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 ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Saturday, 11/23/19
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
When Water Dreams - Art Reception & Astist TalkCanadian artist/photographer Bill Peters presents large-scale color images of the salt ponds, sloughs and wetlands of San Francisco Bay shot from a helicopter from 2009 through July of this year. The shoreline of San Francisco Bay is a crucible where the human forces that work on land and water intersect ...
Explore some of the many ways to make color - from neon signs to oil slicks to rainbows and more. Learn all about light, how it is made and interacts, and take home materials to build your own spectroscope. You’ll see color in a whole new light!
Strain Modulated Superlattices in GrapheneThe quest to create novel material systems with designer electronic properties has often led to the investigation of interfaces and superlattices. The potential of customizing properties by merging different 2D materials via vertical or horizontal stacking to create van der Waals or lateral heterostructures seems limitless. In this presentation I ...
Constraints on Quantum GravityAlthough predictions of quantum gravity are typically at extremely high energy, over the last decades several non-trivial constraints on its low energy effective theory have been found. I will start by explaining why the unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics has been difficult. After introducing the holographic principle as ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Nerd Nite East BayJoin Nerd Nite East Bay for the Treason of Aaron Burr, How Plate Tectonics Can Create Ice Ages, and the History of Extremely Dangerous Toys!Aaron Burr after Hamilton: Conspiracy and Treason in the pre-America WestNerd Nite brings you a live performance of Hamilton 2! (But sorry, no singing). After Aaron Burr ...
Intrinsically disordered peptides are a special class of proteins that do not fold to a unique three-dimensional shape. These proteins play important roles in the cell, from signaling to serving as structural scaffolds. Under pathological conditions, these proteins are capable of self-assembling into structures that are toxic to the cell, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Stress and Symbiosis: How a Crop Plant Prioritizes Communication with Friendly FungiUnderstanding how plants respond to drought is critical to improving agricultural yields under increasingly frequent droughts as a result of climate change. The UC lab grew the naturally drought-tolerant food crop sorghum in the field under drought stress to look at how this changes its gene expression. Their work revealed ...
 2019 Holiday HoursThanksgiving (November 28): 10 am - 3 pmChristmas Eve (December 24): 9:30 am - 5 pmChristmas Day (December 25): 11 am - 5 pmNew Year's Eve (December 31): 9:30 am - 5 pmNew Year's Day (January 1, 2020): 9:30 am - 5 pmNovember 29-30 & December 26-30: Open until 6 pmÂ
Celebrate the return of Pacific Grove's monarch butterfly population during Magnificent Monarchs. View live butterflies up close, migrate like a monarch, and learn how to garden with butterflies in mind. You can help our visiting monarchs by taking home your very own native wildflower pot!Science Saturdays 2019-2020Â Science Saturdays are family ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
Photowalk: Inspiration PointEnjoy a two-hour photowalk led by knowledgeable photographer Doc Miles. Take a moderate walk from Inspiration Point and learn photo techniques along the way! Bring your personal camera equipment. Appropriate for teens and up. Reservations required, please email: parkphotographer@gmail.com. Rain cancels.
Come peer through our telescopes and see craters on the Moon, the visible planets, star clusters, and more while we listen to CSM's very own KCSM Jazz 91 FM. Dress warmly. Free parking in Marie Curie Lot 5. Directions are available on the Maps, Directions & Parking page.This event is weather dependent. Latest ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Monday, 12/02/19
Arm AIoT Dev SummitArm AIoT Dev Summit is a developer-focused conference to cast vision and share actionable technical knowledge to developers, data scientists, product managers, and all engineers and architects in IoT, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Attendees will connect with industry leaders who will conduct deep-dive training, facilitate hands-on workshops and share real-world ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: $49 thru 11/17 with code, $149 after
Precision Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave BackgroundThe cosmic microwave background (CMB) provides unparalleled views into the early universe and its later evolution. Recent and ongoing experiments have contributed to our understanding of neutrinos, dark energy, and dark matter through measurements of large scale structure imprinted on the CMB and constrained the conditions in the early universe, ...
