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 ...
Chad Holliday, Chair of the Board, Royal Dutch Shell plc, will be interviewed by Arun Majumdar and Sally Benson, co-directors of Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy.Register here to obtain connection information
Where: Cost: Free
LIVE! Merlin Sheldrake and Michael Pollan on Entangled Life - LivestreamThe Bay Area Book Festival's #UNBOUND virtual series will be featuring biologist and visionary Merlin Sheldrake about his new book, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures, in a LIVE conversation with local bestselling writer and journalist Michael Pollan (How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma), co-hosted by Green Apple Books. Merlin ...
Where: Cost: $20
A Good Direction for Poor Air Quality - LivestreamAt the height of the global pandemic, roughly a third of the world’s population was under some form of lockdown. As a result, daily transportation use plummeted and, with it, air pollution as some of the most polluted cities reported massive decreases in particulate matter. Wuhan, China experienced a dramatic ...
Where: Cost: $10 General, Free for Members
Wednesday, 07/08/20
Digital Grid Summer Series: Technology Innovation Panel - LivestreamEPRI 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 vital conversation ...
Aquaculture is the fastest expanding segment of the global food system and generally relies on wild-caught marine animals as key ingredients in feeds for fishes and shrimps. Farmed seafood production is expected to continue to increase around the world, accompanied by a rising demand for nutrient-dense ingredients harvested from the ...
We now know that not all viruses are bad for us: for example, viruses play a role in the human microbiome. More importantly, viruses are drivers of genetic innovation and therefore of the evolution of life. While we have no definitive evidence of when the first virus emerged, we can ...
