Free science gear for educators and researchersBiolink Depot, a 12 year-old charitable organization, collects science supplies and equipment and then distributes them for free through a series of open houses.The next open house is in Oakland on May 18 (Saturday).Any teacher or researcher from an accredited institution can register for this event. There is a large ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Wildflower Walk at Presidio Coastal BluffsWhat are those blooming beauties in the park? It’s springtime, and it’s time to find out! Join the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy’s Park Stewardship team on a leisurely walk to learn about the folklore, medicinal uses, and biology of wildflowers. Spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean and an appreciation ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Donations encouraged
Maker Faire Bay AreaImmerse yourself in creative culture with over 800 exhibits and 8+ presentation and performance stages - all showcasing the creative and experimental folks who make, play, tinker and hack in areas like:+ Robotics + Large-scale and kinetic art + Digital & analog fabrication + Electronics + Cosplay + Craft, ...
Where: San MateoCost: $40 Adults, $25 Students and Youth
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
Bird eggs of the Bay Area - Scavenger HuntThe Environmental Volunteers are hosting a family scavenger hunt around the baylands preserve! Join us and enjoy the outdoors, while learning about the birds of the bay area! Win some prizes too!Find the eggs!The hunt is on for hidden informational placards about different bay area birds (and their eggs!), hidden ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: free
MAX Festival at the Exploratorium 2019Join us for the inaugural MAX (Media, Arts, Exploration) Festival at the Exploratorium as we celebrate humanity’s modern frontier: space. Illuminating scientific exploration through artistic expression and shared experiences, the MAX Festival has gathered local and international artists who explore the new space age.Spacewoman of the Underground With Christine Zuecher ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with Admission to the Exploratorium
Science Lecture - Climate change in US national parksFrom wildfires burning in Yosemite National Park, California, to glaciers melting in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, published scientific research has detected changes in United States national parks and attributed them to human-caused climate change. Since 1895, climate change has exposed the national parks to twice the heating of the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Open House: Going Back Through TimeWant to travel back in time? Come to the open house at the Children’s Natural History Museum! Dr. Angeline Catena, a professor and paleontologist known for her work with Bolivian fossils will take children and their families on a journey to explore Ice Age era Fremont. The expedition will start ...
Where: FremontCost: 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.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Full Moon Night HikeHave you ever wondered what animals come out after the sun goes down? Now is your chance to find out! Â The Youth Science Institute's Night Hike is back by popular demand. Come join us for a mild walk through Alum Rock Park and discover who is waking up as the ...
Where: San JoseCost: $15
Your Place in the Universe: Understanding Our Big, Messy ExistenceOur universe changes every day. It was different in the past, and it will be different in the future. This is something we just learned about a hundred years ago, and we're still wrestling with the implications. Including, but not limited to, the fact that someday no more stars will ...
Live and immersive arts at The Exploratorium, California Academy of Sciences, and Z Space. A range of performances and installations exploring our new space age, the extraordinary scientific advances in this field, and how they change the way we see ourselves and Earth.Presented by MAX, dedicated to Illuminating scientific exploration ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Advance full pass $59-$99 or at venue
Sunday, 05/19/19
Maker Faire Bay AreaImmerse yourself in creative culture with over 800 exhibits and 8+ presentation and performance stages - all showcasing the creative and experimental folks who make, play, tinker and hack in areas like:+ Robotics + Large-scale and kinetic art + Digital & analog fabrication + Electronics + Cosplay + Craft, ...
Where: San MateoCost: $40 Adults, $25 Students and Youth
What We Gain From What Was Lost: Eelgrass Restoration Success in Elkhorn SloughSeagrasses are in global decline despite restoration efforts. To date, the majority of these efforts have been unsuccessful. Locally, Elkhorn Slough suffered massive seagrass loss in the mid 1900s. Since 1980, there has been some natural recovery in the slough - though small relative to historical extent. Unfortunately, that rate ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with admission
Monday, 05/20/19
How to not run cosmological n-body simulationsExtracting cosmological information from current survey data is increasingly reliant on computationally-intensive n-body simulations of large-scale structure. For weak-lensing surveys, the matter distribution is directly measured from simulations on scales where linear perturbation theory fails. For galaxy-clustering surveys, haloes are identified in simulations and then populated with galaxies to provide ...