Biomolecules are exquisitely adept at molecular recognition and self-assembly, enabling them to direct all of the processes that make life possible. These capabilities have been fine-tuned by billions of years of evolution, and more recently, have been harnessed in the laboratory to enable the use of biomolecules for applications beyond ...
Microbes are nature’s chemists, capable of producing and metabolizing a diverse array of compounds. In the human gut, microbial biochemistry can be beneficial, for example by producing vitamins or breaking down the complex carbohydrates of our diet; or detrimental, such as reactivating an inactive drug metabolite and causing patient toxicity. ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Molecular mechanism of DNA replication - from origins to forks and factoriesIn eukaryotes, DNA replication origins are activated in the late G1 phase of cell cycle, in which Origin Recognition Complex recruits the helicase core Mcm2-7 onto DNA and assemble an inactive double-hexamer. The Mcm2-7 double-hexamer is converted to two active CMG (Cdc45-Mcm2-7-GINS) helicases at the G1-to-S transition. And in the ...
The electric power industry is going through a digital transformation just like every other industry.  In particular, the digital transformation is enabling new approaches to customer participation, efficiency of operation (enabling the workforce), reliability and resiliency, and asset management. This discussion will focus in particular on the tremendous opportunities to ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Building an artificial brain with neuro-inspired deep learningThe field of Computer Vision explores how to make machines understand visual data in various ways. Modern Computer Vision started out with optimizing statistical machine learning methods primarily using hand-crafted "features" for tasks such as Object Detection, Segmentation, and Tracking. Another inspiration behind Computer Vision techniques comes from looking into ...
We have been applying the mathematics of information theory - originally developed for human communication systems and computers - to humpback whales in order to measure the complexity of their vocalizations. Is their "language" as complex as ours, or even more complex? Are there general rules for communicating knowledge that ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
Tuesday, 12/03/19
Arm AIoT Dev SummitArm AIoT Dev Summit is a developer-focused conference to cast vision and share actionable technical knowledge to developers, data scientists, product managers, and all engineers and architects in IoT, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Attendees will connect with industry leaders who will conduct deep-dive training, facilitate hands-on workshops and share real-world ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: $49 thru 11/17 with code, $149 after
State of AI and MLIn this event as part of series of regularly planned events, we plan to cover the state-of-the art advances in AI technology. Entire Program schedule along with speaker bios and talk abstracts can be downloaded as a PDFReceive IEEE PDH Certificate from IEEE Continuing Education.Â
Carbocations are important reactive intermediates that are invoked in many chemical transformations. These species are usually of the tricoordinated variety. Conversely, dicoordinated carbenium ions are rarely invoked as intermediates in practical chemical processes due to their high energy and energetically challenging formation. In this talk I will discuss our recent ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Humanity at a Crossroads: New Insights into Technology Risks for Humans and the PlanetThis program will present the biological and health effects of both natural electromagnetic waves innate to the body and man-made electromagnetic waves from wireless technologies, including discussion about 4G/5G antenna densification. It will also address the mental health and relational impacts of tech overuse and addiction. Importantly, new scientific understanding ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
Accurate and precise cosmological constraints from the large-scale structure of galaxy clustering Ongoing and future galaxy surveys, e.g., DESI, Euclid, WFIRST, etc., are going to collect >100M galaxy redshifts and reach sub-percentage precision on the cosmological measurements, e.g., Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, growth rates of large-scale structure, etc. We look forward to obtaining tighter constraints on the cosmological parameters, e.g., Hubble constant, equation ...
Heterogeneous catalyst design is often hampered by a lack of precise information about the molecular identity of the active sites. Synthesizing model catalysts with control of the local structure allows us to interrogate the active sites about their interactions with reactants and products, including activation and deactivation processes. The approach ...
As a result of controls on NOx emissions from cars, trucks, and electricity production, NOx levels (sum on NO and NO2) have decreased rapidly across North America over the past decades. The reductions in NO alter the photochemical pathways followed in the oxidation of numerous chemicals emitted from the biosphere ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Healthcare Technology ExpoJoin us for an evening of informative discussions and interact with advanced robotic technology. Test drive the robots and hear from physicians who use them. Learn how these high tech tools are of great benefit to physicians and patients with improved outcomes and less time spent in the hospital.Spine Surgery: ...
