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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 ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Wednesday, 03/08/23
The role of Instagram in diversifying women in STEM - LivestreamWhat does a scientist look like? We investigate the power of social media in shaping the vision of diverse female scientists using the popular Instagram page Women Doing Science as a case study. This social media platform has featured photos and stories from over 800 international women in STEM between 2018 and 2022. We ...
Kabir Peay’s research is filling critical gaps in our understanding of how mycorrhizal fungi respond to climate change through his use of large-scale DNA sequencing, biogeographic modeling, and manipulative experiments. Mutualisms forged by mycorrhizal fungi critically affect the resistance and resilience of forest trees faced with climate change, which impacts ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Algal Solutions for a Sustainable FutureWith the world's population approaching 10-billion people by 2050, society will be facing a significant increase in the demands placed upon its food production system as well as a major expansion of the human-built environment. At the same time, society must reduce its detrimental impacts on climate, energy use, land ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Rebooting the Human Genome: New Variant Discovery in the Era of Complete GenomesGenomic scientist Karen Miga, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, was named one of the 100 most influential people of 2022 by TIME magazine for her work co-leading an international team of scientists known as the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium to complete the first gapless sequence of a ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: Free
National Geographic Women Explorers celebrate International Women’s DayOn International Women’s Day, join five inspiring women explorers as they share their work to understand rainforest conservation, citizen science, ethnobotany and the environmental impacts of deep-sea mining, and how this shared knowledge can empower us all to protect the natural world.· Katlin L. Bowman, oceanographer· Julia DeMarines, astrobiologist· Maria ...
Delivering a conference talk is a killer way to increase community knowledge, get jobs, and get free drinks at the bar, but only if you don’t put your audience to sleep first! In this experiential workshop, you will learn to structure your technical content so you can engage your audience in ...
Where: Cost: Free
Emoji for EveryoneOver the past decade, emoji have become integral to digital communication and are currently used by 92% of the world’s online population. Emoji have not only become a friendly mode of self-expression 😂, but also a crossroad of culture, creativity, and the struggle for inclusion and equity. In recent surveys, most ...
* We ask that attendees be vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19 and wear a mask while indoors at the event. Extra masks will be provided. Thank you. ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free
Thursday, 03/09/23
A Star is BornThe birth of stars is one of the most complex problems challenging modern astrophysics. Understanding their origins is of fundamental importance to many areas of astronomy, from exoplanet studies to cosmology. While the study of the initial conditions of star formation in molecular clouds has accelerated during the past couple of ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
A Conversation with Senator Josh Becker on Climate Change, Equity, and California’s Sustainable Future - PostponedSenator Becker has played a significant role in California's efforts to expand renewable energy sources, develop electric vehicle infrastructure, and decarbonize buildings. In addition, he has been at the forefront of climate equity efforts, working to ensure that marginalized communities are not disproportionately impacted by climate change and are able ...
Where: Cost: Free
Formed Too Fast: Massive Galaxies at Cosmic DawnThe pace of galaxy growth in the early Universe offers one of the strongest and most accessible tests of the Lambda-CDM cosmological fremawork. A growing number of surprisingly massive galaxies are now being found in the first billion years after the Big Bang that pushed the limits of theoretical predictions. ...
Growing the capacity of the clean energy grid to ensure resilience, sustainability, and equity is one of society’s biggest challenges. This series will explore how we can meet the demands of a decarbonizing economy and upgrade infrastructure with new, smarter technology and strategies, at scale. How can we reduce inequities ...
Where: Cost: Free
EXPO: Environmental Careers for YouthSonoma Environmental Education Collaborative (SEEC) presents: Environmental Careers for YouthProgram includes: Speakers + Job Fair + Resume HelpAge: Highschool and upPanelists include:Clint McKayIndigenous Education Coordinator, Pepperwood PreserveKaren LopezGrizzlyCorps Fellow, Sonoma Resource Conservation DistrictGreg DesmundRecreation Supervisor, Sonoma County Regional ParksTheodora BlockResearch Program Manager, Canine CompanionsAttend in person or online by registering, ...
Light pollution affects birds in many ways, disrupting the natural cycle of dark and light and influencing the behavior and physiology of wildlife. Join us to learn about how artificial lights at night affect the health of birds. Murry Burgess will share her current research that includes a field experiment ...
Where do the boundaries between the built and natural worlds blur? If you look, you can see the ties between these two ecologies in everything from nonhuman species that inhabit urban environments to design that responds to more powerful weather systems. Tonight at After Dark, explore how we can recognize ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
Nightlife: UnladylikeThey broke rules, stereotypes, and glass ceilings. In honor of Women’s History Month, hear the inspiring stories of fearless Academy scientists from the past who challenged the status quo.SCHEDULE OF EVENTSBuzzed Bios African Hall8 PMGrab a cocktail and sip along as Kel Larkin, Institute for Biodiversity Science & Sustainability (IBSS) ...
The 2022 Netflix “docuseries” Ancient Apocalypse, hosted by former journalist and author Graham Hancock, has provoked a firestorm of discussion in the press and social media. In this series, the host claims that comets destroyed an advanced civilization that existed during the Ice Age and whose survivors were the progenitors ...
