X-ray Impact on Planet Formation: an experimental viewI this talk, I will introduce how planets are formed in the disk of gas and dust surrounding young stars. Stars like classical T Tauri emit copious amounts of X-rays, in addition to ultraviolet photons, confirmed by Chandra/XMM observations of targets in the Taurus molecular cloud. Soft (<1 keV) and ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Sonoma State Biology ColloquiumSonoma State University Biology ColloquiumSpeaker: Dr. W. Berkeley Kauffman, US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Mocking the Universe & Machine Learning Approaches to Large-Scale Structure Efficient generation of accurate mock observations of the sky, tailored specifically to near-future large-scale structure and cosmic microwave background surveys, is a key technical challenge in cosmology. I will first discuss the creation of these synthetic observations, or mocks, through the use of rapid so-called ‘approximate’ simulation techniques, with a ...
Grand Challenges in IoT & Consumer-Facing Automation (over burgers & brews)Robotics and the Internet of Things is driving innovation in how we work, how we socialize, and now, how we eat. What are the unique challenges of bringing automation to consumer products and traditional brick-and-mortars? We’ll explore trends in software spanning robotics and the cloud, human-machine interfaces, and consumer-facing applications. ...
We are entering the 4th major industrial revolution. The first saw the introduction of steam and water power. The 2nd saw assembly lines and mass production. The 3rd was fueled by computers. Now, we see a 4th, marked by AI, big data, Mobile devices, Industrial Internet of Things (IoT), machine ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Marine Mammal Research in Malaysia and VietnamJoin ACS San Francisco Bay Chapter for an enthralling evening with scientist, Dr. Ellen Hines, as she reports on her fascinating Fulbright Fellowship work doing surveys off the coastline of Malaysia and measuring bones in Vietnamese whale temples!
Where: SausalitoCost: $10 suggested donation
Fungal Symbioses and Plant Ecological NichesSpeaker: Dr. Michael Van Nuland is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist interested in plant-microbiome relationships. His work combines largescale observations, mechanistic experiments, and molecular approaches to explore how plants interact with their associated microbes, why these interactions vary under different environments, and what effect these interactions have on the ecology ...
Eric Skaar earned his B.S. in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, his Ph.D. in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis from Northwestern University, and his M.P.H. in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Northwestern University. His laboratory is interested in identifying the host and bacterial factors that are involved in this ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Rock 'n' Roll, Jazzy and Classical Solutions to the Hubble Tension Local measurements of the Hubble parameter are increasingly in tension with the value inferred from a LCDM fit to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data. A general class of solutions to this tension involves temporarily increasing the energy density of the Universe close to the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Hunting for life in sub-seafloor volcanoes and the explosive growth of microbiology as a data science Exploration of Earth's microbial and viral diversity is a major scientific frontier. Sequencing DNA - the blueprint of life - collected directly from the environment provides a powerful way to access the uncatalogued microbial diversity on our planet. These uncharacterized life forms are ripe with novel functions, metabolisms, the potential ...
Understanding and harnessing the coupling between lubrication pressure, elasticity, and surface interactions provides materials design strategies for applications such as adhesives, coatings, microsensors, and biomaterials. This presentation will discuss our efforts to understand how soft materials make contact and adhere under dynamic conditions in fluid environments. Measurements of interactions between ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Carl Zimmer on HeredityHeredity isn’t just about genes that pass from parent to child, argues acclaimed science journalist Carl Zimmer. We also inherit other things that matter as much - or more - to our lives, from microbes to technologies we use to make life more comfortable. Weaving original reporting with historical context ...
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
Seeing the World from Above: An Evening with Aerial Photographer George SteinmetzFor more than thirty years, George Steinmetz has been flying through the air like a bird, capturing breathtaking photographs of remote deserts, obscure cultures, and the mysteries of science and technology. His powerful work has been featured in The New York Times and in more than forty National Geographic photo ...
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 and technology trends. It also features prominent leaders who discuss broader societal and political issues that shape our life and society.Auston ...
