The Event Horizon Telescope: Imaging a Black HoleThe Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) array operating at the shortest possible wavelengths, which can resolve the event horizons of the nearest supermassive black holes. Observing at mm radio wavelengths enables detection of photons that originate from deep within the gravitational potential well of ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium: Debbie Powell from PG&E - CANCELEDEditor's Note: This speaker is canceled. However, Tatjana Rmus from PG&E will speak on Oct. 10 instead. See our listing for details.Since 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 ...
Machine LearningMachine learning methods have allowed us to create many powerful and practical models from data to develop many new and life changing technologies. Understanding the underlying algorithms behind the methods provides insight into how the data is being used to learn patterns and achieve the specific goal. This talk will ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Hacking STEM: Modernizing and Democratizing STEM EducationThe jobs of today will not be the jobs of tomorrow. Globally schools are being asked to prepare students with future-ready skills. However, to engage the leaders of tomorrow, teachers need access to the right materials today. These materials need to be easily obtainable, affordable and reflect the mandated academic ...
How are you shaped by the genes you’re born with, and by your environment? How do your body's trillions of cells work together to create a human self? At our brand-new exhibit collection, Cells to Self, you can use microscopes, digital models, and firsthand interactions with cells to explore how cells ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95, $14.95 explO members, AD members Free
Cafe InquiryCenter for Inquiry San Francisco's monthly get together to talk about whatever interests us.
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Sharktoberfest NightlifeIt’s time to raise a glass for NightLife’s annual salute to brews and the ocean’s most legendary apex predators. Sip your way through a pop-up beer hall with libations on tap from local brewery favorites, including Uncommon Brewers, Magnolia Brewing, Laughing Monk, and Black Hammer Brewing.Groove to tunes spun by ...
California is a globally significant biodiversity hotspot. With roughly 6,500 native plant taxa, the Golden State boasts similar botanical diversity to Japan and New Zealand. It’s mild climates and rugged landscapes have also made California a highly desirable place to live, with a population close to 40 million people and ...
First Friday: Spooky ScienceIf there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Scientists!October’s First Friday is all about spooky science. Learn about the science of fear, say hello to some creepy crawlers, and hear scientific explanations for things that go bump in the night. Science is so fun… it’s scary!
This month hear from SETI Senior Research Scientist, Margaret Race. Her lecture, Behind the Scenes Planning - To the Moon and Beyond, gives you an exclusive look into the important prep work that the public never sees before hitting the launchpad.If you’ve ever been curious about the search for extraterrestrial ...
Where: OaklandCost: $5
Saturday, 10/05/19
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 ...
Join the Greater Farallones Association, Marin County Parks, and renowned ornithologist and marine biologist Peter Pyle for a day of restoration and exploration on Bolinas Lagoon’s Island. After an early birding walk, we’ll remove invasive plants that interfere with normal tidal flow. As we work, we will learn about dynamic dune ...
Where: BolinasCost: $25, lunch included.
The Climate Reality ProjectGet the latest facts on the climate crisis, and tips on how together, we can solve it.Climate Reality Leadership Corps member Harriet Harvey Horn will deliver the most current version of Al Gore’s Climate Reality presentation (as seen in the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth") that aims to answer three key ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: 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
Family Science & Astronomy Festival + MakerspaceFamily Science and Astronomy Festival is a day of free learning and fun for the young and young at heart. Featuring planetarium shows, science workshops, astronomical observations, public safety demos, and more.The CSM Library Makerspace offers drop-in crafting, electronics, media and tinkering workshops.The events culminate in a key note lecture by ...
Where: San MateoCost: 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
What To Do With the Body: An Environmental PerspectiveThis talk presented by Deborah Meckler will address both conventional and imaginative ways of dealing with human remains in a massively populated world, with an eye to how these death care activities affect Earth’s ecosystems and resources. She will discuss the evolving death-care choices and necessities world-wide as well as ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Illuminating Dark Matter - CANCELEDDark matter is the cosmic parent of all vast structures in the night sky, including our own Milky Way galaxy. Yet, we know so little about this mysterious stuff that constitutes over 80% of the material universe. This talk will illuminate our universe’s elusive dark matter, highlighting the ingenious methods ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Observe the Moon NightThe Foothill College Astronomy Department and the Peninsula Astronomical Society would also like to invite you to join in on NASA's Observe the Moon Night at the Foothill College Observatory. The first quarter moon on Oct. 5 provides a prime opportunity to join people around the world in taking a ...
Have you ever wondered how sea level rise will impact Lake Merritt, and all of Oakland? Are you aware that existing heat in the oceans will cause the seas to rise for centuries, no matter how much carbon emissions are reduced today? Do you have an inkling of why ocean ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
First Friday: International Observe the Moon NightInternational Observe the Moon Night is a worldwide celebration of lunar science and exploration held annually since 2010. One day each year, everyone on Earth is invited to observe and learn about the Moon together, and to celebrate the cultural and personal connections we all have with our nearest neighbor. ...
