Near-Field Cosmology with Stellar AbundancesThe first stars and galaxies fundamentally transformed the universe. They formed in the smallest dark matter halos, produced large amounts of ionizing photons, and polluted the universe with the first heavy elements. Near-field cosmology probes this early era through detailed study of nearby relic galaxies that have survived from ancient ...
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.Speaker: ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
The Hidden Life of Massive Elliptical GalaxiesThis talk will show the results of very high resolution simulations of massive systems that discovered formation in all of them of cold, dense central discs hosting star formation.Speaker: Jerry Ostriker, Princeton Univ.
Join us for Newt Nite & Nature Trivia - it’s our fifth year hosting this event!Take a short walk to see mating newts, and join us after for nature-themed trivia with other nature nerds at the Grizzly Bar and Grill. Dress warmly and bring a headlamp or flashlight. Food and drink ...
Josiah will talk about advances in CRISPR technology for gene editing as well as current controversies over its use in medicine. Josiah is a well-known biohacker who believes that technologies like CRISPR should be in the hands of as many people as possible to allow scientific exploration and discovery to ...
Sex involves the transfer of genetic information that has resulted in evolution and specialization - and one of the hottest evenings in town, scientifically speaking. Discover some surprising ways that sperm and eggs come together. And, on this eve of Valentine's Day, taste the classic aphrodisiac - oysters - at ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 17.95 advance, 19.95 door, AD members free
Farm to Table: 2030The planet is poised for a food revolution: concerns over the environmental costs of feeding our world are transforming what we eat, how we raise it, how we source our nutrition, and how we handle excess. How can we keep food delicious, sustainable, and healthy? For this event, we take ...
Prior to 1995, there were no known planets around sun-like stars beyond the solar system. Once the first discovery was announced, many others quickly followed. We now calculate that, on average, nearly every star has a planet. What if the discovery of intelligent life beyond the Earth follows a similar ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
SF Beer Week NightLifeSip your way through the museum-turned-beer hall when NightLife celebrates SF Beer Week and our local craft brewing community.Get to know a dozen local breweries during an evening celebrating beers as diverse as the creatures at NightLife: Standard Deviant, Pond Farm, Barebottle, and Original Pattern make their Academy debut alongside ...
7:00-7:25: Krishna Shenoy(Stanford/ Neuroscience) on "Brain-machine Interfaces: From basic science and engineering to clinical trials"Brain-machine interfaces aim to restore lost functions due to brain disease or injury by converting neural activity from the brain into control signals...Read more7:25-7:50: Lars Steinmetz(Co-Director, Stanford Genome Technology Center) on "Emerging ...
The world-wide explosion in data is driven by three important trends: The increasing digitization of the world, in which people and the environment have been outfitted with sensors that generate digital data; enough inexpensive storage technology to keep vast amounts of information that was previously discarded; and large-scale computing systems ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Friday, 02/14/20
Elephant Seal WeekendThis Valentine’s Day weekend, explore the fascinating world and interesting adaptations of northern elephant seals during a special weekend celebration. Unique pop-up exhibits will reveal natural history, migration strategies, and allow visitors to become citizen scientists (helping out UC Santa Cruz researchers). As a citizen scientist, learn about elephant seals, ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with Admission
Two KIPAC Tea TalksModeling the Radiogenic Background of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATORSpeaker: Micah Buuck, KIPACHow to Count the Milky Way's Disrupted Dwarf GalaxiesSpeaker: Alexander Ji, Carnegie Institute
Exploits with Atomic Materials: from Flexible/Wearable Electronics to Memory DevicesThis talk will present our latest research adventures on 2D nanomaterials towards greater scientific understanding and advanced engineering applications. In particular, the talk will highlight our work on flexible electronics, zero-power devices, monolayer memory (atomristors), non-volatile RF switches, and wearable tattoo sensors. Non-volatile memory devices based on 2D ...