The Driving Success Behind Open Innovation Outcomes: A Fireside Chat with Henry Chesbrough and Tolga KurtogluOpen Innovation is PARC’s bread and butter. Since its origin, the concept has shifted into an incredibly practical and inclusive way of solving today’s and tomorrow’s problems. Companies have often looked at Open Innovation to creatively utilize the many talents in the room and across organizations. What’s next is how ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
After Dark: It's Alive!Life comes at you fast - but sometimes it’s hard to observe, because it’s too tiny or speedy or is hidden underground, or is deep in the ocean. Discover what you’ve been missing: use scientific tools to investigate living things of all different sizes, the ecosystems they inhabit, and the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, $14.95 Daytime Members
Cyberspace NightLifeThis week at NightLife, we’re exploring the many sides of the internet: the good, the bad, and the meme-worthy.Catch a screening of the internet’s funniest, most dramatic, and awww!-worthy cat videos in CatVideoFest, the offline celebration of online cat videos.Step inside the “dark web†with Sonic Internet for a demonstration ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
Hardcore Natural History Series - Sea Otters: A Parasite's New HostDespite southern sea otter population growth since 1911, otters are faced with increasing challenges to their survival. One of the largest obstacles they face is a disease caused by the thorny-headed worm, a parasite known by scientists as an acanthocephalan. Since the 1960s, species of this parasite, normally found in ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $10 General, $5 Member advance, $15 at door
Friday, 10/25/19
Two KIPAC Tea TalksRelativistic outflows in neutron star mergersSpeaker: Ore Gottlieb, Tel Aviv UniversityCMB Lensing Tomography at 0<zCMB lensing tomography has the potential to map the amplitude and growth of structure over cosmic time, provide some of the most stringent tests of gravity, and break important degeneracies between cosmological parameters. I use the ...
While many people may think of California’s Central Valley as mostly monocultures of almonds and tomatoes, the landscape is also dotted with small-scale diversified farms. On these farms, you can find 50-100 different types of crops - from jujube to jicama, from papaya to moringa, from water spinach to taro, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free with Admission
Novel Nanotechnology Solutions to Oncology ChallengesLiposomal nanoparticles have made important contributions to cancer therapy over the two past decades, but their limited tunability and stability hinder further progress in addressing unmet oncology needs. By harnessing the power of synthetic chemistry and nanotechnology, the Lin group has developed several novel classes of molecular nanomaterials, including nanoscale ...
Come spend an afternoon exploring the pristine Arroyo Viejo Creek and discovering the many wild species of plants and animals that live in the wild spaces within our own urban community. Learn how to submit your wildlife pictures to help exciting citizen/community projects being conducted by real scientists. Create lasting ...
Small molecule activation often requires both protons and electrons. This includes chemical transformations key to sustainable energy and environment e.g. reduction of H+, O2, CO2 and N2. Similarly, mono-oxygenation of organic molecules using molecular oxygen, a process often described as the Holy grail of chemistry, requires protons and electrons. Erstwhile ...
Have you ever wondered what happens at a government research facility? Are you interested in high energy physics, harnessing light, or nanoparticles? Join us for a tour at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and learn about the Lab’s long history of bringing science solutions to the world. Spend the afternoon getting ...
Join us for a vibrant celebration of the nature of California to kick off the 2019 Bay Area Science Festival. Discover how the University of California Natural Reserve System is cultivating tomorrow’s field scientists, providing environmental forecasting, and serving the people of California. Meet scientists working at the UC Natural ...
We will be showcasing state-of-the-art technology that Neuroscape currently uses for research on cognition-enhancing interventions. Some of this technology includes virtual reality, motion capture, 3-D brain activity visualizations that can be experienced in virtual reality, and various games that we use for interventions and assessments.RSVP at weblink
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Art + Tech Festival: Opening NightSpace is a canvas on which we write our stories, paint our dreams, and build our realities. Space is a province of the known… and the unknown. Through art, as we architect space, we envision the future.How do technologies like virtual reality allow new ways of living, being, playing, and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 (20% off with CODEAME-20 discount code)
The Cable Guy is Watching: Pervasive Tracking Online and the Role of DNSIf you thought the big tech companies were the only ones watching you online, think again. Thanks to a major privacy hole in the internet’s infrastructure, your cable guy - Comcast, AT&T and Verizon, also known as your internet service providers (ISP) - have unfettered access to your every move ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
The Future of California’s Nature: Conservation leaders in conversationIn today’s world of rapidly warming temperatures and rising seas, California’s land stewards are working hard to protect the state’s renowned biodiversity, unique ecosystems, and natural landscapes. Applying the best available science, land practices, and environmental technologies new and old is more important than ever. Achieving these goals in an ...
