Celebrate April Fool’s Day with captivating, colorful and sometimes confusing mind tricks. We’re altering reality with (insert activities). Learn about how your senses work together to understand the world around us while enjoying whimsical perception-bending fun!
Where: OaklandCost: $15 General, $10 kids/seniors, $5 members
Extraterrestrial Life and Where to Find it - LivestreamWhat are we, and are we alone in the universe? For hundreds of years, philosophers and scientists have been trying to answer this question. Today, we explore this question in astrobiology, a multidisciplinary field that involves astronomy, geology, chemistry, biology, and engineering. In this presentation, Xinnan will be discussing our ...
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Saturday, 04/02/22
Trans Day of VisibilityCelebrated on March 31, Transgender Day of Visibility is an international day of awareness that highlights transgender achievements and greatness in response to intentional exclusion of transgender people, voices, and actions in the current societal culture and discourse. Transgender people exist in all corners of the world so it is ...
A tale of two intercalated TMDs - LivestreamAntiferromagnetic spintronics holds the potential to enable faster computing with lower energy requirements, although two major hurdles are the difficulty of manipulating and reading out details of antiferromagnetic order. FexNbS2 is an ising-like antiferromagnet for which these hurdles have been overcome. Its sister compound, CoxNbS2, is similar to FexNbS2 in ...
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Coexisting phases in triangular antiferromagnet- LivestreamFrustrated systems have energetic landscapes with many local minima and nearly degenerate states.This makes them ideal for exploring the competition and interactions between phases and their excitations at finite temperature. In iron-intercalated niobium disulfide, an antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice, two symmetry-breaking ordered ground states coexist in complicated ways, and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Electric field control of thermal magnons in BiFeO3 - LivestreamSpin transport through magnetic insulators has been demonstrated in a variety of materials and is an emerging pathway for next-generation spin-based computing. To modulate spin transport in these systems, one typically applies a sufficiently strong magnetic field to allow for deterministic control of magnetic order. Here, we make use of ...
The launch and deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope went flawlessly. The telescope and instruments began cooling as soon as the sun shield was deployed, and once the temperature of the short wavelength detectors in NIRCam dropped below 120 K, the telescope alignment process began. This process will result in the ...
Equivalent to a small city of 30,000, the Stanford campus is an ideal environment for testing new research ideas and concepts. This talk will discuss results from recent “Living Lab†experiments with building Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems on the Stanford campus in the context of the COOLER Research ...
One of the grandest and most enduring questions in human history has been whether we are alone in the Universe. While previous generations could only speculate about the possibility of life around other stars, in the coming decades NASA will develop and deploy the telescopes required to begin exploring the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
Today’s world is unpredictable and full of contradictions. Navigating its complexities while trying to make the best decisions is far from easy.Join award winning broadcaster and Ri favourite Jim Al-Khalili as he explores 8 short lessons on how to unlock the clarity, empowerment, and joy of thinking and living a ...
An audit is a tool used to verify compliance with regulations and controls. This requires in-depth analysis to understand the functioning of the object of the audit. If the object of the audit is an artificial intelligence-based system, understanding how the system came up with its results may be a ...
In understanding how the Universe began and grew up, we find ourselves in the dark ages, both literally and figuratively. Empty of life and structure, space suddenly illuminated with the light of the first stars, as they roared to life 200 million years after the Big Bang. This time represents ...
Midwater ecosystems are the most substantial on Earth, containing swimming fishes, crustaceans, cephalopods, and gelatinous organisms. These animals live in perpetual twilight and inhabit an important position within oceanic food webs, forming dense vertically migrating groups. These daily migrations are critical to the ocean’s ability to absorb atmospheric carbon. Techniques ...
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Historical role of fire and land management in the Klamath Mountains, California - LivestreamIn this talk, Dr. Clarke Knight, USGS, will discuss her most recent paper from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Knight, along with co-authors from the Karuk and Yurok Tribes, found strong Indigenous influence on forest conditions in the Klamath Mountains over the last millennium. As restoration ...
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 ...
Phytoplankton organisms are fascinating and can be considered a benefit or a nuisance for the economy. In this seminar, I will present my research at BahÃa Fosforescente, where dense populations of bioluminescent phytoplankton (i.e., Pyrodinium bahamense) have made this ecosystem an important tourist attraction in Puerto Rico. However, fluctuations with ...
Grounds for ScienceGrounds for Science, our public program featuring Cal STEM graduate students, is back live & in-person! Join us as we launch our collaboration with MudLab, a cafe and store with a mission: to envision and build a world beyond waste.Speaker: Jessica Heiges, UC Berkeley
Where: OaklandCost: Free
To eat or not to eat? Is that the (only) question? How environmental chemicals contribute to obesity - LivestreamMultigenerational disease research has shown links between some non-communicable diseases, their environmental origin, and lifestyle decisions our ancestors made. Defining those links will provide us with a better understanding of how our life choices can help preserve the health of our descendants. Raquel Chamorro-Garcia, assistant professor of microbiology and environmental ...
Join us for a talk about Becoming Universal: A New History of Modern Computing (MIT Press, 2022) by Thomas Haigh and Paul Ceruzzi. Professor Haigh will introduce the book and discuss the challenges involved in creating a comprehensive, synthetic narrative about the history of computing between 1945 to 2020. For more information ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Computational Tools for Sustainable (Urban) Energy Systems - LivestreamJacques de Chalendar will discuss computational tools used for (1) tracking emissions in the US electricity system and (2) experimenting with buildings on the Stanford campus in the context of the COOLER Research Program. COOLER’s goal is to make large, modern buildings more energy-efficient, flexible, low carbon, and resilient using ...
Demand for internet data capacity has been growing exponentially for more than 30 years and shows no sign of slackening. In the last 20 years, wireless bandwidth demand has tracked with wireline demand resulting, even with advanced modulation schemes like OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing), in increasing congestion of the ...
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Not All Killers Are Bad: How Natural Killer Cells Protect You from CancerDavid Raulet's research addresses how the immune system recognizes and responds to cancer cells and virus-infected cells. While his early work focused on T lymphocytes, current research emphasizes another immune cell, the natural killer cell. Related to T cells, natural killer cells employ completely different strategies to attack cancerous and ...
The San Francisco Peninsula spawned the technology-centric marvel known today as "Silicon Valley". The early history of amateur radio on the Peninsula played a crucial role in preparing for the emergence of "Silicon Valley". In the 1930’s entrepreneurial efforts of amateur radio enthusiasts drove the development of high power vacuum ...
SARS-Cov-2 and other RNA viruses are formidable natural foes of humanity. To fight them, we must understand them better, especially their main component, RNA. Although we can sequence viral RNAs to learn their chemical structure, many details of their function depend on their 3-D shape and how this shape helps ...
Spark your curiosity at After Dark! As the Sun sets, we’ll hit the rainbow lights, turn the music up, and open our doors, inviting you to take your imagination out to play. Fuel up with a cocktail and prepare to roam free through six spacious outdoor and indoor spaces. Be ...
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 albino alligator), the night is sure to be wild.Step inside the iconic Shake ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19 - $17 depending on entrance time
Old specimens, new research: a century of stories from our Galápagos collections. More details coming soon!See weblink for YouTube and Facebook Live links
