The content shared on social media is the largest data set on human thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in history. We use Natural Language Processing and machine learning to leverage this data for social good and psychological science. I will demonstrate how Facebook data can be used to predict depression of ...
Where: Cost: Free
Women in Astronomy - LivestreamIn the field of astronomy research, women have made some of the greatest contributions, even when access to the discipline was restricted. For example, a century ago women were enlisted to organize the data collected by new telescopes. It was these women, who were often condemned to only the most ...
Where: Cost: Free
The Unbearable Lightness of Dark Matter - LivestreamThe nature of dark matter remains one of the biggest mysteries in our current understanding of the universe. As ongoing experiments continue to rule out large regions of phase space for higher-mass dark matter (e.g. WIMPs), new ideas for the direct detection of low mass (sub-GeV) are needed. In this ...
Strong winds in Southern Ocean storms drive air-sea carbon and heat fluxes and these fluxes are integral to the global climate system. Evidence from a range of sources indicates that the wind speeds that drive these fluxes are increasing. We present results from an experiment using the Biogeochemical Southern Ocean ...
Examining Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry with DUNE - LivestreamFollowing the Big Bang, the universe was created in equal parts matter and antimatter. Yet, we live in a matter dominated universe today. Leptonic charge conjugation - parity (CP) violation provides a possible rationale to explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry we observe. Accelerator-based long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments are uniquely well-suited to ...
The most common stars in the Universe are red dwarfs. These are small, faint, cool stars that range from one-tenth to one-half the diameter of the Sun and which have extraordinarily-long lifetimes. Recent surveys have discovered Earth-size planets around several red dwarf stars, including Proxima Centauri (the nearest star to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
Visualizing molecular interactions and materials interfaces, previously "invisible", fundamentally transform our ability to discover new solutions and ask new questions. I will present my group’s approach to teasing out and amplifying signals from nuclei and electrons, to use spins as reporters and to use many-spin coupled spin dynamics as filters ...
Communicating about climate change can be a rollercoaster, let’s face it. We know we need to be addressing it, and urgently, and yet the topic can be fraught, triggering and evoke strong reactions for people. As researchers, scientists, educators and concerned citizens, how can we apply best practices for engaging ...
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, one truth continues to be proven time and time again: the vaccine is saving lives, and to Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla, it was the product of one of the most incredible private sector achievements in history. Mobilizing the corporation amid some of the most ...
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 ...
Where: Cost: Free
Copepods through a molecular lens - LivestreamDiapause is a type of dormancy used in arthropods to enter a state of “suspended animation†that, with a delay of development, allow organisms to overcome periods of unfavorable conditions. The sub-arctic calanoid copepod Neocalanus flemingeri has been a good model for studying diapause: dormancy is obligatory and post-embryonic and ...
Where: Cost: Free
March LASER Event - LivestreamSpeakers: Summer Praetorius (USGS Geologist) on "The Heliocene"Ewa Domanska (Stanford Univ & Adam Mickiewicz Univ) on "Prefigurative Art and Micro-Utopias"Lily Xiying Yang (Virtual Reality Artist) on "Land of Illusions - Creativity and Activism in the Metaverse" Register here or here
Normal stars, like our Sun, shine because they undergo nuclear fusion, turning hydrogen into helium and converting matter into radiation. But what if a star wasn't able to fuse? What would such a "dud" look like? These were purely theoretical question until the 1990s, when the first examples of non-fusing ...
The Black-headed Duck is a duck with the lifestyle of a cuckoo or a cowbird - they never raise their own offspring but depend entirely on other species to do so. This species is unique among the hundred species of professional brood parasitic birds in that their precocial chicks fend ...
Got math problems? We’ve got solutions! Mathematics, as a fundamental language to describe the world, is as integral to the engineering of buildings as it is to beauty. Discover various aesthetic expressions hidden in fractions, digits, and equations. From the transcendence of pi to the psychedelia of fractals, we’ll highlight ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
NightLifeCalling all creatures of the night: explore the nocturnal side of the Academy at NightLife and see what's revealed. With live DJs, outdoor bars, ambiance lighting, and nearly 40,000 live animals (including familiar faces like Claude the alligator with albinism), the night is sure to be wild.Step inside the iconic ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19 - $17 depending on entrance time
“Voted off the islandâ€. “Will you accept this rose?†“You’re fired!†“Sashay away!†Reality TV has permeated American culture, and spread internationally as well. But what do we know about the behind-the-scenes world of reality TV? Yau-Man Chan was a fan favorite on two rounds of Survivor, and will tell ...
 The human immune system is complex - so complex and dynamic that it can actually adapt to a changing environment; i.e., it can evolve. Accordingly, we call the immune system a complex adaptive system. Within biology, species are complex adaptive systems whose environmental fitness tends to improve over time; species ...
Information technology has fundamentally changed the daily lives of Americans - crunching years of data in seconds and automating seemingly infinitely complex tasks. Yet, as congressman Ro Khanna warns, technological progress has great power to either hurt or heal the country - creating division and furthering inequality if left unchecked, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 In Person, $10 Online
Saturday, 03/12/22
First Dive Into the World of Fungi - LivestreamMushroom enthusiast and research associate Christian Schwarz will take us on a guided tour of this vast branch of the Tree of Life, highlighting the breathtaking range of scale, ecologies, and morphologies of these mysterious organisms.Speaker: Christian Schwarz, author
Where: Cost: $15 General, $10 Members
Language Development Across Communities and CulturesIn this talk, Dr. Mahesh Srinivasan will present recent work from his lab that challenges two broad claims within the field of developmental science: First, that there are “optimal†methods for speaking to one’s child; and second, that parents from lower socioeconomic-status backgrounds sometimes lack knowledge of these methods, thus ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Saturday Cinema: Artis MathematicaeWatch a screening of John Sims’ math art video work, Artis Mathematicae (2022, 22 min.), followed by a Q&A. The work explores a visual and poetic language of fractals, pi, and the square root of love.   John Sims is a Detroit native, Sarasota-based conceptual artist, writer, and activist who creates art ...