Where: Los GatosCost: Free
Artificial Stupidity: The New AI and the Future of FintechFinancial AI seems so close, yet so far. We have automated trading algorithms, machine-learning models of credit risk, electronic exchanges, robo advisors, and cryptocurrencies, but machines still haven’t replaced portfolio managers, financial advisors, and bankers. So what’s missing? Not artificial intelligence. What's missing is that we have yet to develop ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Broadband Ferromagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: The 'Swiss Army Knife' for Understanding Spin-Orbit PhenomenaModern spin-based technologies rely on multiple, simultaneous phenomena that originate from the spin-orbit interaction in magnetic systems. These include damping, magnetic anisotropy, orbital moments, and spin-orbit torques that are manifested in the spin-Hall and Rashba-Edelstein effects. While cavity based ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectroscopy has been used to characterize magnetic materials ...
Where: MilpitasCost: Free
Don't Be Evil or How Big Tech Lost Its Soul"Don’t be evil." This phrase was written into Google’s code of conduct during the early days of the company. It was meant to guide employees’ actions as they built a tool used by millions in the hopes of making the world better. However, in 2018 the company quietly and seemingly ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $10 Student
Science at the Library: Reaching for the StarsLooking up in the night time sky you see many points of light. Many are stars that can be found within our galaxy, the Milky Way. Only a few points of lights are far away galaxies. Learn about constellations and how they are used by astronomers.There are 4 activities at ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Wednesday, 12/04/19
State of AI and MLIn this event as part of series of regularly planned events, we plan to cover the state-of-the art advances in AI technology. Entire Program schedule along with speaker bios and talk abstracts can be downloaded as a PDFReceive IEEE PDH Certificate from IEEE Continuing Education.Â
The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC) is a multidisciplinary data repository created to ensure that data generated from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). Our first efforts in developing GRIIDC in 2011 focused on making it easy ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Vibrational spectroscopy and plasmonics: a new toolbox for fingerprinting tumor-associated exosomesRecently it has been demonstrated that cancer pathology is dramatically mediated by cellular vesicle transport machinery via a number of key proteins, lipids, small molecules, and non-coding RNAs trafficked in exosomes and related nanoscale extracellular vesicles (EVs). Sensitive and specific detection of the cell-specific biomaterials recruited and packaged in EVs ...
 We investigate the short- and long-term effects of a shale gas boom in an economy where energy can be produced with coal, natural gas, or clean energy sources. In the short run, cheaper natural gas has counteracting effects on CO2 emissions: on the one hand it allows substitution away from ...
ALUMNI PANEL - Achieving Liveable, Equitable, Sustainable CommunitiesThis colloquium features a panel of four accomplished Energy and Resources Group alumni who are leading advocates for liveable, equitable communities that address large-scale challenges like gridlock and climate change. ERG student Emma Tome will facilitate discussion of the panelists’ academic and career paths, as well as current challenges these ...
Heterogeneous catalyst design is often hampered by a lack of precise information about the molecular identity of the active sites. Synthesizing model catalysts with control of the local structure allows us to interrogate the active sites about their interactions with reactants and products, including activation and deactivation processes. The approach ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Precisely unsustainable: when is sustainability in the eye of the beholder?Anyone trying to communicate about sustainability quickly runs into difficulties. The most common definition, “development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs†first appeared in the World Commission on Environment and Development's report, Our Common Future. This concept ...
Constraining Planet Formation with Spectroscopy of Direct Imaged PlanetsIn the past decade, several new jovian exoplanets at wide separations have been revealed using ground based telescopes equipped with adaptive optics systems. These planets, with masses between ~2-14 MJup, remain a puzzle for both major planet formation models. At the same time, they offer a powerful tool in the ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Anthropogenic climate change at Point Reyes and across US national parksAnthropogenic climate change has already increased temperatures and raised sea level at Point Reyes National Seashore. Continued climate change could reduce habitat for marine mammals, shift vegetation, increase wildfire potential, and increase other future risks to natural and cultural resources in Point Reyes. This presentation will provide climate change science ...
