Christoph Benning is the Director of the Michigan State University Plant Research Laboratory and a University Distinguished Professor. He received his Masters at Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet in Germany and his Ph.D. at Michigan State. Research in the Benning laboratory focuses on lipid metabolism in photosynthetic organisms. One area of particular interest ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Uncovering Mechanisms of Cardiac Fibrosis: From Molecular to Microenvironmental SignalsThe Davis lab is focused on uncovering the mechanistic basis for how the heart heals, repairs, and remodels in response to injury and disease. Toward this end we are tackling a fundamental problem associated with every form of heart disease, which is the replacement of contractile muscle with fibrotic scarring. ...
 This paper applies principles of advantageous selection to overcome obstacles that prevent the implementation of Pigouvian policies to internalize externalities. Focusing on negative externalities from production (such as pollution), we evaluate settings in which aggregate emissions are known, but individual contributions are unobserved by the government. The government provides firms ...
Protozoa, sponges, ctenophores, and cnidaria have behaviors largely reliant on calcium ion based electrical impulses but their different forms of electrogenesis show increasing levels of complexity. The position of the ctenophores in the evolutionary tree of life is controversial; their muscle systems are well developed but their nervous system is ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Placing Aquatic Foods at the Center of a Sustainable and Healthy Future of FoodIn recent years, one assessment after another has concluded that to nourish a population of 10 billion people while sustaining the Earth’s natural systems, the world will increasingly need to rely on food produced in ocean and freshwater fisheries and aquaculture. Yet there has been no systematic assessment of the ...
The mammalian organism maintains stable, efficient and “near-optimal†performance and homeostasis in the face of external and internal perturbations via distinct biological systems ranging from the large-scale physiological (nervous, endocrine, immune,circulatory, respiratory, etc.), to the cellular (growth and proliferation regulation, DNA damage repair, etc.), and the sub-cellular (gene expression, protein ...
Katharine Hayhoe is an accomplished atmospheric scientist who studies climate change and why it matters to us here and now. She is also a remarkable communicator who has received the American Geophysical Union’s climate communication prize, the Stephen Schneider Climate Communication award, named Champion of the Earth by UNEP and ...
Please join us for a presentation about global warming by the noted scientist and educator Jeffrey Bennett, Ph.D. Hear about potential solutions to this critical problem in a presentation designed to address common doubts and questions about its science, consequences, and resolutions. A Q&A session with Dr. Bennett will follow ...
Join us as three indigenous activists discuss the role of indigenous peoples in protecting water, land, and biodiversity in the face of environmental and moral hazards. Mark Tilsen (Oglala Lakota), Isabella Zizi (Northern Cheyenne, Arikara, Muscogee), and Melinda Micco (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma) will discuss historical truths, enduring challenges, and ...
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.Mahesh ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Art Meets Science Lecture: A Different Physics: The Poetics of DiscoveryHow do poetic and scientific exploration create access and insight between domains? Can art created within the worlds of science and technology broaden expectations and possibilities for engagement? Formally trained in physics and poetry, Lisa Rosenberg looks at processes of inquiry and making, with a lens of commonality and shared ...
The Future of AR/VR and Industrial IoT for BusinessAs new wave digital technologies are spreading into our world, the attention is often on consumer applications and lifestyle benefits. This talk will explore the impact of VR/AR and IoT technologies on enterprises and the reasons behind their adoption.Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality are now being regrouped under ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Adventure NightlifeTelluride’s Mountainfilm on Tour heads to NightLife with a selection of culturally rich, adventure-packed documentary films exploring the great outdoors. Full event details coming soon!Mountainfilm Film Documentary Lineup:Mentors: Hilaree NelsonPHOTO VAGABOND, A Yeti Tribe StoryThe Running PastorThe LitasSafe HavenJágrlamaAll In: Alaska Heli SkiingLife of PieTenaya Creek Kayak RunMission DolomitesBrotherhood of ...
How can we know the truth? Do facts matter? What distinguishes justified belief from opinion, and why do our personal biases keep us from seeing the whole picture? Join us to learn more about the anchors of scrupulous science and diligent data, how they can be exploited, and tools to ...
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
Global Warming Demystified-How You Can Make Sense of the Media DebateJoin us at the SETI Institute as Jeffery Bennett discusses global warming - addressing the science, the consequences, and the solutions. Is human-induced global warming real or a hoax?Speaker: Jeffery Bennett, Author and Educator
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Buffalo/Iinnii - The Circle Never EndsThe Circle of Iinnii is important in many aspects of the Blackfeet culture. The Blackfeet Nation, members of the Blackfoot Confederacy, Oakland Zoo, and Wildlife Conservation Society formed the unique Iinnii Initiative with the goals of enhancing biodiversity, preserving culture and language, and supporting a nature-based economy. Join us to ...
