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 ...
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
UC Berkeley’s Chemapalooza UC Berkeley's chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma, a professional chemistry fraternity is holding its second annual Chemapalooza event, a one day chemistry festival for guests in K-12, college, and beyond! The event will be held at Berkeley's College of Chemistry and will include a variety of presentations for attendees of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Intriguing World of Insects: Lecture and Guided Tour Whether we see them or not, insects have a constant presence in our lives. From pollinating the fruits and vegetables we eat and helping cure diseases through DNA research, to pests we find in our homes and gardens, there is no escaping the intimate relationships insects share with fellow earthlings. ...
Where: MillbraeCost: 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
Seaweed Soiree! an adult evening of seaweed, science, and artLearn about the secret lives of seaweeds and kelp forests from Dr. Karina Nielsen, Director of Estuary Ocean Science Center and Professor of Biology at San Francisco State University. Enjoy the fine art photography and research of artist and author Josie Iselin, whose work on marine algae explores the space ...
Giant planets can be as large as 13 times the mass of Jupiter, while the lowest mass stars are about 80 times the mass of Jupiter. In between are objects called “brown dwarfsâ€, too massive to be called planets, but not massive enough to burn hydrogen and shine like stars. ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Sunday, 11/17/19
Science Sundays: Floating on the Edge: Physiology, Ecology, and Recovery of Southern Sea OttersNearly hunted to extinction for their fur during the 18th and 19th centuries, the southern sea otter population recovery has been a slow and meandering journey. This iconic nearshore species is a physiological oddball among marine mammals. Collaborative research efforts examining the unique physiology, behavior, and ecology of southern sea ...
Our understanding of stem cells has exploded in recent years, promising transformative therapies and even cures - for a myriad of diseases. Come learn about the many types of stem cells in the human body, and how they are being used to develop treatments for diseases including immune deficiencies, sickle ...
Where: AlamedaCost: Free
Monday, 11/18/19
Statistical Challenges in photometric redshift inferenceObservations from large area photometric surveys like LSST or DES will constrain cosmology to unprecedented precision. Deep wide-area imaging will provide observations for faint galaxy samples, for which traditional redshift calibration using spectroscopic data is very difficult. It is therefore important to quantify and incorporate the modelling uncertainty in the ...
It is common to hear that certain natural language understanding (NLU) tasks have been "solved". These claims are often misconstrued as being about general human capabilities (e.g., to answer questions), but they are always actually about how systems performed on narrowly defined evaluations. Recently, adversarial testing methods have begun to ...
Phase equilibrium calculations at pressure and temperature specifications, consisting in the minimization of the Gibbs free energy with respect to mole numbers, are the most commonly used and there are well documented in the literature. An attractive alternative is given by the volume-based calculations, in which volume and mole numbers, ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Josephson effect as a tool for creating topological superconductivityIn this talk I will describe how the Josephson effect may be employed to realize one dimensional topological superconductivity. I will describe the basic idea, the experimental observations, the relation to topological superconductivity based on quantum wires, a surprising effect of disorder, and a scheme for braiding Majorana zero modes ...
Emilio Nanni received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 2013. He joined SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University in 2015; his research is focused applied electromagnetics; high power, high-frequency vacuum electron devices; optical THz amplifiers; electron-beam dynamics; and advanced accelerator concepts.
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE SENSORS AND SPECTROCOPY GROUP AT VIAVI SOLUTIONSThe 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 was originally scheduled for October 28.
SHINING X-RAYS ON TOPOLOGICAL TEXTURE: INSIGH INTO MAGNETIC SKYMIONSRecently discovered skyrmions is an example of a topological phase that manifest in magnetic systems as a hexagonal lattice of spin vortices. Due to topological protection, skyrmions can be moved coherently over macroscopic distances with low currents compared to domain wall motion, and is therefore a potential candidate for low ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Single-molecule FRET studies of binding and folding conformational dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteinsIntrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) play important roles in various dynamic cellular processes such as gene transcription and signal transduction. IDPs are unstructured but usually fold during binding to target proteins. In contrast to interactions between folded proteins, this additional folding step makes the binding process more complex. Understanding the mechanism ...
The solar wind is the superhot, escaping atmosphere of the Sun that has its origin in the solar corona and expands past the outer planets to form the heliosphere. However, for lack of direct measurements, the physical processes responsible for coronal heating and solar wind energization are not currently well ...