Guided Nature Walk Experience 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 are no more ...
Where: Glen EllenCost: $20 suggested donation
All Things Fall With David HerlockerVisit Martin Griffin Preserve throughout our limited Fall Season, with Nature Guide-led walks, activities, or materials to open your eyes to our lovely preserve in a different way each week. Visitors are also welcome to hike our trails on their own, scoop up a newt at the ponds, peer at ...
Where: Stinson BeachCost: $20 suggested donation
Art + Tech Festival: WorkshopsSpace is a canvas on which we write our stories, paint our dreams, and build our realities. Space is a province of the known… and the unknown. Through art, as we architect space, we envision the future.How do technologies like virtual reality allow new ways of living, being, playing, and ...
CSU East Bay, together with East Bay community groups, will be leading more than 50 hands-on activities, demonstrations, and talks. Experience a chemistry magic show, do some geophysical prospecting and fossil casting, touch sea slugs, bugs and other creatures, learn about your brain in the psychology playground, and so much ...
With more than 100 hands-on science, technology, engineering and math activities led by local museums, companies, schools and others, there is something for everyone at the North Bay Science Discovery Day. Discover what it’s like to be a heart surgeon using the newest life-saving technologies, explore the robot playground, go ...
Where: Santa RosaCost: Free
Science Saturday: Bats, Spiders, and SnakesJoin us as we slither into the magical world of bats, spiders, and snakes. Learn about these amazing (and important!) animals as you visit fun and educational stations throughout the Museum. Don't miss this opportunity to meet a live animal up close, take home a creepy craft, and more.
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
International Archaeology Day at the PresidioHelp Presidio Trust archaeologists celebrate International Archaeology Day with a variety of activities and events for all ages. See 200-year-old standing adobe in the Presidio Officers’ Club, meet archaeologists from around the Bay Area, and take a look behind the scenes in the Presidio Archaeology Lab. Meet archaeologists and researchers ...
Come enjoy a day of STEAM at the Redwood City Public Library! With ten hands-on exhibits, both inside and in front of the library, families can explore Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math in an interactive environment. We are incredibly fortunate to have the talents of local experts to answer ...
Where: Redwood CityCost: 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
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.
Do you love birds and want to know how you can help study them? Then join San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory citizen scientists Barbara Coll and Jan Hintermeister on a fun bird walk to look for residential and migratory birds in the mudflats, ponds and creeks of Charleston Slough. Participants ...
If the earth didn’t have an atmosphere, would we see the stars all day long? What is the difference between a CT scan and an MRI? If you could ask a scientist a question, what would it be…? Here’s your chance! Send your questions to Science at Cal at our ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Art + Tech Festival: Closing NightSpace is a canvas on which we write our stories, paint our dreams, and build our realities. Space is a province of the known… and the unknown. Through art, as we architect space, we envision the future.How do technologies like virtual reality allow new ways of living, being, playing, and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 (20% off with CODEAME-20 discount code)
Who can become a scientist? From media to textbooks, the answer too often is very narrow. This event will feature a collection of short films that tell the stories of how underrepresented scientists have succeeded because (and not in spite) of their identities, culture, and life experiences. Called “Background to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Sunday, 10/27/19
Art + Tech Festival: SalonSpace is a canvas on which we write our stories, paint our dreams, and build our realities. Space is a province of the known… and the unknown. Through art, as we architect space, we envision the future.How do technologies like virtual reality allow new ways of living, being, playing, and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 (20% off with CODEAME-20 discount code)
Step into the (close-toed) shoes of a scientist and explore biology at this community-wide science event! Come to the Innovative Genomics Institute(IGI) on Berkeley campus to experience a range of activities designed for visitors of all ages. Discover the fascinating power of DNA, the instruction manual for life. Hear from scientists ...
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
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. ...
