Materials Science Applications of Four Dimensional - Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (4D-STEM)Traditional scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) detectors are large single-pixels that integrate a subset of the electron beam signal scattered from each electron probe position. These STEM imaging experiments record only 1-5 values per probe position, throwing away most of the diffracted signal information. With the introduction of ...
In this talk, Daniel Westcott will address the reasons why GMOs are so hated, what the current landscape looks like, and what potential solutions we are leaving on the table if we don’t use genetic engineering in plants.
Where: EmeryvilleCost: Free
Green Friday: Waste, a Globalized Resource - CANCELEDDr. Kate O’Neill, UC Berkeley, with talk about waste as a globalized resource, though one that comes with magnified risks and governance challenges. Her new book, Waste, was published by Polity Press in Summer 2019, includes cases on China and the global plastic scrap trade, waste work and labor in the ...
>>> We have decided to postpone the Mushrooms Demythified event scheduled for this Friday due to the anticipated size of the audience (380 attendees).<<<Join us for this special After Hours mushroom talk where David Arora will explore some of the many contemporary myths about wild mushrooms spawned and reinforced by the Internet.Registration required at weblink.
Webcast: Pi Day LIVE @ The Exploratorium - Why ᴨ?Saturday, March 14, 2020 • NoonOnline onlyBroadcast live online from the Exploratorium on Pi Day, find out what’s so special about the famous mathematical constant. Exploratorium educators and π enthusiasts Lori Lambertson, Ron Hipschman, and Paul Dancstep will share the history ...
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 begin at 10:00am ...
Where: Glen EllenCost: $20 suggested donation
Hayward Fault tourThis family tour is great for elementary age children and their families. It shows the power of an earthquake without fear. In Earthquake Country knowledge of earthquakes is important. Classes include a tour of the features in Central Park. Learn how Stivers Lagoon and Lake Elizabeth were created. Other faults ...
Where: FremontCost: $15
Community Science: Winter Phenology Walks Join us to study the science of the seasons and be a part of a national effort to monitor the effects of climate change. Phenology is nature’s calendar - the timing of life cycle events, for example: when plants first bloom, birds migrate, and insects hatch. Monitoring phenology is ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: $5 General, Free UCSC Students and members
Family Bird WalkLet family walks become a shared time of nature learning. We’ll begin by helping kids create their personal bird watching field guides, and then head out onto the trails to find those birds. A limited number of binoculars are available to borrow. Recommended for children ages 5-10. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.
Where: FremontCost: Free
Wonderfest: How To Be More Uncertain - POSTPONEDHuman 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 data of everyday life. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Sunday, 03/15/20
Color Colloquium: BrazilCome join us for this wonderful opportunity to learn all about the native dye plants of Brazil and the conservation concerns surrounding their use and harvest. The Garden is thrilled to invite master dyers from Brazil, Eber Lopes- Ferreira and Alexandra Oliviera to present this colloquium in partnership with Slow ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $40 General, $35 Member
Sea Level Rise, Extreme Water Levels, and Coastal Erosion How Bad Could It Be? - CANCELEDSea level rise will radically redefine the coastline of the 21st century. For many regions, projections of the global rise of up to 2 meters by the year 2100, are comparable to the short-lived extremes we experience now due to storms. The 21st century will see significant changes to coastal ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free with Admission
Cancelled: Observing the Sky: (Some) Astronomical Innovation From Then to Now, and Annual DinnerTo: Our Dear Members,From: The Entire EAS Board of DirectorsYour EAS Board of Directors has met to assess the risk that the coronavirus poses to the attendees of our Annual Awards dinner, their families, and to the greater community but much is unknown.Official advisories are strongly recommending the cancellation of ...
OneAPI on Heterogenous Computing & HumanCentric vs. Smartphone Centric Methods Patterns of diseases are changing; they relate less and less to sudden infections or crippling accidents, and on a growing scale they develop as slow and debilitating afflictions caused by repetitive harmful behaviors (e.g., poor nutrition). These behaviors relate to different domains - the physical, psychological, social and environmental - ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: Free
Extreme spin-triplet superconductivity in uranium ditelluride - CANCELEDWe recently discovered a new superconducting state in UTe2 below 1.6 K. This state emerges from a heavy fermion normal state, coexists with strong spin fluctuations, has an extremely high upper critical field of 35 T, and supports an even higher-field reentrant superconducting phase between 40 T and 65 T. ...
A new generation of x-ray free-electron laser sources is opening a new chapter in the investigation of matter. After the early experience with the first free-electron laser powered by a superconducting linear accelerator, the FLASH facility at DESY, the experimental activity at the European XFEL started in late 2017 and the completion of the ...
Physics for maggots - CANCELEDWhen a fruit fly lays an egg, in twenty four hours that single cell transforms into a fully functioning maggot;  within just three hours, a blueprint for the body plan can be read from the spatially varying concentrations of just a few different molecules. These molecules are at very low ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
RESCHEDULED to 5.20.20 Quantifying Quality of Life of SmartphoneCentric via HumanCentric Methods rescheduled to 5.20.20Patterns of diseases are changing; they relate less and less to sudden infections or crippling accidents, and on a growing scale they develop as slow and debilitating afflictions caused by repetitive harmful behaviors (e.g., poor nutrition). These behaviors relate to different domains - the physical, psychological, social and ...
