Climate Change, The Top 10 things you Should Know in San Francisco- LivestreamCyndy Comerford, Climate Program Manager at the San Francisco Department of the Environment provides a presentation on how climate change will affect our local communities, especially the most vulnerable, and the solutions available to address these near and long-term impacts. This presentation explores the top five impacts climate change will have ...
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Searching for the Darkest Galaxies: Ultra-Faint Dwarfs as Dark Matter Laboratories - LivestreamHow small is the faintest galaxy in the Universe, and what is the nature of the dark matter particle? These seemingly unrelated questions are brought together by so-called "ultra-faint" dwarf galaxies (UFDs). The smallest UFDs contain as few as hundreds of stars and are the most dark matter-dominated systems in ...
Black holes are among the most remarkable predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity: so much material is compressed into such a small volume that nothing, not even light, can escape. Black holes have also captured the public imagination, and are commonly featured in popular culture, from Star Trek to Hollywood ...
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 ...
'Secrets of the Whales' - Exclusive Virtual World PremiereMembers of the ACS San Francisco Bay Chapter community are cordially invited to the EXCLUSIVE VIRTUAL WORLD PREMIERE of National Geographic’s Four-Part Special, “SECRETS OF THE WHALESâ€! You can be among the first to see this extraordinary four-part documentary!Narrated by Sigourney Weaver (Alien, Avatar, Gorillas in the Mist), “SECRETS OF ...
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Monday, 04/19/21
Improving neural network based equations solvers - LivestreamNeural Networks (NNs) have ushered in new methods of constructing solution approximations to complex mathematical equations. However, especially in the context of Differential Equations (DEs), such approximations are often reliant on external methods/solutions to reliably estimate the errors associated with them. This occurs because cost functions are seldom explicitly dependent ...
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Dipolar excitonic insulator in atomic double layers - LivestreamThe excitonic insulator (EI) is a charge insulating state that arises from the spontaneous formation of bound electron-hole pairs (excitons). It presents an interesting platform for realizing quantum many-body ground states of bosons in solids, such as condensate and superfluid. Although the concept has been known for sixty years, to ...
I present a new measurement of the positive muon anomalous magnetic moment a_μ=(g_μ-2)/2 from the Fermilab E989 experiment.  The quantity a_μ is an exquisite probe of the quantum corrections of the muon interaction with the electromagnetic field. The experiment is a follow up of the BNL E821 experiment, which saw ...
Affordable, reliable, ever-cleaner energy is essential to achieve a more prosperous and sustainable world. Reducing the carbon intensity of the energy that billions of people rely on every day is a tremendous opportunity to advance the global net zero ambitions of the Paris Agreement. At Chevron, we use our unique ...
Measuring your ingredients: topological phases for quantum computing - LivestreamTopological quantum computing relies on qubits encoded in quantum states that are exponentially protected from local perturbations. One method for realizing such protected states is a practical recipe for topological superconductivity: hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowires in finite magnetic fields. In this talk I will describe experimental methods for identifying and manipulating ...
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Continuity: Discovering the Lessons behind the World’s Longest-lived Organizations - LivestreamOne of Long Now’s founding premises is that humanity’s most significant challenges require long-term solutions, including institutions that caretake and guide the knowledge and commitment needed to work over long time scales.However, there are a limited number of organizations that have managed to stay stable over many centuries, and in ...
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Virology 101What ARE viruses? Join us for a virtual talk by Columbia University professor Dr. Vincent Racaniello, who will explain what viruses are and how they work, followed by a wide-ranging discussion on the COVID-19 pandemic. He will cover the origins of the virus, the disease, how it is diagnosed, and ...
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Tuesday, 04/20/21
Is Artificial Intelligence Racist? - LivestreamAre AI technologies racist, by design, in their data collection, or through the optimization of their functions? Are uses of AI technology racist by application or outcome? Is there racism in the AI community of makers, companies, and funders? Is it possible that AI be used for anti-racist outcomes? This ...
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Being with Bears - Livestream“Being with Bears†will focus on Meghan Walla-Murphy’s work with the North Bay Bear Collaborative. She will outline the goals, research methods and findings of their research as well as share how to help bears thrive in the North Bay and how humans can live among bears safely.
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Hubble Telescope Spacecraft - LivestreamThe Hubble Space Telescope was the first of NASA's great observatories in space. It was launched in 1990 and has provided an unbelievable amount of scientific data for over 30 years. This presentation will focus on the Lockheed portion of the Hubble through launch and then show some of the ...
Join us for this after-school program as we explore the beautiful and fascinating world of flowers--a plant part specially designed for its pollinator friends. We'll look at flowers from around the world, dive into the different flower parts, and discover a myriad of pollinating animals, from bees and butterflies to ...
Speaker: Jill Marshall, University of ArkansasThis event was originally scheduled for February 16, 2021.Zoom information can be found on the EPS advising Google calendar
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The NANOGrav 12.5-Year Data Set: Knocking at the Gravitational Wave Door - LivestreamMillisecond pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars with phenomenal rotational stability. The NANOGrav collaboration monitors an array of about 80 of these cosmic clocks in order to detect perturbations due to gravitational waves at nanohertz frequencies. These gravitational waves will most likely result from an ensemble of supermassive black hole binaries. Their ...
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Two Talks: Popping the Science BubbleElephant seals: Are they nature’s SCUBA divers?Speaker: Kaitlin Allen (Integrative Biology)A day in the life of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (green algae)Speaker: Valle Ojeda (QB3 - California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences)See weblink for connection information
Fire has been a major driving force in the ecology of California's landscapes since prehistoric times. In addition to 'natural' fires, indigenous people used extensive intentional burning practices to produce more favorable landscapes for human habitation.But the frequency and intensity of fires has dramatically increased across the American west in ...
