Learn how Codexis’ uses their CodeEvolver® technology to unlock the power of proteins™ for sustainable pharmaceutical manufacture, design of new food ingredient processes and products, and for creation of unique, targeted biotherapeutics. Visit their Silicon Valley headquarters for an introduction to protein engineering and for a laboratory tour that showcases ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: Free
Measuring What’s Important to Your Cell - Seahorse Cell Analysis Solutions (Agilent)Come meet Darlene Solomon and her team, who will introduce you to the Seahorse live cell characterization platform.  With over 20,000 genes, 200,000 proteins and thousands of pathways, you can’t measure everything in a cell at once, but you can measure what provides the energy that drives its metabolism. Easy to ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: Free
Modeling baryonic effects for future weak lensing surveyThe modification of matter distribution due to baryonic physics is one of the major theoretical uncertainties in cosmological weak lensing measurements. Developing mitigation schemes for effects of baryons is crucial to assure robustness of cosmological analysis, and has potential to increase the constraining power by extracting information from small scale ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Signatures of massive neutrinos on Large Scale Structure Neutrino oscillation experiments have shown that there are at least two massive neutrino eigenstates, in a mass range that can produce observable signatures in current and future cosmological surveys. I will talk about the challenges and progress in correctly including the effects of massive neutrinos in N-body simulations of structure ...
Profiling Synthetic Biology Pathways and Metabolites by Mass Spectrometry (Agilent)Join Agilent CTO Darlene Solomon for a workshop on metabolomics and mass spectrometry. Understand the importance and capability of molecular identification and measurement of biological systems in advancing the design, test and analysis of synthetic biology, ultimately making biology easier to engineer.  This workshop will also include a lab tour and ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost:
Smart Additive Manufacturing: Bioinspired Algorithmic - Driven Design of CompositesAfter billions of years of evolution, it comes as no surprise that biological materials are identified as invaluable sources of inspiration in the search for new materials. Bone, teeth, and spider silk are high-performing biological composites that possess impressive mechanical properties unmatched by their engineering counterparts. Many required mechanical properties ...
Titanium is an ideal metal for green and sustainable catalysis - it is the 2nd most earth-abundant transition metal, and the byproducts of Ti reactions (TiO2) are nontoxic. However, a significant challenge of utilizing early transition metals for catalytic redox processes is that they typically do not undergo facile oxidation ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
$5 First Friday: The Future of SpaceOur natural curiosity to learn about the universe and our place within it has driven us to explore further into the outer reaches of space than before. Learn why we go, how we get there, and what we do there, in this fun space-themed night. Hands-on activities, presentations and a ...
Where: OaklandCost: $5
swissnex Salon: Opening NightThe opening event of the swissnex Salon celebrates the theme of “Responsibility Towards Creation†with talks, performances, and experiences examining the challenges facing the fundamental values underlying democratic societies. The Salon proposes a radical change in the way we think about the role of science, technology, and creativity. In addition ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15
The Thrill of Discovery: Seeing Gravitational Waves AND Light from a Neutron Star Collision"Holy Smokes! Seeing Gravitational Waves AND light from a Neutron Star Smashup? Now we're big time!â€On Aug 17, 2017, astronomers around the world saw an event they had waited a long, long time for, observing Gravitational Waves and Electromagnetic Radiation from a Binary Neutron Star merger. In this talk, Dr ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Saturday, 10/06/18
Science in the Park A benefit hosted by Alameda County Supervisor Richard Valle and the Hayward Area Recreation & Park District, in support of the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District, Hayward Education Foundation, New Haven Schools Foundation, Newark Educational Foundation, and Fremont Education Foundation. Science in the Park is a FREE family event that makes STEM ...
Where: HaywardCost: Free
Hayward Fault Walking TourOver the last million years, the natural beauty of Fremont has been shaped by the Hayward Fault. Instructors will be leading these 'ground breaking' tours and exposing the science and beauty of the Hayward Fault. This fault is one of several active faults in the world actually creeping at 5 ...
Discover the world of drones with flight simulation, real flight training in the Museum’s Drone Plex, exploration of historical aircraft and more!Launch an adventure into multi-rotor flight accessible for the youngest aspiring drone aces!  Drone Rangers is designed for children ages 5-10 and includes a range of explorations into remotely ...
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 touch tidepool creatures, dissect a jumbo squid, hear science talks, and much more in our beautiful location on Monterey ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: check website
The Future is Now (BioBuilder)BioBuilder presents a hands-on workshop, encouraging young scientists to put on their goggles and gloves to explore the future through synthetic biology. “The Future is Now†will bring students and teachers together to present cutting-edge topics and preform team oriented lab-based activities to jump-start their careers or passions for biology.