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL or MagLab) is a facility at Florida State University, the University of Florida, and Los Alamos National Laboratory that performs research at high magnetic fields in materials physics, chemistry, geochemistry, and biology. It is the only magnet Lab in the US and is ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Decoding the cancer genome one codon at a time and its therapeutic implicationsDr. Davide Ruggero, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Urology and Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, he holds the Helen Diller Family Endowed Chair of Basic Cancer Research at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Ruggero has made numerous breakthrough discoveries in the area of mammalian translational ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Stanford Energy SeminarSpeakers: Julie Mulkerin, Manager of Climate Change Strategy, and John White, General Manager of Energy Transitions at Chevron
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Scalable Agreement is What We NeedFast rise of decentralized systems and cloud computing introduces a new challenge, designing highly scalable algorithms; algorithms that have asymptotically-small communication, computation, and latency costs with respect to the network size. Moreover, systems with thousands or even millions of parties distributed throughout the world which are not controlled by a ...
Where: SunnyvaleCost: Free
Tuesday, 05/21/19
Using Gaia, Pan-STARRS 1 and 2MASS to map the Milky WayGaia is revolutionizing our view of the Milky Way. Taken together with ongoing and upcoming surveys, such as LSST, we are at an exciting moment in the study of our Galaxy. In this talk, I will discuss a new 3D dust map based on Gaia parallaxes, as well as optical ...
The Acasta Gneiss Complex (AGC) is a unique exposure of 4.0 to 2.9 billion-year-old (Ga) meta-igneous rocks in the Northwest Territories, Canada. The AGC represents the oldest known silicic and zircon-bearing terrestrial crust and thus can provide critical insight on the tectonic processes operating on the early Earth. The primary ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Botany Series: Introduction to Grass IdentificationJoin the talented team of Maria Alvarez (Restoration Ecologist), Chrissy Sullivan (Natural Resource Specialist), John Anderson (Restoration Technician), and Patrick Nicholson (Seasonal Restoration Technician) for a Park Academy class on the identification of grass species - especially those within our parks! This will be an interactive class, sure to improve ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Donations encouraged
Wonderfest: Climate Change and the Human BodyHumans are homeotherms, maintaining constant body temperature in both cold and hot environments by virtue of shivering or sweating. In the future, however, if our atmosphere absorbs enough carbon dioxide, the temperature and humidity will exceed survivable values for many Earthlings. Wonderfest Science Envoy Yi-Chuan Lu will use climate models ...
If You Won’t, We Will: Youth Action on ClimateFour years ago, 21 plaintiffs served the U.S. government with a lawsuit. The government, they asserted, had violated their constitutional rights to life, liberty and property by failing to act on climate change. All plaintiffs were students under the age of 23.On the other side of the world, 15-year-old Greta ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Hope for Reefs: Addressing the Coral Reef CrisisWhile they cover less than 1% of the ocean floor, coral reefs support approximately one-quarter of marine biodiversity on Earth and the livelihoods of tens of millions of people. The ecosystem services that coral reefs provide (e.g., fisheries, coastal protection, habitat, cultural services, tourism) are valued at nearly $400 billion ...
I will be discussing common and less common edible fungi found in urban environments like parks and residential zones to the coast to the Sierra. My talk is geared towards beginners but seasoned mushroomers will also enjoy my presentation.Speaker: Kingman Bond-Graham
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Seeing is Exploding: Snapping Biological Images with X-ray Laser BlastsSLAC's X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source, launched a new generation of light sources when it opened 10 years ago last month, with beams 10 billion times brighter than any before. The energy from those powerful beams is enough to destroy any molecule put in its path, yet LCLS ...
Dr. Jen Gunter is OB/GYN and a pain medicine physician, writing on topics of sex, science, and social media. A fierce advocate for women’s health, Gunter is devoted to correcting the myths and misinformation perpetuated by the internet around women’s well-being and reproductive health. She is the author of The ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $29
Wednesday, 05/22/19
Artificial Intelligence for Industry (AI4I) Forum - SPR2019Co-Design of Deep Neural Nets and Neural Net Accelerators for Embedded Vision ApplicationsSpeaker: Kurt Keutzer, UC BerkeleyBenchmarks for Post General Purpose Computing EraSpeaker: Lingjie Xu, Alibaba Low-Power Computer Vision: Status, Challenges, and OpportunitiesSpeaker: Yung-Hsiang Lu, PurdueAI: What Makes it Hard and Fun!Speaker: Pradeep Dubey, IntelSee weblink for speaker bios and ...