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.Matt ...
21cm Intensity Mapping: A New Cosmological Tool? The 21 cm line from neutral hydrogen gas has many useful properties for mapping large volumes of the cosmos. These maps will give us a view of the Universe when the first luminous objects formed through gravity - the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization, and later, the post-Reionization ...
Keep the early dark of this winter’s night at bay with light, color, and warmth. Excite your atoms at Glow, our annual festival of ebullient lights and subtle glows celebrating the close of the year. Bask in the mesmerizing gleams of special installations and kinetic sculptures, take a shine to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95, 14.95 explO members, AD members free
San Francisco chess players, let’s play and learn together! Unwind after work, have dinner, meet new friends, and talk tactics. All levels and ages are welcome. Bring a chess set if you have one. There’s no charge to participate, but a purchase of food or drinks helps support our generous venue. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free, a libation purchase helps support the cafe
Cafe InquiryCenter for Inquiry San Francisco's monthly get together to talk about whatever interests us.
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Feel the Force NightLifeChannel your inner Jedi during an evening of galactic entertainment inspired by a galaxy far, far away.Wander among droids built by the R2 Builders club and come in costume to celebrate your favorite epic space saga.Get into character during a lightsaber workshop and prepare to be wowed by epic lightsaber ...
Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era when the term “drug†encompassed everything from herbs and spices - like nutmeg, cinnamon, and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $6 - $14
Astronomy on Tap: Santa CruzHow Gravitational Waves beame the new surf spot in Santa CruzSpeaker: Karelle SiellezHow Santa Cruz Astronomers Struck GoldSpeaker: Charlie Kilpatrick
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
The Promise and Peril of the Digital AgeAs Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith leads a team of more than 1,400 business, legal and corporate affairs professionals working in 56 countries. He plays a key role in spearheading the company’s work on critical issues involving the intersection of technology and society, including cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence, human rights, immigration, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $35 General, $25 Member, $10 Student
Can We Create New Senses for Humans?What would the world be like if we could expand our senses beyond the meager capacities of humans? Using the approach of sensory substitution, we can translate and feed almost any kind of data through the skin, expanding the human sensory experience. Join us for a talk with Stanford’s Dr. ...
Two KIPAC Tea TalksFOBOS InstrumentSpeaker: Kevin Bundy, UC Santa CruzLarge Scale Dynamo in a Primordial Accretion FlowWithout an existing large scale coherent magnetic field in the early Universe, Population III stars would likely rotate at or near break-up speed. Using results from hydrodynamic simulations, we find evidence helical turbulence with a dynamo number ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Cosmology with the Lya forest: beyond two-point statistics, DESI instrumentationThe Lyman-alpha forest is currently the only probe of cosmology and the state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) between redshifts of z=2 and 6. Its higher-order clustering, specifically its three-point correlation function (3PCF), contains information that can help to constrain fluctuations in the ionizing background and temperature fields of the ...
Rate- and State-dependent Friction (RSF) equations are commonly used to describe the time-dependent frictional response of fault gouge to perturbations in sliding velocity. Among the better-known versions are the Aging and Slip laws for the evolution of state. Although the Slip law is more successful, neither can predict all the ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
When Liquids are Liquids or Maybe NotWe introduce systems of liquids trapped in non-equilibrium configurations by interfacial assemblies of nanoparticle surfactants (‘NPSs’). These constructs consist of aqueous threads, length ~10-100 cm and diameter ~100 ïm whose mechanical properties are determined by an interfacial NPS assembly 20 nm thick. The interfacial layer consists of nanoparticles and polymers ...
What makes candy hard or soft? Learn what happens when sugar is heated up and how temperature effects the outcome. Enjoy candy making workshops and learn how to make your own candy at home! The Oakland Youth Chorus will be joining us for their winter concert under the Planetarium with ...
Where: OaklandCost: $5
The Dark Matter of Physics RapRap is the language of the youth. Science is a way to expand our understanding of the universe. As the Genius of the Wu Tang Clan, GZA’s proposes to combine these two disparate concepts into his anticipated album, Dark Matter. Some predict it will be corny, but a closer look at ...