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Cinegram WorkshopExplore an unusual film form in this hands-on workshop. Create 16mm “cinegrams,†hand-exposed moving images, by placing objects and materials that cast shadows directly onto film, and by using light. Please bring transparent, translucent, or opaque materials with you to form latent shadowgraphic traces, which we’ll bring to life through ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $15 Members
Ladies Do Launch: Space for WomenJoin us for a lunchtime panel discussion exploring the progress of women in the space industry. Panelists include: Astronaut Soyeon Yi, Astronomer Vivian White, Engineer Vanessa Kuroda, and Geologist Jen Blank. The event is produced in partnership with World Space Week and Bay Area Space for Women.
Northern California Bats: Demystifying and Discovering these Amazing AnimalsCome learn about our CA native bats with Director of NorCal Bats Corky Quirk. In her presentation, you will learn about the nature of bats and the importance of bats in our environment. We'll also discuss the harmful myths that surround these animals. Live bats will be presented for viewing ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $15 General, $10 Member, $5 Youth
Aero Workshop: Distance GlidersPut your engineering skills to the test in the Aero Workshop! Each session is a special 2-hour mini design challenge designed for children ages 8-12. Each workshop centers on a particular problem in aerospace illustrated by a pair of hands-on experiences. Participants then work in small teams of 3-5 to ...
Where: San CarlosCost: Free with admission
Monday, 10/08/18
Secondary Anisotropies: Cosmology from Joint Analyses of CMB and Galaxy SurveysLarge scale structure leaves an imprint in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in the form of secondary anisotropies. As a result of these small distortions, CMB and galaxy surveys provide highly complementary cosmological probes. I will illustrate how this complementarity can be exploited using cross-survey correlations between galaxy surveys and ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Automated Physics Recovery from Galaxy Observations I discuss new methods that allow computers to recover the underlying physics of galaxy formation using only galaxy observations and dark matter simulations, and show how these methods have already changed our understanding of galaxy formation physics (including why galaxies stop forming stars). Basic extensions to the same techniques allow ...
Lithium-ion batteries have become widely used in applications due to their high energy and power densities and operating voltage. Some limitations of existing lithium-ion battery technology include underutilization, stress-induced material damage, capacity fade, and the potential for thermal runaway. This presentation provides perspectives on the modeling, prediction, and control of ...
Speaker: Senthil Todadri of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Semimetals Unlimited: Unbounded electrical and thermal transport properties in three-dimensional nodal semimetalsModern electronics is built on semiconductors, whose utility comes from their ability to operate on either side of the conductor-insulator dichotomy. For practical applications, however, semiconductors face certain unavoidable limitations imposed by the physics of Anderson localization and by the disorder introduced through doping. In this talk I discuss whether ...
On the eve of Kepler's launch in 2009, astronomers knew of a few hundred planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way. Today, the discoveries spill into the thousands, and the sensitivity boundaries continue to expand. NASA's Kepler Mission unveiled a galaxy replete with small planets and revealed populations that ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
GALAXY EVOLUTION - RESCHEDULEDDr. Guillermo Barro of the University of the Pacific studies the formation and evolution of massive galaxies over cosmic time. He will discuss pushing our detection of massive galaxies earlier in time, as well as understanding the physics of their structures and stellar populations.Editor's Note: This event has been rescheduled ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
NOVA VIDEO - WHAT'S THE UNIVERSE MADE OF?A presentation of the PBS NOVA video "What's the Universe Made Of?" Peer into the deep unknowns of the universe to explore the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.Editor's Note: This event was rescheduled from Oct 15.
Phases of Particle Dark MatterDark matter is believed to make up most of the matter of our Universe, but its particle origin remains a mystery. A favorite candidate is the so-called Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP), but a diverse set of experiments are rapidly closing the available parameter space for WIMPs. I will show ...
As customers adopt more distributed energy resources (DERs) such as solar PV, storage, and electric vehicles, the grid and regulatory architecture must adapt. California law requires a utility to consider distributed energy resources as an alternative to investments in its distribution system to ensure reliable electric services at the lowest ...
Syntheses of some polycyclic alkaloids and terpenoids by our group will be presented in this lecture. Daphniphyllum alkaloids are a class of structurally intriguing natural products. We develop a series of strategies, such as electrocyclization, [3 + 2] cycloaddition, electrocyclic ring opening, and late-stage Diels - Alder cycloaddition, to achieve ...
A good understanding of the migration of the injected CO2 plume and how this is impacted by capillary heterogeneity is needed to ensure long-term security of the injected CO2. Residual trapping is one of the main mechanisms for immobilizing CO2 after the injection phase of a geological sequestration project. Residual ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Astrophysical systematics in weak lensing Current and upcoming large galaxy surveys will provide a wealth of cosmological information about our Universe. Weak lensing is one of the primary probes to uncover the nature of dark energy through its sensitivity to the growth of structure across cosmic time. However, a detailed understanding about systematic effects is ...
The Freedman research group's overarching theme is harnessing chemical intuition to approach fundamental challenges in physics. Within this framework, we are focused on three vital areas of contemporary physics: advancing quantum information science, probing magnetism, and creating new emergent materials. We pursue each of these directions through the lens of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
A High Energy View of the Extreme UniverseDr. Julie McEnery of NASA-Ames will give Applied Physics/Physics colloquium, entitled "A High Energy View of the Extreme Universe."
