Join Exploratorium educator Lori Lambertson and Port of San Francisco staff for a stroll along the San Francisco waterfront to observe, photograph, and discuss the king tide. Find out what causes the tides and why we have king tides at this time of year, and learn about the Port's Waterfront ...
See science come to light at GLOW Fest! At this all-ages celebration, dig into the art and science of light. Enjoy hands-on activities that help illuminate the how of light. Catch a glimpse of bioluminescent creatures and learn why they glow. Experience demos from artists and makers who harness light ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission
Help the King Tides Project photograph the highest tides of the year!King Tides are winter's highest tides, and they will arrive on December 4 and 5 and January 2 and 3. The California King Tides Project needs your help to photograph these high tides to visualize the impacts of future sea level rise. Visit California.kingtides.net to find your local high tide ...
Join our resident caterpillar lady Sal Levinson and butterfly guy Sarab Seth for our final virtual butterfly program of the year! Sarab will present a slideshow of butterflies he has photographed in the wild, in the US but outside the Bay Area.Register at weblink to receive connection information
Where: Cost: Free
Afternoon Hike at Mindego HillJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful 5-mile hike from the Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve to the top of the POST-protected Mindego Hill. You will be guided by POST ambassadors who will share details about how we protected this beautiful property featuring panoramic views of redwood ridges and ...
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
Help the King Tides Project photograph the highest tides of the year!King Tides are winter's highest tides, and they will arrive on December 4 and 5 and January 2 and 3. The California King Tides Project needs your help to photograph these high tides to visualize the impacts of future sea level rise. Visit California.kingtides.net to find your local high tide ...
Where: Cost: free
Monday, 12/06/21
Black holes in the Universe: where, what, and why? - LivestreamIn 2015, a merging pair of black holes was directly detected for the first time. Since then, the number of detections has grown substantially. This talk will describe the new catalogue of black holes and highlight some surprising features that pose new challenges for our understanding of these elusive objects.Register ...
Where: Cost: Free
Optimal Transport and the Geometry of Collider Data - LivestreamCollider experiments probe physics at the shortest distances by smashing protons together and measuring the debris produced by the collisions. However, it is challenging to infer the detailed short-distance physics from the distribution of debris measured by the detector. Over the past two years, the mathematical field of optimal transport ...
You wore a mask. You sheltered in place and avoided travel. You got the vaccine. You thought we would soon be on the other side of the pandemic. Then the Delta variant came and caused a surge over the summer.Now, although the number of new cases and hospitalizations have been ...
Speaker: Sambeeta Das, University of DelawareSee weblink for Zoom information
Where: Cost: Free
Deciphering the prion codePrions are proteinaceous infectious particles that allow the propagation and inheritance of structural information by proteins. Prions populate the tree of life, propagating as fibrils both in laboratory strains and in the wild. Disease-causing prions are responsible for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, a wide range of neurodegenerative disorders affecting a variety ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now Beyond his position as chairman of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr rose to global prominence in the business world with his development of OKRs (objectives and key results), which he popularized in his best-selling book Measure What Matters. Could the same set of management tools be applied ...
Where: Cost: $10 General, Free for Members.
The Future of Filmmaking: AI for Volumetric Capture and Reconstruction - LivestreamOne picture is worth a thousand words, so what have been told with videos? What about 100 simultaneous videos to reconstruct every frame of life in a[masked] sq. ft dome? Is it enough to reconstruct and digitize us realistically? Similar to other industries, the entertainment industry is also being reshaped ...
Where: Cost: Free
Astronomy on Tap: Los Angeles - JWST Edition - LivestreamJoin us for a special Astronomy on Tap celebrating the imminent launch of the James Webb Space Telescope streamed over YouTube Live. We’ll hear from Dr. Christina Williams: “The Search for the First Galaxies with JWST†and from Dr. Justin Spilker: “Magnifying the Earliest Galaxiesâ€. In addition, we will host ...