Where: EmeryvilleCost: Free
Dwarfs: Failed Stars or Overachieving Planets?Giant planets can be up to 13 times the mass of Jupiter, while the least massive stars are about 80 times the mass of Jupiter. In between are objects called "brown dwarfs" - too massive to be called planets, but not massive enough to burn hydrogen and shine like stars. ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Saturday, 12/07/19
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 ...
            It’s The Crucible’s craft show! Join us for GIFTY, the best place in the Bay to find your holiday gifts made right here by local artists, craftspeople, and Crucible faculty. With jewelers, metalworkers, artisan bath suppliers, button makers, bottle cap fashionistas, candle extraordinaires, and so much more, you are sure ...
Compare and contrast bony fishes from the SF Bay and Rocky Shore, learn about their differences and adaptations, and finish the day off with some fun holiday crafts and seaside story time.
Where: Redwood CityCost: $20
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
CRISPR: A Revolution in Genome EditingBacteria are under constant attack from viruses. In order to defend themselves, these microbes have evolved a unique and creative immune system that scientists have called “CRISPR.†As researchers began to unravel this perplexing defense system, they quickly realized that CRISPR proteins might not only improve the health of bacteria ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: free
Jazz under the Stars - CANCELEDCome peer through our telescopes and see craters on the Moon, the visible planets, star clusters, and more while we listen to CSM's very own KCSM Jazz 91 FM. Dress warmly. Free parking in Marie Curie Lot 5. Directions are available on the Maps, Directions & Parking page.This event has been canceled due ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
City Star Party @ The PresidioCome 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!
In the San Francisco Bay Area, when the first rains tease up the chanterelles and porcini, fungus lovers, foodies, and those curious about the natural world head to the Fungus Fair: A Celebration of Wild Mushrooms. For one day each December, Bay Area mushroom hunters fan out and find fungi of all shapes and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: See weblink for ticket options
Climb aboard a new high-tech ship - the Sally Ride - and chat with scientists and crew who travel the world aboard the oceanographic research vessel. Visit different parts of the 238-foot ship, from its highly equipped bridge to its scientific laboratories and main deck - including the main crane, overboard handling ...
In a 1954 paper “Galileo as a critic of the artsâ€, Erwin Panofsky wrote that the Florentine’s culture in which Galileo lived, his participation in the visual arts, literature and music communities that at the time made Florence a leading European intellectual center, nurtured his pioneering scientific work, an important ...
Radicals: Your Life is in their Hands RNR as a ParadigmRibonucleotide reductases (RNRs) catalyze the de novo reduction of NDPs to dNDPs in all organisms, controlling their relative ratios and amounts and contributing to the fidelity of DNA replication and repair. The class Ia RNRs are composed of a2 and b2 subunits that form an active and dynamic a2b2 complex. ...
Sharks exhibit an incredible sensitivity to their watery environment, including an extra sensory advantage: the ability to detect tiny electric signals. This sixth sense can help them locate meals, identify mates, and even, we believe, navigate the oceans. Hundreds of "electrosensors" sit embedded within a shark's head; in concert, they ...
Climb aboard a new high-tech ship - the Sally Ride - and chat with scientists and crew who travel the world aboard the oceanographic research vessel. Visit different parts of the 238-foot ship, from its highly equipped bridge to its scientific laboratories and main deck - including the main crane, overboard handling ...
