Xylem Global Student Innovation Challenge Join us in solving water challenges to expand water access and resilience for all. By competing in this virtual hackathon, you will have the opportunity to:Over 8 weeks, solve one of the following challenge statements in teams of up to 5 students:Â Compete from a USD $20,000 prize pool awarded for ...
Have you heard what community scientists are documenting about the struggling monarch butterfly? What could the numbers mean? Join Mia Monroe, Marin Community Liaison with the National Park Service and longtime Xerces Society volunteer, to hear how monarchs are doing this year, efforts to support them, and how you can ...
Gas-powered building appliances cause hundreds of deaths each year in the Bay Area and account for a quarter of the region’s carbon emissions. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District plans to vote this spring on rules to eliminate toxic nitrogen oxide emissions from building heating systems, spurring the transition ...
Where: Cost: Free
Reproducible is reusable: promoting research and education through open scienceMarine megafauna include some of California’s most iconic species, from gigantic blue whales to ocean-traversing albatrosses and sea turtles. An indispensable component of the modern marine biologist’s toolkit for studying these large vertebrates is the bio-logger: animal-attached sensor packages that track an organism’s location, behavior, physiology, and local environment. The ...
Where: TiburonCost: Free
Managing forests for wood, wildfire, and carbon in California and beyondNatural carbon sinks can help mitigate climate change, but climate risks - like increased wildfire - threaten forests' capacity to store carbon. California has recently set ambitious forest management goals to reduce these risks. However, management can incur carbon losses because wood residues are often burnt or left to decay. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Rising Seas: Bridging Three Perspectives for ActionBe prepared to feel inspired and empowered to make a meaningful impact: Hear from an artist, a scientist, and an architect about the impact of rising sea levels in the Bay Area and explore strategies for a more resilient future.As the Bay Area experiences more frequent weather extremes, from devastating ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Wellness in Tech: Improving Culture and Mental HealthIt’s no secret that two out of five workers in tech consider themselves at high risk of burnout, with 42% of them considering a career change in the next six months. Poor representation, hustle culture, and a lack of equitable working conditions all contribute to the lack of psychological safety ...
Colombia is the most diverse country on the planet, boasting 1860+ bird species. The Colombian habitats are extremely diverse and the great Andes split into three parallel mountain ranges (Cordillera Occidental, Cordillera Central and Cordillera Oriental) in southern Colombia. Luis Villablanca, Harjeet Singh and I visited the Cauca valley (Valle ...
2023 EDGE in Tech Symposium: Smarter Tech for a Resilient Future - LivestreamHow can we engage diverse talent to transform the future of infrastructure to address inequality and promote smarter environments?Join EDGE in Tech, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, and Berkeley Engineering for a virtual symposium highlighting the experiences of experts using emerging technologies to advance innovation for more sustainable infrastructure.The event ...
Where: Cost: $50 General, $25 Academic/Nonprofit, Free students
Coastal Walk at Cowell-Purisima TrailJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful walk along the Cowell-Purisima trail that POST helped create by protecting adjacent farmland. While it may be foggy, we hope to catch gorgeous views of the ocean, nearby farmland, and glimpses of harbor seals, pelicans, hawks, rabbits, and whales during the winter ...
Over the last four years, NASA’s InSight mission has enabled unprecedented investigations of Mars’ structure and dynamics. Its final year of operations saw a series of huge meteorite impacts detected both seismically and from orbit. In this talk, I will present some of my latest work studying both natural and ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium - Tony VegaSince Fall 2002, the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering has hosted the Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium (SVLS). The Symposium hosts industry and technology leaders to talk about business and technology trends. It also features prominent leaders who discuss broader societal and political issues that shape our life and society.Register ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
How a Scottish academic in 1873 set the stage for today’s global communications - LivestreamHard as it is to believe today, the connection between electricity and magnetism was not made until early in the 19th Century. James Clerk Maxwell brought together field theories from Gauss, Ampere and Faraday into a unified set of equations. At the publication of his “Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism†...
Where: Cost: Free
From Pupils to Space Telescopes: What Your Eyes Can Teach You About How Telescopes Work - LivestreamIn this 1-hour workshop for middle school teachers, we'll explore how your eyes form images, and how your pupil and iris are key to understanding how all optical tools work, even the largest space-based telescopes.While most people have a general idea of how their eyes work, they haven’t made the ...
