Guided Nature WalkExperience the beauty and rich natural history of this 535-acre preserve. Our guided nature walks are on Saturdays throughout fall and spring. Participants are divided into small groups and paired with a trained Bouverie volunteer to explore the mixed evergreen forest and flower-carpeted oak woodland. Guided Nature Walks begin at 10:00am ...
Where: Glen EllenCost: $20 suggested donation
Shark DayMSI loves sharks! Our special day invites one and all to learn about these amazing creatures while feeding and touching our local friendly leopard sharks and making a special take home craft.10:00 and 10:30 AM.
Where: Redwood CityCost: $20
Sonoma-Marin Eco-Friendly Garden TourStop by and enjoy the beauty of the new native plant pollinator garden in front of the Bay Model. The garden, featuring plants native to Marin, was designed and installed by volunteers from the California Native Plant Society’s Marin chapter. Garden volunteers will be on hand all day, assisted by ...
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
National Math FestivalJoin us on as we become a Zometool Bubble Station, as part of the National Math Festival! Can you imagine using a bubble wand and dish soap to make a square bubble? How about a cubic, or spiral, or saddle-shaped, or wormhole, or even parabolic-shaped bubble? With the Zometool Bubble ...
In his new novel, Machines Like Me, Ian McEwan uses science fiction and counter-factual history to speculate about the coming of artificial intelligence and its effect on human relations. The opening page introduces a pivotal character, "Sir Alan Turing, war hero and presiding genius of the digital age.â€The evening with ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, Free for members
350 Bay Area's Eco Home & Garden TourLocal non-profit 350 Bay Area will be hosting its first-ever Eco Home & Garden Tour on May 4, 2019 from 10:00 a.m to 4:00 p.m. Owners of five eco-friendly East Bay homes in Berkeley, Kensington and Albany will open their doors to 100 attendees toshowcase their sustainable, carbon footprint reducing ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $50 to $150
Sunday, 05/05/19
YTH Live 2019YTH Live brings together people who are working on innovative research, programs, and products that advance youth health and wellness, including public health professionals, youth leaders, social entrepreneurs, educators, nonprofit leaders, technology developers, and more.YTH Live is in its 11th year. YTH Live 2019 will focus on how mental health ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $18 - $550 (see website)
Bringing Back the Natives Garden TourCome learn how to attract native birds, butterflies and bees to your garden, while consering water and eliminating pesticide use.  Registration for the Fifteenth Annual Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour, which will take place on Sunday, May 5, 2019 from 10:00 to 5:00, is now open.  This award-winning tour features thirty seven beautiful Alameda ...
Where: Cost: $10
Butterfly and Nature Activities for the Whole Family!Prospect Sierra Elementary School in El Cerrito will be a stop on this year's Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour. • Calling all children! They can participate in monarch butterfly crafts, color butterfly pages, take pictures (with you!) in the butterfly wings photo area, and go on the storywalk - a ...
Where: El CerritoCost: $15 donaton suggested
Native American Games and Nature Activities for the Whole Family!This year San Lorenzo HIgh School is again participating in the Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour.  Bring your children to the school, where they can enjoy the East Bay Regional Park District’s Mobile Visitor Center, with its accompanying, engaging naturalist, play Native American games, do arts and crafts, pound ...
Where: San LorenzoCost: $15 donation suggested
TEDxPaloAltoSalon: Bending BoundariesTEDxPaloAlto will be bending boundaries. The Oshman Family JCC is a proud sponsor of TEDxPaloAlto and we're thrilled to invite you to this year's boundary-bending event!TEDxPaloAlto will re-imagine possibilities and explore the limits of human achievement. We'll be spending the day with some of the world's leading voices in technology, ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $100.