Hanadie will discuss the stages of creating and building a biotechnology startup, from generating an idea and business model, networking, laying the foundations, fundraising and recruiting a team. She will share tips and lessons learned from the last 3 years on this journey.Speaker: Hanadie Yousef, Juvena Therapeutics
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
City College of San Francisco: Engineering, Architecture, Technology and the EnvironmentOur panel members will explore the depth of talent, expertise, learning, knowledge and experiences at City College in making important improvements to combat global environmental issues and problems. Environmental flexibility and plans for the college's adjacent 17 acres that were graciously leased to City College by the San Francisco Public ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
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 ...
Where: NovatoCost: Free
The Future of MeatFood technology is rapidly changing the way food can be produced--from lab-grown "cultured meat" to plant-based alternatives. Learn about the environmental, health, and animal welfare reasons behind why alternatives to conventional meat are being developed, the science behind creating these foods, and how they are expected to disrupt the meat ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
More from LessAndrew McAfee draws on a wide range of evidence to show that the world is already on the right track toward long-term health when it combines 1) technological progress, 2) capitalism, 3) responsive government, and 4) public awareness. That blend demonstrably gets humanity “more from less.†It dematerializes the economy ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: TBA, Free for Members
Tuesday, 11/19/19
Designing for Lasting Impact-The Science Behind Better Building EnclosuresThe seminar will discuss building science fundamentals, fire safety including the Wildland-Urban Interface and NFPA 285, the effective performance of roof systems, as well as a project highlight on the Chase Center!During the course of the day, Graham Finch (RDH) will delve into the science behind building enclosures, discuss key ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $80
Camera systematics and three-point correlations in modern photometric galaxy surveysThe goal of modern cosmology is to understand the behavior of the universe at large scales, including the evolution of the matter distribution over cosmic time. Advances in this endeavor require both better characterization of systematic errors in raw astronomical data as well as improved statistical methods for extracting cosmological ...
Upcoming probes of fundamental physics: Utilising small-scale signatures in the Universe In the next few years, the field of cosmology will see an influx of new and high quality data from surveys of cosmic microwave background (CMB) and large-scale structure (LSS). In particular, there is overwhelming evidence that measuring the late time effects on the CMB photons (secondaries) will provide new ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Future of Particle PhysicsJoseph D. Lykken of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will give the Applied Physics/Physics colloquium
Clean Energy Systems (CES) has developed game-changing technology that is revolutionizing the power industry by eliminating the traditional exhaust stack and making zero-emission power a reality.
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Recreating Bo Peep for Toy Story 4: A journey alongside Team Bo In Toy Story 4, audiences rediscover BoPeep, who returns after nearly 20 years away from the big screen. In adapting her design, we considered not only the cultural context of reviving one of our industry’s first female characters, informing our story and design, but also the technology now available, which ...
PLEASE REGISTER at WEBSITEImagine traveling halfway across the world, descending over 400 feet underground in a tiny elevator, and spending nearly a week in the vast, cathedral-like salt mines under Romania to compete in the most elite model airplane contest on the planet. Officially known as the “F1D World Championshipsâ€, ...
Where: Castro ValleyCost: Free
CRISPR, AI, and the Ethics of Scientific DiscoveryTwin revolutions at the start of the 21st century are shaking up the very idea of what it means to be human. Computer vision and image recognition are at the heart of the AI revolution. And CRISPR is a powerful new technique for genetic editing that allows humans to intervene ...
Else Vellinga's presentation will focus on the people who were instrumental in naming mushroom species, on the advocates for conservation, those advancing the science behind our understanding of mushrooms in the field, and the pioneers in mushroom dyes.Speaker: Else Vellinga
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #114: Autopsies, Jane Austen, and Aliens!“Working Stiff & First Cut: The Real Work of a Forensic Pathologist†by Dr. Judy Melinek and T.J. MitchellDr. Judy Melinek performs autopsies for a living. Her husband, T.J. Mitchell, is a writer. Together they will answer everything you dare ask a medical examiner, give you a tour of the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10
Astronomical Imaging PrimerPlease join the Mt. Diablo Astronomical Society on November 19 for our general meeting featuring members of the MDAS Imaging Group, who will show off their images of the night sky and offer advice on getting started. What equipment do you need? What do you start with? What kind of ...
Where: Walnut CreekCost: Free
How to Bend a Stream of Dark Matter and Make it ShineThe nature of dark matter is one of the most captivating and fundamental open problems facing physicists today. Over many decades, we have collected overwhelming evidence for the existence of dark matter in the universe. Some of the strongest evidence comes from observations of the growth of galaxies and clusters ...
