Live ScienceJoin Chabot Science Educators for a fun and interactive science experiment! Together, we will investigate and observe a phenomenon of science through a captivating demonstration.We’ll ask for observations and explanations of what YOU think is happening before revealing the science behind it. Then, we’ll end with a live Q&A for ...
Neuroscience has made tremendous leaps and bounds in the last three decades. Sadly, the outcomes for people with epilepsy have not changed significantly with costs more than tripling to 28 billion dollars per year. Why the big divide between research and clinical care? We will explore the barriers to translation ...
How do scientists go from OMG to PhD? How do they turn their passion for science into their profession? What advice do they have for future scientists?If you are a 5th-12th grade student, undergraduate, teacher or parent, join us to ask these questions and more in a Q&A sessionParents must give ...
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Brian Christian: The Future of AI - LivestreamTime and time again we have created artificial intelligence (AI) systems to help solve our problems, but what happens when the AI systems become the problem?Artificial Intelligence systems have been created to help humans work faster, respond more justly, manage more and make fewer mistakes, but now the solution has ...
I will cover several recent papers: In Tschofen et al. (2019) we compute economy-wide gross external damages (GED) due to premature mortality from air pollution. We find that: GED has decreased over time; damages from farms are now larger than those from utilities; 4 sectors, comprising less than 20% of ...
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The Hunt for Dark Matter in the Universe: New Experiments - LivestreamAstronomers today understand that the universe is full of a mysterious substance they call “dark matter†(because it doesn’t give off any light or other radiation we can detect.) Dr. Shutt will discuss the motivation behind the multi-decade, world-wide effort to test the idea that dark matter is in the ...
PICTURE A SCIENTISTÂ chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Biologist Nancy Hopkins, chemist Raychelle Burks, and geologist Jane Willenbring lead viewers on a journey deep into their own experiences in the sciences, ranging from brutal harassment to years of subtle slights. Along the ...
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Thursday, 10/15/20
An Interview with Dr. Ken Caldeira on Climate Change - LivestreamInteractive session with renowned scientist Dr. Ken Caldeira. All are welcome. Questions will be invited from audience.Ken Caldeira serves as Senior Advisor, Climate Change for Gates Ventures and is a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, where his job is “to make important scientific discoveries.†He also serves ...
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Ocean Buoy Live Exploration: Cleaning and Servicing a CO2 Buoy Have you ever wondered how to move and service a full-sized scientific ocean buoy? Or what critters and seaweed cling to its underside? Watch live online as we lift our one-ton, 20-foot-tall carbon dioxide (CO2) buoy out of the water and explore its scientific instruments and the organisms that have ...
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The COVID Economy: How the Pandemic is Impacting Inequality and Local Economies - LivestreamThe pandemic has sped up unsustainable and unjust trends in our economy. Tens if not hundreds of millions of Americans are struggling to cope with the economic fallout, while billionaires have only grown more disproportionately wealthy. Communities of color have been hit especially hard. Enormous multinational corporations like Amazon have ...
Is There a Future for Carpooling? - LivestreamIn the Bay Area, carpools carry nearly as many commute trips as public transit. As the Bay Area region struggles to meet state-mandated greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, carpooling remains an important alternative to single-occupant vehicle travel. Prior to the pandemic, new options emerged to match up riders and drivers, ...
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The Science Behind Forest Restoration in the Sierra Nevada - LivestreamFire suppression and past logging have increased fire hazards in the forests of the Sierra Nevada. Climate change makes this situation worse but is not the dominant factor. We will look at a long-term study to see what forest restoration activities can be used today to increase the resilience of ...
 This year we are celebrating 20 years of continuous human presence in space, onboard the International Space Station (ISS). Did you know that the ISS is a U.S. National Laboratory? The ISS National Lab is accessible to commercial companies, entrepreneurs and startups, and academic and government institutions for groundbreaking science, ...
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Translating Data into a Shared LanguageBeing a talented data scientist who can program in multiple languages and analyze massive data sets is not always enough to get your work recognized by decision-makers. Often, we focus on building impressive visualizations and models only to find our audience confused about what we need them to learn, or ...