Conversations at the Library: Lucy Kalanithi / When Breath Becomes AirDr. Lucy Kalanithi is a physician, clinical assistant professor of medicine the Stanford School of Medicine, mother, and widow of the late Dr. Paul Kalanithi, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, When Breath Becomes Air. Lucy Kalanithi wrote the epilogue to the book, which was a finalist for ...
San Bruno Mountain State and County Park is a habitat island amidst a sea of urbanization, and is home to a variety of rare, threatened, and endangered plant and wildlife species - some of which occur only in this park. This talk will outline recent efforts to map and catalog ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
San Francisco City Star Party: Lands End @ Point Lobos, San Francisco, CACome 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!
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
WiFi, 5G & Your HealthEMF is undetectable to the 5 senses yet it is all around us. Â Come take a deeper look at the landscape of wireless communication, their frequencies, and the technology that is to come. Â We will discuss the science underlying WiFi & 5G waves and their biological and environmental effects from ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $0-$10
Friday, 11/08/19
Two KIPAC Tea TalksThe Electromagnetic Counterparts of GW170817 and Future Gravitational Wave EventsSpeaker: Kunal Mooley, NRAO and CalTechProbing the large-scale environments of AGNSpeaker: Meredith Powell, Stanford
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Toward precision cosmology with the Lya forest Neutral hydrogen in the Intergalactic Medium produces a collection of Lya absorptions, called the Lya forest, seen in the spectra of background objects. According to the common paradigm, neutral hydrogen in the IGM evolves from primordial density fluctuations in a low density and photo-ionized environment. It, therefore, acts as a ...
Color Centers and Quantum NanophotonicsLight and matter interaction at the nanoscale has been explored for a variety of quantum technologies pertaining to information processing, communication and sensing. The color centers, atomic defects in wide band gap semiconductor lattices, have had a prominent role in this research. The favorable combination of optical and spin properties ...
Catalytic C-H functionalization offers the promise of atom economical introduction of molecular diversity into organic molecules by direct transformation of C-H bonds to C-C, C-N, or C-O bonds. Compared to more traditional approaches that involve functional group manipulations, the direct utilization of C-H bonds in synthesis can minimize chemical steps, ...
July 2019 Solar Eclipse ExperienceMembers of the Peninsula Astronomical Society will share their experiences at the July 2019 solar eclipse.
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 parking)
Saturday, 11/09/19
Possible Self STEM FairA day of interactive, hands-on activities designed for 6th to 10th grade students and their families to Explore, Create, Make, and Learn about excitiing opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)
Where: SunnyvaleCost: Free
Dying Tomorrow WorkshopToday, information about our lives can be packaged, transmitted, and analyzed like never before. Our social media profiles create digital twins. Big data and machine learning could someday create algorithms that understand us even more intimately than loved ones, or ourselves. As the traces of our lives are measured, tracked, ...
Every day, we generate data about our daily lives. What happens when that data lives beyond us? With big data, social media, and shifting social concepts of “a good death†converging to create a digital afterlife, we explore the technology that is driving the transformation of the ways we die ...
Join The Crucible for a panel discussion with Karen Cusolito, Christopher Schardt, and Crimson Rose, where they will discuss how they have developed art for the playa at Burning Man. Crucible Board Member Jeremy Crandell will moderate this discussion showcasing The Crucible creative community and artists from Burning Man. There ...
Where: OaklandCost: 20.00
Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Runaway UniverseSome of the most energetic and fascinating objects in the Universe are exploding stars known as supernova. These colossal outbursts result from the deaths of stars and for a time can outshine the entire galaxy in which they're found. Elements necessary for life are built up in stars during their ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Sunday, 11/10/19
We Are in the Midst of an Extinction Event - CANCELEDThe scientist, broadcaster, Trinity College, Dublin Professor, and winner of the prestigious Boyle Medal for scientific research, Luke O'Neill, is a passionate and radical advocate for imaginative and immediate measures to mitigate the current climate crisis. The title of his talk suggests the most likely outcome of our continued procrastination.Editor's ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15
Monday, 11/11/19
Mercury Transit viewing from the Foothill ObservatoryOn Monday, November 11, the Foothill College Astronomy Department and the Peninsula Astronomical Society will be viewing the transit of Mercury. Join us at the Foothill Observatory (by parking lot 4) from sunrise at 6:44 a.m., when Mercury will already be in front of the sun, until the end of ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 parking)
Mercury Transit Across The SunNow here's something you don't see every day. In fact, you won't see it again until 2032!This Monday morning, Mercury will temporarily move between the Earth and the Sun. This event is like a tiny solar eclipse, where Mercury will block part of the Sun from our perspective, and we ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Increased Hubble tension with a new measurement of the Hubble constant using strong lensingThe recent tension between early- and late-Universe measurements of the Hubble constant highlights the necessity for independent and precise probes such as the time-delay cosmography. The measured time-delays between the lensed images of a background quasar depend on the absolute physical scales in the lens configuration. Thus, they allow measurement ...