Monday, 05/06/19
YTH Live 2019YTH Live brings together people who are working on innovative research, programs, and products that advance youth health and wellness, including public health professionals, youth leaders, social entrepreneurs, educators, nonprofit leaders, technology developers, and more.YTH Live is in its 11th year. YTH Live 2019 will focus on how mental health ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $18 - $550 (see website)
Towards Weak Lensing Cosmology with WFIRST Near-Infrared DetectorsThe Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is an upcoming NASA observatory that will investigate the origins of cosmic acceleration using weak gravitational lensing. WFIRST will perform galaxy shape measurements using Teledyne H4RG-10 detectors; thus it is essential to understand inter-pixel non-linear effects like the brighter-fatter effect (BFE) and non-linear ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
David Wallace-Wells: The Uninhabitable EarthAccording to David Wallace-Wells, we’re cooked - literally. In his recent book, The Uninhabitable Earth, Wallace-Wells explores how climate change will impact not just the planet, but human lives - including how a five degree Celsius increase in temperatures would make parts of the planet unsurvivable.But is panic and doom and gloom ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
In our world it's difficult to manage without a computer in your pocket. Smartphones open great possibilities for accessing information and communicating over time and space. Yet there is a growing body of research that says that it's costing us, in depression, distraction, and loss of productivity. How can we ...
The laser increased the intensity of light that can be generated by orders of magnitude and thus brought about nonlinear optical interactions with matter. Chirped pulse amplification, also known as CPA, changed the intensity level by a few more orders of magnitude and helped usher in a new type of ...
The Gaia space telescope recently released its second catalog of over 1.3 billion stellar distances, which is helping astronomers map the Milky Way like never before. Jackie Faherty will guide you through cutting-edge visualizations of the most spectacular astronomical dataset of our time - a virtual tour of hundreds of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
Tuesday, 05/07/19
Can a Circular Economy Salvage the Climate?Produce, consume, dispose: If you’ve ever made a purchase, you’re familiar with the steps of a traditional linear economy. Raw materials are extracted, produced into goods and used - sometimes only once, in the case of your morning Starbucks - before turning into waste.Enter the circular economy. Beyond just recycling, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Do No Harm: Civic Leadership and the Role of Health CareCan we design a health-care system that serves all? Rupa Marya thinks we can. Through hard lessons learned, Marya joins Donna LaSala, Presidio Graduate School professor, to discuss aspects of the U.S. health-care system that are aligned with social justice and others that create injustice. They will explore workable solutions for ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
Particle Physics & Astrophysics with Wide Field mm-Wave Surveys There have now been several generations of wide-field mm-wave surveys, with several ongoing and upcoming very ambitious projects. We have already learned a great deal about the early universe and put strong constraints on particle physics extensions to the standard model, also collecting large catalogs of strong gravitational lens systems ...
Professor Donna Strickland (University of Waterloo), co-recipient of the 2018 Physics Nobel Prize, will give the Applied Physics/Physics colloquium.Editor's Note: This lecture will also be given on May 6 at SLAC. See our listing for location and additional information.
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Wednesday, 05/08/19
Quantum Computing with Superconducting Qubits - RESCHEDULEDQuantum entanglement is a very real effect, in which (usually nearby) quantum states of real materials can become so very well connected that acting on one component will strongly affect the other. This effect of entanglement, which can be present in materials not used for quantum computing as well, plays ...
Oceanography has made great progress augmenting shipboard measurements with autonomous platforms including underwater gliders and surface vehicles. Still, the scale at which observations can be made by these platforms is limited by the relatively high operational costs requiring human monitoring and the cost of loss of expensive platforms. True synoptic ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Hate speech, algorithms, and digital connectivityThe Online Hate Index (OHI) is a research partnership between UC Berkeley’s D-Lab and Google Jigsaw that seeks to improve society's understanding of online hate speech (from sources such as YouTube, Reddit, Twitter and other social media sites), including its prevalence over time, variation across regions and demographics, our ability ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Adapting to Sea-Level Rise on Atolls: Managing Land Use and Aquifer Recharge on Roi-Namur, Marshall IslandsFreshwater resources on low-lying atoll islands are highly vulnerable to climate change and sea-level rise. Groundwater in the freshwater lens is a critically important water resource on many atolls. Although many atolls have high annual rainfall, dense vegetation and high evapotranspiration can limit recharge to the freshwater lens. Here I ...
