Mapping the lives and deaths of 10,000 nearby galaxies with MaNGAThe SDSS-IV MaNGA survey is obtaining resolved spectroscopy for thousands of nearby galaxies, providing new insights on key questions regarding galaxy growth, the regulation of star formation, and its eventual suppression through “quenching.â€Â The largest integral field survey of galaxies ever conducted, MaNGA maps the spatial distribution and chemical composition ...
Zero Waste in Design and ConstructionThe current waste and plastic pollution crisis is considered one of the world's top environmental issues. New programs and policies are being developed locally, however, to combat this crisis and encourage sustainable practices, with new initiatives aimed at decreasing plastic consumption and construction waste. Join sustainability and design experts to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for Members
The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of WorkAutomation and robotics are changing our lives quickly - everyone knows that. But digital disruption goes much further. In The Globotics Upheaval, Richard Baldwin, one of the world's leading globalisation experts, explains that exponential growth in computing, transmission and storage capacities is also creating a new form of "virtual" globalisation ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
CHIME: The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping ExperimentCHIME is a new interferometric telescope at radio frequencies 400-800 MHz. The mapping speed (or total statistical power) of CHIME is among the largest of any radio telescope in the world, and the technology powering CHIME could be used to build telescopes which are orders of magnitude more powerful. Recently ...
Sex on the Kitchen Table: The Romance of Plants and your FoodBeing your Valentine's Day evening with a fun talk from Dr. Norm Ellstrand of UC Riverside about the heat between the "beets."Norm's talk is based on his recent book, Sex on the Kitchen Table. From Amazon: At the tips of our forks and on our dinner plates, a buffet of botanical ...
Chocolate: it’s everyone’s favorite...bean? Learn at Pairings: Chocolate how the food of the gods goes from bitter fruit to beloved bar. Then taste your way through a flight of delicious demonstrations and talks for all of your senses: get your hands on some beans, hear about the chocolate-making process firsthand, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 17.95 advance, 19.95 door, AD members free
7:00-7:25: Christopher Tyler(City University of London) on "Leonardo himself: A lifelong self-portrait"Reconstructing the life of the young Leonardo and his role as the iconic 'rock star' of his time...Read more7:25-7:50: E.J. Chichilnisky(Stanford/ Neurosurgery) on "Toward a High-fidelity Artificial Retina"How to improve artificial vision with bi-directional devices that ...
Many elements of the modern American creationist movement would be familiar to Darwin, especially the argument from design, which of course was very well known (and well-regarded) by educated people of his time. Young-Earth creationism, on the other hand, would be puzzling to him; Bishop Ussher’s 4004 BC age of ...
4th Annual Newt Nite & TriviaJoin us for our 4th Annual Newt Nite, a Valentine-themed event to remember!Take a short walk to see mating newts, followed by nature-themed trivia at the Grizzly Bar and Grill. Food and drink will be available for purchase at the grill. Dress warmly and bring a headlamp or flashlight. Amphibian amplexus, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $20 Donation
Lectures & Lasers - 'Kevin Deer & the 12 Mistresses of the Zodiak'Kevin Deer is a junior at Cambridge High Boarding School. After a painful rejection by the one he thought he loved the most in life, the hopeless romantic has given up on finding love. Then, through chance, or perhaps fate, he discovers a way that guarantees him to find true ...
Where: OaklandCost: $15
LifeCycle: The End of Sex?When algorithms can analyze an embryo and recommend which should be fertilized, will sex as we know it become an outdated, analog technology? Could data and wearable sensors transform the way we conceive? Join us for the first Creation event of our 2019 LifeCycle series as we examine thought-provoking questions about ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 - $15
Fly Me to the MoonBob writes astronomy books, articles, and book reviews and is recognized as an independent scholar on the history of astronomy and observing the night sky. His first book, Star- Hopping: Your Visa to Viewing the Universe, was published in 1994 by Cambridge University Press. This best-selling book was republished as ...
Where: LivermoreCost: Free
Saturday, 02/16/19
Habitat Restoration: Keep Broom out of the ForestMadrone, oak, coyote brush and toyon are supporting a kaleidoscope of fungus in the little forest on top of Shaver Grade. Surrounding this wonderland is the ever-threatening French broom. Join us in our quest to keep this one species from upsetting the diverse native ecosystem. Meet at the gravel parking ...
Where: FairfaxCost: Free
Chocolate Tasting at The FosterHave you ever wanted to know more about chocolate and where it comes from? Take a journey from bean-to-bar as we discuss how chocolate is made, from the cacao fruit to cacao nibs to the finished chocolate. Then we will smell and taste the differences between chocolates from different origins ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $15.00
Salamander SearchUnravel the secrets of our unique newt population among the redwoods of the Santa Cruz Mountains! Meet and touch some of our native animal ambassadors. Venture into the newt’s ecosystem to locate these and other native animals in their habitat. Recommended for ages 5+.Sessions offered 2/16 and 2/23.
Calling All Eco-Explorers! Youth ages 5-15 will be up to their elbows in FREE, hands-on activities. Learning through fun interactive, nature science experiences and regional field trips, your kids will find out all about the Bay Area ecosystem and become the next generation of Citizen Scientists! We have extended Welcome ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Is Anybody Out There?Are Fast Radio Bursts signals from ET? Or are they signals from magnetars? Is `Oumuamua an alien space ship? Or is it a rock from another solar system? Are we alone in the universe? Current and future SETI projects may provide an answer.Berkeley SETI Research Center chief scientist Dan Werthimer ...
