Botany Series: Plant TerminologyTaught by the skilled team of Naomi LeBeau (Park Stewardship Restoration Specialist) and Eric Klein (former Park Stewardship Manager), this class will provide an introduction to terminology commonly used in identification of plants with a focus on leaf and flower parts. Illustrated examples and hands-on experience will be emphasized. This ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Donations encouraged
Fire Ecology in CaliforniaThe UC Botanical Garden is pleased to host David Ackerly, PI of the Ackerly Lab at UC Berkeley and a leader of the Berkeley Initiative in Global Change Biology for a talk on fire ecology in California and the Bay Area. As our climate changes and we face more extreme ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $20 General, $15 Members
Gaia and the Galactic haloIn this talk, the Gaia data is used to study the properties of the Milky Way stellar halo. I will present new constraints on the halo spin, the halo accretion history, measurements of the tangential motion of the largest halo substructures such as the Sgr stream and the Monoceros Ring, ...
Please join us for the CITRIS Silicon Valley Forum, a new monthly series from CITRIS and the Banatao Institute. Our second panel of the Spring 2018 series invites Ken Goldberg, Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Juan Aparicio, Head of Research Group Advanced Manufacturing Automation at Siemens to discuss Robots on ...
Speaker: Horst D. Simon, Ph.D., Deputy Laboratory Director for Research and Chief Research Officer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Science at AI Speed: Towards a Biomedical Air Traffic Control SystemIt's nice to know what your specific calling is, and to be able to describe it in one short phrase. Mine is: Help scientists do science efficiently. Two years ago, in this very forum, I talked about helping oncologists individualize cancer treatments based upon individual patients' molecular profiles. Back then ...
From Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of Toads and MenDr. Hayes is an advocate for critical review and regulation of pesticides and is best known for his research findings concluding that the herbicide atrazine is an endocrine disruptor that demasculinizes and feminizes male frogs. His findings conclude that herbicides can cause adverse health effects and contribute to health disparities ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Fundamental Physics from the Foreground-Obscured Microwave Sky: Inflation, Neutrino Masses, and BeyondThe cosmic microwave background (CMB) remains a key source from which to extract information about fundamental physics, due to its clean, well-understood origin and immense constraining power on many types of new physics. The next decade of CMB observations will yield answers to at least two fundamental questions: (1) did ...
Feeding 7 billion people -- a number likely to grow to 9 billion and perhaps more -- will require smarter agriculture. Knowing where crops grow, and how that’s changing amid global warming, is a crucial first step. Today, dumb technology prevails: on-the-ground surveys, which take too much time, require too ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
A New Era of Open Invovation- CANCELEDToday, more than ever before, a sole approach to R&D has become obsolete. The collision of cyber plus the physical worlds is demanding innovation across a myriad of advanced technologies, from AI to sensors to data analytics. Ideas must stay agile, and organizations need to understand how to see around ...
John Harte investigates the effects of human actions on, and the linkages among, biogeochemical processes, ecosystem structure and function, biodiversity, and climate. His work spans a a range of scales from plot to landscape to global, and involves field investigations, mathematical modeling, and theory development. A long-term climate manipulation experiment ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Astronomy on Tap Santa Cruz - Black HolesJoin us for our inaugural Astronomy on Tap. We will begin mingling on the 2nd floor beginning at 6:00pm. Postdoctoral Scholar and Hubble Fellow Josiah Schwab, and Graduate Student Researcher Namrata Roy will give a joint presentation, "Black Holes!" The event is free of charge and open to all ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Cafe InquiryMeet up with rationalists, skeptics, and freethinkers south of San Francisco.Cafe Inquiry is a social event hosted by the Center for Inquiry|San Francisco.For more information or if you have questions please email sf@centerforinquiry.net
Evolution is often referred to as “the survival of the fittest.†And being fit can mean being clever, resourceful, or even downright sneaky. Explore the stealthy side of lock picking, card counting, magic tricks, biomimicry, and more.===Sneaky Strategies in Evolutionary Biology With Barry Sinervo |Why do sneaky strategies evolve so readily? ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 17.95 advance, 19.95 door, AD members free
SpaceAge NightLifeThis week - Journey back in time as NightLife launches its very first Space Month with a celebration of the imagination, culture, and technological advances of the Space Age - from Sputnik to Apollo.Lectures presented by Computer History Museum & B612 Foundation -----> Forty years after its launch in 1977, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Search for Earth-like PlanetsIn this talk I will discuss the discoveries made by the Kepler Space Telescope that have completely changed the way we look at planets beyond the solar system. While the first planets outside of our solar system were found only 23 years ago, we now know that planets are ubiquitous in the ...
