Basic Science Lights the Way: Innovations & Adaptations for Sustainability - LivestreamSolving the global challenge of environmental sustainability requires ideas from experts across STEM fields and beyond. Our panel’s expertise spans from biodiversity in Amazonia to batteries and new planet-friendly materials.This talk features Paul V.A. Fine, Alessandra Lanzara, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh, moderated by Charles R. Marshall, Philip Sandford Boone Chair in ...
Where: Cost: Free
'Whale Wisdom' and 'Dick Ogg: Fisherman'Film #1: WHALE WISDOM Filmed entirely in 4K from above and below the surface using boats, kayaks and drones, and working with respected whale scientists and researchers, Rick Rosenthal shines a light on the culture and wisdom of whales. What goes on inside those vast heads? How might such almost ...
Where: Cost: $9
After Dark Online: Transgender Day of VisibilityObserved on March 31, Transgender Day of Visibility is an international day of awareness and celebration built from decades of activism in response to the intentional exclusion of transgender people and voices in our culture and discourse. Transgender experiences expand and challenge our often limited models of gender, sex, and ...
Professor Munira Khalil is a physical chemist at the University of Washington whose research focuses on developing a microscopic understanding of how coupled electronic, vibrational, and solvent degrees of freedom optimize charge and energy transfer pathways in molecular photochemistry.Register at weblink to attend via Zoom
Who says botanists can’t have a little fun and a lot of adventure? Join Nathalie Nagalingum, cycad expert and the Academy’s Curator of Botany, as she hosts fellow botanists and asks them to regale you with tales of tracking down plants and blooms all around the world.
Where: Cost: Free
Friday, 04/02/21
NightSchool: Geology & Society - LivestreamExplore the vast field of geology and just a few of the ways the ground beneath our feet affects our lives - and vice versa. Hear from researchers studying how human activities impact the Earth’s structure and consider how geologic features are linked to the culture of local communities.See weblink ...
Where: Cost: Free
A Journey Through Painted Jewels - LivestreamLapidary historian Justin K. Prim takes us on an artistic journey through time. Starting in 1380, Justin will look at a painting from each century until the modern day, examining and analyzing the gemstones depicted within. We will discover that it’s possible to extract accurate historical information about gemstones, jewelry, ...
Where: Cost: Free
Saturday, 04/03/21
Egg Dissection - LivestreamIn this interactive virtual program, the EV will lead kids in their own egg dissection! Learn about what eggs are, and what is inside of them - there is more than just the yoke and the shell! We will cover different kinds of birds, different kinds of eggs, and of ...
Join 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
Monday, 04/05/21
Tailoring Electronic Structures of 2D Heterostructures - LivestreamAtomically thin, single-crystalline 2D electronic materials have recently emerged, offering a remarkably wide range of building blocks of nanostructures, ranging from metals (e.g. graphene), large gap insulators (BN), to semiconductors (transition metal dichalcogenides and black phosphorous). One key advantage of these van der Waals materials lies in the flexibility of ...
In 2017 April, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observed the near-horizon region around the supermassive black hole at the core of the M87 galaxy. These 1.3 mm wavelength observations revealed a compact asymmetric ring-like source morphology. This structure originates from synchrotron emission produced by relativistic plasma located in the immediate ...
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Quantum computing with superconducting circuits at Google - LivestreamHow do quantum computers work? Let's start from a couple basic surprises of quantum mechanics and develop an appreciation for the physics and logic underlying quantum computing. Then we'll delve into the implementation we're working on at Google Quantum AI, superconducting circuits.Speaker: Dr. Kevin Satzinger, Google Quantum AIZoom link
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Reproducibility and contingency in the evolution and ecology of microbial communities - LivestreamMicrobes form complex multi-species communities that play many critical roles across the biosphere. Building quantitative models that may help us predict the composition and function of a microbial community in a given habitat is a long-standing aspiration. To this end, we must understand what features of microbial communities (and at what ...
From March 2011 through April 2015, the MESSENGER spacecraft orbited Mercury and acquired data from a suite of instruments designed to work in the extreme environment near the Sun. These instruments returned the first data from Mercury orbit and facilitated groundbreaking discoveries that improved, and at times changed, our understanding ...
 What does freedom look like to you? To theoretical physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, freedom is (in part) thinking about "problems like dark matter and dark energy without worrying about cops killing Black people," and freedom is "everyone having a chance to look at the dark night sky, wonder about it, and ...
Where: Cost: Free ($5 without discount code)
Wednesday, 04/07/21
Sparrows in the Mist: Complex Winter Social Behavior in a Little Brown Bird - LivestreamOrnithologists often study breeding birds and as a result the winter ecology and social behavior of migratory birds is relatively under studied. For the past 18 years my students and I have been studying a population of golden-crowned sparrows that winter in the University of California, Santa Cruz Arboretum. Each ...
In this talk Stephen will discuss his research on the economic costs of local planning restrictions and NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) attitudes in the context of renewable energy deployment. Using data on the United Kingdom, he estimates how wind and solar projects affect nearby property values. He then studies ...
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 session with ...
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The Chimpanzee Within Us: Why are Humans the Way We Are? - LivestreamOne way to answer this question is to look to our closest cousins, the chimpanzees. Join Assistant Professor of Psychology and Anthropology Alexandra Rosati of the University of Michigan and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Biology Zarin Machanda of Tufts University as they examine the world of chimpanzees, including chimpanzee social lives, ecological context, ...
