Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium: Eric Law from Swinerton - CANCELEDSince Fall 2002, the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering has hosted the Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium (SVLS). The Symposium hosts industry and technology leaders to talk about business and technology trends. It also features prominent leaders who discuss broader societal and political issues that shape our life and society.Eric ...
Discussion of his new book “Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction†with Professor Shankar Sastry. Reception and book signing in the Kvamme Atrium to follow.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
A New Era of Transients and Cosmic Structure on the Radio SkyTechnology advances have opened a new era of radio observations. We are now monitoring the sky at millisecond cadence and discovering a vast catalog of new fast radio transients while simultaneously making deep maps of structure in the universe using hydrogen intensity mapping as a tracer. While these fields are ...
Quantum Computing - Introduction and ApplicationsThough early in its development, real quantum computers are now available from IBM on the cloud. This radically new kind of computing offers the possibility of solving some of the world's hardest problems, ones that have always been intractable for "classical" computers.This talk is a gentle introduction to the who, ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
A Conversation with California's First Surgeon General Nadine Burke HarrisDr. Nadine Burke Harris has seen firsthand the health effects of childhood stress. As a pediatrician and medical director of the Bayview Child Health Center in San Francisco, she began studying how childhood adversity translates to poor health in adulthood. In 2013, she founded the Center for Youth Wellness in ...
How has transportation evolved over time, and how does this evolution move toward generating a sustainable transportation ecology? Join us to learn more about how transit technology has advanced to respond to both current and anticipated future needs. From insight into the mechanics of self-driving cars to visions from the past of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 17.95 advance, 19.95 door, AD members free
In 2018, health care became the United States’ largest industry, but some would say that its success came at the expense of the American people. Coverage is unaffordable for many, 20 percent of Americans have faced debt collection for medical bills, and care increasingly feels rushed and impersonal. How did ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
'90s NightlifeGrab your high-waisted mom jeans and your flannel and get yourself to ‘90s NightLife for a celebration of iconic pop culture.Step into the garden for an epic medley of ‘90s movie soundtracks (think The Lion King, Titanic, The Fifth Element) by the Awesöme Orchestra Collective.Chat with Bay Area experts as ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
Probability Management - A Cure for the Flaw of AveragesEditor's Note: This event was originally scheduled for Sept 18 at a different location.Dr. Sam L. Savage, Executive Director of ProbabilityManagement.org, Author of The Flaw of Averages: Why we Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty, Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University. The discipline of probability management ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Hardcore Natural History: Sudden Oak DeathWe will look at the theme of disease through the lens of plants, diving into what is commonly referred to as “Sudden Oak Deathâ€. Phytophthora ramorum, the pathogen known to cause sudden oak death, will be explored by our expert guest Chris Lee, of the California Department of Forestry and ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $10 General, $5 Members, $15 at door
Hooked on the Fishing Cat: An Evening with Fishing Cat ConservancyDeep in the mangroves of Asia is a cat that loves water, and gets most of his meals from fishing! The long-term survival of The Fishing Cat depends upon the people who live in the surrounding areas. The Oakland Zoo Impact Speaker Series welcomes Ashwin Naidu, co-founder and director of ...
The San Francisco Estuary Invasive Spartina Project is led by the CA State Coastal Conservancy and the US Fish and Wildlife Service, in partnership with more than 150 landowners and resource agencies in all nine counties of the SF Bay Area.  The overarching goal is to eradicate invasive Spartina in order to ...
Two KIPAC Tea TalksThe boundary of galaxy clusters and its implications on SFR quenching of satellite galaxiesSpeaker: Tae Hyeon-Shin, Univ. of PennsylvaniaMachine learning applied to CosmologySpeaker: Tomasz Kacprzak, ETH Zurich
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Raptor ID Class on Hawk Hill with Allen FishJoin GGRO director Allen Fish for a 3-hour raptor workshop on the Pacific Coast’s best raptor-spotting spot. Come learn how to tell soaring hawks from accipiters and falcons. And how to spot unique species behaviors as well as tell-tale field marks. Come learn a whole new vocabulary of geeky bird ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Donations encouraged
Engineering Electronic States, Energy Transfer and Disorder in Nanomaterials Through the External EnvironmentThere is a rich variety of semiconductor nanostructures available today for the design of novel material systems and interfaces with tailor-made functionalities. In particular, atomically thin two-dimensional materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers exhibit extraordinary optical and electrical properties. For such materials, with thicknesses ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Lectures & Lasers: Colorblindness with EnChromaGet lit with lasers! Want to impress your friends with your expansive knowledge of science and culture? Looking for a new date night activity? Just want to kick back and watch a laser show?Don McPherson, a Doctor of Glass Science, was responsible for the original “ah-ha†moment that led to ...