Where: Cost: Free
Quack Quack: The Threat of Pseudoscience - LivestreamWe are in a crisis. A tsunami of misinformation and disinformation is threatening to engulf evidence-based science. While quackery ― loosely defined as the spread of false “knowledge,†often accompanied by various versions of “snake oil†― is not a novel phenomenon, it has never posed as great a threat ...
Where: Cost: Free
After Dark: Extended CinemasThe warm glow of the projected image invites us to in-between worlds. During this cinematic celebration the passive act of watching turns to listening, peering, touching, and interacting as Exploratorium Cinema Arts takes over museum spaces to provide experiences - both on and off the screen - created by artists ...
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, our alligator with albinism), the night is sure to be wild.Step inside the iconic ...
Galaxies in the Reionization Ear: New Insiht from Early JWST and Ground-Based TelescopesOver the past few months, deep infrared images and spectra from JWST have pushed the cosmic frontier back to just 300 million years after the Big Bang, delivering the first large sample of galaxies at redshifts 7 < z < 15. Sometime in this redshift window the hydrogen in the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Who makes the Earth habitable? From a metaphysics of production to a metaphysics of allianceAmong the founding myths of modern Western cosmology, there is one that would almost go unnoticed, so much has it shaped our ways of thinking and acting. It is the dominant philosophical belief that we humans produce our own sustenance and make the Earth habitable. We have invented a civilization ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
“R.U.R.†ROSSUM’S UNIVERSAL ROBOTS Come explore the very nature of life with the play written by Karel Capek that invented the word "robot." What makes us human? What is consciousness? And what will it look like when artificial intelligence turns against its creators?  A secretive robot factory creates a global supply of humanoid robots to ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: $10 General, Free for UCSC Students
Exploration of Mars for Habitable Environments and LifeRecent Mars missions have discovered fascinating landscapes as well as chemicals and minerals formed by the action of liquid water. Mars could have been habitable sometime in the past, and liquid water might persist in some subsurface environments today. Dr. Des Marais will discuss recent missions and discoveries that are ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Saturday, 03/04/23
Guided nature walk at Bouverie PreserveExperience the beauty and rich natural history of Bouverie Preserve by signing up for a Guided Nature Walk Participants are paired with a trained volunteer to explore the mixed evergreen forest, flower-carpeted oak woodland and rugged chaparral.Visitors of all ages are welcome. Minors MUST be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian. Reservations ...
Where: Glen EllenCost: Free
Womxn in Tech PanelListen to a diverse panel of womxn-identifying speakers & learn how they blazed their paths in tech. Followed by discussion groups for closer conversation.Panelists include:Radhika Rangarajan is a co-founder and CEO of Women in Big Data US Non-Profit entity and works closely with several Silicon Valley Tech companies to raise ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Solar ObservingIt’s there for us year round, lighting our days and providing energy for our lives, so maybe it’s time to give it a closer look. Join SJAA for amazing and detailed views of the Sun, and be assured that we’ll be using special telescopes that will keep your eyeballs perfectly ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Marine Ecology - EcoCenter Family EventBring your family to the Environmental Volunteers EcoCenter, located on the Baylands Nature Preserve, for an afternoon of environmental education. Activities are intended for ages 6-11.What is life in the ocean like? What features and adaptations do marine animals have to survive in their environment? Join the EV for engaging, ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
“R.U.R.†ROSSUM’S UNIVERSAL ROBOTS Come explore the very nature of life with the play written by Karel Capek that invented the word "robot." What makes us human? What is consciousness? And what will it look like when artificial intelligence turns against its creators?  A secretive robot factory creates a global supply of humanoid robots to ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: $10 General, Free for UCSC Students
Are Red Dwarf Exoplanets Habitable? - LivestreamA lot of exciting recent news about exoplanets has involved the discovery of “Earth-sized†planets in the “habitable zone†of "red dwarf" stars. This is partly due to the fact they are easier to find than “true Earth analogs", and partly because most stars are red dwarfs. I’ll give a ...