Machine Learning---Why Do Simple Algorithms Work So Well?While state-of-the-art machine learning models are deep, large-scale, sequential and highly nonconvex, the backbone of modern learning algorithms are simple algorithms such as stochastic gradient descent, or Q-learning (in the case of reinforcement learning tasks). A basic question endures---why do simple algorithms work so well even in these challenging settings? ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Thursday, 05/09/19
Cosmic neutrinos: using the universe as our laboratoryCosmological measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, and of the large-scale distribution of galaxies, have taught us a great deal about the origins and content of the universe. In the next decade we anticipate using new microwave background data, and new measurements of the positions, masses and gravitational distortions ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Nanoscale Devices based on Two-dimensional Materials and Ferroelectric MaterialsFurther scaling of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) dimensions will soon lead to a tremendous rise in power consumption while limited gain in the performance of integrated circuits. “Beyond-CMOS†devices, based on new materials, device concepts and architectures, can potentially overcome these limitations and further improve the performance, reduce energy consumption, and ...
Data has never been more beautiful. As scientists, journalists, and researchers search for inventive and inclusive ways to share their work, the field of data visualization has flourished, extending into eye-popping terrain. In conjunction with VISUALISE, join visualization creators and experts from NASA, NOAA, the New York Times, and more ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 19.95/14.95, AD members free
Dilemma of the 3Ds (Dementia, Depression, and Diabetes)Premature and accelerated brain aging trajectories have been recognized in cognitive and neural responses, but specific mechanisms for the course of cognitive aging remain to be elucidated. Insulin resistance (IR) is known to change with age, affect cognition in older and elderly adults as well as in patients with affective ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
NightLife in Space: Other EarthsOther Earths are out there, and tonight, NightLife brings in experts to talk about the missions and spacecrafts currently on the search for exoplanets and life beyond Earth.Live Talks: Begin Transmission African HallAt 7:00 PM, Join us as Maren Hunsberger (Seeker) interviews Dr. Liz Warren of the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
What do food webs, Facebook, and the electrical grid all have in common? They can all be thought of as networks of interconnected entities. Network science provides an exciting set of tools for understanding complex systems, and offers important insights for conserving biodiversity on our rapidly changing planet. This talk will explore ...
Where: SunnyvaleCost: Free
Intelligent Ear-Level Devices for Hearing Enhancement and Health and Wellness MonitoringWith resurgence of AI and machine learning, sensor miniaturization and increased wireless connectivity, ear-level devices are going through a major revolution transforming themselves from hearing devices into hearing enhancement and health and wellness monitoring devices. In this talk, we will present examples of such transformation in the areas of hearing ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: $5 General, Free for IEEE members
The Nature of UC - The UC Natural Reserve SystemIn the late 1940s, a young University of California researcher watched in dismay as the research plot where he had been studying desert iguanas was bulldozed to build a motel. The experience galvanized him and other UC scientists to establish a library of ecosystems dedicated to research, teaching, and public ...
Come help us find representatives of as many different phyla (major life forms) at Mori Point. The focus is on how many different major life forms we can find things with backbones, flowering plants, red algae, echinoderms (sea stars, urchins) etc. Think of it as trying to find as many ...
Speaker: Justin Filiberto, Lunar and Planetary Institute
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
SkeptiCal 2019SkeptiCal is the Northern California conference on science and skepticism, a day-long event with speakers and discussions on critical thinking.This year our diverse topics span science frontiers, policy, and misuse to paranormal investigation and conspiracy theories...Speakers include: Jim Underdown: Feet to the Fire: Investigating Paranormal ClaimsLynn Rothschild: Is There Universal ...
Where: BurlingameCost: $65 until June 7, then $90
Berkeley MEng Presents: Capstone Showcase 2019 Engineering Today to Lead Tomorrow10 Tracks. 85 Teams.We are excited to share the 8th annual UC Berkeley Master of Engineering (MEng) Capstone Showcase.The two-hour event, free and open to the public, will feature MEng teams sharing the results of their 9-month capstone projects. See where the future of engineering is headed by uncovering the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Green Friday: Alaska's Bristol Bay developmentLiz Dodge is a volunteer with Trout Unlimited, a conservation and fishing organization which is joining forces with a wide array of allies, including the Sierra Club, to stop development of the Pebble Mine in the headwaters of Alaska’s Bristol Bay, the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world and ...
