Multi-Variate Dependent Halo and Galaxy Assembly BiasInvestigating the clustering of halos and galaxies helps us learn about cosmology and galaxy formation physics. The clustering of dark matter halos is found to depend on not only halo mass but also halo properties related to their formation history or environment, which is called halo assembly bias. If galaxy ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Black hole formation, growth, and feedbackOver the last decade, we have come to appreciate that supermassive black holes of millions of solar masses and above are commonly hosted by massive galaxies, but are also present in local dwarf galaxies. Black holes are a fundamental component of galaxies and galaxy evolution, but their origin is still ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Understanding Stimulation of Crystalline Rock: The EGS Collab ProjectEnhanced or engineered geothermal systems (EGS) offer tremendous potential as an energy resource estimated in excess of 500 GWe, supporting the energy security of the United States. There are technological challenges associated with developing this resource including: (1) lack of a thorough understanding of techniques to effectively stimulate fractures in different rock ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Engineering the Topology of Graphene NanoribbonsTopological insulators (TIs) are novel states of matter that possess an insulating bulk while hosting low-dimensional conducting boundary states. This behavior emerges as a result of a non-trivial Berry phase encoded in the symmetry of bulk electronic wavefunctions. Over the past decade many experimental and theoretical studies have demonstrated the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Measuring gravitational waves with atom interferometryIn recent years, atom interferometry and atomic clocks have made impressive gains in sensitivity and time precision. The best atomic clocks have stability corresponding to a loss of less than one second in the lifetime of the universe. Matter wave interferometers have achieved record-breaking coherence times (seconds) and atomic wavepacket ...
The Black Hole Shadow in the M87 GalaxyThe Event Horizon Telescope recently revealed the first picture of the black-hole shadow in the center of the M87 galaxy. I will discuss the technological and theoretical advances during the last decade that led to this result. I will then focus on how this picture allows us to accurately measure ...
A 2°C aligned transition could generate opportunities for sustainable growth, competitiveness and financial stability. Nevertheless, policy uncertainty creates new sources of risks. Traditional financial and climate economics models are not able to price countries’ (mis)alignment with the 2°C target. We develop a novel climate stress-test methodology to price climate transition ...
Join us this Earth Day for a special screening of the award-winning documentary, "Point of No Return", following the first solar powered flight around the world. Brief synopsis: Point of No Return is a suspenseful, behind the scenes look at what it took for two Swiss pilots and their team ...
Where: San RafaelCost: 11.75
Pub trivia: taste of scienceFreewheel Brewing Co.'s Monday night trivia is taking a strange and scientific spin as shameless and playful MC Liliana Urbain leads three (loosely) science-based rounds of trivia. We should warn you, she tends to get weird with her categories. Only hint she'll give about what's to come: it's time to ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: $5
Serverless Stream Processing: Using Serverless concepts to the streaming worldThe last few years have seen the emergence of serverless as a paradigm for event processing. Its very simple programming model has attracted developers in droves. At the same time, its ability to elastically scale has simplified operations significantly. Combined together with the ubiquity of their presence across all cloud ...
The Wild & Scenic Film Festival inspires environmental activism, outdoor adventure, and a love for nature. These films share an urgent call to action. They encourage festival-goers to learn more about what they can do to save our threatened planet by showcasing global environmental challenges and opportunities, frontline activism, and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $15 General, $10 Students
Tuesday, 04/23/19
Cosmology with Very-High-Energy Gamma-raysVery-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy is typically concerned with standard astrophysical processes, such as particle acceleration and emission mechanisms in gamma-ray sources. However, gamma-ray observations can also be used to study the magnetic fields and low-energy photon fields encountered by the gamma rays as they travel cosmological distances to reach the observer. ...
The simultaneous chemical, physical, electronic, and mechanical connections that materials make to one another and to the outside world are critical. Just as the properties and applications of conventional semiconductor devices depend on these contacts, so do nanomaterials, many nanoscale measurements, and devices of the future. We discuss the important ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Sonoma State Biology ColloquiumSonoma State Biology ColloquiumSpeaker:Â Dr. Joseph Lin, Sonoma State UniversityEditor's Note: This speaker replaces the originally scheduled presenter.