Vicinal (1,2-disubstituted) functional group motifs are ubiquitous in structurally complex small molecules that are of academic and industrial importance, including many widely used pharmaceutical agents. Many such functional group combinations, however, remain exceptionally challenging to synthesize. The goal of research in the Engle lab is to develop a general catalytic ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Astronomy on Tap: San FranciscoAstronomy on Tap San Francisco is back! Come to DNA Lounge on Tuesday, Dec. 10th for another night of talks from local scientists, Astronomy in the News, trivia and prizes! Come out to hear about the latest updates on all things astrophysics, from exoplanets to jets! Doors open at 7:00 ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Wednesday, 12/11/19
SciComm Studio 021: The Future of Traditional MediaA major shift is underway as media companies increasingly turn to online audiences. In this landscape, advertising is not the only goal: today, traffic and data related to visitors of on-line platform is an increasingly desired commodity. The result? “The influence of social media platforms and technology companies is having ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10
Two Chemestry and Biomolecular Engineering TalksToward Food Security and Sustainability: Nanotechnology for Plant Genome EngineeringSpeaker: Gozde Demirer, UC BerkeleyLithium Plating and Stripping through a Solid Block Copolymer ElectrolyteSpeaker: Jackie Maslyn, UC Berkeley
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Anthropomorphic Machine Learning: How to get Fast, Interpretable Deep LearningMachine Learning (ML) and AI justifiably attract the attention and interest not only of the wider scientific community and industry, but also society and policy makers. Recent developments in this area range from accurately recognizing images and speech to beating the best players in games like Chess, Go and Jeopardy. ...
Join the Port of San Francisco and the Exploratorium’s Fisher Bay Observatory at the fifth in a series of Embarcadero seawall community meetings to learn more about the Embarcadero Seawall Program, the Waterfront Resilience Program, and the methodology behind the Port’s massive investigation officially called the Multi- Hazard Risk Assessment, ...
San Francisco chess players, let’s play and learn together! Unwind after work, have dinner, meet new friends, and talk tactics. All levels and ages are welcome. Bring a chess set if you have one. There’s no charge to participate, but a purchase of food or drinks helps support our generous venue. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free, a libation purchase helps support the cafe
Despite the convenience and benefits of online platforms such as Facebook and YouTube, the growing power and influence of 'Big Tech' have inspired a new wave of critics on both America’s Left and Right. These critics have argued online platforms promote unhealthy addiction, exacerbate polarization, waste our time and energy, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Thursday, 12/12/19
Sixth Annual Mary Bowerman Science and Research ColloquiumDr. Mary Leolin Bowerman co-founded Save Mount Diablo in 1971. Mary was a botanist and a student of the flora of Mount Diablo for over 70 years. In her honor, Save Mount Diablo established the Mary Bowerman Science and Research Program in 2013.In addition to facilitating research on and around ...
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
How can we reverse the course of our ecological impact and move toward a more sustainable future? What impacts can we have at the individual, local, and global level? Hear from leading scientists about the latest initiatives and technologies in resilience, sustainability, and environmental science education.PresentationsBehind the Scenes: Exploratorium Bay ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95, 14.95 explO members, AD members free
Towards monolithic quantum computing processors in production FDSOI CMOS technologyThis presentation will discuss the fundamental concepts and the feasibility of high-temperature (2-4 K) Si and SiGe electron/hole-spin qubits and qubit integrated circuits (ICs) in commercial 22nm FDSOI CMOS technology,. The beneficial aspects of the SiGe channel hole-spin qubit will be emphasized in comparison with its silicon-only electron-spin counterpart. It ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: Donations encouraged
Dr. Robert Bullard: The Stephen Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate ScienceJoin us for a special evening as we present Robert Bullard with the ninth annual Stephen Schneider Award. Established in honor of Stephen Henry Schneider, one of the founding fathers of climatology who died suddenly in 2010, the $15,000 award recognizes a natural or social scientist who has made extraordinary ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $35 General, $22 Member, $15 Student
What’s in a Name? SeaweedThe ICN (International Code of Nomenclature for fungi, algae, and plants) states that species names are based on type specimens. These are either a single specimen conserved in a herbarium or museum, or a published or unpublished illustration. Unfortunately, type specimens are not always thoroughly examined prior to the use ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $10 General, $5 Member advance, $15 at door
7:00-7:25: Daniel Dever(Stanford/ Regenerative Medicine) on "Repairing disease genes in hematopoietic stem cells for developing next-generation gene therapies"Hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation has the power to cure inherited diseases...Read more7:25-7:50: Jaroslaw Kapuscinski(Intermedia Composer) on "Talking of Intermedia"AI technology aids interactive audiovisuality in Chopin-inspired piano performances...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before ...