I will present two recent technologies our group has developed that harness RNA regulation - one for basic science purposes and one for therapeutic development. First, I will describe new methods that use our RNA polymerase-based biosensors to harness evolution in order to probe the emergence of “selectivity†between biomolecular ...
This lecture draws heavily on Dr. Holdren’s career-long engagement with environmental policy and science policy, culminating in his roles in the White House under Presidents Clinton (as a member of his Council of Advisors on Science and Technology) and Obama (as the longest-serving Science Advisor to the President since the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Coronavirus / COVID-19 - CANCELEDHow and why does coronavirus jump species? What are the mechanisms of infection, and what kinds of vaccines and therapeutic measures are being developed? Join us for an informative talk with Drs. Brooke Harmon & Oscar Negrete, virologists who study emerging infectious disease at Sandia National Laboratories.Editor's Note: This event ...
A search is underway to find intelligent life in the universe. Can SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) researchers detect radio, infrared, or optical signals from other civilizations? Current and future SETI projects, including the new $100-million Breakthrough Prize Foundation "Listen" project, may provide an answer.Speaker: Dan Werthimer, UC Berkeley and ...
Photovoltaic solar electricity has grown much faster than was expected. Continuation of the historical growth rate would enable solar to generate as much electricity as the entire world uses by ~ 2030. California, in particular, has taken a leading role; 19% of electricity generated in 2018 in the state of ...
In "Let Them Drown," the 2016 London Edward W. Said lecture, Naomi Klein called attention, as Rob Nixon's "Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor" had done, to the nexus of climate change, (colonial) racism and poverty. But she shifted the spotlight onto the oft-overlooked low-lying island nations. Their ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Combatting Coronavirus in Our Community: What Works, Why Now -LIVESTREAM ONLYCombatting the coronavirus pandemic has quickly become a global health priority. Communities across the United States, including here in the Bay Area, are using a range of strategies to mitigate the spread of coronavirus spread. In its first program on the coronavirus crisis, The Commonwealth Club will feature two experts who ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with registration
Rivers on Fire: Working in Environmental Regulation - Livestream OnlyIn 1969, the Cuyahoga River caught on fire for the thirteenth time. This event catalyzed a decade of environmental legislation in the U.S. including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act. How do water-quality and natural resource agency staff balance development and the ...
Where: TiburonCost: Free
Department of Chemistry ColloquiumImposing and Exploiting Diffusional Constraints to Control Access to Active SitesSpeaker: Samuel Leung, UC BerkeleySecondary Metabolism in ABE-Fermenting ClostridiaBacteria of the genus Clostridium are obligate anaerobic organisms historically valued for bioprocessing of sugars into acetone, butanol, and ethanol (ABE). Recent genomic analyses have revealed both the diversity of ABE producers ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Diverse Perspectives on Conservation Action in CaliforniaFeaturing: Dan Gluesenkamp, Executive Director, California Native Plant SocietyHeath Bartosh, Co-Founder and Senior Botanist, Nomad EcologyBart O'Brien, Director, Regional Parks Botanic GardenHolly Forbes, Curator, UC Botanical GardenFollowing these four presentations a panel discussion will be moderated by Dr. Vanessa Handley, Director of Collections and Research at the UC Botanical Garden.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free to $100
Tech & the City Series - Artificial You: AI and the Future of your Mind - POSTPONEDFrom driverless cars to neural netting, AI is infiltrating our lives at every level, raising questions of consciousness and selfhood that have resounding implications for the future of humanity. Susan Schneider examines these and other pressing philosophical questions. Interspersing provocative thought experiments - like shopping for an AI mind in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, Free for members
In general relativity, the presence of matter can curve spacetime, and the path of a light ray will be deflected as a result. This process is called gravitational lensing, analogous to the deflection of light by (e.g. glass) lenses in optics.In rare and extreme cases, light can take different paths ...
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
After Dark: Synthetic Biology - CANCELEDTransformations in DNA synthesis are changing agriculture, medicine, and scientific research - but how, and what long-term effects will synthetic biology have on society and the environment? Find out more about this relatively new discipline and how it’s pushing the boundaries of science. And don’t miss the latest in our ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, $14.95 Daytime Members
Analog Nightlife - CANCELEDTune into NightLife and drop out of the digital world when NightLife transforms the museum into a phone-free zone with an experimental night dedicated to life in the analog.Our one-night, slow-down-and-watch-the-fishes experiment only works if we’re all in it together, so we’ve asked Yondr to help everybody place their phones ...
CANCELLED: BioFutures: Hacking the Human GenomeHaving your DNA analyzed is now as easy as spitting into a tube, and companies compete to offer genetic revelations about your ancestry and risk of disease. Are there downsides to allowing such easy access to our genetic information? Can our DNA also be translated into new to ways to connect? ...