Human minds love to discover patterns, to find intuitive explanations, and, most of all, to be certain. Yet our world is complicated and filled with randomness. Statistical thinking provides us with practical tools for making sense of an uncertain world. It can lead us to make surprising conclusions from the ...
Dr. Mouncey joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its 20-year history. He earned his Bachelor's of Science in Microbiology at University of Glasgow and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at University of Sussex. His team has developed production strains and fermentation processes for other ...
A carbon tax has been widely discussed as a way of reducing fossil fuel use and mitigating climate change, generally in a static framework. Unlike standard goods that can be produced, oil is an exhaustible resource. Parts of its price reflects scarcity rents, i.e., the fact that there is limited ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Black Hole Superradiance Signatures of Ultralight VectorsBlack holes are useful tools in the search for Physics beyond the Standard Model. A particle lighter than 10^-11 eV has a Compton wavelength comparable to the horizon size of astrophysical black holes, and can form bound states around the black hole, similar to an atom. If the particle is ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Three Estuary and Ocean Science Center talksNicholas Lee Carver Sea Surface Temperature Variability in Gulf of the Farallones & Surrounding Region Anna Costanza Participatory risk assessment of humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) and leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) bycatch in Northern PeruAlyssa EllsMarine Heat Waves in the San Francisco Bay Estuary
Where: TiburonCost: Free
The Century of Biology on Earth and BeyondAre we alone? We want to know whether there is life beyond Earth and whether any of it is intelligent. Since the middle of the twentieth century, we have had astronomical tools that permit us to embark on a scientific exploration to try to answer this age-old question. Join Dr. ...
Nanoparticles are of interest in a variety of biomedical applications that take advantage of their small size and unique properties. Iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles are one class of nanomaterials that respond to externally applied magnetic fields due to their superparamagnetism, enabling applications in targeted and externally triggered drug delivery, magnetic ...
The dominant food system is in crisis, producing adverse consequences for human health and the environment. Climate change, an intersecting crisis, threatens our ability to grow food in a manner that has been prevalent for the past several decades: that is to say, industrially, through large-scale monocrops of just a ...
Alan will be sharing recent finds from his four months of travel in Mexico this year including several new species of bioluminescent fungi, and the technology using Mushroom Observer, iNaturalist, and other internet forums and DNA sequencing.Speaker: Alan Rockefeller
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
SciComm Studio 020: Art, Activism & AIThe rapid expansion and deployment of today’s technology often comes with unanticipated consequences. Yet, critical insights into tech are prevalent in new media art projects that push boundaries into possibilities, limits, and impacts of tech on a human, social level. Is it time for industry, policy, and research to pay ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Technosignatures vs. Biosignatures: Which Will Succeed First?Thirty-five years ago, a group of entrepreneurs and scientists founded the SETI Institute â€" the first scientific institute dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life in the universe. We’re excited to commemorate this anniversary. We invited SETI Institute co-founder Jill Tarter and 2018 Drake Award Recipient Vikki Meadows to discuss ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Community Talk: Ildiko Polony, Literacy for Environmental JusticeIldiko Polony, Native Plant Nursery Manager for Literacy for Environmental Justice in the Bayview District of San Francisco, will discuss the awesome potential of restored habitat to sequester carbon, mitigate the impacts of climate change and restore our global carbon cycle. By restoring habitat we re-invigorate the biological systems wherein ...
Where: OaklandCost: free
Efficiently Protecting Software Innovations on a Global ScaleTo be competitive, software companies often employ designers and developers in different locations and countries to implement and update different versions of software. With this increasing workforce in other countries, software company competition can also stem from other countries, and can provide different flavors of a software product to different ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Learning from and about wild African great apes using indirect and non-invasive methodsPrimatological research continues to uncover the complexity of great ape ecology and behavior in the wild using direct observations, still discovering fascinating new aspects of their diet, sociality and culture. However, direct observations require to habituate the animals to human observers, which can take many years or even decades in ...
Discover how the history of celestial cartography has evolved into several pathways that have relevance for today’s amateur astronomer. Dr. Nick Kanas will trace the history of ancient star mapping traditions, discuss the beautiful images of constellations pictured in early atlases, and explain how the development and use of the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Thursday, 11/21/19
Is our Solar System Unique? A Holistic View of Exoplanet DemographicsThe Kepler and K2 missions blessed the community with a plethora of planet transit detections which enabled studies of exoplanet size demographics. Much of the recent progress in this field is driven by improved characterization of the stellar hosts. Our group recently used precise radius measurements from the California-Kepler Survey ...