Metastable phases have been a feature of materials technology for centuries, with hardening of steels by martensitic transformation being a conspicuous example that contributed greatly to the development of human civilization. More recently, there has been increasing interest in metastable phases for a broad range of applications including in opto-electronic ...
In developing the 20th century grid, George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla did not design an architecture for distributed or renewable resources. To decarbonize the grid--and to electrify transportation and heating--requires exactly that: a remaking of the grid to accommodate these resources. While doing so will require some new technology solutions, ...
Most plants die when they dry out, but resurrection plants are an exception to this rule. Resurrection plants can lose almost all their water and then come back to life when they are watered again. We call these plants “desiccation tolerant,†because they can survive near-complete desiccation (drying). In fact, ...
Two KIPAC Tea TalksDirect Detection of Black Hole-Driven Turbulence in the Centers of Galaxy Clusters Speaker: Yuan Li, UC BerkeleyThe Extremes of the Blazar SequenceBlazars are among the most luminous, persistent, sources in our Universe. With powerful relativistic jets closely pointed to our line of sight, they are detected at high redshifts (up ...
San Francisco’s Energy DestinyFrom a changing climate to the PG&E bankruptcy, San Francisco is facing a new energy landscape and the city’s elected leaders are considering a shift to public power to stabilize costs, ensure reliability, increase local oversight and expand the city’s use of renewable energy. But can this approach work? What ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for members
Measuring the Hubble constant from time-delays of strongly lensed quasars The recent tension between early- and late-Universe measurements of the Hubble constant highlights the necessity for independent and precise probes such as the time-delay cosmography. The measured time-delays between the lensed images of a background quasar depend on the absolute physical scales in the lens configuration. Thus, the time-delays allow ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Black Holes in Physics and AstrophysicsProfessors Roger Blandford and Eva Silverstein of the Stanford University Physics Department will each give an Applied Physics/Physics colloquium
Growing interest in offshore geologic carbon sequestration (GCS) motivates evaluation of the consequences of subsea CO2 well blowouts. We have simulated a hypothetical major CO2 well blowout in shallow water of the Texas Gulf Coast. We use a coupled reservoir-well model (T2Well) to simulate the subsea blowout flow rate for ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Sun Country: How to make solar power really shineRaffi Garabedian - the Chief Technology Officer at First Solar, one of the largest solar power companies in the country - will discuss how solar can help the United States lead the global clean-energy transformation.
Where: StanfordCost: Free
E360: California's Energy TransitionThis quarter Stanford Energy Club is continuing E360, our quarterly panel discussion series featuring energy experts in academia, industry, policy, and finance to talk about solutions to the energy challenge. This quarter’s E360 topic is California's Energy Transition: Energy Policy's Role in Achieving 100% Decarbonization, a discussion on current developments ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
A Debate on Breaking Up Big TechResolved: The U.S. Federal Government should invoke antitrust legislation to break up big technology corporations such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook.Over the last two decades, the valuation and market share of America's largest technology companies has increased massively. Now, some of these companies are under investigation for abusing their customers' ...
Gene therapy is currently undergoing clinical trials to evaluate its effectiveness at treating sickle cell disease. In this talk, Dr. Suchi Pandey will review how gene therapy is currently being used to treat sickle cell disease, the different kinds of gene therapy options being evaluated, and the potential impact to ...
7:00-7:25: Danielle Wright(North American Sustainable Refrigeration Council) on "Natural Refrigerants: The #1 Climate Solution Hiding in Your Supermarket"Most of us have little idea of the environmental impact of keeping our food cold...Read more7:25-7:50: Charles Lindsay(SETI AIR) on "Inter-species Communication" or "Art for a Post-Earth Humanity"Abstract forthcoming...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. ...