Come join us for a full day of Valentine's workshops with the mad scientists at Counter Culture Labs. Bring your sweetie, or just come have some good nerdy fun all by yourself - we ain't judgin!Individual workshops are around $20 each. Please sign up on Meetup through the links below:* ...
Where: OaklandCost: $20
Salamander SearchUnravel the secrets of our unique newt population among the redwoods of the Santa Cruz Mountains! Meet and touch some of our native animal ambassadors. Venture into the newt’s ecosystem to locate these and other native animals in their habitat. Recommended for ages 5+.Sessions offered 2/16 and 2/23.
How We Learn: Memory and the BrainDr. Charles Vella will give a brief review of what is currently known about the neuroscience of human memory. He will review the evolution and basic neurobiology of memory (anatomy, processes, types). It will cover the role of neuroplasticity, forgetting, and sleep in memory functioning. It will also include a ...
Sea otters are in a race against time. To survive, they hunt for clams, crabs, urchins, snails, mussels, and abalone down to 100 feet deep. Otters must work quickly since they can hold their breath for only 1-3 minutes per dive, and their prey are often found in rocky crevices ...
Ultra-low energy calibration of xenon-based dark matter detectorsXenon-based experiments have demonstrated world leading sensitivity in searches for medium-to-high mass WIMP dark matter interactions. Recent developments suggest that these experiments may also be sensitive to low mass WIMPs, which requires xenon detectors to be calibrated at very low energies. In this talk, I will discuss a series of ...
Soft interfaces with multiple species are common in biology, the environment, and technological applications. Probing these, particularly when the interface is buried between two condensed phases presents many challenges. The only current method available to probe such interfaces with molecular specificity is the vibrational spectroscopy, sum frequency generation (SFG). SFG ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Hard Earth Seminar: Climate change's uneven impacts in BangladeshIn the popular imagination, Bangladesh is a country being hit particularly hard by climate change, from rising sea levels to erratic weather. But in Bangladesh, as in the world, not all people experience climate impacts in the same way. Some proposed climate solutions can actually exacerbate environmental and social vulnerability ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Road to Higher Tc SuperconductivityProf. Shin-ichi Uchida of the Dept. of Phyiscs, University of Tokyo, Japan, will give the Applied Physics/Physics colloquium
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Food Politics 2019: An Agenda for the Food MovementRecent government policy changes are eroding programs aimed at feeding the hungry, curbing obesity, and protecting the environment. What can consumers and citizens do?Speaker: Marion Nestle, NYU, emeritaRegister at weblink
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Acute and Persisting Effects of Psilocybin in Healthy and Patient PopulationsAs the psychedelic renaissance blooms, many experimental laboratories and medical schools around the world are joining in to contribute to our knowledge of how psychedelic drugs affect the mind and brain. We will discuss recent findings from controlled laboratory studies with psilocybin, and review preliminary data from a number of studies ...
Electronics technology has enabled an era of computation-communication-infotainment. Going forward, by redesigning such high performance electronics can be used for soft-interfacing with biology. Specifically with the emergence of Internet of Everything, where people-process-device-data will be seamlessly connected, we are eager to know how nature works, how we can mimic them, ...
Biodiversity and Climate Change in AntarcticaRosenberg Institute Seminar SeriesAntarctica is considered a “natural laboratory†because it is relatively undisturbed by anthropogenic forces, and because it has been designated by international treaty as a unique, continent-scale scientific commons. This gives scientists the opportunity to investigate how the biosphere has functioned for millions of years. Antarctica is ...
Where: TiburonCost: Free
Vision 2050: Planning a Resilient Future for BerkeleyLaunched by Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin, Vision 2050 is a citizen-led effort to develop a framework for a 30-year sustainable infrastructure plan which focuses on addressing aging existent infrastructure, the impacts of climate change, and a rapidly-growing population. The holistic initiative is concerned with not only improving the physical condition ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Hands on Lab - Test Drive an Autonomous Data Warehouse Powered by AI/ML Please join us for an Oracle workshop on Autonomous Database Warehouse (ADW). An autonomous database is a cloud database that uses machine learning to eliminate the human labor associated with database tuning, security, backups, updates, and other routine management tasks traditionally performed by database administrators (DBAs).Autonomous Data Warehouse is built ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: Free
taste of science: Fossil Poop and Spider SexEverybody Poops: What Trace Amounts of Human Waste Tell Us About The PastBecause everybody poops, we each leave a small record of our presence through fecal stanol molecules that can persist in sediments for thousands of years. By identifying changes in the concentration of these molecules over time, we can ...
Where: BerkeleyCost:
Livermore Reads Together: 'Spare Parts' author Joshua DavisMeet Joshua Davis, author of the New York Times bestseller Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream at this free event. Copies of Spare Parts will be available for sale and signing. Joshua Davis is the co-founder of Epic Magazine and has been ...
Where: LivermoreCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #105: Hidden Programmers, Breaking Materials, and the Science of Sex!Illuminating Women’s Hidden Contributions to Science“Hidden Figures†told the story of three black female mathematicians at NASA in the 1960s. Inspired by the movie, a group of scientists and undergraduates pored through their own field’s journals to see if there were more overlooked female scientists. On paper, the 1970s was ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10
What are Mushrooms Doing in My Forest?David Rust will explore the complexity of fungal-plant relationships and how nutrients are obtained and shared mutually. His report will focus on new research into soil ecology, mycorrhizae, and the many factors influencing fungal health.
