germination treatments, propagation, facility maintenance; after care issues, monitoring, managers responsibilities for safety, resources available ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Donations encouraged
The Nature of Star Formation Scaling Relations in the Milky Way and Galaxies Near and FarStar formation drives galaxy evolution. Yet, our relatively poor understanding of the process of star formation in the extragalactic realm has been a major impediment toward obtaining a complete understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. Intriguing clues have been provided by empirical scaling relations between the star formation rates and ...
A leading climate fighter dissects what works -- and what doesn’t -- in the push to protect the planet.What works, really, in the fight against climate change? What does it take on personal, national, and global levels to win? The founder of multiple philanthropies and consultancies working to curb carbon ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, 'The Lancet'Join Stanford Medicine's Office of the Dean and Rambam Health Care Campus in welcoming Richard Horton.Richard Horton is Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, having previously served as North American Editor. He was the first President of the World Association of Medical Editors and he is a Past-President of the U.S. Council of ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
After Dark: RiceRice is eaten by more people around the world than any other food. You'll find it in grain bowls and noodles, cakes and soups, puddings and chips and beverages; it can be steamed or boiled or fried or pulverized to be creamy or crispy or fluffy or jiggly. Find out ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $17.95 advance, $19.95 at the door
Show your love for the tentacled, the slimy, and the lumpy at this NightLife dedicated to all the curious creatures sometimes overlooked for the fuzzy and cuddly.-----> Visit the West Garden to meet animal guests from Classroom Safari’s menagerie - including snakes, spiders, and a rather cuddly - but still very ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
Running Sparse and Low-Precision Neural Networks: An Interactive Play between Software and HardwareFollowing technology advances in high performance computation systems and fast growth of data acquisition, machine learning, especially deep learning, made remarkable success in many research areas and applications. Such a success, to a great extent, is enabled by developing large-scale deep neural networks (DNN) that learn from a huge volume ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: $10 Pre-registration, $15 at door General
Multiple Sclerosis - The State of the ArtMultiple Sclerosis (MS) is an unpredictable and often disabling disease of the central nervous system. This talk will focus on the current and emerging diagnostic and treatment protocols for Multiple Sclerosis.Speaker: Lucas Kipp, MD
It’s fashionable for the names of products and services to include the word "quantum", but does that have any validity in the realm of quantum physics? Is it just a nonsense buzzword? From "quantum computing" to "quantum biology" to "quantum jumping", this colloquium will put you in a super-position to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
At Last: A Case for Cautious OptimismThe number of people on this planet quadrupled in the 20th century. Currently at 7.6 billion people, world population continues to grow by millions every year. If it continues at the rapid rate it’s going, the impacts upon our planet and way of life may be enormous. But what ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with After Dark Admission
Unveiling cosmic voids in large-scale structure surveys: the impact of tracer bias The large-scale structure of the Universe can only be observed directly via luminous tracers of the underlying matter density field. However, luminous tracers, such as galaxies, do not precisely mirror the clustering statistic of the bulk of the cold dark matter distribution: their correlation function (or power spectrum) is biased ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
A Drive for Better Air Service: How air service imbalances across megaregions integrate air and highway demandsBetween 2000 and 2010, newly merged U.S. airlines decreased service to airports in small and mid-sized metropolitan regions, opting to consolidate their operations at high-value airport hubs (passenger transfer points). At this point travelers living in small and mid-sized regions likely began leaking, or abandoning their local airport to take ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Green Friday: Understanding Tsunami Hazards in and around the Bay AreaGreen Friday meets on the second Friday of the month in the Sierra Club's Bay Chapter Office, 2530 San Pablo Ave. Berkeley. Doors open at 7:00 p.m.; the program runs from 7:30 to 9:00 including questions and discussion. Refreshments are served. A $3 donation is requested. Our programs present speakers ...
Where: BerkeleyCost:
Astrophotography with HyperstarI'd like to offer an introduction to astrophotography with a special emphasis on Hyperstar, a technique to produce stunning images of celestial objects in seconds instead of minutes. I'll cover my progression from basic DSLR night photography to deep sky imaging with Hyperstar and the many lessons learned along the ...
Wildcat Marsh and Landfill Loop BioBlitzJoin our friends at WhollyH20 for a fun half day citizen science BioBlitz on the Wildcat Marsh Loop Trail in Richmond, CA. Get ready to enjoy being a citizen scientist through simple observation and photo documentation.Bring your camera, sunblock, water to stay hydrated, snacks, your kids, and water shoes for ...
Where: RichmondCost: Free
Lawn to Garden PartyWe hope you will join StopWaste and the Lawrence Hall of Science for the Lawn to Garden Party as we get started in converting some of the Hall’s lawn space to save water and to improve the uses of the outdoor space on the Hall’s C-level. StopWaste will demonstrate how easy it ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Trekking the ModelJoin a Ranger or docent on a 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. Â
Join volunteer docent Steffen Bartschat on a hike in Tennessee Valley to search for and learn about the owls in the area. Bring water, layered clothing, a flashlight, binoculars, and a snack.Reservations required.
Join Docent Ann Jensen on a walk around Rodeo Lagoon while learning about wildlife and the history of the Marin Headlands. Dress in Layers. Limited to 25 people. Reservations required - call 415-331-1540. Meet at Marin Headlands Visitor Center parking lot. For ages 7 and older. No dogs. Not handicap ...