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.Sylvia ...
5G Mobile Wireless: A 5G Overview and Market UpdateThe fifth generation of mobile wireless is now a commercial concept with many operators around the world selling 5G services and many more preparing to launch in the next 18 months. This talk will review the overall concept of 5G, the commercial, technical, and policy drivers, and many of the ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Instrument and science for the SPT-3G cosmic microwave background receiverSPT-3G is a third-generation camera for the 10-meter diameter South Pole Telescope (SPT), which is designed to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB). To achieve a high mapping speed, we have developed a new multichroic receiver with a total of 16,000 polarization-sensitive detectors. SPT-3G began a 6-year 1500 square degree ...
Leave your common sense at the door and indulge in a night of nonsense. In celebration of the opening of our exhibition Curious Contraptions, join us for a gathering of artists and makers who specialize in the whimsical, the foolish, and the absurd - including two performances by Maywa Denki, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95, 14.95 explO members, AD members free
BiteLifeLive Talks: Future of Food & Turkey Carving African HallAt 7:30 PM, Join Anthony Myint (Mission Chinese Food, The Perennial) for an optimistic talk about how the State of California and Zero Foodprint are teaming up to help restaurants, chefs, and diners fund a transition from extractive farming to a ...
Golden Eagles are a well-studied, widely distributed raptor species. Long-term monitoring of Golden Eagle populations have revealed several current and emerging threats, including landscape-mediated diet shifts that may increase the potential for disease infection, and warming temperatures that may increase the distribution and abundance of eagle ectoparasites. This presentation will ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $5 donation General, Free for Members
NPR has called Susannah Cahalan “one of America’s most courageous young journalists.†Known for her memoir Brain on Fire, which details her experience with a rare autoimmune disease, Cahalan’s work has since been made into a feature film on Netflix.In her newest book, The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $15 member, $10 Student
What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business CultureCulture is how a company makes decisions. If culture is not purposeful, it could result in accidents or mistakes. As a leader, how do you create and sustain the culture you want? It’s a question crucial to every organization and Ben Horowitz, veteran entrepreneur and cofounder of the venture capital ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost:
Sea-Level Rise, Extreme Water Levels, and Coastal Erosion ... How bad could it possibly be?Sea-level rise represents an unprecedented civil engineering challenge.Small amounts of sea-level rise can disproportionately increase the frequency of coastal flooding. One-third to two-thirds of the beaches in Southern California may disappear by 2100 under sea-level rise of 1-2 meters.A combination of satellite observations and modeling will help to understand and predict coastal ...
Science Trivia NightMAKE SCIENCE GREAT AGAIN!Science Trivia NightA fundraiser for City College of San Francisco scholarshipsBring your smarts and your smartypants friends to Laughing Monk Brewery for a night of nerdy competition. Game begins at 7:30. Come early, grab a beer and a table. Bring a team or we'll help you join one. Maximum ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 per player
Friday, 11/22/19
Two KIPAC Tea TalksNobel Prizes in ExoplanetsSpeaker: Lea Hirsch, StanfordA 1700 km/s hyper velocity star discovered by the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic SurveySpeaker: Ting Li, Carnegie Observatories
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Reconstruction of Cosmological Fields in Forward Model Framework - Galaxy Clustering and Intensity Mapping In this talk, I will outline the forward model approach to reconstruct cosmological fields in a Bayesian framework. I will focus on two examples - galaxy clustering and neutral hydrogen intensity mapping. In galaxy clustering example, I will use the observations of galaxy surveys to reconstruct the initial Lagrangian field. ...
A Better Future for Fossil Hydrocarbons and Carbon NanomaterialsEvery year we extract over 4.2 GT of oil, 2.5 GT of natural gas, and 3.4 GT of coal to sustain our economies. That’s equivalent to 8.7 GT of carbon and 1.3 GT of Hydrogen. Almost all of these resources are burned to generate energy, causing over 30 GT of ...
Luminescent molecules that can undergo self-assembly are of great interest for the development of new materials, sensors, biolabels…. The talk will illustrate some of the recent results on soft structures based on metal complexes able to aggregate in fibers, gels and soft mechanochromic materials [1]. The emission of the compounds ...