What is Consciousness?What is consciousness, exactly? Does the brain create it? Or is a spiritual phenomenon that can't be reduced to matter? In most of human history, these kinds of questions were studied solely by philosophers. But in the last two decades, the question of consciousness has reached the fields of neuroscience ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free!
Emerging AI Applications & Infrastructure Systems w/ Active Storage-class MemorySince the rise of deep learning in 2012, much progress has been made in deep-learning-based AI tasks such as image/video understanding and natural language understanding, as well as GPU/accelerator architectures that greatly improve the training and inference speed for neural-network models. As the industry players race to develop ambitious applications ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: Free
Skeptics in the Pub: MillbraeNOTE: The Warriors won the series which means that there won't be a game Wed evening. Come and celebrate either that we get to have Skeptics in the Pub or that the Warriors won in 4 and we can have our regularly scheduled Skeptics in the Pub!Science and Reason with ...
Where: MillbraeCost: Free
Free coding club for kidsThe Raspberry Pi Foundation has a free coding club, called a Dojo, for kids at the office space located in WeWork City Center. The team is incredibly excited to continue engaging in the community by providing a fun and social environment for kids to freely explore technology and watch their ...
Where: OaklandCost: free
Thursday, 05/23/19
Understanding the Interiors of Neutron StarsNeutron stars have long beckoned to physicists from many fields as realms of extreme physics beyond what we can test in terrestrial laboratories.  In the realm of nuclear physics, the lure is that the cores of neutron stars are several times denser than atomic nuclei and yet are technically cold; this ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The story of how low frequency radio waves connect space, underground, and everything in between The simple act of recording very low frequency (VLF) radio waves (3-30 kHz) is incredibly simple, yet unlocks a bevy of connections across science and engineering. Â Lightning releases VLF energy which travel thousands of miles, allowing lightning to be characterized, geolocated, and integrated into weather forecasting. VLF waves reflect from ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Time to change a paradigm: non-specific effects of vaccinesUnknown to most people, vaccines were never tested for their effects on overall health before being introduced. Everybody was so certain that vaccines only affect the target infection that it did not seem necessary. Our population-based epidemiological studies in one of the world’s poorest countries, Guinea-Bissau, have now revealed that ...
Explore the many converging facets of identity on this journey to the center of the self. Question your assumptions, weigh your psychic baggage, and dare yourself to try on a new persona as you explore both self and society. Come as you are and let’s take a look in the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 17.95 advance, 19.95 door, AD members free
Tiny NightlifeThis week, we’re shrinking NightLife down to size with a celebration of all things tiny, miniature, and microscopic.Interested in downsizing and shrinking your footprint? Learn about the how-tos and challenges of living that tiny home lifestyle.See what NASA advisor and Spacehack.org founder Ariel Waldman found when she traveled to Antarctica ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $10 General, $5 Members, $15 at door
The Science Of Magic - With Live DemonstrationsFrom ancient conjurers to quick-handed con artists to big ticket Las Vegas illusionists, magicians throughout the ages have been expertly manipulating human attention and perception to dazzle and delight us (or scare us, or steal our watches). Of course you know that the phenomena of cognitive and sensory illusions are ...
Where: Castro ValleyCost: FREE
Friday, 05/24/19
Quantum Computing with Superconducting QubitsQuantum 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 ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Small scale structure of the IGM: A Dark Matter Tale The intergalactic medium (IGM) plays a unique role in constraining the (small scale) matter power spectrum, since the low-density, high redshift IGM filaments are particularly sensitive to the small scale properties of dark matter. The main observable manifestation of the IGM, the Lyman-alpha forest, has provided important constraints on the ...
I will describe our efforts to understand and design stiffness-changing soft matter with inspirational structure and rheology. Polymer networks and fibrous elastic components are common themes across the three different stories. First, a new design paradigm experimentally realized: soft solid materials that can change stiffness by up to 100 times ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Astronomy 101: Sights of the Cosmos, Intro to AstronomyThis event provides a different introduction to astronomy than our Intro to the Night Sky talks. During this hour, you'll gain an appreciation for the size and scale of the cosmos and our place within it. You'll see many examples of the beautiful objects visible in the night sky, learn ...
