Protecting species’ habitats is the main policy tool employed across the globe in order to reduce biodiversity losses. These protections are hypothesized to conflict with private landowners’ interests. We study the economic consequences of the most extensive and controversial piece of such environmental legislation in US history - the Endangered ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
First Fridays: Stellar Ending, Death of Stars Just like people, every star has a distinct life cycle, but not every star’s story ends the same. Head to Chabot Space & Science Center’s First Friday for a journey on how stars die and all the factors that lead up to their fate. From white dwarfs to supernovae and ...
Where: OaklandCost: $15 General, $10 Kids/Seniors, $5 Members
PixInsight post-processing basics - Messier 13 The Great Hercules ClusterFrank will pick up where he left off in his last astrophotography presentation on December. 2, 2022. He will explain key fundamentals of post processing and walk through his approach to processing star clusters in PixInsight. He will cover the entire process from stacking to saving the final JPEG image. ...
Where: San MateoCost: Free
Saturday, 09/02/23
Plant Identification at SanbornJoin YSI as we walk through the Sanborn trails and look for a variety of plants and learn how to identify them! Are they native? Medicinal? Edible? Poisonous? Join us to find out! Ages 8 - 12 with registered adult.
Why are ideologies poisoning public discourse? Why is extremism on the rise? How did we get here, and what can we do about it? It turns out some influential assumptions are suppressing our culture’s “immune response†to dangerous ideas. These assumptions prevent us from normalizing critical thinking, and leave us ...
Tours are given periodically throughout these open house hoursBattery Townsley, at Fort Cronkhite, was San Francisco's most extensive - and most secret - World War II military fortification.From 1940 to 1948, it mounted two massive battleship guns and housed more than 100 soldiers in an extensive network of underground tunnels; ...
SCVAS Learn: Warblers 2023 - Part 1 - Green, Yellow and Gray - LivestreamThe fall migration of Warblers is an exciting event for birders. It can also daunting because many of these tiny tree-top insectivores lack the distinctive breeding plumage that makes them so memorable. How do we sort through the many similar features and identify the individuals we find? Why are there ...
The human proteome is extremely complex, comprising > 10,000 proteins and 100 times proteoforms for each gene product. In cancer and other diseases, several new protein variants may result from mutations, fusions and posttranslational modifications (PTMs) that further influence the functions and structure of proteins. This necessitates the identification of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Past and Future of Robotics & Machine Intelligence: 250 Years of Research ExperienceThe Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences invites you to a special panel on AI led by Distinguished Professor Emerita Ruzena Bajcsy, joined by colleagues Claire Tomlin, Shankar Sastry, Jitendra Malik, Rodney Brooks, and Ken Goldberg.Are robots on the verge of becoming human-like and taking over most jobs? When ...
Famed astronomer Avi Loeb returns to The Commonwealth Club to answer some of the biggest questions facing humankind: How do we prepare ourselves for interaction with interstellar extraterrestrial life? And can our species itself become interstellar?Loeb, the longest-serving chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, shook the scientific community when he theorized ...
Where: Cost: Use code WonderfestPromo for free ticket
In a 1967 episode of the iconic television series Star Trek, Mr. Spock explained:“If I let go of a hammer on a planet that has a positive gravity, I need not see it fall to know that it has in fact fallen.†Mr. SpockSpock’s idea to see with your mind’s ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Revolutionizing Risk: How Sensors, Data and AI Are Reshaping the InsuranceInsurance is one of the world's most ancient businesses. It is also the cornerstone that holds economies firm. Yet, as the number of sensors and the amount of data continue is on the brink of an unprecedented transformation. In today's interconnected landscape, data forms the very fabric of our daily ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Creating the Science, Covering the ScienceJoin us in-person and online for a discussion with journalist Katie Hafner, who covers scientific advances, especially those by women, and her husband, Dr. Robert Wachter of UCSF, who is on the forefront of the digital transformation of health care and has been influential in advancing public understanding of the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General in person, $10 General online
IEEE Computer Society Chapter Open house, Award ceremony, and talk AI and Conversational CommerceIn today's fast-paced digital landscape, conversational commerce has emerged as a game-changer, and AI is at the heart of this transformative shift. Through AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants, businesses are revolutionizing the messaging space, enabling customers to engage in seamless conversations while making purchases and completing transactions right within their ...
As recognized in science and increasingly in politics and business water will play the role of the “main fuel†for future conflicts. The former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, referred to water as “the conflict material of the 21st century†already in 2003. Verstraete et al. (2009) summarize ...
In this talk I will discuss the use of monkeyflowers to probe the genetic and molecular bases of floral trait variation among species, to characterize the developmental mechanisms of pattern formation, and to test the adaptive significance of floral trait variation in the evolution of pollination syndromes.Speaker: Yaowu Yuan, Associate ...
We are excited to hear from The Scobee Education Center’s Rick Varner: “SATX Solar Eclipses: Don’t be Blinded by the Light†and Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. William Kosmann: “Voyager’s Family Portrait of the Solar Systemâ€!Watch on Youtube or Facebook with links at the weblink
Where: Cost: Free
Thursday, 09/07/23
Coastal Walk at Pillar Point BluffJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful walk at Pillar Point Bluff just north of Half Moon Bay! You will be guided by POST ambassadors who will share details about the area’s interesting natural history, from the coastal scrub habitat to the Fitzgerald Marine Preserve which hosts tide pools ...
The Library of the Great Silence: A conversation with Jonathon Keats - LivestreamWe follow up with SETI Artist in Residence Jonathon Keats about his project The Library of the Great Silence, an installation art project that addresses one of the implications of the Fermi Paradox. If the cosmos is only sparsely populated by intelligent beings that implies that at some point in ...
The goal of this presentation is to educate students on several topics around production of consumer electronics as it relates to engineering. We’ll discuss tradeoffs between product and test stations design. From early stages of the product design process known as design for manufacturing (DFM) to best practices around test ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Science on Tap: Marine Heat WavesScience on Tap is our new series that mixes the best parts of learning about science with some of the best brews on the central coast! Each event will feature a happy half-hour highlighting beverages from our partners at local breweries followed by a panel discussion from experts about the ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: $15 General, $10 members, Free for Students
Immerse yourself in an unpredictable improvisational performance that considers sound and visuals in relation to each other. In their ongoing collaboration Drawing Sound, sound artist Fred Frith generates soundscapes while visual artist Heike Liss draws her Klangbilder "sonic images" directly on windows. Presenting their work in two sets, Fred and Heike will move through ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
NightLife: California LoveCalifornia knows how to party. Join us to celebrate the vibrant biodiversity that makes the Golden State so special.
Join Alex Filippenko, UC Berkeley Richard & Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences, for a wide-ranging conversation with California magazine’s editor-in-chief, Pat Joseph, as they explore such topics as the startling new images from the James Webb Space Telescope, the Great North American Eclipse of 2024, and the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $40 General, $35 Cal Alumni & BAMPFA members
Living with Bears in Marin - LivestreamJoin us for a virtual foray into the world of black bears in Marin and beyond! Tune into this webinar to:Learn about bears in Marin’s public lands and the ongoing conservation initiatives aimed at documenting the black bear population in the North BayDiscover practical tips and techniques for coexistence with ...
Where: Cost: Free
Fear and Loathing in the Heavens: The 1910 Return of Halley’s CometIn 1705, Edmond Halley liberated humanity from the belief that comets were portents of doom. Yet, two centuries later, in 1910, as Halley’s Comet returned to perihelion, newspapers and magazines, religious leaders, misguided theorists, and shameless grifters managed to rekindle that fear. When astronomers announced that the earth would pass ...
