Join Christine Manoux, UCBG Education Director, for a fun talk about the plants we eat! We'll explore plant parts, and learn surprising botanical facts about fruits and vegetables. (Did you know potatoes aren't roots and strawberries aren't fruits?) Plus, discover what their color might tell us about their ...
Where: Cost: $10 per family
San Francisco City Star Party - 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
Armchair Star Party (Online)Join San Jose Astronomical Association (SJAA) astronomers in our third Armchair (virtual) Star Party. We will take you on a guided tour of the current night sky and introduce you to the tools of astronomy. SJAA members will share live views (weather permitting) as well as long exposure photos of ...
Where: Cost: Free
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 ...
Broken symmetries in living matter - LivestreamActive processes in living systems create a novel class of non-equilibrium material composed of many interacting parts that individually consume energy and collectively generate motion or mechanical stress. In this talk, I will discuss experimental tools and conceptual frameworks we develop to uncover laws governing order, phase transitions and fluctuations in systems in which individual components break ...
Where: Cost: Free
The Alignment Problem - LivestreamThe real risk with AI is not that it will "turn on us," but rather, the danger has always been about being careful what we wish for. The real risk is the Midas Curse: that we build a powerful system able to learn by example but are somehow imprecise or ...
Where: Cost: Free
Astronomy on Tap Los Angeles - LivestreamWe’ll hear from Casey Honniball: “Water on the Sunlit Moon†and from Kishalay De: “How Merging Stellar Corpses are Connected to the Calcium in Your Bonesâ€. In addition, we will host interactive astronomically-themed pub trivia.
Data Science for Managers Workshop - LivestreamThe AI Era: Opportunities and Challenges A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning Models:Decision TreeKNeighbours ClassifierRandomForest ModelGradient Boosting RegressorSVMNeural NetworksAgenda:10:50 am - 11:00 am Arrival and socializing11:00 am - 11:10 am Opening11:10 am - 12:50 pm Abdullah Karasan, " Data Science for Managers Workshop"12:50 pm - 1:00 pm Q&ASpeaker: Abdullah Karasan, ...