Where: OaklandCost: $20
So you want to buy a telescope (and not just store it in the closet)Thinking of getting a telescope or trying to understand what you already have? To help avoid the frustration that often accompanies such an undertaking, join SJAA for an hour to learn about telescopes, including how telescopes work, their critical components, the types of telescopes that are available, and additionally useful ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Spacecraft Thermal ControlIn this presentation we will discuss the role of Thermal Engineers on the spacecraft design team and explore the use of conduction and thermal radiation (the two dominant modes of heat transfer in a vacuum) to control the temperature of the spacecraft.Speaker: Kenji Ozawa
Where: LivermoreCost: Free
Saturday, 09/21/19
California Coastal Cleanup DayEvery year, on the third Saturday in September, people join together at sites all over California to take part in the State's largest volunteer event, California Coastal Cleanup Day. This year Marine Science Institute is kicking off Coast Weeks at Pescadero State Beach! Join us and thousands of volunteers as ...
Where: San GregorioCost: Free
California Coastal Cleanup Day - Marin CountyCalifornia Coastal Cleanup Day is celebrating its 35th year! Join others around the State to make a difference keeping our beaches, waterways, and parks clean. With over 40 cleanup sites in Marin County, check the Bay Model website for a volunteer opportunity near you.Â
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Smithsonian Museum Day LiveSmithsonian Museum Day Live! is an annual event hosted by Smithsonian magazine. On Saturday, September 21, 2019, visitors who present the Museum Day Live! ticket at the Hiller Aviation Museum will gain free museum admission for two.Tickets available at weblink starting Aug 15.
Wolbachia lab workshop - DNA extraction!Wolbachia infects 60% of all insect species on earth, and has an enigmatic and complex relationship with its hosts. Recently researchers have exploited this relationship to successfully manage Dengue and Zika virus transmission by mosquitoes.In this series of 3 laboratory workshops you will learn to extract DNA from insect samples, ...
Where: OaklandCost: $20
Our changing atmosphere: Evidence that demand a Verdict?Many people are aware of climate change only by way of public discourse and social media. Drawing on recent scientific papers organized for a course he teaches at Berkeley, Jeff Reimer will show how the atmosphere is changing, that humans are the cause, and that there are consequences. These consequences ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Golden Gate Raptor Observatory Hawk Talk & Raptor ReleaseThe Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and what we do here at the GGRO. Conditions permitting, a banding volunteer will bring up a newly banded hawk, talk about the banding program, and release the hawk in front of the crowd. ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
TEDxPaloAltoSalon: RethinkHear from an extraordinary lineup of individuals rethinking our understanding of epigenetics, musical performance, neuro technology, belief systems, origami, nuclear power and more. Speakers include neuroscientist Osh Agabi; origami artist Ilan Garibi; PTSD specialist Dr. Saili Jain; Grammy(R)-nominated drummer Sammy Miller; Daniel B. Poneman, President and CEO of Centrus Energy ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: $70.
Movie Night on Mt. Tam: The Martian2015 film starring Matt Damon depicts the struggles of an astronaut left behind on Mars as he awaits rescue. Post-screening discussion by Jeffrey Silverman of Science VS Cinema
Where do we come from? A fundamental question of the human species. We might not know the answer, but we do know how the atoms that make up us, the sun, the planets, and the stars were made. Many schoolchildren know that the sun is a star made of hydrogen ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Sunday, 09/22/19
Marine Science Sunday: Top Predators: Orcas and SharksThe size, strength and skills of the ocean's top predators are simply one of a kind. This month we celebrate National Wildlife Day with those animals that rule the ocean in Top Predators: Orcas and Sharks! Come learn more at Marine Science Sunday - fun educational programs for kids and adults! ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free with Admission
Golden Gate Raptor Observatory Hawk Talk & Raptor ReleaseThe Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and what we do here at the GGRO. Conditions permitting, a banding volunteer will bring up a newly banded hawk, talk about the banding program, and release the hawk in front of the crowd. ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Medicine in the Garden: Fall EquinoxLast season we found over 40 medicinal plants during our plant walk led by clinical herbalist Lisa Sanderson-Fox. In our ever changing garden we will again enjoy an herbal walk! Afterwards we will make herbal vinegars to boost our immune system this fall and winter. Melanie Molina will lead participants ...