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Wildlife Picture Index ProjectCome contribute to the Marin Wildlife Picture Index Project! Volunteer community scientists assist with research by helping maintain motion-activated cameras and processing photos. At this event, we view the images on the computer, identify the mammals, and enter the results in a database. New and experienced catalogers welcome, as training is ...
Where: Corte MaderaCost: Free
Simulating the Cosmic Dawn The upcoming radio telescope SKA is expected to detect the 21-cm signal from the cosmic dawn for the first time, allowing us to probe the astrophysical processes of this previously unobserved era. The 21-cm differential brightness temperature fluctuations from the cosmic dawn are predominantly due to early inhomogeneous heating of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Music for the Cosmos: An Exploration of Art & PhysicsArt Meets Science at SLAC Lecture Series A visit to SLAC in October 2018 inspired Nitin Sawhney to create an original audio composition for two short visualization movies on the origins of the universe. At this presentation, he will discuss what inspires him compositionally from a philosophical, universal, theological, anthropological and ...
Global temperatures would be soaring even higher were it not for a powerful heat-trapping ally: oceans. From regulating the temperature of the planet to generating half of the oxygen we breathe, oceans are a vital part of sustaining life on Earth. Increasing their temperature as little as two degrees, however, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
taste of science + Nerd Nite SV mixerJoin us for this amazing collaboration between taste of science and Nerd Nite Silicon Valley! Hear directly from the scientists about their fun science at Tabard Theater!!Speakers: Anand Rao, Stanford; Matt Gebbie, Stanford;
Where: San JoseCost:
Wildlife and Drones: How We Can Reduce Disturbance While Capturing ImagesOur California coastline is home to a large biodiverse group of species from seabirds to whales, dolphins, porpoises, and more. Some species of marine wildlife are adapting to the ever-changing coastline and managing to survive alongside the increase of human activities in these wild spaces.Drones can be purchased easily and ...
Van Jones began his career as an activist in the Bay Area pushing for criminal justice reform. He then moved to focus more on the environment, promoting green jobs as a solution for including disenfranchised communities in the economy while addressing environmental problems. His work in the area, through the ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: $40 General, $20 Students
Wednesday, 04/24/19
Digital Health 2019 Health 2019 is an initiative to unite the diverse research and communities to work under one roof and explore every single aspect related to digital health. It aims to gather leading educational scientists, researchers and research students to exchange & share their experiences and research results about all aspects of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $599
Complex and Open Quantum SystemsThe Center for Quantum Coherent Science presents The Spring 2019 Berkeley Quantum Science and Technology Seminar. Join the group for talks and conversations over refreshments. Talks feature distinguished scientists in the fields of Math, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, and Computer Science.Speaker: Birgitta Whaley, UC Berkeley
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Realizing the Promise of Quantum ComputationImpressive advances in quantum technologies have enabled construction of prototypical quantum computers with tens of qubits, enabling small scale implementation of quantum algorithms. Realizing the full promise of quantum computation however, in particular its potential to surpass the capabilities of classical computation, requires overcoming substantial challenges in control and protection ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Gravitational-Wave Background: Sources and Detection Our Universe should be filled with a stochastic gravitational-wave background due to several traditional astrophysical sources and possibly some early-Universe sources. I will review some of these sources and then discuss work on an array of techniques to seek/constrain the gravitational-wave background, including measurement of small- and large-scale CMB temperature/polarization ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Estuaries as Labs: Lessons from Recent Large Scale Flow Experiments in the Upper San Francisco EstuaryTed Sommer received his PhD from University of California at Davis, where he studied under noted fisheries biologist Dr. Peter Moyle.His dissertation and a key topic of his research since then has been on the ecology of the Yolo Bypass floodplain.Dr. Sommer is the Lead Scientist for the California Department ...
Where: TiburonCost: Free
Designing Catalytic Materials on the Atomic Level for Sustainable Biomass ConversionRapid consumption of energy and material resources demands that we identify more sustainable manufacturing processes. Sustainable processes inherently involve minimizing waste. Indeed, the key challenge is achieving highly active and selective catalytic materials for converting resources such as biomass. Our group develops precise synthetic methods to produce uniform and well-defined ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Energy and Resources Group ColloquiumWith societies worldwide already beginning to face the impacts of climate change, there is an increased urgency to design and implement adaptation measures that are informed by robust climate science. However, despite advances in climate science and modeling, the actual use of climate information in adaptation plans and actions is ...