The talk will explain the difficulty in conducting security audits in organizations, specifically enterprises whose services and networks span multiple domains/boundaries, use cloud and on-premises services, and are hosted across several geographies. This will include using our proposed conceptual security audit framework to show how organizations can conduct appropriate security ...
Polyelectrolytes have unique properties that make them advantageous for the design of nanomaterials for drug delivery. These polymers are water-soluble, have a large number of easily modified reactive side chains for attachment of ligands, and can exhibit charge that can be designed to be sensitive to physiological conditions such as ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Lawrence Berkeley Lab Virtual TourIn response to COVID-related social conditions, Berkeley Lab is offering virtual tours of its facilities to the public. These are pre-scheduled, live, interactive, one-hour long presentations by Lab staff and scientists. Participants will learn about the Lab's fascinating history, ground-breaking discoveries, and contributions to COVID-19-related research.Join a Zoom Webinar to ...
Where: Cost: Free
Winter Conifers Virtual TourFrom the ‘noble fir’ to the ‘humble pine’, join us for a virtual tour highlighting the Garden’s remarkable collection of conifer trees. We’ll explore via Zoom the unexpected origins, distinguishing features, and unique uses of this special group of plants. Get to know these winter plant friends.Register at weblink to ...
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 ...
The March 11, 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami sent an unprecedented volume of marine debris into the North Pacific Ocean which began to come ashore in North America and the Hawaiian Islands in 2012. Between the spring of 2012 and the winter of 2016/2017 we found nearly 400 living Japanese ...
Where: Cost: Free
December LASER EventSummer Praetorius (USGS Geologist) on "The Heliocene"Amelia Winger-Bearskin (Media Artist, University of Florida) on "Visual Storytelling with Bleeding-edge Technologies"Eran Kahana (Stanford Law School) on "The Metaverse and its Potential Impact on Agency for Artificial Intelligence Entities"Register at weblink to receive connection information
Where: Cost: Free
Thursday, 12/09/21
After Dark: Light PlayWhen our eyes are open, light streams into them continually. Can you describe how that light arrives, and how the images you see are formed? Tonight at After Dark, play around and test your assumptions about what you know about light. Experiment with reflection, shadows, mirrors, and more at our ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
UC Berkeley CLEAR Pub Science: The Wood-Wide Web Fourth year graduate student Lorenzo Washington will present on the role that fungi play in ecosystem health and interactions - sure to be an exciting talk, especially for all of us amateur mycologists & mushroom admirers!The CLEAR Project its composed of a group of young scientists at UC Berkeley who ...
Archaeological finds are often interpreted in popular science through the ‘lost civilization’ trope: once great metropolises and their people that mysteriously vanished in history. Although ruins suggest the abandonment of a specific location at a point in time, they do not suggest that its occupants and their culture disappeared; most ...
Where: Cost: Free
Virtual Telescope ViewingJoin our resident astronomers on Facebook Live and YouTube 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 available ...
Join artist, author, and educator John Muir Laws for a virtual walk in the woods to explore how to observe with the eyes of a naturalist, discovering and celebrating the signs of the Bay Area season in a nature journal.Join us for a deep dive on mushrooms and enjoy just watching or ...
Where: Cost: suggested donation $20
Free Telescope ViewingsJoin Chabot astronomers on the Observatory Deck for a free telescope viewing! Weather permitting, this is a chance to explore stars, planets and more through Chabot’s historic telescopes. Chabot’s three large historic telescopes offer a unique way to experience the awe and wonder of the Universe. Our observatory deck offers ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
The James Webb Space Telescope: Great science will be launching soon! - LivestreamThe James Webb Space Telescope will be the most powerful and complex astronomical space observatory ever built. It will launch in December and will unfold itself before arriving in its final orbit in the Sun - Earth system about a month later. The large 6.5-m diameter JWST primary mirror and ...
