What's the Matter with Matter? - LivestreamDuring these sessions, using bicycles as an example, we will explore materials science, classification of materials, materials selection, and important materials properties. You will learn how bicycles have evolved over a century and how inventors and engineers have chosen materials to fabricate bicycles, based on their unique properties to increase bicycle performance, ...
Where: Cost: Free
Effective Science Communication WebinarAre you a high schooler interested in science? Are you thinking of ways to make a difference amid the current COVID-19 pandemic? The way we communicate about scientific research plays an important role in how our society responds in a crisis. Join us for a discussion with two infectious disease ...
Where: Cost: Free, but RVSP required
Tuesday, 06/30/20
What's the Matter with Matter? - LivestreamDuring these sessions, using bicycles as an example, we will explore materials science, classification of materials, materials selection, and important materials properties. You will learn how bicycles have evolved over a century and how inventors and engineers have chosen materials to fabricate bicycles, based on their unique properties to increase bicycle performance, ...
Where: Cost: Free
Animal Intelligence and the Search for Life Beyond Earth - LivestreamWhat can animal intelligence tell us about the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? And how can the ways we recognize intelligence on our own planet inform how we might interact with extraterrestrial intelligence?Historically, humanity has believed we were the most advanced form of intelligence. Yet research is ...
We're all becoming close observers of the scientific literature on COVID-19, tracking as best we can data on transmission, risk, fatalities, and implications for different groups. Marm Kilpatrick will outline the challenges in understanding this data, and in interpreting models and projections. In his talk, he'll offer what he thinks ...
Calculating and Reducing Your Individual and Household Carbon Footprint - LivestreamJoin the Berkeley Climate Action Coalition's Environmental Health Working Group for a discussion on how to calculate your environmental footprint and actions you can take to live more sustainably. Each household and individual in California has the power to protect the climate and keep California cool; see how you compare ...
Where: Cost: Free
Wednesday, 07/01/20
1st Workshop on Scientific-Driven Deep Learning (SciDL) - LivestreamDeep learning is playing a growing role in the area of fluid dynamics, climate science and in many other scientific disciplines. Classically, deep learning has focused on an model agnostic learning approaches ignoring any prior knowledge that is known about the problem under consideration. However, limited data can severely challenge ...
Where: Cost: Free
Digital Grid Summer Series: Lessons learned from Utilities and IT companies - LivestreamIn June, EPRI and Stanford University Bits and Watts Initiative co-hosted a virtual workshop, that brought together utility and information technology companies to discuss the development of a data platform and enabling technologies to achieve the Digital Grid vision. This interactive panel series will provide an opportunity to take this ...
Where: Cost: Free
swissnex Fireside Chat: Imagining New Realities 002 - LivestreamWork, education, economy, social life: the corona crisis is rapidly accelerating the digitization of important areas of society, and it is deeply impacting every aspect of our lives. How will this structural transformation of society play out in the long term? In a series of fireside chats, the trending informal ...
What's the Matter with Matter? - LivestreamDuring these sessions, using bicycles as an example, we will explore materials science, classification of materials, materials selection, and important materials properties. You will learn how bicycles have evolved over a century and how inventors and engineers have chosen materials to fabricate bicycles, based on their unique properties to increase bicycle performance, ...
Where: Cost: Free
CO2 Capture and Storage Project in the Brea Olinda Oil Field: Presentation and Discussion - LivestreamThe Stanford Center for Carbon Storage invites you to attend a presentation, workshop and discussion on Bridge Energy’s Carbon Capture and Storage project proposed for the Brea Olinda Oil field in the LA Basin. This will be a highly interactive event and feedback is requested.RSVP at weblink to obtain Zoom ...
Where: Cost: Free
Pop-up Summer Seminar - LivestreamDr. Ed Carpenter will host a seminar on current research on Marine Plastic Pollution. New for our summer seminars, reading assignments! For this discussion a recent Washington Post article,  From national parks to the deep sea, plastic pollution is showing up wherever scientists look.See weblink for connection information.
Where: Cost: Free
Marijuana Addiction in the Age of Legal Weed - LivestreamGeneration X writer Neal Pollack thought he had it all: a good writing career, a strong marriage, even a lucrative 3-day run on "Jeopardy"! That brought him national attention. Like many in his generation, he also smoked a lot of marijuana. He had discovered that food, music and even his ...
Where: Cost: Free
Thursday, 07/02/20
What's the Matter with Matter? - LivestreamDuring these sessions, using bicycles as an example, we will explore materials science, classification of materials, materials selection, and important materials properties. You will learn how bicycles have evolved over a century and how inventors and engineers have chosen materials to fabricate bicycles, based on their unique properties to increase bicycle performance, ...
Where: Cost: Free
Highlighting Results from the HAWC Observatory - LivestreamLocated on Sierra Negra in Puebla Mexico, the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory is one of the world's premier facilities for exploring the universe at γ-ray energies exceeding 100 TeV. Large field-of-view and high duty cycle observatories like HAWC enable deep, unbiased surveys of the TeV sky. Sensitivity to ...
Where: Cost: Free
Lunch Break Science - LivestreamMeet Leakey Foundation grantee Lauren Schroeder and learn what it takes to study the skulls of early humans. This short interview is part of The Leakey Foundation’s weekly video series Lunch Break Science.Speaker: Lauren Schroeder, University of Cape TownRegister at weblink to obtain connection information.
Where: Cost: Free
After Dark Online: Racism in Science - LivestreamScience isn’t neutral. Science is carried out by people, and can be shaped by their beliefs, social values, blind spots, and biases - and while it can reveal the impacts of racism, science is also historically and currently embedded with racist and inequitable practices. As concerns such as racialized bioethics ...
Where: Cost: Free
City Star Party - Presidio - CANCELEDCome 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!
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Friday, 07/03/20
AI Talks in Healthcare - LivestreamThis week, we are going to have our third "AI Talks in Healthcare" webinar. We will host Jochen Kumm who is the CEO of Pr3vent - a company dedicated to the early detection and prevention of vision loss in newborns.Speakers: Jochen Kumm, CEO of Pr3vent; Chirag Patel, Stanford; Ryan Spitler, ...
Where: Cost: Free
CuriOdyssey’s Virtual First Friday Family NightsMeet exciting science educators, wildlife keepers and children’s musical performers for an interesting and fun family event on CuriOdyssey’s Facebook page. See how exciting science can be with Kate the Chemist, Dr. Kate Biberdorf, science entertainer and author of the best-selling book “The Big Book of Experiments," as she performs her ...
Where: Cost: Free
Moon Mash Up - LivestreamJoin us on Facebook Live for a a mash-up of Moon-themed activities! We’re bringing together our Moon rocks, one-of-a-kind lunar telescope images, astronomers and more. With a full, bright moon on Friday night, this is the perfect time for a lunar celebration.Look forward to:A closer look at Chabot’s TWO real ...
Where: Cost: Free
Saturday, 07/04/20
Virtual Telescope Viewing - LivestreamJoin our resident astronomers on Facebook Live every Saturday evening live from Chabot’s Observation deck!Each week, our astronomers will guide us through spectacular night sky viewing through Nellie, Chabot‘s most powerful telescope. Weather permitting we will be able to view objects live through the telescopes and our astronomers will be ...
Where: Cost: Free
Sunday, 07/05/20
State-of-the-art Clinical Named Entity Recognition in Spark NLP Workshop - LivestreamDeep neural network models have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance gains in a variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, these gains rely on the availability of large amounts of annotated examples, without which state-of-the-art performance is rarely achievable. This is especially inconvenient for the many NLP fields where annotated ...