Counter Culture Labs is proud to be hosting the American Society for Microbiology Agar Art Contest Come and learn how to make colorful and unique living art. Design your own art piece using our colorful bacteria, and then submit your piece for a chance to win.In this hands-on workshop, participants will be ...
Where: OaklandCost: $10
Monday, 09/23/19
Tests of new physics with the Lyman-alpha forestThe Lyman-alpha forest (the correlated absorption seen in the spectra of high-redshift quasars) is a uniquely powerful probe of new physics in the cosmological model - whether that be properties of the neutrino, the nature of cosmic inflation or the phenomenology of dark matter. The challenge lies in robustly disentangling ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Particle physics beyond the Standard Model (and other fun) with clusters of galaxies Clusters of galaxies provide superb laboratories for exploring new particle physics. They represent the most massive dark matter objects in the Universe, making them an important laboratory for probing dark matter decay and annihilation signatures. However, in this talk, I will highlight how the transparency (or lack thereof) of the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Atom Defined Fabrication Comes of Age: Binary Logic and an Ising SimulatorThe long persistent barriers to atom-defined fabrication in silicon have been overcome. In the last year or two A.I. enabled printing and editing of atomically-perfect ensembles has become routine. I will discuss atomic circuitry composed of individual silicon surface dangling bonds that has the potential to address the shortcomings of ...
EXPLORING PLANETS ORBITING NEARBY STARSThe NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission launched last year and is finding hundreds of planets orbiting nearby stars. The TESS mission will probe the compositional diversity of small planets, investigate the formation of planetary systems, and set the stage for the next phase of exoplanet exploration: the quest ...
In the field of engineering, dimensionless numbers frequently help to characterize the state of a system. I will present a series of vignettes about unusually large dimensionless numbers that arise in brain science. These can indicate issues that are poorly understood, and in some cases clearly misunderstood.Speaker: Markus Meister, Caltech
Introduction of PyTorch and Transfer LearningPyTorch is the fastest growing framework to build deep learning algorithms. In this one hour seminar, we will cover the state of the art of deep learning. We will provide an intuitive understanding of model development in PyTorch.To solve real-world problems , we will introduce Transfer Learning, where you can ...
Where: SunnyvaleCost: Free
Tuesday, 09/24/19
We Are the WeatherIs clinging to habits and cravings destroying our future? An outspoken critic of factory farming and animal-centric diets, Jonathan Safran Foer writes that stopping climate change begins with a close look at what we eat - and don’t eat - at home for breakfast. At the office, industry leaders such ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Tests of new physics with the Lyman-alpha forest The Lyman-alpha forest (the correlated absorption seen in the spectra of high-redshift quasars) is a uniquely powerful probe of new physics in the cosmological model - whether that be properties of the neutrino, the nature of cosmic inflation or the phenomenology of dark matter. The challenge lies in robustly disentangling ...
The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD ScienceShaili Jain, in conversation with Louise Aronson, will share nuanced cartography of PTSD, a widely misunderstood yet crushing condition that afflicts millions of Americans. Jain's forthcoming book, The Unspeakable Mind, is the definitive guide for a trauma-burdened age. With profound empathy and meticulous research, Jain - a practicing psychiatrist and PTSD specialist at one ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
Film: 'Plastic China'Join Zero Waste Youth USA for another screening of "Plastic China" - the film that gave rise to China's recent waste ban policy, also known as National Sword. The film profiles a young woman and her family who live next to a recycling plant, in mountains of plastic waste from ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Scorched Earth: Culture and Climate Under SiegeWildfires are breaking records as they burn through acres of Amazon rainforest, northern California countryside and even the Arctic tundra. This loss carries major implications for the global climate: The Amazon alone is responsible for removing 5 percent of the world’s 40 billion tons of CO2 emissions from the air each year. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Learn the story of California's changing ecosystems--as observed from space--from USGS Research Physical Scientist Kristin Byrd, Ph.D.How can we use images from space to help us understand changes to our coasts, range lands, forests, and wildlife habitats?How can they help to predict future changes?What more can we learn from advances ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Ecology and Conservation of Pacific Albatrosses; a Scientist’s and Artist’s PerspectiveBreck Tyler’s Presentation:Albatrosses travel thousands of miles across ocean basins, returning to land only to nest. Midway Atoll, a tiny island in the remote Northwestern Hawaiian chain, is one of the world’s largest albatross colonies, hosting more than a million nesting birds. Sharing his experiences from 30 years at Midway, ...