The theme this month is Celebrating Our Oceans: The Big, The Small, and The Weird. Come learn about the amazing diversity of life that lives out in the Ocean, from the big to the small and everything in between.  Docent-led tours will take you around the hospital showcasing some of the patients we ...
Speaker: Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). He is also the Niels Bohr Professor at the University of Copenhagen. After studying at the University of Cambridge, he was the John Bahcall Fellow at the ...
Where: Mt. HamiltonCost: $45 - $199
Monday, 03/12/18
Hyper Suprime-Cam Weak Lensing Measurement of Galaxy Clusters selected by Atacama Cosmology Telescope PolarimeterGalaxy clusters are one of the most powerful cosmological probes because of an exponential tail at the high-mass end of the cluster mass function. The accuracy of mass function measurement is currently limited by systematic uncertainties in cluster mass estimates due to an uncertain physical assumption, e.g., hydrostatic equilibrium when ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Weak Lensing with Galaxy Clusters - RESCHEDULEDWeak lensing and galaxy cluster abundances are two of the cosmological probes considered to have the most power for upcoming surveys. They have a natural connection via the use of weak lensing to calibrate the masses of galaxy clusters--a critical measurement in order to reach the promised precision of galaxy ...
Flow through fractured media in the sub-surface is heavily dependent on microstructural information. Continuum models often eliminate features critical to accurately predicting macroscale behavior but are commonly used since resolving thousands of fractures individually is computationally intractable. We overcome this hurdle by developing compact graph representations of the fracture networks, ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Art of Design for Computer MusicWhat is the nature, purpose, and meaning of design? Why do we bother to design beautiful things? What does it mean to design in the context of music and technology? This presentation offers ways to think about these questions through exploring the transformative possibilities of combining art and engineering to ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Emergent space-time supersymmetry at the boundary of topological phasesNo definitive evidence of spacetime supersymmetry (SUSY) that transmutes fermions into bosons and vice versa has been revealed in nature so far. One may wonder whether SUSY can be realized in quantum materials. In this talk, I shall discuss theoretically how spacetime SUSY may emerge at the boundary of topological ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Designing Robot Behavior in Human-Robot InteractionsHuman-robot interactions (HRI) have been recognized to be a key element of future robots in manufacturing and transportation, which entail huge social and economical impacts. Technically, it is challenging to design the behavior of these robots, as they need to operate in highly unstructured and stochastic environments. The fundamental problem ...
Neutrino Physics from Cosmological SurveysMeasurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, and of the large scale structure in the universe, have taught us a great deal about the orgins and content of the universe, but there is still so much to learn. In the next decade we anticipate using new microwave background data, combined ...
The U.S. nuclear waste management program is stymied on multiple fronts â€" from the disposal of the high-level and transuranic wastes of defense programs, to the spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear power plants, and even, the disposition of fissile material from dismantled nuclear weapons. In 2002, Congress approved President ...
We talk about water a lot in California. With recurring droughts and floods, and vast, politically contentious networks of dams and canals, water is regularly in the news. Yet there are several important water issues that are often left out of our discussions.Huge underground reservoirs of groundwater play a key ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free, RSVP required
An Exciting Course Ahead in Signal ProcessingThe 21 st century cyber physical age is about the seamless integration of cyber and physical systems. The growth of cyber physical systems is motivated by the need to address the challenges stemming from the socio-economic megatrends such as population increase, changing demographics, rapid urbanization and resource constraints. Cyber physical ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: $5 General, Free for IEEE members
Ultra-Light Scalar Field Dark MatterΛCDM cosmology is remarkably consistent with observations of the Universe on large scales. However, neither direct nor indirect detection experiments have yet found convincing evidence for weakly interacting cold dark matter particles; in addition, there are possible tensions between predictions derived from cold dark matter simulations and cosmological observations in ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
IR-resummation in the EFTofLSS In this talk I will discuss the “non-linear†infrared effects that plagues Standard Perturbation Theory for Large Scale Structure. Understanding and resumming these contributions is essential to achieve a detailed description of the correlation functions around the BAO scale.Speaker: Gabriele Trevisan, New York Univ.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
E-IPER Joint MS Capstone SymposiumSession 1 -  2:00 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. Evaluating the Suitability of US Coal Plants for Advanced Carbon Capture Technology Sudarshan Bhatija, Joint MS-MBABridging the Financing Gap for Solar Projects in India Rashmi Nalla, Joint MS-MBAYuca: Driving Sustainable Access to a Better Diet Alejandra Maguina, Joint MS-MBASustainability Issues in Medicinal Herbal Farming in the ...
Hurricane Harvey and the FutureJim Blackburn will discuss the implications of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey in the context of resilience, public safety and the responsibility of the engineering community. Â Our 20th century laws, regulations and engineering practices are no match for 21st weather patterns. Â Harvey clearly shows the need for major revisions in thinking, practices ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
East Bay Fish StoriesDid you know that the East Bay is home to North America's largest freshwater fish? vampire fish that evolved before animals had jaws? fish built to vacuum? tiny fish whose males dance for females, build nests, and tend young? A minnow that can weigh 30 pounds, once the top predator? ...