WHAT: Are you sure that sippy-cup is safe?Parents face overwhelming amounts of information about the safety and welfare of their children. With social media, every seemingly small decision seems impossible as the internet provides conflicting information on every topic ranging from sippy-cup safety to vaccines and medication. Most people do ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Wonderfest: California & The Big One: Fact vs. FictionScientists know with certainty that California will experience large earthquakes in the future. Earthquakes are often depicted in the media and popular culture, but which aspects of these depictions are factual, and which are fictitious? We cannot yet predict earthquakes, so what can we do? How can we prepare?Speaker: William ...
Where: SunnyvaleCost: Free
Friday, 12/13/19
Geminid Meteor Shower - CANCELEDStarting at dusk, spectators should be able to spot 50-100 meteors per hour, with the show peaking around 2 a.m. Astronomers will be on site to answer any questions. In addition, guests can enjoy hot chocolate and other goodies available for purchase. Limited capacity. Pre-registration is recommended. Editor's Note: Event canceled ...
Where: OaklandCost: $8
Saturday, 12/14/19
Book Signing - Beauty and The Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate ChangeThe beautifully illustrated coffee table book, Beauty and The Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate Change, will be available at a book signing. Rob Badger and Nita Winter’s book, a companion to their recent educational exhibit displayed at the Bay Model last April and May, features 190 stunning wildflower portraits and ...
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.
Join us for our Second Annual East Bay Fungal Gathering! The purpose of this event is fungus education through mushroom focused activities, lectures, displays and mushroom taxonomy. Additionally, there will be local fungus vendors covering everything from culinary fungi to mushroom themed apparel, and organizations showcasing mycological centered projects such ...
Join us for the 120th National Audubon Christmas Bird Count. Have a fun day out while participating in Citizen Science. Last year we found 177 bird species!The count area is very rich in avian diversity from the salt marsh habitats of the Hayward hills, Fremont's wetlands to the south, and ...
Where: Hayward Fremont AreaCost: Free
Monday, 12/16/19
Free Nerd Nite Party: Nerdy Trivia, Prizes and FunWe're taking December off from our regular show format, and will return in 2020. But Nerd Nite had a good 2019, with great crowds and excellent speakers. And we want to say thank you!On Monday, Dec 16th, Nerd Nite is hosting a FREE special event at Club 21 to say ...
Over the past six months, numerous articles have reported weird anomalies in the atmosphere of Mars, from an outburst of methane in June 2019 to patterns in oxygen concentrations that cannot be explained by any known atmospheric or surface processes on the Red Planet. Perhaps more intriguing is the Viking ...
Fungi Fix (Mycoremediation)During this presentation Sean, Jill, and Mini will provide introductory information about Mycoremediation where fungi break down or absorb toxins. Contaminants where mycoremediation is applicable include oil, heavy metals, endocrine disrupting chemicals, dye effluent, cigarette butts, radiation and bacteria.Speakers: Sean Parnell, Jill Easterday, and Mino de Angelis, Bay Area Applied ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #115: Immersive Media, and Electric SharksIt’s December once more, which means it’s a great time to learn a whole bunch of strange, interesting, and funny things so you have a quiverful of “well actually’sâ€Â to spring on bewildered family members over holiday dinners.Scripting Outside the Lines with Michael EpsteinHow do you write a script for a story ...
Discover a once-missing element at Everything Matters: Technetium; excite your atoms at Glow, our annual festival of ebullient lights; experience a landscape of astonishing visual effects at Kaleidoscope; and bring flying, sailing, and cycling automata to life at Curious Contraptions.8:00 PM: Everything MattersThe element technetium was known to science long ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, $14.95 Daytime Members
San Francisco chess players, let’s play and learn together! Unwind after work, have dinner, meet new friends, and talk tactics. All levels and ages are welcome. Bring a chess set if you have one. There’s no charge to participate, but a purchase of food or drinks helps support our generous venue. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free, a libation purchase helps support the cafe
Retired General Ellen M. Pawlikowski is an independent consultant providing expertise on strategic planning, program management, logistics, and research and development. She is the Judge Widney Professor at the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. She serves on the Boards of Directors for the Raytheon Company, ...