Where: Cost: Free
Sunday, 03/05/23
“R.U.R.†ROSSUM’S UNIVERSAL ROBOTS Come explore the very nature of life with the play written by Karel Capek that invented the word "robot." What makes us human? What is consciousness? And what will it look like when artificial intelligence turns against its creators?  A secretive robot factory creates a global supply of humanoid robots to ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: $10 General, Free for UCSC Students
The Cold Worlds Absent in our Solar SystemThe standard core accretion planet formation theory predicts numerous "failed gas giant cores" in the wide orbits (> 1 AU), with masses less than about 10 Earth mass, but such planets are absent in our solar system. The gravitational microlensing technique is currently the only method that can probe low-mass ...
In this talk, I will introduce the field of Quantum Gravity and my favorite candidate framework: String Theory. Furthermore, I will discuss the AdS/CFT (Gauge/Gravity) duality, which is a tool for answering questions in Quantum Gravity. Finally, we will explore how to measure the topology of a quantum spacetime and specifically address ...
Long-standing barriers to participation in the clean energy economy have produced well-mapped landscapes of underserved communities, yet even after key financial barriers are removed, additional cultural and capacity challenges remain acute. With sustained investment in a seeding strategy, community anchor institutions can host revenue-generating microgrids that fuel local job creation and hiring, improve ...
Speaker: Asifa Majid, University of OxfordRoom 126This event will now be held on March 7, 2023.
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Hearing the Stars: New Insights into Stellar InteriorsSpace-based observations have provided a remarkable new tool for studying stars within our galaxy, the Milky Way. Simply by measuring how bright a star is over many years, we can now directly measure its mass and radius, as well as the properties of its deep interior, such as the rate of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Searching for Planet B - What can humanity learn from other planets if it is to survive into the future?Do alien worlds hold the answers to humanity’s future? Can we use the discoveries from astronomy and modern space science to address the climate crisis here on Earth? Synthesizing the last 15 years of research lectures and science visualization at the California Academy of Sciences, this immersive talk was originally ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
Tuesday, 03/07/23
Women in Data Science at UC BerkeleyThe UC Berkeley School of Information and CITRIS are excited to partner with Stanford University to bring the Women in Data Science (WiDS) conference to Berkeley, California.The Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference is an annual technical conference based at Stanford, which brings together data scientists and professionals in ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $40 General, $20 Student
The Deep Synoptic Array: fast radio burst probes of the unseen universeThe origins of fast radio bursts (FRBs) at extragalactic distances remain shrouded in mystery. FRBs nonetheless form exquisite tracers of the contents and physical conditions of baryons along their sightlines. For example, FRBs are dispersed in intervening plasma columns, and these columns are typically dominated by gas around and in ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Whole Earth SeminarSpeaker: Speaker: Sara Tenamoeata Kahanamoku, Ulana ʻIke Center of Excellence Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program
Why are some things relatively easy to express in language (e.g., geometric shapes) but others hard (e.g., odors)? Various explanations have been suggested for this differential ineffability (i.e., the impossibility of putting phenomena into words). Perhaps it is due to something fundamental about the cognitive architecture of our minds~brains. The ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Who makes the Earth habitable? From a metaphysics of production to a metaphysics of allianceAmong the founding myths of modern Western cosmology, there is one that would almost go unnoticed, so much has it shaped our ways of thinking and acting. It is the dominant philosophical belief that we humans produce our own sustenance and make the Earth habitable. We have invented a civilization ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Chat-GPT, LLMs and the Future of Finance and Accounting PanelChat-GPT has taken the world by a storm, with an estimated 75 million users already, but this is just the beginning for Large Language Models (LLMs). Much has been written about the applications of this technology for Marketers and Engineering teams, but what does it mean for finance and accounting ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Programming with Rust - LivestreamJoin us in learning more about Rust, one of the fastest-growing programming languages, which continues to be ranked the most-loved language by its users. Its user base, aka “Rustaceans,†has tripled in just two years as more and more software products are being developed in Rust.In this fast-paced overview with ...
"What first appears to be a wish for more time may turn out to be just one part of a simple, yet vast, desire for autonomy, meaning, and purpose." -Jenny OdellArtist and writer Jenny Odell brings her acutely insightful observations to the dominant framework of time, based on industrial and ...