 Nickel catalysts exhibit unique properties. Open-shell configurations are relatively stable and readily accessible, which lead to radical pathways. Moreover, the reduction potential of Ni is considerably lower than that of Pd. These properties have been employed to functionalize alkenes. Enantioselective 1,2-dicarbofunctionalization of alkenes allows access to molecules with intricate substitution ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Green Friday: Bats and Their Role in Our Ecosystem Sierra Club Northern Alameda County Group's Green Friday meets on the second Friday of the month in the Sierra Clubs Bay Chapter Office, 2530 San Pablo Ave. Berkeley. Doors open at 7:00 p.m.; the program runs from 7:30 to 9:00 including questions and discussion. Refreshments are served. A $3 donation ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $3
Touring Exotic Landforms Across the Solar System: Adventures in Planetary GeomorphologyBrian is an expert at Public Outreach featuring NASA web-portals of the Moon, Mercury, Mars, Ceres, Vesta and many other bodies in the Solar System. He will explore with us the most interesting features he has come across in his studies.Speaker: Brian Day, NASA Ames
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 parking)
Saturday, 02/15/20
Elephant Seal WeekendThis Valentine’s Day weekend, explore the fascinating world and interesting adaptations of northern elephant seals during a special weekend celebration. Unique pop-up exhibits will reveal natural history, migration strategies, and allow visitors to become citizen scientists (helping out UC Santa Cruz researchers). As a citizen scientist, learn about elephant seals, ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with Admission
Hike the Mallard SloughLook for birds, mammals, and animal tracks as we explore along the water’s edge on this 3.7-mile nature walk. Bring binoculars and your favorite field guide to help enjoy the views. Have at least one liter of water, snacks, and appropriate clothing. Rain will cancel this hike due to possibly ...
Where: AlvisoCost: Free
Spiny SucculentsJoin author Jeff Moore on a visual journey through his newest book Spiny Succulents, as he shares examples of cultivated cacti, euphorbias, pachypodiums, alluaudias, and some other related mostly spiny xerophytic plants (such as terrestrial bromeliads). Most of the images are of examples of these plants in California landscape/botanical garden ...
The United States is developing ShakeAlert, an earthquake early warning system that will provide California, Oregon, and Washington with advanced warning of potentially damaging shaking. The hopes for early warning systems are high, but the reality of what can be expected from earthquake early warning is nuanced. Earthquakes don’t happen in ...
Where: AlbanyCost: Free ($15 for lunch, $7 Student and unemployed)
Story Time at YSI: All the Water in the WorldFaucet, well, rain cloud, sea... from each of these comes water. But where does water go? Come hear a lovely, poetic story about where water goes and why it is so precious. Then meet one of YSI's animal ambassadors that rely upon water for their survival.
Where: Los GatosCost: Free
Sunday, 02/16/20
Elephant Seal WeekendThis Valentine’s Day weekend, explore the fascinating world and interesting adaptations of northern elephant seals during a special weekend celebration. Unique pop-up exhibits will reveal natural history, migration strategies, and allow visitors to become citizen scientists (helping out UC Santa Cruz researchers). As a citizen scientist, learn about elephant seals, ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with Admission
What Were the Atoms in Your Body Doing 8 Billion Years Ago: The Story of Cosmic EvolutionAlthough few people ever think about it, the atoms that make up your body are “on loan†to you from the Earth’s “atom collection.†Thanks to modern astronomy, we now know the history of these atoms even before they were part of the Earth. In this talk, Dr. Andrew Fraknoi ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 adult, $5 under 18
I Spy from the Sky: Drones Give a New Perspective for Marine Mammal ScienceWhen researchers step onto Año Nuevo Island, they are welcomed by a deafening symphony: sea lions barking, elephant seals roaring, gulls cawing, and cormorants grunting. An individual researcher is most likely outnumbered by animals 10,000:1. To understand what is happening on the island, scientists need to count each animal - ...
Go Big, Go Left: Pushing the Limits of Liquid Xenon Detectors for Dark Matter DetectionWhile there is firm astrophysical evidence for dark matter, fundamental properties of the substance, such as its constituent size and mass, remain key open questions in modern physics. Observation of dark matter interactions with Standard Model particles would enable the first constraints on those properties, but, to date, no such ...