Policy Implications of Artificial IntelligenceAlthough artificial intelligence (AI) may increase productivity, it also creates instability. Will AI and other automation lead to widespread job losses that necessitate a new type of social safety net? Will the shift in occupations and ways to learn require a new type of education system? Will the dominance of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for members
Where: OrindaCost: $5 General/Members, $1 Students & Teachers
'Anthropogenic landscapes of fear: How human activity affects interactions between predators and prey' Fear is a fundamental aspect of predator-prey interactions, motivating prey to alter their behavior in an effort reduce the risk of death from predators. Ecologists are increasingly realizing that such predator-induced fear can have far reaching-effects across ecosystems by affecting where and how prey spend their time, and that preserving ...
Skeptics in the Pub: MillbraeScience and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub West Bay, Fiddlers Green, Millbrae sponsored by Bay Area Skeptics.If ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the film-flam man, and if ye drink, drink with us, your friends. If ye shun the brewer’s art, at least help us lay waste to bangers & mash!Skeptics ...
Where: MillbraeCost: Free
Thursday, 04/25/19
The Thirty Meter Telescope International ObservatoryI will give an overview of TMT, a 30m-aperture, segmented mirror telescope operating with high efficiency over the entire ground-based UV/optical/near-IR window (0.3-28 microns). Â I will summarize its planned instrumentation suite, its current technical status, and its role as the northern hemisphere arm of the proposed US-ELT Program. Emphasis will ...
How and Why We Control Invasives in the Park - Talk and Field Workshop!Join Chrissy Sullivan (Natural Resource Specialist, Tennessee Valley) for this informative and interesting class on something we should all be aware of: the threats posed to the parks by invasive plants. Learn results of research within the park showing negative effects to habitat value when non-native invasive plants are introduced, ...
Sound travels. From whale sounds audible over the span of miles to podcasts transmitted and listened to all over the globe, we’re living in an ocean of sound waves. Tune into what’s playing all around you with curated experiences about sound, the ways we use it to communicate, and the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 17.95 advance, 19.95 door, AD members free
Flexible Radios and Flexible NetworksOver the past decades the world has become increasingly connected, with communications driving both markets and social movements. Low power electronics, efficient communications, and better battery technology have all contributed to this revolution, but the cost and power required for these systems must be pushed further to make cheap, ubiquitous, ...
Using spectacular images from space probes and the world’s largest telescopes, we will explore the most intriguing future “tourist destinations†among the planets and moons in our cosmic neighborhood. Our stops will include the 4,000-mile lava channel on Venus, the towering Mount Olympus volcano on Mars (three times the height ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $24 including dinner
IMPACT Speaker Series - Shark StewardsSharks of the Bay, Sharks of the Sea - What do Sharks have to do with me?Join us for a fascinating talk on local species by Shark Stewards Director and Research Associate of the California Academy of Sciences David McGuire. David will share spine-tingling stories from his book "Sharks, Skates, ...
Where: OaklandCost: $10 - $30
Wonderfest: Ask a Science Envoy: Black Holes and Making MemoriesWonderfest Science Envoys are early-career researchers with special communication skills and aspirations. Following short talks on provocative modern science topics, these two Science Envoys will answer questions with insight and enthusiasm:UC Berkeley astronomer Fatima Abdurrahman debunks sci-fi movie tropes and explains exactly what a black hole is, why they're so hard to ...
The current electronics industry has been completely dominated by Si-based devices due to its exceptionally low materials cost. However, demand for non-Si electronics is becoming substantially high because current/next generation electronics requires novel functionalities that can never be achieved by Si-based materials. Unfortunately, the extremely high cost of ...
Teen Night at ChabotJoin us at Chabot for our first ever Teen Night, created by teens for teens. Youth (ages 13-18) and their families are invited to the museum after hours to celebrate teen accomplishments in STEAM and explore involvement opportunities!About Chabot Teen NightWhat originally started as an opportunity for our Teen Galaxy Explorers ...
Where: OaklandCost: $5 General, Free for members
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell Join Google leaders Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle as they discuss the legacy and business wisdom of “Coach†Bill Campbell, the behind-the-scenes mentor to dozens of Silicon Valley’s visionary founders and builders. They will share insights from their new book, Trillion Dollar Coach, an essential guide for creating ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost:
Saturday, 04/27/19
Biodesign and the Future of Medical Devices: From Need-Finding to Product RealizationStanford Students in Biodesign and Biopharma (SSB) will be hosting its annual conference on Saturday, April 27th from 8:30AM to 5PM. Come learn from leaders of the medtech industry as they highlight the process of developing a new medical device from finding an unmet clinical need to implementing the finished ...
