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 ...