The Chatterjee lab develops new chemical tools to investigate the mechanistic roles of protein post-translational modifications in human gene regulation. The chemical modifications we study vary in complexity from the methylation and acetylation of lysine side-chains to their conjugation with small proteins, such as ubiquitin and the small ubiquitin-like modifier ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Two KIPAC Tea TalksHubble constant tension: update from the strong lensing time-delay cosmography frontSpeaker: Simon Birrer, KIPACSearching for axion strings with CMB and lensingSpeaker: Junwu Huang, Permieter Institute
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Chasing Ancient Demons: The Quest to detect 21cm fluctuations from X-ray sources before reionization Two important chapters in our Universe’s history remain, for the most part, unexplored by direct observations. During the “dark agesâ€, cooling gas clouds left over from the big bang collapsed into dark-matter halos to form the first bound objects and where conditions were right, the first stars ignited, heralding in ...
Photochemical produced hazes are prevalent in the atmospheres of planetary bodies in the solar system and could also be ubiquitous in exoplanetary atmospheres. Haze has been shown to affect the thermal structure and dynamics of planetary and exoplanetary atmospheres. It could also be a source of the surface material on ...
Organic molecules interact strongly with confined electromagnetic fields in plasmonic arrays or optical microcavities owing to their bright transition dipole moments. This interaction gives rise to molecular polaritons, hybrid light-matter quasiparticles. Molecular polaritonics opens doors for new room-temperature opportunities for the nontrivial control of physico-chemical properties of molecular assemblies [1]. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Fracton - Elasticity DualityProf. Leo Radzihovsky of University of Colorado at Boulder will give the Applied Physics/Physics colloquium
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Bay Area Climate Action: 2020 and BeyondWith cities around the world committed to carbon neutrality to address the climate crisis, Bay Area cities from Albany to San Francisco are deepening their actions to accelerate the transformation to equitable, climate-friendly city systems. A local government panel shares their experience and new initiatives to engage their communities, save ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Commercial Mushroom Farming - Nature and NurtureKyle Garrone holds a degree in Biology from University of California, Davis with a focus on plant pathology and mycology. He has been the Production Manager of Far West Fungi since graduating from UC Davis in 2010, with his primary focus on increasing yields, reducing labor, and experimenting with new ...
Many of the natural resource challenges we face today around food, water, equity, energy, invasive species, fire, climate change, biodiversity - are complex problems that impact diverse public groups across multiple scales - and they require a spatial approach to make an impact. Addressing these challenges requires innovative and resourceful ...
Ophthalmic drugs are almost always delivered via eye drops in spite of many deficiencies including low bioavailability and poor compliance, particularly in patients requiring multiple eye drops daily. Only about 1-5% of the drug in eye drops diffuses into the cornea and the remaining 95-99% enters systemic circulation through multiple ...
As we approach another golden age for the field of computer architecture, David will review the landscape since the 1960s, current challenges and identify future opportunities. Much like David did in the 1980s, he will discuss his research in delivering gains in cost, energy, security and performance. The backbone of ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Understanding How Women Travel“Understanding How Women Travel†is a groundbreaking study completed by LA Metro in 2019. The study included a creative approach to better understand women’s mobility in LA county; framed by core social justice principles and methods, including both traditional and non-traditional data collection methods to effectively capture “hard-to-reach†populations and ...
Author Christian Schwartz will be presenting from his book which was written for beginning and experienced mushroom hunters alike to find and identify mushrooms. Common and conspicuous species, delicious edibles, toxic and deadly species, and distinctive rarities are all covered in this user-friendly reference, which covers the diversity found in ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost:
Nerd Nite SF #117: Baroque, Bones, and Badasses!At this month’s show, we go for baroque, bone up on a bone collector, and blow the lid off an incredible open source archive during a very special evening curated by our friends, stalwart stockpilers and disseminators of San Francisco history - the Western Neighborhoods Project! As always, we’ll bring ...
Around the world, people recognize that E=mc^2 oozes cosmic insight. But what does this "most famous equation" really say? What are energy and mass? And what makes the speed of light, c, so important? [Hint: mass, moving at speed c, doesn't turn into energy!] Using little more than common experience ...
This presentation explores the historic voyage of the New Horizons spacecraft. After 10 years and more than 3 billion miles, New Horizons has served as an ambassador to the planetary frontier and has shed light on new kinds of worlds and the outskirts of the solar system.In this talk Dr. Moore will discuss ...