Where: StanfordCost: 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 ...
Where: FremontCost: $20 General, $15 Fremont residents
Local experts weigh in on the state of butterflies in the Bay Area find out what you can do to help!Join us and several of the Bay Area’s leading butterfly experts to find out what we can do to help struggling butterfly populations in the Bay Area, including gardening for native species, ...
Where: RichmondCost: Free
California native plant propagation for beginners: How to create native plants from seeds, cuttings, and divisionsJoin renowned environmental educator Judy Adler in a hands-on workshop at her half-acre garden, where you will learn how to propagate California native plants from seeds, cuttings, and divisions, and take home plants you have propagated yourself!Why learn to propagate natives? Because it’s easy, inexpensive, and great fun!If you are interested in ...
Where: Walnut CreekCost: $35
Science Saturday: Day of the DinoPrepare for time-travel during this prehistoric Science Saturday, when we set our sights on the age of the dinosaurs. We will explore fossils, footprints, and more as we learn what made the dinosaurs so successful, and also what led to their extinction.
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
5th Annual Acorn Festival Come to our 5th annual Acorn FestivalThe theme is Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM). There will be a variety of hands on activities and information tables designed to inspire and educate youth in elementary and middle school grades.
Where: Castro ValleyCost: Free
taste of science: RWC STEAM FestivalA Model, A Mannequin & A Mirror: Simple Methods to Step Outside YourselfWe often take our sense of self for granted. We do not doubt that our body is our own, or attribute our sensations to other people. Yet there are many neurological conditions and artificially contrived laboratory situations in ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: 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.
The De Anza College Planetarium will present “Explore Live!†- a live astronomy series featuring presentations by our professional planetarium staff.
Where: CupertinoCost: $9
Navigate the Night: Family Night Hike & CampfireJoin NatureBridge Golden Gate as we learn how humans and animals get around at night! Learn about night vision and what eyeshine means. Visit our skins and skulls lab to see what adaptations help our nocturnal neighbors navigate at night.Tickets required for all attendees.Children of all ages are welcome. Baby ...
Where: SausalitoCost: $15
Planning for Rising Waters: Sea Level, Groundwater and Bay EdgeFor years most coastal and Bay communities have focused their efforts on responding to sea level rise by planning and building sea walls, berms and other protective barriers against the water that will come ashore and threaten properties, shore ecosystems and infrastructure.  However, until recently, many communities have missed an ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Sunday, 04/28/19
Marine Science Sunday: Magnificent MigrationsThis month we celebrate the animals that love to travel! Marine mammals are famous for their epic migrations along the California coast. Guided tours will take you around the hospital showcasing some of the patients we are caring for and how our veterinarians are getting them better. Classroom presentations through ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Rare Plants at Springtown PreserveCome explore Springtown Preserve in Livermore with Golden Hour Restoration Institute and the California Center for Natural History. The Springtown alkali sink is made up of a mosaic of vernal pools, mima mounds, and alkali scalds that support unique vegetation, including a number of rare plants. We'll walk through the preserve looking at plants and then ...
Experience science in action at the only marine laboratory on the San Francisco Bay, SF State's Estuary & Ocean Science Center. Our theme this year is “Hope for the Bay.†With our scientists and partners, learn why we have reasons to be hopeful about the health of the Bay.Try your ...
Scientists know, as well as we know the sun will rise tomorrow, that California will experience another large earthquake. But what details do we have? What will this earthquake be like? How accurate is the portrayal we see on television and in the movies?Speaker: William Hawley, UC Berkeley
Where: AlamedaCost: Free
Full-Spectrum Science with Ron Hipschman: SoundWhat is sound? How high a pitch can you hear? Can you measure the speed of sound with a yardstick? Can two sounds add up to no sound? Explore these questions and more in this resonant presentation.
Thirty years ago, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he’s broadening that warning: the entire human game has begun to play itself out.Join us for an event with one of America’s most outspoken climate activists. Since authoring his landmark 1989 book on climate change, ...