Hardcore Natural History: The Price of PesticidesJoin us for a discussion of recent research on pesticide contamination of milkweed in California's Central Valley led by Sarah Hoyle. A research team including Xerces Society staff and scientists from University of Nevada, Reno, sampled milkweed plants from various landscapes in the Central Valley and analyzed them for pesticide ...
Organic matter, part of what makes up living organisms, can be defined as material in the process of decay. Though life may be gone, it’s not forgotten, as this matter cycles back through the ecosystem - creating new opportunities for life. Tonight, scale down to the smallest forms of life ...
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NightSchool: WildLife in the City - LivestreamJoin us for a NightSchool session examining the wild landscape of cities: how living with wildlife has shaped the design of where we live - and how we are shaping wildlife. Featuring talks by Elizabeth Carlen, Max Lambert, PhD, and Dr. Christopher Schell.
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Friday, 10/16/20
StorageX, X=LIB@TWh: Sustainable Supply Chain for Batteries - LivestreamStanford's StorageX faculty & global experts will cover materials, devices, systems, theory, simulation & economics across the spectrum of energy storage applications - from electronics & EVs, to backing up the grid & renewables.This week's StorageX International Symposium features:JB Straubel, CEO of Redwood Materials;Celina Mikolajczak, VP of Battery Technology, Panasonic ...
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Less is not more: Earthquake source modeling case studies for risk uncertainties - LivestreamHow do we constrain the unconstrained? How do we say something about a region where we just don’t have the data? That’s when we have to gather together all of the available information to try to string together a coherent story and an understanding of its uncertainties. It’s where your ...
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Stanford on the Moon 20th Anniversary - LivestreamStanford on the Moon 20th Anniversary celebration will feature:Two Stanford Women Astronauts Tammy Jernigan (’81) and Nicole Mann (’01) on First Woman on the MoonStanford alum Grant Anderson (’85) working on NASA Returns to the Moon - Artemis ProjectPanel to discuss education for the generations that will work on the MoonSOM ...
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Complexity WeekendComplexity Weekend is a community of practice oriented around the application of Complexity Science to help solve pressing problems that defy disciplinary solutions. We put on weekend-long hackathons featuring energetic participation and skilled facilitation that help people from all over the world form diverse teams, discover shared purpose together, and ...
Wildlife Conservation Network 2020 Virtual Fall ExpoExpo is an annual event that welcomes you into the vast, thrilling world of wildlife conservation. Because this has been a year like no other, we are bringing you a special Expo experience where you’ll embark on an adventure filled with unprecedented stories from conservationists in the field. Expo will ...
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IEEE New Frontiers in AI - CANCELEDIEEE New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (NFAI) in Silicon Valley brings together industry and academic leaders in cutting-edge AI research and development to share with you the recent developments in both Hardware Infrastructure and Software Applications for AI.Join industry titans and academic experts, as they discuss the state of the ...
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History and Mystery of the Refuge and the Bay - Livestream The Refuge was created in 1972, but this story starts 200 years earlier when Europeans discovered San Francisco Bay. Learn about the Bay’s history and the answers to mysteries such as: Why are mercury and gold a lethal duo? How did silver mining in Nevada affect the bay? Why was ...
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 BerkeleyRegister at ...
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Complexity WeekendComplexity Weekend is a community of practice oriented around the application of Complexity Science to help solve pressing problems that defy disciplinary solutions. We put on weekend-long hackathons featuring energetic participation and skilled facilitation that help people from all over the world form diverse teams, discover shared purpose together, and ...
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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 ...
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Sunday, 10/18/20
Development of COVID-19 Vaccines - LivestreamCovid-19 is a worldwide pandemic that is causing havoc around the world. The number of cases and deaths as well as economic hardship continues to grow. It is generally believed that the pandemic can only be stopped with the development of safe and effective vaccines. Over 150 vaccines are under ...
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Uncovering the Secret Lives of Antarctic Minke Whales - LivestreamInhabiting remote, ice-covered areas typically inaccessible to researchers, Antarctic minke whales are one of the most poorly-studied baleen whales, despite being the most abundant. As climate-driven changes rapidly occur around the Antarctic, understanding the lives and habits of minke whales - and how climate-driven changes manifest in them - has ...