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Shining Light on Gravity: Sometimes all that Shimmers IS Gold In 1916, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, a radiant form of energy similar to light, but caused by gravity. On August 17, 2017, a new kind of gravitational wave source was detectedâ€"two colliding neutron stars. Professor Ryan Foley will tell the harrowing David vs. Goliath story of ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: Free
Mathematics, Magic, and Meaning -- Saving California's Native Plants, Healing our CommunityWhat does it mean to live in one of earth’s biodiversity “hot spots� In this beautifully illustrated talk, Dan Gluesenkamp, executive director of the California Native Plant Society, presents a beautiful and inspiring talk on how local nature can help us - and how we can help maintain its variety ...
World-renowned educator, professor of chemistry by training, Nava Ben Zvi, will discuss her role assisting women to enter the STEM professions.
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Cell-cycle entry and exit: A tale of phosphorylation, transcription and degradationMammals must regulate the proliferation of stem, progenitor and differentiated cells to build, maintain, and repair tissues. Control of cell-cycle entry has been conceptualized by the restriction point, a time when cells escape the need for mitogens to complete the cell cycle. Our recent single-cell microscopy studies revealed sequential decisions ...
Redox active oxides, with mixed ionic and electronic conductivity, are critical components in a wide range of energy technologies, serving as electrodes in fuel cells and batteries, and as reactive substrates in solar-driven thermochemical reactors. Accurate knowledge of the surface reaction rate constant, is essential for both optimal design of ...
Join us for a conversation with Manish Chandra, founder and CEO at Poshmark, a social marketplace platform for buying and selling clothing items. Before Poshmark, Manish founded Kaboodle, also a social shopping company. He has experience as a software engineer at Intel and as a marketing executive at Versant, Versata ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Foreshadow: Breaking the Virtual Memory Abstraction with Transient Out-of-Order ExecutionForeshadow is a speculative execution attack on Intel processors which allows an attacker to steal sensitive information stored inside personal computers or third party clouds. Foreshadow has two versions, the original attack designed to extract data from SGX enclaves and a Next-Generation version which affects Virtual Machines (VMs), hypervisors (VMM), ...
Santa Cruz Forestry ChallengeThe Forestry Challenge is an academic event for high school students in technical forestry and current forestry topics. Participants spend four days in the forest learning about the ecology and management of the forested landscapes that provide communities with water, recreational opportunities, wood products, and wildlife habitat. Youth benefit by better ...
Where: Boulder CreekCost: $185/person
Thursday, 10/11/18
On the origin of the ultra-high energy cosmic-raysThe origin of the ultra-high energy cosmic-rays (UHECRs) is still unknown. I will show that the observational data on the spectrum and composition can be explained by a generic model having one Galactic component and one extragalactic component. I will also discuss the origin of the UHECR dipole anisotropy recently ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Carbonate formation in meteorite parent bodies: Clues from in-situ C and O isotope analysesCarbonaceous chondrites show evidence for fluid alteration in planetesimals within a few million years of the Solar Systenm's formation. To understand the formation conditions of carbonates in CM chondrites, we measured the C and O isotopic composition of Ca-carbinates and the O isotopic composition of magnetite. These minerals form via ...
Edward W. Felten is Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs at Princeton University. His research interests include computer security and privacy, and public policy issues relating to information technology.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Design in Research - How do you use design to support and shape R&D?Corporate Research and Development is evolving, and it increasingly incorporates user experience design, design research, and service design into the earliest stages. The historical separation between basic research, applied research and productization erodes as research horizons shorten, technology diffuses more rapidly, and companies want to take bigger risks sooner. When ...
In a pickle over preservation techniques for food, foodways, or ways of life? Follow kimchi fermentation at Pairings and archival films with Cinema Arts and delve into different strategies to safeguard today’s treasures for tomorrow. Kimchi-Making Workshop: With Krautsource6:30, 7:30, and 8:30 p.m. | Gallery 4 Explainer StationOriginally, Korean kimchi salted and fermented vegetables ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $17.95 advance, $19.95 at the door
How to make a topological quantum fluid in 10 easy stepsSince the mid-90s, scientists have been cooling atoms to temperatures lower than that of any other system in the known Universe. These quantum fluids are new materials in which questions from many realms of science, like quantum information and superconductivity, can be studied experimentally. Faced with the short-comings of atoms ...
7:00-7:25: Fabio Barry(Stanford/ Art History) on "Where Do White Temples Come From?"The Acropolis was an anomaly... the Greeks strove to build in light...Read more7:25-7:50: Carrie Partch(UCSC/ Biochemistry) on "Morning Larks and Night Owls: Differences in Human Circadian Rhythms Shed Light on How our Clock Works"How molecular clocks measure ...
WHAT: Â Beyond a Candle in the Dark Respectfully Debunking Conspiracy TheoriesHow do you get through to conspiracy theorists, especially those who are close to you like friends and family? Often the first step someone takes on their journey out of the rabbit hole is the realization that they and ...