This month we celebrate Halloween with a creepy collection of stories about the animals that live in the deepest parts of the ocean! Learn how elephant seal's can dive to 5000 feet and stay underwater for 2 hours at a time without imploding (!), find out how a sperm whale ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free with Admission
34th Annual Wildlife FestivalYSI would like to invite you to join us for our 34 th Annual Wildlife Festival this fall! Come out and see YSI’s Owl Ambassadors during our Raptor Review, enjoy story time with Smokey Bear, and finish the day off with Conservation Ambassador’s “Zoo to You†program on stage with ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free ($6 parking)
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
City Star Party @ The ExplOratoriumCome join us for our monthly San Francisco City Star Party. SFAA members provide telescopes for your viewing pleasure. Be sure to check the SFAA website for the latest updates…bad weather or overcast skies will cancel!
Changes in Industrial and Power Sector Carbon Capture: Higher Incentives/Lower CostsRelatively few industrial carbon capture or power sector carbon capture projects have been done in the U.S. in recent years for pollution control purposes. That is, carbon capture is widely used in industries such as natural gas processing and urea fertilizer manufacturing, where carbon capture is required for production purposes. ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Diagnosing quantum chaos in many-body systems using entanglement as a resourceClassical chaotic systems exhibit exponentially diverging trajectories due to small differences in their initial state. The analogous diagnostic in quantum many-body systems is an exponential growth of out-of-time-ordered correlation functions (OTOCs). These quantities can be computed for various models, but their experimental study requires the ability to evolve quantum states ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
ADVENTURES IN NANOMAGNETISMThe foundations of our modern society rest on storing and moving electron charges. Imagine what more we could discover and do if we could also manipulate electron spins, or the intrinsic magnetic moment of electrons. James Lee will describe his research to date along these lines in magnetic thin films ...
CryoEM and CryoET Automation: Where are we now and what do we still need?The dramatic improvements in the progress of cryo electron microscopy (cryoEM) and cryo electron tomography (cryoET) over the last five years has been accompanied by the adoption of a high level of automation. However, there are several automation challenges that remain to be addressed in the areas of specimen preparation, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Searching for Axion Dark Matter Below 1 micro-eV: the Dark Matter RadioOne of the most enduring mysteries in particle physics is the nature of the non-baryonic dark matter that makes up 85% of the matter in the universe. The QCD axion, originally proposed as a solution to the strong CP problem in QCD, is one of the most strongly motivated candidates ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Cutting Edge of Energy Innovation: Three SnapshotsEutectic Liquids for High-Energy Density Flow BatteriesWind and solar resources are abundant, but intermittent, requiring advanced energy storage options. Flow batteries can offer scalability, long cycle-life, and power-to-energy tunability, however, they have low energy density. In order to achieve high-energy density flow batteries, we employ eutectic mixing properties for the ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Half-Earth: How to Save the Natural WorldFeaturing the Horace M. Albright Lecture in Conservation and the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation Distinguished Lectureship in Biodiversity, with biologist and naturalist Edward O. Wilson, award-winning actress and environmental advocate Glenn Close, and other special guests.
The near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are a population of objects on orbit around the Sun that cross or come near the orbit of Earth; remnants of material from the early solar system that never accreted into planets. NEAs are accessible targets for space missions, but also pose a hazard due to potential ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
Tuesday, 10/08/19
Two KIPAC Tea TalksModelling ExoplanetsSpeaker: Laura Schaefer, StanfordTBASpeaker: Aurel Schneider, Univ. of Zurich
Take a deep dive in robotic applications for good and discover how to get into robotics with networking, mentoring opportunities, and demos from impressive student groups and supportive community organizations including Women in Robotics/SVR. The key note will be by robotics industry leader and UC Berkeley professor Anca Dragan; the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Analytic covariance of the redshift-space galaxy power spectrumA robust analysis of the covariance of the galaxy power spectrum is crucial for cosmological parameter estimation. The traditional process of obtaining the covariance involves simulating thousands of mocks. I will present an analytic approach for the full covariance matrix which is more than four orders of magnitude faster than ...
Water is extremely common on Earth but also one of the most mysterious of compounds in which the solid form (ice) floats on its melt. Bulk water is celebrated as an excellent solvent, particularly of polar compounds, and also as a relatively inert medium. It is often said to be ...
 Speaker: Paula Welander is a microbiologist who received her undergraduate degree from Occidental College in Los Angeles. She pursued her PhD studies in microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed her postdoctoral studies at MIT in the Departments of Biology and of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. ...
Monitoring and Predicting the California Current System with Global and Regional ModelsGiven the ecological and socioeconomic importance of the California Current System (CCS), there is broad interest in monitoring and modeling its variability on multiple timescales. To that end, regional ocean models have become indispensable tools for leveraging available observations to predict conditions in unobserved locations and understand physical and biogeochemical ...
Speaker: Simone Alin, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and University of Washington School of Oceanography
Where: Bodega BayCost: Free
An Evening of Mushroom LoreAuthor and mycologist Lawrence Millman combines ecological, ethnographic, historical, and contemporary knowledge in his research and writings. His latest work, Fungipedia, takes us on a mycological journey - from John Cage and Terrence McKenna to mushroom sex and fairy rings.His work explores the lives of individuals like African American scientist George Washington Carver, ...