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Complexity WeekendComplexity Weekend is a community of practice oriented around the application of Complexity Science to help solve pressing problems that defy disciplinary solutions. We put on weekend-long hackathons featuring energetic participation and skilled facilitation that help people from all over the world form diverse teams, discover shared purpose together, and ...
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Monday, 10/19/20
10th Annual College DayCollege Day is a community-driven, county-wide celebration that shows students from diverse backgrounds that going to college is possible. Now in its 10th year anniversary, under Silicon Valley Education Foundation's (SVEF) and Santa Clara County Office of Education leadership and our partners, we are excited to bring you workshops during ...
Musical similarity is defined in many ways, all of them imperfect. Exactitude somehow defies the meaning of the word similarityâ€"a likeness without precise replication. In practical use musical similarity is a frequent consideration in music-copyright infringements suits. Here we investigate reasons for the widening gap between legal understandings of musical ...
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Delafossite oxides: natural, ultra-pure metal-insulator heterostructures - LivestreamDelafossite oxides are layered compounds, which can be thought of as natural heterostructures oftriangularly coordinated metallic sheetsand transition metal oxide blocks. A fascinating range of electronic statescan be found both in theirbulk andon their surfaces, includingextremely high conductivity1,2in PtCoO2and PdCoO2, maximal Rashba-like spin-splitting3on the transition metal terminated surfaces of PtCoO2, ...
Electrification of transportation continues to accelerate as incumbent and new vehicle companies commit hundreds of billions of dollars to developing and producing electric cars and trucks. The impending arrival of a plethora of EVs in all shapes and sizes has created a pressing need for a ubiquitous and robust charging ...
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Exploring Symmetry Violations with Free Neutrons - LivestreamSymmetry principles are basic tenets for our theory of fundamental interactions. While they have been essential in building the theory, it is in their violations were major breakthroughs have often occurred. We will discuss how searches for symmetry violations can play a key role in elucidating the details of the ...
Stressed with Covid-19 and work life balance? Join our presentation by Dr. Cristina Banks, an expert on healthy workplaces. The presentation will discuss what has worked and what hasn’t, in the work from home environment. Professor Banks will also examine family complications with working from home, theories of human nature ...
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Tuesday, 10/20/20
Bill McKibben & Vandana Shiva in Conversation: Social Transformation - Visions & Mobilizations - LivestreamBefore the coronavirus pandemic, we already knew social transformation was necessary. Now we know it’s possible. Political and economic policies that were previously fringe are now front and center in national and international conversations. In the last months, we’ve witnessed people taking to the streets to protest authoritarian governments, racial ...
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10th Annual College DayCollege Day is a community-driven, county-wide celebration that shows students from diverse backgrounds that going to college is possible. Now in its 10th year anniversary, under Silicon Valley Education Foundation's (SVEF) and Santa Clara County Office of Education leadership and our partners, we are excited to bring you workshops during ...
You are invited on a spectacularly illustrated Tourist Tour of the Solar System and the Galaxy with astronomer Andrew Fraknoi.* Tuesdays, 12:30 PM - 2:15 PM, Oct. 13 through Nov. 3 (Four Meeting Days)* Offered through the SF State Osher Life-long Learning Institute (OLLI), but open to anyone over age ...
Within our solar system, Earth is the only planet that is affected by wildfires, and wildfire has been a constant presence on the planet since at least the Silurian period. However, the effect of wildfire on the earth’s surface remains relatively under-studied. Many studies of earth surface processes focus on ...
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Diesel Free by '33 - PostponedThe Bay Area Air Quality Management District's (BAAQMD) "Diesel Free by ’33" campaign calls on Bay Area governments and businesses to commit to the elimination of diesel use by 2033. The campaign envisions a healthier, cleaner and less polluted future, but is this easier said than done? What can the ...
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Unravelling the Genetic Past and Present of Island Southeast Asia - LivestreamHuman evolutionary biologist Irene Gallego Romero discusses the presence of Denisovan DNA in present-day Papuans. She also examines the positioning of Indonesia in the global human genetics landscape.See weblink for connection options.
The space age has revolutionized the study of astronomy. Space-based telescopes have not only produced some of the clearest and most detailed images of the heavens, but have unlocked whole fields of study that are not possible from the ground. As we mark the 30th anniversary of the Hubble space ...