Explore the wonder of mathematics, art, performance and magic! Spend the afternoon exploring puzzles and games, and engaging with mathematics through magic tricks, movement and visual art. You will be amazed at the beauty of mathematics and how it shows up everywhere in our lives.Â
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Shore Tour at the Hayward Area ShorelineJoin us for an interactive tour of the Hayward shoreline. The Shore Tour is part of the Hayward Area Shoreline Planning Agency’s efforts to engage the public in their planning for the future resilience of our shoreline. Join our team of naturalists and planners for a walk along the shoreline ...
The Big Bang theory, describing the origin of our universe, is very well established today. We have ample evidence that the universe originated from a hot "singularity," then expanded and cooled over time. Nevertheless, there is still a missing piece of the cosmic puzzle: How did the first stars form?! This ...
In 1931, Winston Churchill declared: "We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under suitable medium." What suitable medium is that?! Beyond chicken, can the tissues of cow, pig, and fish really be grown in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Full-Spectrum Science with Ron Hipschman: Science Fiction Turned FactScience fiction has predicted many things. Some have come true (think touch screens, submarines, bionic limbs), others, not so much - or at least, not yet. If you’ve ever wondered where your flying car or rocket belt is, or why you don’t yet have a robot servant, find out at ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with Admission
Monday, 10/28/19
Searching for supermassive black hole binariesSupermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are a natural byproduct of galaxy mergers. Yet, they remain undetectable at small separations. A promising method is to identify quasars with periodic variability. I will discuss candidates identified in time-domain surveys, as well as ongoing efforts to confirm their binary nature. I will also ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
End of Life Options for People Developing DementiaHaving dementia is the greatest fear shared by most people as they age. One needs to plan for the time when you may no longer have a clear mind and the ability to make decisions about your own medical care. The advance directive (AD) in its usual format is insufficient ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, Free for Members, $8 Students
The power sector will likely play a pivotal role in a low-carbon future, and successfully integrating different energy networks will be a key component of that future. Urban energy centers are large and growing. Meeting their heating, cooling and electrical energy demands is both a challenge and an opportunity. We ...
In spite of the growing excitement and participation in the technology sector, there has still been great inequality and bias against certain groups. Many researchers suggest that the “stereotype†that surrounds computer scientists - commonly expressed as geeky, awkward, male, genius, and the like - contributes to this imbalance of ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
How do emerging light harvesting materials form, transform, and transport energy at the nanoscale?We are interested in the optoelectronic properties and the spatiotemporal nature of photogenerated energy carrier transport of emerging semiconducting materials, broadly defined. These materials include not only semiconductors who basic building blocks are atoms but also those made of small particles or molecules, including the aggregates of molecular pigments involved ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE SENSORS AND SPECTROCOPY GROUP AT VIAVI SOLUTIONS - RESCHEDULEDThe sensors and spectroscopy group of Viavi Solutions produces the MicroNIR NIR spectrometer as well as binary multispectral (BMS) filters. The variety of scientific fields used in both instrument development and applications will be discussed. Presented by Valton Smith.Editor's Note: This talk will be rescheduled for November 18
Learn about the complex molecular machines that underlie cancer. Experience UCSF’s state-of-the-art electron microscopy and mass spectrometry facilities and explore the techniques we use to understand protein structures and their functions in cellular processes. Our mission at the Cancer Cell Map Initiative is to enable a new era of cancer ...
Genetic engineering and editing allow us to modify plants in various ways. Questions have been raised about the environmental and human-health effects of these technologies to modify the genetic information in crops and foods. What is the history of genetic modification of plants, and what impact might these technologies have ...
Human Nature is a provocative exploration of CRISPR, a scientific revolution giving us unprecedented control over the building blocks of life. Where do we draw the line between curing disease and designing our children? How will this new power change our relationship with nature and evolution? To begin to answer ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Nerd Nite East Bay: Barnacles, Chevron Richmond, Martian AtmosphereShaped By Chevron: How Oil, WWII and Migration Created Richmond In an echo of the corporate towns of America’s past, learn why Chevron was built in Richmond or, more accurately, how Chevron built Richmond around the massive oil refinery. See how World War II and the second Great Migration bifurcated ...