High-throughput sequencing of targeted “barcode†loci in DNA extracted from marine environmental samples such as water and sediments has recently exploded in popularity due to the ability to generate a taxonomic community profile that usually surpasses what is obtainable from using traditional monitoring methods in terms of biodiversity and detection ...
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SETI Talks: Going Dark: The Mystery of Vanishing Stars - LivestreamComparing a 70-year-old survey with recent images of the night sky, astronomers have discovered that 100 stars may have gone dark. Those vanishing light sources could be short-lived flashes in the night or possibly, the disappearance of a long-lasting star.  These preliminary findings almost certainly represent natural and well-understood events, but ...
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 ...
Arsenic contamination of groundwater continues to threaten access to safe drinking water for California’s most vulnerable small, socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. How does this disparity persist in California, the wealthiest state in the US and one of the world’s largest economies? In this talk, I will first introduce challenges to safe ...
In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and author Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions - clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips - and reveals how they shaped the human experience.Ramirez shows not only how materials were shaped by inventors but ...
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Lessons and Opportunities in Large Scale Networks and Smart Health Application - LivestreamData science and statistical/machine learning techniques can be leveraged to tackle various predictive and decision control problems in a wide range of application domains. This talk will focus on two domains: (1) large-scale networked systems such as IP backbone or wireless cellular networks, and (2) smart health applications. The first ...
The Dragonfly mission to Titan is under construction and scheduled to launch in 2027. Titan is the largest Moon of Saturn and has a rich organic chemistry with lakes of liquid methane and ethane on its surface. The goals of the Dragonfly include the search for life. Could life exist ...
In honor of Earth Day, Garden Curator Holly Forbes will shine a light on the various ways the Garden is involved in native California flora conservation efforts. The Garden holds one of the largest collections in the world of California native plant species, including over 200 taxa on rare or ...
Extreme fire behavior has been observed frequently during recent wildfires in the Western US, yet there is still limited understanding of the role of plume dynamics on fire spread. The Rapid Deployments to Wildfires Experiment (RaDFIRE) was the first coordinated meteorological field campaign dedicated to observing fire-atmosphere interactions during large ...
Bats are often misunderstood and feared by people, but they are amazing animals and are incredibly important to the ecosystem and to us humans. Join us to learn about these flying mammals and how they are vital to agriculture. Bats eat the insects that affect our crops and spread disease.This ...
The pandemic has raised significant issues of concern for a democratic society, including that of balancing personal freedom against the greater good. How should this issue be most appropriately addressed during a time of pandemic or national emergency? How well is America actually equipped to handle this kind of crisis ...
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The past, present, and future of DNA-based forensics - LivestreamNew technologies are being brought to bear in criminal justice. The existence of community databases of DNA information have enabled a new approach, forensic genetic genealogy, for identifying suspects in violent crimes. New technologies for recovering and analyzing DNA from forensic samples brings forensic genetic genealogy to bear for even ...
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Hardcore Natural History: Marine Algae as Ocean Record Keepers - LivestreamJoin us as we speak to Dr. Emily Miller a research technician in the Monterey Bay Aquarium/Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) Incubator Initiative program with the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) team. Emilly Miller will talk about how the team based at the Monterey Bay Aquarium used older algae specimens ...
At this After Dark, hear from and celebrate voices at the forefront of the environmental justice movement. Founded in 1970 by activist groups, Earth Day is an annual, global event to raise awareness about our natural environment, the threats posed by a changing climate, and the actions we can take ...
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Intro to Computer Vision: Building Object Detection Models and Datasets - LivestreamJoin this hands-on workshop to get started with computer vision and object detection.Build your own object detection model from start to finish. Includes step-by-step instructions on data annotation and model training with your own dataset.Object classification and localization within an image is foundational to many computer vision applications.In this workshop ...
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NightSchool: Earth Day for the People - LivestreamWe know that it’s important to take care of the entire planet, but this Earth Day, we’re focusing on projects at the zip code level. Get inspired by people and organizations radically changing both the health of the environment and their communities - through sustainable development, environmental justice, citizen science, ...
Wonderfest Science Envoys are early-career researchers with special communication skills and aspirations. Following short talks on provocative modern science topics, these two Science Envoys will answer questions with insight and enthusiasm:UC Berkeley psychologist Rebecca Corona on The Many Faces of Awe - Awe is unlike any other emotion. It possesses ...
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Friday, 04/23/21
DNA Day at UC Santa Cruz - LivestreamAttend our annual celebration to learn how UCSC is revealing life’s code. This event features distinguished scientific speakers on leading edge genomics science; research presentations by UCSC undergraduate genomics scholars; and a student-led strawberry DNA extraction demonstration. Join in the discussion and Q&A.Selected talks will be made available in Spanish.Speakers ...
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Eggs, Tadpoles, to Frogs: Monitoring Frogs in the Golden Gate National Parks - LivestreamLearn about the common and uncommon frogs you will see in the Golden Gate National Parks. Hear the story about the California Red Legged Frog and the work the Golden Gate National Parks is doing to reintroduce and monitor this threatened frog population in the park.Price Sheppy from the Parks ...
Both Ganymede and Callisto, Jupiter’s two largest moons, host numerous impact craters and basins on their ice shells. Although it is not yet possible to directly probe them, the wide ranges of impact crater sizes provide a possible avenue through which we can begin to understand the internal structures of ...
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'Saving the Dark' Movie and Panel Discussion - Livestream"Saving The Dark" is a Documentary Movie on Astronomy and Light Pollution. It is about the significance of Astronomy and the night skies, effects of Light Pollution on Astronomy, human health, wildlife and beyond, what we can do to fight it. The movie will show what the people in cities are missing out ...