Learn how astronomers are using gravitational lensing to aid in our understanding of the universe. Dr. Schaan will show how naturally-occurring gravitational lenses work and how they are used to take measurements across the universe. He also will discuss what we expect to learn from current and upcoming experiments with ...
Where: Walnut CreekCost: Free
Nerd Nite Silicon Valley #8: Sarah Winchester and Bay Area SharksNerd Nite is a boozy, playful, and educational lecture series found in cities all around the world. Enjoy 30 minute talks from scientists, historians, game designers, and other nerds over drinks.Topics for Nerd Nite Silicon Valley #8Come and face your fears! We’ll take a virtual visit to the famously haunted ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Green Film Festival: 'Push' Opening Night ReceptionHousing is a fundamental human right, so why can't we afford to live in our own cities anymore? Push sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord, our increasingly unlivable cities, and an escalating crisis that affects us all. Follow Leilani Fraha, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $60 General, $55 Members, $16 film only
Intelligent coordinated robot teams allow for the inspection of large infrastructures on land, air, water, and subsea, by combining robotic precision and speed with human intuition and abstract thinking. By recently unifying a priori system dynamics knowledge with efficient machine learning, robots are now able to learn complex manipulation tasks ...
Sophien Kamoun is a senior scientist at the Sainsbury Laboratory and a professor at the University of East Anglia. His group studies how filamentous plant pathogens, such as the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans, infect plants, and the plant processes that are modulated by these pathogens.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Sears Point Tidal Marsh Restoration: Dissecting Rapid Ecological Change Through Multiple Lenses Dr. Michael Vasey is a passionate believer in the need for good science to inform management decisions and public engagement in the cause of conserving the San Francisco Estuary (SFE). He left a career in teaching conservation biology at San Francisco State to practice conservation biology as manager of the ...
Corey Garza is an associate professor of Marine Science in the School of Natural Sciences at California State University, Monterey Bay. His research interests are in the area of marine landscape ecology using GIS modeling and spatial statistics to study the relationship between scale dependence, habitat complexity and patterns of species ...
Evolving Economies of CannabisDesign Considerations for Legalizing Cannabis with Dr. Beau Kilmer, RAND Corporation Canada, Uruguay, and 12 jurisdictions in the United States have passed laws to remove the prohibition on cannabis and legalize supply for adults. Many of these jurisdictions allow large-scale production and retail sales, but this is not the only ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $25 General, $22 Members & Students
Green Film Festival: 'Anthropocene: The Human Epoch'Experience this cinematic meditation on humanity's massive reengineering of the planet, as scientists argue we have now entered a new epoch. The Anthropocene is a full-scale, catastrophic change that we cannot reverse completely. But we must try.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Where: OrindaCost: $5 General, $1 students & K-12 Teachers
Peninsula Gem and Geology Society Monthly MeetingLocal mineral dealer and part mine owner Rick Kennedy will be giving a presentation on the Jackson's Crossroads Amethyst Mine of Wilkes Co. Georgia, the premier amethyst locality in the United States. The mine consistently produces world class specimens and crystals that are justifiably celebrated for pure rich purple color ...
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
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 ...
The world we live in is wildly complex and open-ended. Despite the excitement surrounding AI, building an artificial intelligence that rivals or exceeds human levels in dealing with that world is far more difficult than we once believed. How can we create AI worthy of our trust when solving real-world ...
Astronomy on Tap: Saturn's Rings, Star Birth, and ExoplanetsBorn with the Dinosaurs? The Origin, Age, and Remaining Lifetime of Saturn's RingsSpeaker: Paul Estrada, SETIA Star is Born: How Stars Form in SpaceSpeaker: Jim Jackson, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrafred AstronomyWhat do we Know About Exoplanets? And What's Left to Learn?Speaker: Jesse Dotson, NASA Ames
